#mintha

[deathlessathanasia]

People really love to portray Demeter as Hades' nightmare mother-in-law and Persephone's mean and unreasonable mom who will forever refuse to accept her daughter's marriage and will even try to ruin it, as if we don't have a myth in which Demeter destroys an ex lover of Hades for saying that she is more beautiful than Persephone and that Hades will abandon his wife for her:

„Mintha, men say, was once a maid beneath the earth, a Nymphe of Kokytos, and she lay in the bed of Aidoneus; but when he raped the maid Persephone from the Aitnaian hill, then she complained loudly with overweening words and raved foolishly for jealousy, and Demeter in anger trampled upon her with her feet and destroyed her. For she had said that she was nobler of form and more excellent in beauty than dark-eyed Persephone and she boasted that Aidoneus would return to her and banish the other from his halls …” (Oppian, Halieutica)

Entirely unsurprisingly, in several retellings I have read Demeter uses Minthe in order to try to sow discord between Persephone and Hades. Because why have Demeter defend Persephone against someone who insults her when you can have the big bad mother work against her daughter's happiness instead, right?

#demeter #minthe #mintha #persephone #hades #greek mythology #ramblings

[meikaart]

I'm doing this challenge and there are two slots left to fill so feel free to request any fantasy character ^^

#baldur's gate 3 #fanart #draw #bg3 #anime #mintha #bg3minthara #reena inverse #role #dnd

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Model references for Hades: Puppet Master - Aether Gazer *Please note that her released model is missing textures for her claws, shoes, and garter

#art references #art reference #model references #aether gazer #hades #puppet master #dragaliaarchiveaethergazer #leuce #mintha

[usayblablabla]

Kurva sok retek hosszú hónap után olyan volt ma, mintha éreztem volna a sötét lelkemben, hogy maradtak még benne érzések. De csak mintha.

#magyar #magyar tumblisok #magyar tumblr #gondolatok #hungary #éjjeli gondolatok #Érzések #erzesek #szar erzes #Lélek #Sötét lélek #Mintha #Éreztem #csalódás #uresseg #Üres vagyok #Elmúlt #Érzelmek #sok idő eltelt #Sok idő után

[halfling9s]

Never cross a trained Dragoon.

#ffxiv #ff14 #ff14 screenshot #ffxiv screenshot #Viera #Mintha #mmo #gpose #gposers

[szonikuscsavarhuzo]

4 kibaszott Gripenért ment ez a faszverés majdnem 2 éven keresztül a Svédekkel. Ennyit tudott ez a kibaszott szefós elintézni.

Akkor legalább vett volna még 12-14gépet és Kecskemét mellett felállított volna még egy századot valahol. Mondjuk Kunmadaras vagy Taszár újraindításával.

Tigris, meg Európa erős embere egy nagy faszt, ez egy igazi balfasz.

#ráadásul c #nem mintha megkaptuk volna az E-t #hülye fasz #tudosok #mutass egy faszt

[cashmoneychiyo]

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Chapter 137, Part 1 Part 2 here [x] © Cash Money Chiyo (@grolia, candlejack and min!)

#gekkan shoujo nozaki kun #gsnk #monthly girls' nozaki kun #gsnktranslation #mod grolia #psa: min is just minthae but we started officially crediting them as min last chapter and their tumblr blog with their old name is defunct #that first page... just end me #I took over TS duties for CJ's translation last minute again bc college likes to see Yana suffer

[faarkas]

NIZANA DAEVARRAN

#BABY GIRLLLLL #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #ocstuff #oc: nizana #no mintha/ras were killed in the acquistion of that armor. goodnight. #the dye on this armor + her red cape + red boots.....she is currently the moment .

[awkwardauthorwrites]

I'm Yours

Word Count: 530

Themes: fluff

Warnings: hints towards smut but no actual smut 

Everyone stay calm, this is not a drill I’ve written something under 1000 words for the first time in existence. @shadowwheartt and I decided to do a quick little drabble challenge where we flipped coins and rolled a dice to see who we'd be writing for and what genre and I got Minthara fluff. I tried something different where I made Tav gender neutral, let me know what you think!

Minthara wasn't sure exactly when Tav had snuck their way into her life, but she suddenly felt like she couldn't remember how they used to function without them.

Tav had been gone for a whole day to scout the Shadowlands and see if they could find the pesky group of adventures that had been causing havoc for the followers of the Absolute ever since the nautiloid had crashed and Minthara had put no less than four fires out - one of them quite literally. No one seemed to know where the spare key to Balthazaar's quarters were, the kitchen was unstocked and even worse, it looked like no one had been on a supply run recently and so their stock of healing potions was dangerously low. Not to mention the gnolls in the kitchen that kept snapping at each other and when Minthara had glared at the cook the halfling had just shrugged her shoulders and muttered something about how Tav usually kept them appeased and in line.

Minthara sank into her armchair with a frustrated sigh and rubbed at her temples. Tav hadn't been working for them for very long, so how was the whole place falling to shambles without them? There was a small tug in her mind as her tadpole wriggled around in her skull almost mockingly, as if reminding her why she felt so at odds without having Tav around. She brushed the thought away with a quiet huff and made her way to her bedchamber for the night, deciding there wasn't much she could do due to the entire fortress wanting to burn down around them. Shedding her armour, Minthara almost didn't notice the figure lying across her bed, a small smirk on their face when they noticed her undressed state.

“It isn't wise to sneak up on your superiors,” she snapped, glaring as Tav rolled their eyes at her. 

“Maybe we should have superiors who are more aware of their surroundings then. I could have been anyone here to kill you.”

“Such sentimentality in your tone,” Minthara stood at the edge of the bed, her hands on her hips. “Anyone would think you cared.” Tav clicked their tongue and lunged forward, gripping Minthara by the waist and tugging her onto the bed. She didn't have a chance to blink before Tav was leaning over her, their hands pinning her down by the waist. 

“I beg your forgiveness, True Soul,” Tav murmured, brushing their lips across hers. “How ever will I make it up to you?” The tadpole is Minthara's head writhed as Tav connected to it, showing her image after image of all the ways they intended to please her. Minthara felt her heart thud in her chest as Tav pressed their lips to hers and she wasted no time in shedding what was left of her clothes to get what was promised to her.

In the dim afterglow of their activities Minthara let Tav pull her body close, their arm snaking around her waist as they both caught their breath. Tomorrow, Minthara told herself, tomorrow the place could go back to functioning normally now that Tav had returned, but tonight they were hers.

#mintha fanfiction #minthara x tav #minthara x gn!tav #minthara x y/n #minthara x reader #minthara x gn!reader #minthara x you #minthara #minthara baenre #minthara bg3 #minthara fluff #baldurs gate 3 #awkwardauthormasterlist #awkwardauthorwrites #awkwardauthor

[willcodehtmlforfood]

Kell

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#nem mintha vegig birnek menni rajta #egy ido utsn biztos sikerulne #home gym

[deathlessathanasia]

“The adventures of Mintha, or Mint, can immediately be seen to have a connection with the myth of Adonis by virtue of the role Persephone plays in both stories. We have seen Persephone, seduced by Adonis, become his passionate mistress. In the story of Mintha, by contrast, Demeter’s daughter appears as a legitimate wife thwarting the ambitions of a concubine. According to the myth[1] the nymph Mintha used to live in the underworld kingdom of Hades who was her lover. When the king of the underworld brought home Persephone, to make her his lawful wife, his abandoned mistress uttered terrible cries and threats which provoked the anger either of Demeter or of Persephone herself. Mint declared that she was more beautiful than her rival and that she would win back her lover and chase Persephone from the palace of Hades.[2] Mintha had no time to put her threats into action. According to one version. Persephone tore her limb from limb (diespdraxen), while Hades granted that she should become a fragrant plant called minthé or héduiosmos, ‘the sweet-smelling’, that is should be transformed into ‘garden mint’.[3] In another version it is an enraged Demeter who tramples her underfoot, reducing her to dust. And Mintha rises again from the earth in the guise of ‘the insignificant grass’ which henceforth bears her name.[4] There seems to be yet a third version of the misfortunes of Mint: one day a mourning Demeter noticed the wild mint plant and was filled with hatred for it. She condemned it to sterility, no longer to bear any fruit.[5]

The evidence for this mythical relationships between Mintha, Hades and Demeter is incomplete and fragmentary but it is corroborated by certain religious links suggested by topographical features of South Eastern Elis: in Triphylia there is a Mount Mintha, named after mint, on which is situated one of the extremely rare ‘émenos to Hades, and this is flanked by a wood consecrated to Demeter. [6] ...

Just as Adonis’ seductive powers refer back to his vegetable status as the fruit of the myrrh tree, Mintha’s story only becomes meaningful when it is placed in the ethnographical context of the plant whose name she bears. Mintha, the concubine and mistress of Hades, lets it be known that she has the means to win her former lover back and separate him from his new wife. And in doing so she is, no doubt, alluding to the procedures of love magic covered by the Greek idea of the iunx (whose connection with Mintha we shall later be demonstrating).[7] But the seductive powers of mint lie first and foremost in the pleasant smell of the plant which ‘sweetens the breath’. Peppermint, which is an aromatic species of the Labies family[8], has an ambiguous status in ancient botany. Because it is a highly appreciated condiment which brings out the flavour of many foods[9], mint is considered as one of the spices. Dioscorides[10] notes that, being of a ‘heating’ and exciting nature, it incites men to the pleasures of love. But this aphrodisiac also serves to procure abortions. Mint is believed to make women sterile; if applied before sexual intercourse it prevents women from conceiving, discouraging generation by preventing the sperm from coagulating.[11] While it excites sexual desire, mint prevents that desire from being productive. When taken in larger quantities it is believed to melt the sperm and cause such serious losses of semen that an erection is made impossible and the body is weakened.[12]

These different properties of mint suffice to explain why this aromatic plant is sometimes seen as a chthonic species, a plant of the underworld, connected with death. ‘Do not eat mint’ is one of the prohibitions in the Treatise on the sacred disease just as is that against wearing a black cloak.[13] Similarly, when the author of the Aristotelian Problemata comes across the proverb, ‘Neither eat nor grow mint during wartime’[14] he suggests that this plant has a destructive effect on seminal secretion and that it is opposed to courage and virility. Mint cools the body; it is simply one more raw herb amongst the other ‘cold and wet’ plants. It seems likely that it is in this semantic context that we should understand the links established by Greek lexicographers between the name of the plant mintha and the word minthos which is its synonym[15] but which also denotes goat’s dung[16], human excrement[17] and other equally foul-smelling substances. [18]

Since it oscillates between the spices and the cold, wet grasses, the botanical status of mint corresponds to the double status of Mintha who is now transformed by metamorphosis into a fragrant plant[19] and now changed into an ‘insignificant grass’ .[20] These botanical details are echoed in the third version of the myth of Mint whose theme is a double opposition: between with and without fruit, and fertile and sterile. Demeter’s hatred is vented this time not upon the aromatic species of mint but upon calamint[21], a species of wild mint which gives off a strong, unpleasant smell[22] reputed to put snakes to flight[23] and which, when replanted the wrong way up, with its head down, loses its wild character and becomes cultivatable.[24] As mint really is a sterile plant or one that bears only atrophied fruit[25], the ‘sterility’ inflicted upon it by Demeter might well appear to be simply a reflection of the botanical facts. However, on the mythical level on which the episode is set, the Greek concept of dkarpos, ‘sterile’, combines two meanings the second of which is expressed in a line of Orphic poetry on the subject of wild mint: ‘In former times it used to be a large tree, laden with fruit, pherékarpos’.[26] Once a fruit-bearing tree but now transformed into a small chthonic plant, the ‘fruitless’ calamint is, equally, a vegetable species afflicted with sterility or akarpia.”

 - The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology by Marcel Detienne

#plants #mint #minthe #mintha #demeter #persephone #hades #quotes #excerpts

[vero-niche]

Im currently in post limit hell hi!! Have i shown you my most treasured posession which was a whole 500 forints a few years back at literally the local Coop. It took me tf out so it came with me on sight

GDJDHDZSGSZSZFSZUAZS HELLO???? A BIBLIA MANGA?????

#Király! - mondotta Ádám. apparently #'a biblia manga' actually its called trigun #miért néz ki úgy a borító mintha valami knockoff snk lenne 😭😭😭😭 #also. dkchhdzfhhvdhdjdhd i fucking love how trigun makes my mutuals hit the post limit. felt that <3 #ask #mutuals #hungaryposting #i guess??? 😭 #theres so much to unpack here...........

[oldmacykerenew]

Meghalt a nagynenem ferje… felhivtam, oszinte reszvetem kivantam… nyilvan felhozta apukamat, hogy o tobbet szenvedett stb (itt nagyokat bologattam es majdnem mondtam, hogy na mar latod mennyire szenvedtem en is, de nem tettem…)

Most fel kene hivnom a lanyait is, akikkel 7 eve nem beszeltem… a kineziologussal azt beszeltuk, hogy konnyen megy majd, egyszeru lesz… de qva nehezen veszem ra magam. Probalom magamban lekuzdeni az “en jobb vagyok” erzest meg a sertettsegem, mert azt akarom, hogy lassak, hogy nem vagyok az a tetvedek, akinek elkonyveltek. (Vagyis aminek ok titulalnak, mert nem vagyok szimpi apa halala ota…mondhatni utalnak :D )

Meg halogatom a telefonalast. Reggelizek, kavezok… aztan majd.

#olyan lesz mintha idegenekkel beszelnek #semmi tobb #nem lesz baj #eletem #nyugok

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Model references for Hades: Lantern of Lethe - Aether Gazer

#art references #art reference #model references #aether gazer #hades #puppet master #lantern of lethe #leuce & mintha #dragaliaarchiveaethergazer

[shitheadpalooza]

good evening shitheadpalooza nation. i had a very funny rudine picture to post too, but unfortunately i fucking SAVED OVER IT with another picture accidentally and couldn't restore it and now have to redraw it. PLEASE forgive me

#mod joey #fantroll #mintha cvatty #wispit briote #saffaf certel

[halfling9s]

Blood of the dragon!

#ffxiv #ff14 #ffxiv screenshot #ff14 screenshot #viera #dragoon #drg #Mintha #mmo #gpose #gposers