#myth and lore

[amontilladowo]

This was featured in issue 7 of the Myth and Lore zine. Please check it out, it’s full of incredible art, photography and short stories and the people who run the zine are the best. My art is in a few of the issues and I really hope to submit some more for them soon 🖤

#witch #art #digital art #procreate #goth #aesthetic #my-art #my-stuff #witchcraft #zine #myth and lore #bw

[theribbajack]

"Both of you, faithless fools who would dare to take up arms against the king of earth and sky!"

The words "Zonai Ganondorf" entered my head and I haven't been sane since. Perhaps in the Zonai version of the legend, the warlord "Gannon" sought after the secret stones, and the incarnation of Hylia draconified herself to stop him alongside the Ancient Hero.

#my art #totk #ganondorf #ganon #zonai #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom #demon king ganondorf #calamity ganon #botw #breath of the wild #tloz #legend of zelda #at this point zelda lore is like elder scrolls lore #ten contradictory versions of a myth and they're all true at the same time #i want to draw the ancient hero but actually zonai instead of a catboy or whatever that was we got #i really wanted to give him the boar snout here since the demon dragon has it #but it just didn't work and always looked silly #his neck pendant did not intentionally look like a bokoblin but it totally does whoops

[gigizetz]

Everyone’s Tiresias designs now be like:

twinkfication: ACTIVATE

already brainstorming ab this

#people are saying that I can keep my design of him because of the lore and stuff #thing is I'll have a really hard time animating my old tiresias with a young voice when the song comes out #it's not that I think it's inaccurate for him to sound different than he looks #it's just that it'll be weird and confusing visually #gigi's asks #digital art #art #epic the musical #greek myths #epic: the musical #character design #epic the underworld saga

[clown-cult]

Imagine ignoring and villianising the original feminist hero in favour of a straight love story 💀

#my content #my art #Demeter #greek myth #greek mythology #greek gods #hellenism #hellenistic #hellenic polytheism #we love lady Demeter #we adore lady Demeter #she is a good mother who loves her daughter so much #anti lore olympus #anti lo #anti neon gods #anti touch of darkness #tw: blood

[lpa6zn]

I had seen a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, I don't laugh so much anymore

#orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice #hadestown #hades god of the underworld #tragedy #humor #greek myth memes #mythology #greek mytology #ancient greece #underworld #roman mythology #greco roman #percy jackson #the song of achilles #lore olympus

[katy71561]

#theseus #herakles #poetry #poem #quoteoftheday #quotes #novel #romance quotes #body paint #books #friendship #love quote #long reads #love #love quotes #lovers #lore olympus #lana is god #gods #greek gods #myth #mythology #greek mythology #icarus #mythology and folklore #norse gods #american gods #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #words #beautiful words

[apollomes-supremacy]

"People need to stop saying Lore Olympus is disrespectful to Apollo. Do yOu kNow WHat a ReTeLlinG iS?"

Literally Lore Olympus' comment section (and other places!):

And my personal favorite:

(and yes, apparently (cuz im not the one who took the screenshot) this was found under a LO discussion on Instagram)

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #anti rachel smythe #anti rs #apollo #apollon #apollo worship #greek mythology #hellenic polytheism #hellenic pagan #apollo devotee #greek myhts #greek myth #mythos

[filurig]

i decided to change a little bit about the bäckahäst humanoid form, and realised that they have some superficial similarities to skogsrå, so heres a thing ironing out their differences a little

#fantasy #huldra #bäckahäst #skogsrå #speculative biology #spec bio #pareidolia tag #bestiary #creature lore #lore #(huldras are referred to as skogsrå as well in pareidolia btw. or irl i guess LOL) #(skogsrå is just the regional term.... the huldra and skogsrå are very similar myths irl so its likely its the case there too) #in case ur ootl bäckahästar in pareidolia can turn into a humanoid... it has to do with the myth of näcken #(basically ppl think they are two different “creatures” but theyre actually the same just in different forms) #worldbuilding

[captainkaltar]

I got a mythology book from the library when I was about 6 and I’ve never been the same since then

#tagamemnon #Greek mythology #Greek myths #mythology #Ancient Greece #Greece #Percy Jackson #Lore Olympus #Assassin’s Creed Odyssey #Hades Game #TSOA #The Song of Achilles #God of War #Blood of Zeus

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Persephone: Tell Hermes about the birds and the bees.

Hades: They’re disappearing at an alarming rate.

#sent in by an anonymous friend :) #hades and persephone #persephone and hades #hades x persephone #persephone x hades #hades #persephone #greek mythology #greek myth #mythology #incorrect quotes #incorrect hadestown quotes #incorrect greek mythology #incorrect Greek myth quotes #incorrect lore olympus quotes #incorrect hades and persephone #incorrect hades x persephone #lore olympus #hadestown #hermes

[amontilladowo]

This was featured in Myth and Lore zine. Please check it out, it’s full of incredible art, photography and short stories and the people who run the zine are the best. My art is in a few of the issues and I really hope to submit some more for them soon 🖤

#my-stuff #art #my-art #digital art #procreate #oc #aesthetic #goth #punk #bw #angels #nonbinary #transmasc #lgbt art #myth and lore

[apollo18]

Concept: the justice league finds out that Blaze and Satanus, the rulers of hell, are kids of their ‘even more of a boy scout than Superman’ coworker’s “boss” and think Shazam is the Christian God. They ask Billy really vague questions that lead Billy into confusing them even more and they become convinced that Marvel’s Wizard guy is God with a capital G and Marvel’s either an angel or the second coming of Jesus.

Meanwhile Shazam doesn’t even know what the Bible is and his knowledge about religion is so outdated he still thinks Solomon’s Judaism is new age and not worth his time to research such a ‘fad’ religion, but he knows humans will make a religion out of anything as well as bastardize existing ones and very well could have mixed up actual tales that involve him, his allies, and his children into some sort of melting pot of a religion.

So when someone finally asks Marvel outright if his “boss” is God, Billy goes ‘wait… old guy in white robes and sandals, with long white hair and a beard… lives in space… aka the “heavens”, whose a ghost(Holy Spirit), and knows everything(historama)??? I need to dig deeper into this hold on guys’ and goes off to ask the wizard.

So when Billy asks the Wizard he just tells Billy “well, my boy, if so many things match up, maybe it is so and the tales of myself and my champions grew so estranged from their origins or mixed in with other beliefs that it can explain the things that aren’t true to our reality.”

Then The Canonical Character To The DC Universe, Jesus of Nazareth, shows up.

#billy batson #shazam #dc captain marvel #dc comics #I really like religious history and folklore and that’s sort of what really got me into Shazam #Fawcett and DC’s interpretations are all so weird and conflicting just like actual religious history lol #I think comic books really capture the essence of the ancient myth very well #there’s so many different interpretations of a character with conflicting lore and so many writers across the decades #Batman: for the LAST FUCKING TIME our coworker is NOT Jesus #Guy Gardener: The man fights demons called The Seven Deadly Sins and follows orders from some guy he says lives in space also isn’t in spac #Guy: what the fuck else are we supposed to think?

[blairstales]

How To Get Free Books On Folklore

I do not believe in gatekeeping knowledge, so this post will be sharing how I get all my folklore books for free, legally.

To explain, when a book gets over a certain age and the copyright is not upkept, it falls under “public domain.” When that happens, many different websites will provide those books as a free download.

This is not restricted to one type of book, either. You can grab anything from Sherlock Holmes to history books, to folklore, and more.

If you are looking for a specific book, you may have to check more than one source, so I suggest bookmarking more than one website.

Example Websites:

Internet Archive

Project Gutenberg

Google Books

Open Library

Electric Scotland (Scottish books)

Sacred Texts

National Library of Scotland: Ossain Collection

Forgotten Books

Hathitrust

For me when I download a book, I then upload them to my Google library so that I can use the search functions as well as bring up the books anywhere, but a popular PC option isCalibre.

If you are interested in Scotland-specific folklore, I do have some suggestions of books you can start with.

Scottish Folklore Books:

(link) A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures by Katharine Briggs (1976)

(link) Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs by James M. Mackinlay (1893)

(link) Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)

(link) The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1937)

(link) Notes on Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland by Walter Gregor, M.A. (1881)

(link) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)

(link) Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland by J. Maxwell Wood (1911)

(link) Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1902)

(link) Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs by James M. Mackinlay (1893)

(link) Folk-Lore From The West of Ross-Shire by C.M. Robertson (1908)

(link) The Fairy Mythology / Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley (1850)

(link) Popular Tales of the West Highlands by John Francis Campbell (1862)

(link) Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales by Sir George Douglas

(link) The Scottish Fairy Book By Elizabeth W. Grierson (1918)

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(link) Popular Superstitions of the Highlands By W Grant Stewart (1823)

#folklore #mythology #myths #lore #scottish folklore #ScottishFolklore #scottish mythology #history #witchcraft #folk magic #folkmagic #paganism #scottish paganism #ResearchResources

[clown-cult]

Being a Greek myth lover nowadays is way harder than one would think, y’all…

#I’m tired #stop it #greek myth #greek mythology #greek gods #hellenism #hellenistic #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #tbh this is critical of a lot #I mean a lot #but LO is certainly Exhibit A

[cassettedec]

it's always sunny is such a good show i wish philadelphia was real

#america is a myth #iasip #its always sunny in philadelphia #lore dec

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

#here's your reminder that missionaries are colonizers #find me the Hellenistic pagans knocking on people's doors asking them if they want to hear about the glory of Aphrodite lmao #honestly it also depends on what you're surrounding yourself with #obv if you take part in the LO fandom and avoid what's going on in the christian world then what you experience and see will seem skewed #like even i could be very wrong in my opinion based on my own experiences as someone who lives in the west- #maybe there ARE pagans knocking on doors and using greek myth to commit hate crimes #so yeah we all gotta try not to fall for survorship bias #there are plenty of stories of people getting mad about christian mythology and its misrepresentations on BOTH sides #lo critical #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #webtoon critical #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything