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 Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:36 pm
Akherontis Javier Cross Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis On an unrelated note, Aphrodite, I just updated your winged son's avatar to look a little more like Eros as you see him (and as I wanted him to look in the first place). I rather like the dichotomy between him and my Thanatos. Eros looks so cute! I wanna hug him up! So that's what Eros looks like? Cool!!! cool I wonder where can we find him? Everywhere. The Greeks considered love to be a debilitating heart sickness, destroying reasonable thought and driving the noble to desperate acts. Interestingly, Eros' signature bow and arrows were a late addition, forged for him by Hephaistos. Before that, he used a torch to kindle the hearts of mortals. The torch sounds interesting. I just hate media and the Romans. People think he's a baby. All he is is a hot love god. His wavy hair is so....
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:47 pm
Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Javier Cross Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis On an unrelated note, Aphrodite, I just updated your winged son's avatar to look a little more like Eros as you see him (and as I wanted him to look in the first place). I rather like the dichotomy between him and my Thanatos. Eros looks so cute! I wanna hug him up! So that's what Eros looks like? Cool!!! cool I wonder where can we find him? Everywhere. The Greeks considered love to be a debilitating heart sickness, destroying reasonable thought and driving the noble to desperate acts. Interestingly, Eros' signature bow and arrows were a late addition, forged for him by Hephaistos. Before that, he used a torch to kindle the hearts of mortals. The torch sounds interesting. I just hate media and the Romans. People think he's a baby. All he is is a hot love god. His wavy hair is so.... Actually, the Greeks portrayed him as an ephebos (teenager), the Latins viewed him as a child, and in the Renaissance, he was pictured as an infant. Succeeding cultures seem to make him younger and younger. I wonder how long it will take before we start seeing a foetus Cupid fluttering around. Ew. The implication is that Eros probably started as a toddler when he emerged with Anteros and Aphrodite, then grew up very quickly. The general implication in mythology is that gods mature extremely fast, given that Hermes was stealing cows and inventing instruments when he was a day old, Artemis was helping her mother Leto to deliver Apollon in the same day she was born, and Athena was already handling weaponry and armor on the day of her birth (cute).
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:54 pm
Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Javier Cross Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis On an unrelated note, Aphrodite, I just updated your winged son's avatar to look a little more like Eros as you see him (and as I wanted him to look in the first place). I rather like the dichotomy between him and my Thanatos. Eros looks so cute! I wanna hug him up! So that's what Eros looks like? Cool!!! cool I wonder where can we find him? Everywhere. The Greeks considered love to be a debilitating heart sickness, destroying reasonable thought and driving the noble to desperate acts. Interestingly, Eros' signature bow and arrows were a late addition, forged for him by Hephaistos. Before that, he used a torch to kindle the hearts of mortals. The torch sounds interesting. I just hate media and the Romans. People think he's a baby. All he is is a hot love god. His wavy hair is so.... Actually, the Greeks portrayed him as an ephebos (teenager), the Latins viewed him as a child, and in the Renaissance, he was pictured as an infant. Succeeding cultures seem to make him younger and younger. I wonder how long it will take before we start seeing a foetus Cupid fluttering around. Ew. The implication is that Eros probably started as a toddler when he emerged with Anteros and Aphrodite, then grew up very quickly. The general implication in mythology is that gods mature extremely fast, given that Hermes was stealing cows and inventing instruments when he was a day old, Artemis was helping her mother Leto to deliver Apollon in the same day she was born, and Athena was already handling weaponry and armor on the day of her birth (cute). Yes, and wasn't Apollo given some ambrosia and nectar so that they can grow up fast? I need one avatar for Mnemosyne.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:58 pm
Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:01 pm
Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:15 pm
Akherontis On an unrelated note, Aphrodite, I just updated your winged son's avatar to look a little more like Eros as you see him (and as I wanted him to look in the first place). I rather like the dichotomy between him and my Thanatos. Oh he's beautiful! Thank you so much! (Lenimph: I would have thanked you sooner but I was totally busy graduating!)
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:22 pm
Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods. No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:35 pm
Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods. No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are..
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:39 pm
Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods. No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are.. All children, actually, all 35 of them. And one may also append to that the children of Eris, the children of Styx, the children of Aphrodite, the children of Hemera, the children of Praxidike and also some of Zeus' lesser known children.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:45 pm
Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods. No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are.. All children, actually, all 35 of them. And one may also append to that the children of Eris, the children of Styx, the children of Aphrodite, the children of Hemera, the children of Praxidike and also some of Zeus' lesser known children. That's a lot of children... Though, I don't remember Erebus or Nyx in having wings, but I guess their darker side might explain something..
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:53 pm
Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Hahaha, oh, I've barely started making the Olympians into avatars, it's going to be ages before I turn to the Titans. The Titans are way better than the Olympians, no offense. Unfortunately, not much is known about them. And I wouldn't consider Thanatos Olympian, but rather one of the Chthonian gods. No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are.. All children, actually, all 35 of them. And one may also append to that the children of Eris, the children of Styx, the children of Aphrodite, the children of Hemera, the children of Praxidike and also some of Zeus' lesser known children. That's a lot of children... Though, I don't remember Erebus or Nyx in having wings, but I guess their darker side might explain something.. Aristophanes, the Birds: "Firstly, black-winged Nyx laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos" Apollonius Rhodius: "Eos’ celestial beams chased black Nyx from the sky." Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy: "Then plunged the sun down into Okeanos' stream, and sable-vestured Nyx came floating up o'er the wide firmament, and brought her boon of sleep to sorrowing mortals." "The choir-leaders of the Hesperides driving their two-horse chariot along the path of night to the new turning-point, where Nyx passes through the light-bringing radiance in the eastern air; and she brings the day’s light, flying over the misty wave, a guide for sailors." See, Nyx was either winged or chariot driving, or both. I went with the wings because thematically they matched the vast bulk of her children, also winged.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:57 pm
Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are.. All children, actually, all 35 of them. And one may also append to that the children of Eris, the children of Styx, the children of Aphrodite, the children of Hemera, the children of Praxidike and also some of Zeus' lesser known children. That's a lot of children... Though, I don't remember Erebus or Nyx in having wings, but I guess their darker side might explain something.. Aristophanes, the Birds: "Firstly, black-winged Nyx laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos" Apollonius Rhodius: "Eos’ celestial beams chased black Nyx from the sky." Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy: "Then plunged the sun down into Okeanos' stream, and sable-vestured Nyx came floating up o'er the wide firmament, and brought her boon of sleep to sorrowing mortals." "The choir-leaders of the Hesperides driving their two-horse chariot along the path of night to the new turning-point, where Nyx passes through the light-bringing radiance in the eastern air; and she brings the day’s light, flying over the misty wave, a guide for sailors." See, Nyx was either winged or chariot driving, or both. I went with the wings because thematically they matched the vast bulk of her children, also winged. You and your fancy quotes and such. So, she has either wings or a chariot. Yet, Erebus isn't with wings. I already checked the fancy quotes. But yet, there are two, sort of, Erebus'. The titan, and then the place in the Underworld.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:01 pm
Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis Mnemosyne Moneta Akherontis No offense? Haha, why would that offend me? I've been trying to make guild members aware of the fact that there are far more deities in Greek Mythology than just those who dwell on Olympos since I started here. Thanatos and Hypnos are in the category of Daimones, and I've done plenty of avatars featuring them and their vast corner of the family. I was saying no offense, so that Ares or someone like that doesn't go attacking me with some curse.... And yeah, I would say they were daimones, most children of Nyx and Erebus are.. All children, actually, all 35 of them. And one may also append to that the children of Eris, the children of Styx, the children of Aphrodite, the children of Hemera, the children of Praxidike and also some of Zeus' lesser known children. That's a lot of children... Though, I don't remember Erebus or Nyx in having wings, but I guess their darker side might explain something.. Aristophanes, the Birds: "Firstly, black-winged Nyx laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos" Apollonius Rhodius: "Eos’ celestial beams chased black Nyx from the sky." Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy: "Then plunged the sun down into Okeanos' stream, and sable-vestured Nyx came floating up o'er the wide firmament, and brought her boon of sleep to sorrowing mortals." "The choir-leaders of the Hesperides driving their two-horse chariot along the path of night to the new turning-point, where Nyx passes through the light-bringing radiance in the eastern air; and she brings the day’s light, flying over the misty wave, a guide for sailors." See, Nyx was either winged or chariot driving, or both. I went with the wings because thematically they matched the vast bulk of her children, also winged. You and your fancy quotes and such. So, she has either wings or a chariot. Yet, Erebus isn't with wings. I already checked the fancy quotes. But yet, there are two, sort of, Erebus'. The titan, and then the place in the Underworld. Um, no. Erebos is NOT a Titan. The Titanes were the five sons of Ouranos and their relations, as after his castration he cursed his rebellious children, calling them Titanes Theoi, or 'Straining gods'. Erebos is a Protogenos, a primordial god emerging from nothingness. He is ALSO the place. Consider that Gaia is a person and place, as is Tartaros, Ouranos, Pontos and Aither, all siblings of Erebos.
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:03 pm
i gotta learn how you do that with the avatars! 0.0
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:04 pm
saga576 i gotta learn how you do that with the avatars! 0.0 I draw them on the computer.
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