Posted in Z, tagged belief, cults, gay, Greece, homosexual, myth, mythology, pagan, queer, religion, same-sex, worship, zeus on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Athens, Greece Zeus Temple 2007
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Zeus The son of the Titan Cronus and Titaness Rhea, Zeus is the chief of the second generation Greek gods, usually arrayed with thunderbolts and an eagle.
Zeus had numerous offspring with several different goddesses, the most famous being Aphrodite.
He apparently had amorous relations with his young male cup-bearer, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aesculapius, ancient history, doctor, dream incubation, dreams, Foucault, Greece, healing, health, history, Homer, Illness, medicine, myth, mythology, pagan, physician, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Villa Borghese Park
- Temple Of Aesculapius
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David Paul Ohmer
Aesculapius Possibly a Greek mortal around 1200 BCE who, like Heracles, became deified.
In Homer’s Illiad he is described as “the blameless physician.”
His cult was centered in Epidaurus and emphasized cure through a prototype of contemporary psychoanalysis.
The poets Hesiod and Pindar speak of Aesculapius as the son of Zeus [...]
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Posted in A, tagged aesir, asgard, balder, gods, loki, messenger, myth, mythology, odin, pagan, scandanavia, scandanavian, teutonic, thor, trickster, vanir, warrior on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
The valkyries walk to battle with their god Odin
Originally uploaded by Ran Yaniv Hartstein
Aesir The earliest race of Teutonic gods, chief of whom was Odin.
The pantheon included Thor, Tiu, Balder, Bragi (inspirer of poetry), Vidar (lord of silence), Hoder (a blind deity who killed Balder), Hermod (sacred messenger), Hoenir, Odnir, Loki (a trickster god) and [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aphrodite, cult, Greece, Greek myth, myth, mythology, pagan, Paganism, temple, worship on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien AphroditeOriginally uploaded by Fotomoe
Aphrodite Greek goddess of beauty, love and fertility.
Worshipped throughout Greece, Aphrodite was said to have been born from sea foam that arose at Paphos in Cyprus from the castration of Uranus by Cronus.
Homer says she is the wife of Hephaestus but also had romantic encounters with Ares, the god of War. [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ancient, apollo, classical, greek, myth, mythology, pagan, religion, rome, temples, worship on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Apollo In Greek mythology Apollo - also called Phoebus - is the twin brother of Artemis, born of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.
He is associated with strength, order, youthfulness, beauty and reason, as opposed to the emotional and sometimes drug-induced frenzies relating to Dionysius.
Apollo’s chief temple and oracle was at Delphi, over which the expression, [...]
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Ares The Greek god of war. Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera.
He’s often depicted as brutal, violent and merciless, as war often is.
Ares and Aphrodite had three offspring, one of whom being Eros.
The Roman parallel to Ares is Mars.
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Ariadne In Greek mythology Ariadne is the daughter of King Minos of Crete.
After Theseus had defeated the Minotaur, Ariadne helped him to escape from a labyrinth by giving him a ball of thread that he unrolled while entering and retraced while exiting, thus finding his way out.
Theseus went with Ariadne to Naxos but he didn’t [...]
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Posted in A, tagged asgard, gods, myth, pagan, scandanavia on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Asgard Home of the Scandanavian gods located in the upper air.
The Asgard are also a fictional alien race in the American and Canadian science fiction TV series Stargate SG-1 who, according to the story, visited Earth and gave rise to the Scandanavian legends.
» Aesir, Vanir
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Athena The sagely and powerful Greek goddess of war, daughter of Zeus and Metis.
Uranus and Gaia warned Zeus that if Metis had a daughter, she would bear a son who would rob Zeus of his heavenly kingdom.
Zeus responded by swallowing the pregnant Metis so as to be Athena’s sole progenitor.
Athena sprang fully armed from Zeus’ [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aton, egypt, freud, God, gods, monotheism, myth, pagan, religion on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Aton An important but short-lived Egyptian sun god, established under the reign of king Amenhotep IV (1350-1334 B.C).
Amenhotep re-named himself Akhenaton and introduced a monotheistic form of religion based on the sun’s rising and setting.
Aton, originally the term for the sun’s disc, came to be the name for the new sun-god.
Archaeological evidence suggests that most [...]
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