#Hymanaeus

[njamil21]

Happy Late Valentine's Day!

This is incredibly late but I wanted to just finish this properly and get this posted. I was doing research and came across Erotes and got interested in making some designs and as I'm currently taking an online course on UI/UX designers so I thought it would be fun to create modern versions of them as developers on a dating app.

First is Anteros, the Erotes of requited love and the head UX designer of the app, Cupid Connect. He's very eager to help as many clients get their happily ever after so he helps manage deadlines and making sure the app runs smoothly. Anteros may not be in a relationship himself, but he's very excited to see people find their happily-ever-afters through the app! Hedylogos is the Erotes of flattery so naturally he's their PR manager and UX researcher, connecting directly with clients to get their honest feedback so the app can be easily used and understood by all. He's a sweet talker and likes to keep the atmosphere light by bringing homemade candies to the office to pick everyone up. Hedylogos tends to lay it on thick when it comes to compliments but his friends learned to understand that's just how he operates.

Hermaphroditus, as an Erotes of androgyny, was hard to pin down as to what their role on the team would be but I thought having them be the UX designer overseeing the safety features of the app would be best. Love is meant to be safe in the end and they would like to make sure all clients can experience their app and avoid any potential dangers when using it. In their free time, Hermaphroditus likes to garden and will occasionally bring flowers to the office. Hymenaeus is the Erotes of marriage so he does a lot of the heavy lifting of UX development in managing clients' information and helping Anteros in the match-making department. I like to think he worked as a wedding planner before so Hymenaeus also works as an event planner for the app, so couples can meet on safer grounds to get to know one another. People tend to look at Hymenaeus when it comes to throwing the best parties.

Pothos is the Erotes of yearning so as the UI designer, he makes sure that not only does the app look pleasing to the eye, but that also the client can navigate the app and get the love they long for. He can relate to wanting to be with the one you love, as he's in a long-distance relationship at the moment so he enjoys this aspect of the job. When Pothos isn't video chatting with his sweetheart, he likes to go drinking with the rest of the team. Last but not least, is Himeros, the Erotes of unrequited love and desire, so he works as another UI designer. Himeros will sometimes add articles regarding intimacy tips on the home page so clients can use that as they will but he'd like to upload advice on what happens when finding love is difficult, especially given their clientele. It hasn't been approved since that might be a bad look for the app but Himeros still tries.

This was insanely long and I'm so sorry about that. It's all just been rattling around in my brain for two months so I just wanted it out and posted before February was done. I hope you all had a great Valentine's day and enjoying some now half-priced chocolates on sale!

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#artists on tumblr #illustration #character design #erotes #valentine's day #Anteros #Hedylogos #Hermaphroditus #Hymanaeus #Pothos #Himeros #Please feel free to reblog!! #Or comment! #Nishat's doodles #All of the background images are stock photos from Unsplash #In order it's: Micheile Henderson; JACQUELINE BRANDWAYN; Susn Matthiessen; freestocks; Georgia de Lotz; and Amy Shamblen

[finelythreadedsky]

thinking about how clytemnestra in her welcoming speeches calls agamemnon ὑψηλῆς στέγης/ στῦλον ποδήρη, “firm beam supporting a lofty roof” (897-898), and compares him to how ῥίζης γὰρ οὔσης φυλλὰς ἵκετ᾽ ἐς δόμους/ σκιὰν ὑπερτείνασα σειρίου κυνός, “the root’s leaves come over the house, stretching shade over the dog days of summer” (966-967) and how the image she’s creating overall is of agamemnon himself as a tree growing in the center of the house, a tree around which the house itself is built

and odyssey 23.183-204, where odysseus describes how he built his bed around a living olive tree that grew in the center of the house, which clytemnestra’s second tree reference particularly seems to recall

i’m remembering how nicole loraux in tragic ways of killing a woman talks about the roofpole as metonymic for the stability of the house and household as embodied in its lord, and she actually cites one of those aeschylus passages:

The rooftree, which the Odyssey called melathron, Euripides calls teramna. By metonymy it can mean the palace considered in its dimension of verticality; but it goes even further. From Sappho's epithalamium (“Come, carpenters, lift up the rooftree [melathron], Hymanaeus, for here enters the house a bridegroom the equal of Ares”) to Euripides, the roof seems to have been much connected with the husband, whose tall stature it dominates and protects. One might perhaps recall that Clytemnestra, in her irreproachable speech that is also a total lie, called Agamemnon 'the column sustaining the high roof' (Agamemnon 897-8).

but the imagery of the husband-roofpole as a living thing, and particularly as a living tree that can be cut down and killed is such an interesting way that aeschylus plays on clytemnestra as penelope’s mirror. odysseus as accusing penelope of having killed him by cutting the tree that is his symbolic manifestation, and then clytemnestra actually performing that action after laying the metaphorical groundwork.

#trees are also cut down using axes but clytemnestra in the agamemnon actually isnt described as using an axe so :( #the way anne carson talks about clytemnestra in particular as setting fire to language #she is a master of metaphor. she knows the language of the genre and how to manipulate it to set her traps #clytemnestra KNOWS epic she knows how it works. she does not know tragedy. agamemnon also is so familiar with epic but not tragedy #clytemnestra! has read! the odyssey! #mine #odysseyblogging #oresteiablogging #loraux talks about the roofpole in the context of women who hang themselves from it #in which case it ends up as a symbolic representation of the stability their households lack #the husband=roofpole link happens via roofpole=thalamos/marriage chamber=the marriage itself

[carlerinle]

The Anchor Holds

Thursday 9th April 2020

Heb. 6:19 – “Which hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”

An anchor is a device used to moor ships and boats to the sea bottom, used to keep it steady and unmovable in the middle of the sea. The Bible tells us that our soul has a sure and steadfast anchor. What is that anchor and how do we deploy it? Hope is that anchor for believers which we hold on to and which holds onto us. This anchor keeps us confident and unshakeable in the face of anything that appears contrary to that hope. When the Bible teaches us about the hope we have, it’s not referring to an optimistic expectation of a favourable outcome, no, it’s far deeper than that. This hope is founded on the assurance Christ gives us through the Holy Spirit that we are His, that He is in us (Col. 1:27), and that we will shortly be where He is (John 14:3). The understanding of what Christ has procured for us, guaranteeing our eternal destiny in Him by the Spirit of Christ in us is our confidence. This confidence produces in us a freedom to live like Christ lived, to walk in righteousness, to look sin in the face and choose holiness. This hope that soon, and very soon indeed, we will be glorified to be exactly like Christ is what keeps our faith unshakeable and unmovable no matter what life throws at us (2 Cor. 4:7-9).

Another anchor that we hold on to is sound doctrine. A childish Christian is likened to one who is tossed here and there by different kinds of doctrine (Eph. 4:14, Heb. 13:9). There are several strange doctrines that have been thrown into the Body of Christ which have the singular goal of destabilising the faith of many. For example, Paul complained that Hymanaeus and Philetus taught that the resurrection (or rapture) was past already, and this overthrew the faith of some growing Christians (2 Tim. 2:17-18). Faith comes by hearing, and faith in God comes by what we hear of the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). This is why sound doctrine is very important for our souls. Believing the wrong doctrine can have a drastic impact on the way we live our Christian lives and can even have eternal implications. For example, the doctrine of believers going to purgatory has eternal implications for the believer, while legalism will impact the quality of victorious Christian living that a believer experiences here on earth.

A third anchor for believers is communion with other believers. No single believer makes up the entire Body of Christ, and each of us must necessarily interact for the Body to progress. No one was saved to be a lone ranger; we need each other to grow. One of the enemy’s tricks is to isolate you from the rest of your support system, and then to flood your mind with a barrage of thoughts and temptations that will try to remove you from your secure moorings. Joining yourself to a company of believers is helpful to keep you accountable, to keep you learning, to keep you loving. To stay away from believers because they are imperfect is not Christ’s way of loving; remember, He loves us despite our weaknesses. You don’t know all scripture, nor do you have all revelation; by fellowshipping you can more easily avoid errors in doctrine and lifestyle and be strengthened when you fall.

The soul is anchored to the Word of God, which is stronger than anything we could ever encounter. When you tie yourself inextricably to the Word, you will discover that the anchor holds in any storm of life. This anchor is steady, unbreakable, and inerrant; by fastening yourself to the Word, by going for sound doctrine, by fellowshipping with other saints of God. Your eternal destiny is guaranteed by your knowledge and understanding of the unfailing hope we have in Christ, and thus we can never be lost.

Have a blessed day.

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