🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧
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🇱🇧 It's pronounced SARR-uh 🧠 neurodivergent ✍ writer 🗣 audiobook narrator 🖌occasional painter 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan (she/her)
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Greetings,
#WritersofTwitter
! I'm the published writer of eleven short stories & three poems, currently working on a novel & a children's book series. As a writer, I don't think in terms of genres, but I love myth, folklore, magical realism, surrealism, allegory, & retellings.
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JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier. In 1933, Nazis ransacked the Berlin Institute for Sexual Research, where the first gender-affirming surgery was done. They burned books and medical records containing trans research. Rowling denies any of this happened.
On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.
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Ancient Greeks associated bats with the spring goddess Persephone, as she spends six months a year tending to the earth & the other six in the underworld. Bats symbolize rebirth, duality, & transitions between light & darkness, or day & night.
#FolkloreSunday
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@ijustwanabethe1
Absolutely. And children can't even question authority or express displeasure with their situations without being dismissed as "disrespectful" or "ungrateful." They're expected to respect adults regardless of whether adults respect them. That's pretty much fascist ideology.
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As a cis female ally who believes
#transrightsarehumanrights
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Maybe we should conduct a background check before we hire this person to teach.
#ThingsNeverSaidInHarryPotter
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@LittleMissFlint
WHAT THE HELL. This is a complete violation of this child's bodily autonomy. Phone calls should be made, emails should be sent, letters should be written until that teacher is fired and barred from working with children again.
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@MissLynneNYC
@JusPlainTalk101
If I was wealthy, I'd pay off all student lunch debt nationwide so kids can eat for free.
You hear that, billionaires? That's something you could easily do!
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The best way to spend
#Caturday
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In winter, Japanese folk make yuki usagi: rabbits made out of snow. They're usually a simple egg shape with nandina leaves for ears & red nandina berries for eyes. In Japan, rabbits represent good fortune, cleverness, & forward progress.
#FolkloreSunday
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The Public Universal Friend (1752-1819), an AFAB non-binary American Quaker preacher. After surviving a severe illness in 1776, they claimed to have died & been reborn as a genderless individual, & wore androgynous clothes went by they/them pronouns.
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Before Sarah Good was executed in the Salem Witch Trials, she said to one of the judges, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, "If you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink." Twenty-five years later, Noyes suffered a hemorrhage & choked to death on his own blood.
#WyrdWednesday
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Joseph Lobdell (1829-1912), trans man. Married Marie Louise Perry in 1861. They spent their married life as nomads with their pet bear, wandering the Pennsylvania wilderness & surviving off hunting & gathering, before being arrested for vagrancy.
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Frances Thompson (1840-1876), formerly enslaved black trans woman & anti-rape activist. Was attacked by a white mob during the Memphis Riots of 1865. Became one of five black women to testify about the riots, & the first trans woman to testify before U.S. Congress.
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Thomas(ine) Hall (1603-?), AFAB intersex person & indentured servant in colonial Virginia. Mostly presented male, but occasionally wore female clothes. Subjected to legal controversy & physical inspection in 1629, & was ruled in court to be both male & female.
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Chevalier d'Éon (1728-1810), trans female French soldier, diplomat, & spy. Was politically exiled to England, where she declared to be woman disguised as a man the whole time. Lived as a woman for the rest of her life, discovered to be AMAB after death.
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Bears are revered creatures in Finnish myth. The Otso, or Kings of the Forests, are highly intelligent & divine bear spirits. Some legends claim they're created when a human flees civilization & becomes transformed by the forest.
#FolkloreThursday
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You know what? I think I will. Anyone is free to add to this thread if they want. The more the merrier, because trans folk have always existed, before what bigots call "gender ideology," & they're not going anywhere.
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@_brxttx
@mythkillla
It's not about that. If an underage person posts a nude photo of themselves, they could get in trouble for posting child pornography. If they send a nude photo to a boy/girlfriend, that person could get in trouble for possessing child pornography. No one is blaming kids here.
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Billy Tipton (1914-1989), American jazz musician, bandleader, talent broker, adoptive father of three sons, & trans man. Transitioned around 1933. Started the Billy Tipton Trio, which opened for Liberace in 1958. Discovered to be AFAB after his death.
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Charley Darkey Parkhurst (1812-1879), AKA One-Eyed Charley or Six-Horse Charley, American stagecoach driver & trans man. Ran away from an orphanage at age 12 & found work as a stable hand. Developed a reputation as one of the finest stagecoach drivers on the West Coast.
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Michael Dillon (1915-1962), first trans man in the world to transition through hormones & surgery. Led Oxford's woman's rowing team. Began using testosterone in 1940, changed his birth certificate in 1944, & underwent surgery over a course of 9 years. Worked as a ship's surgeon.
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We'wha (1849–1896), Zuni artist, weaver, potter, cultural ambassador, & lhamana, meaning an AMAB person who takes on social & ceremonial roles usually assigned to women. Went by both he/him & she/her pronouns. Was part of the Zuni delegation to Washington DC in 1886.
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Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954), American socialite, chef, hostess, madam, & trans woman. Declared at an early age that she was a girl, & was supported by her parents. Revealed as trans due to a forced medical exam, & defended her identity in court.
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Alan L. Hart (1890-1962), physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, & trans man. Pioneered the use of x-ray photography in TB detection & implemented screening programs that saved thousands of lives. Published 4 novels & several short stories.
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Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989), successful actress, singer, & trans woman. Transitioned in Denmark in 1952, then returned to the US, where she became the first person widely known for having gender-affirming surgery. Became a celebrity advocate for trans folk & gave lectures.
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Lili Elbe (1882-1931), Danish painter & trans woman. Traveled to Germany for gender-affirming surgery in 1930, which was highly experimental at the time. Became the first known recipient of a uterus transplant. Wrote the memoir Man into Woman, published in 1933.
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@rozietoez
JKR once said witches & wizards don't have disabilities because they use magic to fix them. I guess that means my house is Autistic Witches That Survived Magic Attempts to Erase Us.
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April Ashley (1935-2021), English model & trans woman. Socially transitioned in the late 1950s & underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1960. Outed in 1961 by a British tabloid. Subject of the biographies April Ashley's Odyssey (1982) & The First Lady (2006).
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Roberta Cowell (1918-2011), first trans woman in Britain to transition via surgery. Racing driver & decorated fighter pilot of WWII. Consulted psychiatrists in the 1940s & began living as a woman. Underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1951. Sold her story to the press in 1954.
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Marcia Torres (1950–2011), hair stylist, cabaret performer, & trans woman. Underwent gender-affirming surgery in Chile in 1973, becoming the first person in Latin America to have such a procedure. Was subject to extensive media coverage & cited in medical articles.
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@Chinchillazllla
@KevinBikesUSA
@TheSocietyDude
Tonks' powers were so underutilized in the series. She could shapeshift onto anything, and yet she wasn't the Order's top spy?
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Dora "Dorchen" Richter (1891-1933), trans woman & first known person to undergo complete gender-affirming surgery. Worked at the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, where she underwent surgeries in 1922 & 1931. Featured in a Austrian documentary with other patients in 1933.
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In old Irish legend, the warrior Oisín falls in love with Niamh of the Golden Hair, & lives with her in Tir na nÓg, the Land of Youth, for over 300 years. Homesick, he decides to return to Ireland. Once his feet touch the ground, he rapidly ages into an old man.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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Toni Ebel (1881-1961), German painter & trans woman. Changed her name in 1930. Worked at the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin, where she underwent gender-affirming surgeries in 1929 & 1930. Became a member of the Association of Visual Artists in East Germany in the 1950s.
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Few writers have been subject to as much folklore as Mary Shelley, English author of Frankenstein (1818), which was published when she was just 19. Here are just a few of the tales of Mary Shelley's eventful life, some true, some possibly true but unconfirmed.
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@shondarhimes
IMO fixation on "strong" characters reeks of ableism. I want to see characters with strengths and weaknesses, disabilities, mental illnesses, etc. Characters who get discouraged, frustrated, give up, cry... those are my favorite types, because they're real and relatable.
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Hecate, Greek goddess of magic & witchcraft, was often depicted with three heads, or as three bodies standing back-to-back. This represents the archetypes of Maiden, Mother, & Crone, as well as her association with crossroads, where she can look in all directions.
#WyrdWednesday
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@ScarlettHairdye
If I had her kind of money, I'd sponsor children in need worldwide, open animal sanctuaries and nature reserves, fund school lunches so kids can eat free, launch campaigns against corporations destroying our earth, provide humanitarian aid to those affected by climate change...
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In Norse myth, the wise giant Mimir gets beheaded, & Odin places his head at the roots of Yggdrasill, the World Tree. From there springs a well that grants knowledge of past, present, & future events. Odin trades an eye so Mimir will let him drink from it.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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@HireMeImFunny
@LadyLovesTaft
I always liked Meera. I wish we could have gotten to see he one last time.
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We should stop Sorting our students because labeling children is detrimental to their development.
#ThingsNeverSaidInHarryPotter
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Al-Miraj is a mythical rabbit with a unicorn horn, said to live on a mysterious island in the Indian Ocean called Jazirah al-Tennyn (Sea-Serpent Island). The island natives gave him to Alexander the Great as a reward for slaying a dragon.
#FolkloreSunday
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@amyisquitebusy
Christ, why don't these people get rabbits or guinea pigs or parakeets if they want vegan pets???
I'm vegan. My cat is not. Therefore I feed her meat. It's not rocket science. I'm not interested in forcing my ideology on my pet.
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In winter, Japanese folk make yuki usagi: rabbits made out of snow. They're usually a simple egg shape with nandina leaves for ears & red nandina berries for eyes. In Japan, rabbits represent good fortune, cleverness, & forward progress.
#FolkloreSunday
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In medieval Europe, especially Great Britian, it was believed there were tiny demons hiding in brussels sprouts. People made cross-shaped cuts on the sprouts to expel the demons before cooking them. Failure to do so would lead to food poisoning.
#WyrdWednesday
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Cana Cludhmor, the Irish goddess of music & creative inspiration, was walking on the beach one night when she heard wind blowing through sinews attached to a rotting whale skeleton on the shore. She was inspired by this sound to invent the harp.
#FolkloreThursday
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Sometimes I think I can't write both children's books and books for adults, that I should just pick one or the other. Then I remember
@neilhimself
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@jaxajueny
Showrunners are afraid to commit to ugly characters.
This applies to fat characters too. Lollys, Rhaenyra, Viserys, & Helaena (probably others I can't recall) are described as fat/plump in the books, but TV doesn't care about size representation.
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In Hindu myth, a king died without an heir, so his wives, Chandra & Mala, recieved blessings from the god Shiva to concieve a child together. Ancient texts claim they "enjoyed the company of each other" & "lived together in extreme love."
#MythologyMonday
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If you're outraged at
#Lizzo
performing scantily clad in front of children at an NBA game, how about some outrage on behalf of the traumatized children separated from their parents and placed in cages at the US-Mexico border?
The children who saw Lizzo's ass will be just fine.
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Ancient Egyptians divided dreams into three categories: demands from the gods, warnings from the gods, & those that came during dream rituals. Anyone who sought divine wisdom would go to temples to sleep on "dream beds," hoping to recieve guiding messages.
#WyrdWednesday
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@ScarlettHairdye
I just want the chance to prove becoming rich won't turn me into a bad person 🥺
To her credit, JKR has provided a prime example of what not to do when you achieve fame and fortune. She's taught us that, at least.
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As a cis woman, a feminist, and an ally,
#IStandAgainstJKRowling
.
Did you know trans folk have had a presence in film longer than you think?
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Scottish goddess Beira, Queen of Winter, appears as a blue-skinned hag carrying a magical staff that freezes the ground & a hammer for shaping hills & valleys. At the end of her seasonal reign, & she drinks from the Well of Youth to become young again.
#FolkloreThursday
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Shahmaran is a cave-dwelling woman/snake hybrid found in the mythologies of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, the Armenian Highlands, & Kurdistan. When a man gets lost in her cave & discovers her garden, she falls in love with him & teaches him about medicinal herbs.
#FolkloreThursday
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@SketchesbyBoze
✅ Ronan Farrow exposing Harvey Weinstein
✅ Mr. Rogers teaching children to be kind, love learning, & deal with feelings in a constructive way
✅ LeVar Burton teaching kids to love reading
✅ Steve Irwin rehabilitating wild animals & speaking out about nature conservation
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@unicornthorn
Those are the kind of people that feed their cats and dogs vegan diets. Which is animal abuse. I'm vegan and I would NEVER do that to my kitty. When will they realize not everyone's bodies work the same?
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@MagnusJuliano
@FoxxyGlamKitty
Anyone who doesn't understand this should watch Siren. It portrays a loving polyamorous relationship between three people (one of whom is a mermaid 🧜♀️).
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@JennyENicholson
Given how that woman loves retcons, it wouldn't surprise me if she suddenly claims that's true 😄
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Someone tell that hateful Rowling woman that gender-nonconforming folk have always existed, have had a presence in film since the early 1900s, and are not going anywhere.
#FlashbackFriday
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Around 1220, Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, came to the aid of an Italian city being terrorized by a wolf. He befriended the wolf & negotiated a peace treaty, proving that coexistence between humans & the natural world is possible.
#WyrdWednesday
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@LouisatheLast
I like taking photos of art so I can Instagram them, use them for wallpaper, or Google them later. Of course, not all museums permit that, but if they do, I want to remember what my favorite pieces look like, and show them to friends.
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In many Norse myths, the god Odin disguises himself as an old traveler wearing a blue cloak & a hat pulled down to hide his missing eye. He often travels with a pack of wolves or his two ravens, imparting wisdom & knowledge on struggling mortals.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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@JennyENicholson
I believe that's called rape by deception.
Not only that, but she was "very drunk," which implies she might not have been able to consent either way.
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Feldgeister are mythical German corn spirits, which includes the Roggenwolf (rye wolf), Erbsenbär (pea bear), Heukatze (hay cat), Weizenvogel (wheat bird), & many other animal & human forms. During harvest, they flee deeper into the fields to escape mowers.
#MythologyMonday
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@SugaryTweet
@TheKingIsh_
Well, except for Jon and Tyrion, who seem to be taking stupid pills this season, given their persistent faith in Dany.
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According to ancient Sumerian hymns, the goddess Inanna can "turn a man into a woman & a woman into a man." She meets a homeless girl rejected by society & "takes the great crime from their body / ... breaks the lance, gives them a weapon as for a man’s heart."
#MythologyMonday
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In English folklore, Apple Tree Man is the spirit of the oldest apple tree in the orchard, & oversees growth & ripening. In one tale, a man pours mulled cider on the tree's roots. Moved by this offering, Apple Tree Man tells him where to find buried treasure.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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An old superstition among sailors is that if they eat eggs at sea, they must immediately crush the shells. Otherwise witches could sail the seas inside the eggshells & sink ships with their magic. This belief originated in Ancient Rome.
#WyrdWednesday
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In the Chinese tale "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," a serpent terrorizes a village into feeding him a maiden once a year in exchange for their safety. A girl volunteers to be the sacrifice, then pulls out a sword & slays the serpent with help from her hunting dog.
#FairyTaleTuesday
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@marisacalvi
Yes!! What an accomplished, awesome woman. She's also a photographer. She's had her photos of solar eclipses published by NASA and the magazine Sky & Telescope.
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@Artists_Ali
I never liked her portrayal of house elves as Happy Slaves™ either, even when I was a fan. Yet other fans ridiculed me when I pointed out how problematic it was.
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Beware of harvesting your fields on a hot day. Lady Midday, or Poludnitsa, will emerge from dust clouds in the form of an old hag, a lovely woman, or a young girl, carrying a scythe. If you can't answer her riddles, she'll kill you by beheading or heat stroke.
#SuperstitionSat
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@martiniposting
I've read that book several times (I'm autistic, so I need some social guidance) and I do not recall throwing away food and drink being part of its guidelines.
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@haramcart
Now my grandparents have died and my unmarried aunts remain living at their house. No one thinks any less of them for it.
Stigmatizing people who live with their parents is just casual ableism. Not everyone is capable of living on their own.
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Sayyida al Hurra (1485-1561) ruled Tetouan, Morocco as queen from 1515 to 1542, using her pirate fleet to control the western Mediterranean Sea. She became a pirate to seek revenge against Catholic monarchs who drove her Muslim family out of Grenada.
#FolkloreThursday
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In medieval Europe, especially Great Britian, it was believed there were tiny demons hiding in brussels sprouts. People made cross-shaped cuts on the sprouts to expel the demons before cooking them. Failure to do so would lead to food poisoning.
#WyrdWednesday
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@sacha_coward
Don't forget Atargatis from Assyrian myth! She was a powerful priestess who accidentally killed her mortal lover, and tried to drown herself out of grief and remorse. But instead of dying, she turned into the first mermaid! She became the goddess of fertility, land, and sea.
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@atpeaceretreat1
@HugOfThunder
@VertDuFerk
If only she wasn't a TERF and hadn't resolved to vote for Trump.
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Idunn, the Norse goddess of spring, is the keeper of the golden apples of immortality. The gods eat these apples to preserve their youth. When trickster god Loki allows Idunn to be kidnapped & her apples stolen by a giant, the gods start aging.
#FolkloreSunday
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Xenia, which translates to "guest-friendship," is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality shown to strangers & foreigners. In mythology, theoxenia is when people show hospitality to a stranger who turns out to be a god in disguise.
#MythologyMonday
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In the Scottish Highlands, red deer—called fiadh ruadh in Gaelic—were once called fairy cattle, as it was believed fairy folk milked them on mountaintops. In Ireland, red deer are associated with the woodland goddess Flidais, who keeps a herd of deer & cows.
#FolkloreSunday
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The cat-sìth of Celtic myth takes the form of a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Folklore claims it's either a fairy or a witch that can transform into a cat nine times. It can steal souls but will also bless homes that leave out milk on Samhain.
#MythologyMonday
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@HonkIfUrHoary
I'm vegan and I would NEVER do that to my girl. She loves her canned salmon and whitefish and the occasional moth that gets into the apartment.
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When the Egyptian war goddess Sekhmet goes on a violent, omnicidal rampage in the form of a lioness, the sun god Ra stops her by mixing jugs of beer with pomegranate juice. Thinking it's blood, Sekhmet drinks it & becomes so drunk she sleeps for three days.
#MythologyMonday
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Marshmallow won't let me brush her, so I got her a self-grooming cat arch. She loves it.
#Caturday
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In Cornwall, UK, are two sets of neolithic stones: the Merry Maidens & the Pipers. According to myth, 19 maidens were turned to stone for dancing on a Sunday, & the two pipers were also punished for playing music for them.
#FolkloreThursday
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In Celtic myth, the Oak King & the Holly King are in constant battle. The Oak King reigns during summer & the Holly King starts taking over in autumn. At winter solstice, the Holly King starts losing his power to the Oak King, who reigns in spring.
#MythologyMonday
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In Germany in the 15th century, a Catholic clergyman wrote a witch-hunting manual called the Malleus Maleficarum. It claimed that witches stole male genitalia to keep as pets. They could communicate with them, put them in nests, & fed them oats.
#WyrdWednesday
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@ycsm1n
Didn't those brothers murder their abusive parents? That's not even close to Dahmer raping and murdering innocent people. I don't believe a series called Monster is the best medium for their story.
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Greek mathematician / philosopher Pythagoras & his followers never ate fava beans, for they believed they contained the souls of the dead. The flowers with their hollow stems were believed to connect earth to the underworld & provide a ladder for human souls.
#FolkloreThursday
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Look, I know it's not
#MythologyMonday
, but that damn transphobic wizard woman is trending again, and I feel like combating that with some ancient myths that feature trans folk.
Feel free to add more. There's always room.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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