#thesprotia

[epestrefe]

Mercedes Benz O322 της Βιαμάξ με αριθμό ανεμοθώρακα «20» στο ΚΤΕΛ Θεσπρωτίας, ιδιοκτήτης ο Κώστας Ντάνης.Στη φωτογραφία από τον Βασίλειο Παραμυθιώτη, επάνω, ο Ντάνης από την πρώτη ημέρα παραλαβής του λεωφορείου του από τη «Βιαμάξ», σε κυκλοφορία με δοκιμαστικό αριθμό τύπου «Μ».

Πηγή και περισσότερα στο:https://busoldtimers.blogspot.com/2014/10/blog-post_25.html

#λεωφορείο #ΚΤΕΛ Θεσπρωτίας #αριθμός 20 #Mercedes Benz O322 #Βιαμάξ #1950s #Κώστας Ντάνης #bus #old bus #Greece #Thesprotia #Epirus #50s #old photo

[gemsofgreece]

επειδη ειμαι απο θεσπρωτια θα ηθελα να δηλωσω οτι πανε καποιοι και ξεριζωνουν τα τσαγια και τα διαφορα βοτανα απο τα βουνα κλπ με αποτελεσμα να μην ξαναφητρωνουν και μετα τα πουλανε στη λαικη εξου γιατι τους ψαχνουν να τα κατασχεσουν, γενικως ολο και κατι παρανομο γινεται συνεχεια στην θεσπρωτια, πολλα τα βουνα.

Α μάλιστα! Μπράβο που τους έπιασαν, κάτι τέτοια έχουν σοβαρό αντίκτυπο στο περιβάλλον. Νομίζω έχω ακούσει τέτοια παρόμοια να γίνονται με την ξυλεία εκεί, που κόβουν ανεξέλεγκτα τα δάση.

Εγώ φυσικά το έβαλα στο ποστ γιατί μου φάνηκε πολύ αστείος ο τίτλος.

#greece #γρεεκ ποστ #ελληνικό ποστ #Greek news #anon #mail #thesprotia #Epirus

[fatandangry]

❇️ ❇️ ❇️ #sagiada #thesprotia #seaside #sea #summer #dusk #reflections #reflectionsinwater #epirus #ipiros #myepirus #epirus_shots #wu_greece #kings_greece #unlimited_greece #stay_greece #ig_greece #focus_epirus #nikon #NikonGlobal #nikongreece #nikonphotography #nikond3100 #athensvoice #greekphotographers #ioanninabars (στην τοποθεσία Sagiáda, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiD8P8Utujj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#sagiada #thesprotia #seaside #sea #summer #dusk #reflections #reflectionsinwater #epirus #ipiros #myepirus #epirus_shots #wu_greece #kings_greece #unlimited_greece #stay_greece #ig_greece #focus_epirus #nikon #nikonglobal #nikongreece #nikonphotography #nikond3100 #athensvoice #greekphotographers #ioanninabars

[atdutiesend]

{ Thesprotia Lore Drop}

Thesprotia is the body garden serving greater Amaurot. It stands as both a morbid counterpart to Elpis, and the closest thing Amaurot tolerates to a lichyard. After a soul is guided on by Emet-Selch, the mortal remains are relinquished to Thesprotia for their final service to the star - to be turned into soil.

The Public Gardens are a large complex of, literally, gardens. Maintained by the Words of Halmarut and Altima, they are often said to be the most beautiful gardens in the world. Any citizen, or even traveler, may visit the Public Gardens to pay their respects to those who have finished their work.

Beyond the Gardens is a building massive even by Amaurotine standards. It is here the bodies are delivered and tended to, and the domain only of the Words of Emet-Selch and their guests. The work here is considered highly spiritual in polite conversation, and terribly morbid in blunter terms. Bodies are dissected and disassembled, prepared for the mulching beyond. Those who choose to allow the study of their body after death are preserved, waiting delivery to the Office of Emmerololth.

Beyond the building are the Private Gardens, a vast enclosure walled off from the public eye. It is here the decomposition of creations are studied, in far more depth than the researchers of Elpis can afford. Only the hardiest of souls venture here, wary of carrion-eater and predator alike - after all, what point would there be to ignore the cycle of life in the garden of death?

Phobos has been the head of Thesprotia for a very long time - for the average Amautotine, for all of living memory. Exactly how long this in is highly subjective due to muse lore, but he is at the least meant to be older than Venat. No one is entirely certain what he considers his great work that he sees as yet being undone... But one thing is certain. He was one of the few citizens barred from sacrificing himself for Zodiark, due to his position.

#out of cryptids #about phobos #thesprotia tag; #spoilers; shadowbringers #spoilers; endwalker

[infirmux]

OHHHHHH i have been trying to figure out how alexander is related to cassandra for five thousand years but if he is the lion & the argives are the persians that makes perfect sense. okay sorry everyone who i have accused of lying on this matter very loudly in front of vast audiences

#aeacus and dardanus is sort of like saying achilles & zeus with extra steps i suppose. thesprotia is in epirus so olympias #& the other one erm well. need all mysteries be explained?

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: dione

dione was the titan goddess of the oracle of dodona in thesprotia, and the mother of aphrodite by zeus. her name is simply the feminine form of zeus. dione was described as "the temple associate" of zeus at dodona. the three elderly prophetesses of the shrine, known collectively as the peleiades, were probably her priestesses. these women were named "the doves" after the sacred bird of dione's daughter aphrodite who also posssessed a temple at the shrine.

#greek mythology #dione #greekmythologyedit #mythologyedit #mythedit #*mine* #gods and goddesses

[luciuscaelus]

How to Introduce yourself properly

Odysseus (to Polyphemus): My name is Nobody. Ha! Gotcha! Now do remember me, I’m the reigning king of Ithaca…Odysseus! ❎

Odysseus (to Athena): Wow, this is Ithaca? You know what? I’ve never been to this place! I’m just a Cretan, dropped here by a bunch of Phoenicians after I ran away from Crete cuz I murdered the prince Orsilochus… ✅

Odysseus (to Eumaeus): Yeah I’m from Crete. Castor was the father of me and my brothers. King Idomeneus and I led the troops to Ilium. Hell, back then I was the third leader after Odysseus and Menelaus. After the war me and my bros came to Egypt from Crete, and boy isn’t that a long story? I even got tricked by a Phoenician! Anyway I stayed in Egypt for 7 years, Phoenicia for 1 year, and then I fricking drifted to Thesprotia where I heard the news of Odysseus’s return. ✅

Odysseus (to the suitors): Look at me, I’m a beggar! ✅ Odysseus (to Antinous): The fricking Egypt and Cyprus were horrible. I don’t want to go there again. ✅

Odysseus (to Penelope): That’s right, I’m a Cretan. The name’s Aethon, son of Deucalion, brother of King Idomeneus. Back then I was young and didn’t go to Ilium. That’s why I received Odysseus who dropped by to see his good bro Idomeneus before heading for Troy. I can even tell you what clothes he was wearing! Listen ma’am, Odysseus is coming back soon. Last time I heard he was on Thesprotia, and I swear to gods he’ll be back by the end of this month… ❎ Odysseus (also to Penelope): Hey look, I stringed the bow, shot through 12 axes and a lot of skulls, now I’m the one who spent 10 long years trying to make it home, and you won’t even recognize me as your own dear husband? Wait what? Who the frick can move my olive tree bed??? ✅

Odysseus (to Laertus): I’m Eperitus from Alybas, son of Apheidas. I came here from Sicily. 5 years ago I have met Odysseus. Oops, sorry dad. I’m Odysseus himself. ✅

#has it been done before? #I’ll post it anyway #This is the man who’s trying his best to convince everyone that he’s a Cretan who has met himself #he also loved to attach himself to Idomeneus lol #like the best bro forever #greek mythology #epic the musical #odysseus #the odyssey #tagamemnon #odypen #idomeneus

[simugeuge]

Stanning Odysseus is embracing misery. I cannot keep going through these raw levels of pain.

The effort it takes to live in denial. I'm spent. Nothing outside Homer is real. No, Odysseus never visited Thesprotia. No he didn't marry anyone but Penelope. No he didn't father epigonoi. No he wasn't killed neither by Telegonus nor a stingray. No he wasn't exiled to Italy by Neoptolemus. NO HE'S NOT ON THE F* MOON WDYM

#no it's not that bad #but it is #man give me something to work with #I'm starving here #i know #you're miserable too #odysseus #tagamemnon #the odyssey

[ditipatri]

Pluton and other Di Inferi aren’t spoken of often in regards to Their worship or the sort of cults that were present in the past that would focus on Them. While relatively “unpopular” despite their importance and usually, while with reason, left unspoken and untouched, Di Inferi, or the Chthonic Gods, were still a great influence on how the general worship worked in the days long gone. 

In this post I would like to focus on the God Pluton and the cult that surrounded Him in the past. I will as well speak on the sort of sacrifices done in His honor, other Gods He was praised alongside with, and the temples established in His name. 

The cult of Pluton was not exactly popular nor very widely spread in the ancient times. He received the title of the Unspoken one for a reason, and people seemed to generally avoid devoting to Him in large numbers. 

However, some territories still had his cult established alongside with depictions at the temple sites. There were the so-called ‘Oracles of the Dead’ set up in places such as Heracleia Pontica, Tainaron on Mani, Acheron in Thesprotia, and Avernus in Campania. According to the evidence found, the oracles were likely divining to communicate with ghosts through dreaming and incubation.  At Acheron, there was the largest Nekromanteion out of those known to the modern scholars and the first Oracle of the Dead.

Pluton was depicted alongside other Gods in votive panels on temples and altars, most often appearing next to Persephone and Apollo. In the areas near the mountain Soracte, for example, there was a cult rooted in the pre-Greco-Roman Deity of the underworld, Soranus, later identified with Pluton and a “dark” aspect of Apollo. There, the cult seemed to worship “the heat of the Earth alongside the heat of the Sun” as the location had intense volcanic activity and areas of cracked soil where one could feel the heat of the Earth’s depths. 

Among the recorded sacrifices to Pluton are those of black oxes and other black-furred cattle, which the worshippers seemed to believe He prefers. The blood of the animals would be collected in the pit in the ground. 

Secular Games were held in Rome every hundred years and were devoted ro Pluton and Persephone. Some sources state that this ritual goes back to the Sabine tradition. According to the Roman myth, a man called Valesius was instructed to sacrifice to Pluton and Persephone in Tarentum to heal his sick children, so he travelled there and found a Roman campus located where the ancient temple once was. After allegedly giving his children the water from Tiber, he witnessed them get better and was then told to sacrifice to the two Gods upon the altar he dug out. 

Spots of volcanic activity seem to generally be associated with the worship of Pluton in the past, and for a few reasons as well. Alongside the fact that volcanic activity causes a lot of hot air to come through the cracks in the ground, it also is often associated with emissions of carbon dioxide, which is deadly when inhaled in large quantities and serves as a “silent killer”. 

At one of the sites in the ancient Hierapolis, a cave that rested above a crack in the ground that led to a system of underground tunnels going very deep, there was a temple of Pluton established. The cave system allowed air with high percentage of CO2 to enter the upper layers and finally accumulate above the ground where one could enter, and the concentration was so high it caused nearly immediate death of cattle and birds that wandered or flew nearby. 

According to the sources present, the priests of Pluton would lead the cattle sacrificed to Him in and have it die after a short period of panic from inhaling highly CO2-containing air. The priests themselves could survive for longer as CO2 concentrates closer to the ground. It was believed the breath of Pluton - or Cerberus, in some versions - killed the sacrificial animals.

There aren’t many temples attested to Pluton alone - actually, the only sites where we can speak of His worship being done are the temples He shared with other Deities. For obvious reasons, the Deity most often praised together with Him at temple sites was Persephone.  For example, in Tarentum, which is on the river Tiber, there was a temple devoted to Pluton and Persephone where they shared an altar for offerings. The temple was located near the place where the Tarentini games took place. 

As stated before, Pluton was sometimes worshipped together with Apollo. At the mountain of Soracte, there was a shared temple for the two Gods where they were worshipped alongside each other. 

It’s also important to mention that we don’t know for sure if worship of Pluton was done on the sacred territories outside of specifically temples. These locations marked down here are ones we can be sure of being worship places as there were inscriptions and reliefs found on the sites. 

Some other temples where Pluton was worshipped: 

Temple of Pluton and Persephone in Acharaca

Temple of Pluton in Tunisia

Temple of Pluton at Aiani

Note: Do not use any decor from this post. It was made by me, images not mine.  

Sources in pinned.

#‿̩͙‿ ༺ 𓉸♚𓉸 ༻ ‿̩͙‿ #theoi #greek gods #hellenic polytheism #roman polytheism #religio romana #hades deity #pluton worship #hades worship

[deathlessathanasia]

“Although Homer does not attempt to describe the topography of the lower world, he alludes to its most distinctive feature, the famous meadows of asphodel; for Odysseus sees the ghost of Achilles striding off through an asphodel meadow, and sees the dead hunter Orion herding ghostly beasts across it. Romantic though its name may sound in English, asphodel is a dingy and unprepossessing plant which grows on barren ground, and we should imagine this accordingly as a bleak monochrome landscape that provides a suitable setting for the colourless half-life of the shades. The abode of the dead is usually pictured as a gloomy subterranean land which contains these meadows of asphodel and also, in many subsequent accounts, groves and hills and other features of a conventional landscape. It is separated from  the world of the living by a boundary-river, the Styx in the Iliad, but usually the Acheron in later sources. Four infernal rivers are mentioned in the Odyssey, namely the Styx, Acheron, Kokytos (here described as a branch of the Styx) and Pyriphlegethon (also known as Phlegethon); and a fifth river, Lethe, is added in the subsequent tradition. Their names are significant in every case, meaning respectively the Abhorrent, the Woeful (if the name of Acheron can be rightly derived from achos, woe, distress), the River of Lamentation, the Fiery, and the River of Forgetfulness. The name of Pyriphlegethon had nothing to do originally with fires of punishment (although it is mentioned as a place of torment in occasional late passages), but simply referred to the flames of the funeral pyre. Acheron was sometimes said to have issued into a swampy lake or mere (Acherousia or the Acherousian lake); its name was also used, by extension, as a poetic name for the Underworld.

Hesiod mentions the Styx alone, stating that it flows down from the Ocean taking a tenth of its water, and that the gods swear their solemn oaths by it. The Styx, Kokytos and Acheron had counterparts in the upper world, the Styx in Arcadia, the Kokytos in Thesprotia in north-western Greece, and the Acheron in Thesprotia and  elsewhere. There was a Styx in northern Arcadia that plunged several hundred feet down a sheer cliff-face near Nonakris (at the falls now known as Mavronero), much as the infernal river is said to flow down from a tall precipice in Hesiod’s account. In the earliest surviving reference to the Arcadian Styx, Herodotus mentions that the Arcadians swore oaths by it and believed that waters from the infernal river issued into it. There is no way of telling whether the traditional conception of the infernal river was influenced by knowledge of the Arcadian Styx and its falls, or whether, conversely, the Arcadian Styx was first given that name because its chilly falls resembled those of the Styx in Hesiod’s description. It is no surprise that the waters of the Arcadian river should have been credited with sinister qualities. Pausanias reports, for instance, that they were reputed to bring death to animals and human beings who drank from them, and to have the power to dissolve or corrupt almost everything, including glass, crystal and agate, and even pottery; and a tradition claimed that Alexander the Great was poisoned with some Styx-water that was sent over to Asia in a horse’s hoof, the only substance unaffected by its powers. The Thesprotian Acheron was also rendered impressive by its setting, for it flowed through deep gorges in a wild landscape, occasionally disappearing underground, and passed through a marshy lake before emerging into the Ionian Sea; it had an oracle of the dead beside it, as did another Acheron near Heracleia Pontica in Asia Minor. There was also an Acheron in southern Elis.

An allusion in Plato’s Republic provides the earliest evidence for Lethe as a river of the Underworld. It is fitting that waters of Forgetfulness should flow through the Underworld since it is a realm of oblivion where the shades of the dead can expect to forget all or most of their earthly experiences. A poem by Theognis observes accordingly that Persephone brings le¯the¯, forgetfulness, to mortals by impairing their wits, and Aristophanes refers to an infernal plain of Lethe (which probably figured in Eleusinian eschatology). Once the idea had arisen that waters of Lethe flowed through the Underworld, it could easily be imagined that the newly arrived dead would be deprived of their memory by drinking from them; and for those who believed in reincarnation, a subsequent draught of Lethe could explain why souls that have been reborn into earthly bodies remember nothing of the other world or of their previous incarnations. It is in the latter connection that Plato refers to a river of Forgetfulness (Amele¯ta potamon). As a further thought, it might be imagined that newly departed persons who possessed the requisite knowledge might be able to abstain from drinking from the waters of Lethe and so retain their full memory and understanding. Instructions on this  very matter are provided on gold leaves that have been excavated from the tombs of Bacchic initiates in southern Italy and elsewhere; on one such leaf from Hipponion on the heel of Italy, dating to about 400 BC, the initiate is told to avoid a spring on the right-hand side beneath a white cypress on entering Hades, but to drink instead from the cool waters  that flow from the lake of Mnemosyne (Memory). Although the spring that is to be avoided is not explicitly named, it is evidently a spring of le¯the¯, forgetfulness. In ordinary life,  people who wanted to consult the oracle of Trophonios at Lebadeia would drink from two neighbouring springs, first from that of Lethe to clear their mind of all previous thoughts, and then from that of Mnemosyne so as to be able to remember what the oracle would reveal.”

 - The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology

#underworld #rivers #styx #acheron #lethe #excerpts #quotes

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Just for some minor explanation: Leuce, as an Oceanid or just in general a nymph, didn't have anything to do (romantically or otherwise tbh) with Hades in Greek mythology. In fact, the only two mentions we have of her are these:

R. E. Bell, Women of Classical Mythology (sourced from Servius on Virgil's Eclogues 4.250) :

"Leuce was a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, who was carried off by Hades. After her death she was changed into a white poplar in Elysium. The white poplar was sacred to Hades. When Heracles returned form the underworld, he was crowned with poplar leaves."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 14. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :

"Herakles found the white poplar (leukê) growing on the banks of the Akheron (Acheron), the river in Thesprotia, and for this reason Homer calls it Akherois (Acherois). So from the first down to the present all rivers have not been equally suited for the growth of plants and trees. Tamarisks grow best and in the greatest numbers by the Maiandros (Meander) . . . So it is no wonder that the white poplar grew first by the Akheron."

"Leuce was a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, who was carried off by Hades. After her death she was changed into a white poplar in Elysium."

Maybe that's why people see Hades and Leuce like lovers. I admit I hadn't searched any sources so thank you for providing them! Doesn't the "carried her off" imply that he wanted her for his lover? He didn't take her to Hades after her death. And then she became his sacred flower, like hyacinth was to Apollo.

#answered #leuce

[coloricioso]

I apologize in advance if you have already answered this question, but what is your opinion on Leuce and how "canon" is she to the original Greek myths?

Hi! Is okay! :3 I love answering asks!

The problem is that we have few sources.

We know that Pausanias says that poplar trees are related to the Acheron river in Thesprotia which was thought to be an entrance to the underworld. So, when Heracles went down and came back, he saw white poplars. Apparently, the tree's leaves were used for funerary rites (just like mint leaves had a connection with death and funerals).

Then, the story of Hades abducting a nymph called Leuce comes from Servius (a late fourth-century AD grammarian) comment on Virgil's work, who was a roman poet. From Virgil's work, we know that there is a poplar-trees forest sacred to Persephone, but Virgil himself does not mention Leuce. So, I don't know what were Servius' other sources to make that statement.

So, we do know that poplar trees were related to life-death, and therefore, probably to Hades and Persephone.

If Leuce was a nyhpm whom Hades loved, I'm not sure we can call it "canon" because there is only 1 source that comes from a 4-5AD grammarian commenting on a roman poet's work. If we had an actual ancient Greek source saying Leuce was a nymph it could be "canon" :p although more than "canon", I think "Panhellenic" might be a better concept; like, usually there were different versions or variations of the same story because of the oral narrative traditions. Throughout all of ancient Greek history, the oral tradition remained: grandmothers, mothers, nursemaids, poets, old men, and the ancient Greek people were always telling stories verbally. Writing did not make "oral tradition" disappear (like, Homer or Hesiod's works could be written but even after big stories were written, people would keep having different versions or details changed depending on the audience, place and etc). "Panhellenic" is the concept for something being shared by the different ancient Greek cities, like, Zeus being the king of gods. So, rather than "canon", maybe "Panhellenic" could be more accurate because it meant that most of the ancient Greeks shared that idea-story-character. (But to claim something is "Panhellenic" we would need to have a lot of testimonies, and that is not the case for Leuce's story anyway)

Also, you can check this google book preview which summarizes the story of the poplar trees in Ancient Greece (The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome).

#leuce #hades #writings on greek myth #writings on greek myths

[gemsofgreece]

Which places have the best crystal clear sea? (1st place we know it's Halkidiki 😅)

Haha yeah I can't really rank them though sorry! I 've made a post about the places with most beautiful scenery (various categories including beaches) a few days ago, check it out below.

I'd say in general Chalcidice, Mount Pelion, most of the Sporades islands, all the Heptanese islands, the coast of Epirus (i.e Thesprotia), Mid- and South Peloponnese, Crete island and about half of the Cyclades islands, half of the islands of Northeastern Aegean, most of the Dodecanese islands.

Here's your Chalcidice :D Photo by Dimitris Kiriakakis on Unsplash.

#greece #beach #travel #halkidiki #macedonia #chalcidice #travel guide #mainland #anon #ask

[fatandangry]

❤ Magic night 🧡 #igoumenitsa #igoumenitsa_city #thesprotia #epirus #ipiros #wu_greece #kings_greece #unlimited_greece #stay_greece #ig_greece #focus_epirus #visit_epirus #epirus_shots #athensvoice #lunapark #amusementpark #nikonphotography #nikon #NikonGlobal #nikongreece #nikond3100 #nightlights #nightphotography #greekphotographers #urban_greece (at Ηγουμενίτσα) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChziC5KtNm8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#igoumenitsa #igoumenitsa_city #thesprotia #epirus #ipiros #wu_greece #kings_greece #unlimited_greece #stay_greece #ig_greece #focus_epirus #visit_epirus #epirus_shots #athensvoice #lunapark #amusementpark #nikonphotography #nikon #nikonglobal #nikongreece #nikond3100 #nightlights #nightphotography #greekphotographers #urban_greece

[atdutiesend]

{ @avaloniamagus | con't }

“Can you hear that?”

Grim turned curiously blank eyes on the mage, a hazy sheen of green-gold-purple over the blue.

"You'll have to be more specific, dear Merlin." With his senses opened up to the grove, Grim could hear everything - from the crackling gossip of the trees, to the whispers from the Aetheric Sea they reached into, channeling the dead down where they belonged. Whispers that something was deeply, desperately wrong. The natural order was being thwarted, and it wasn't Thesprotian Justice being served to blame. Though perhaps Thesprotia could be blamed for the shadow of Phobos peering out.

The singing was at the edge of his awareness, not yet catching his attention.

#isekaiposting #avaloniamagus #service with a smile; merlin

[grumpyascianteddybear]

Continued from here

@atdutiesend

Enyo was more than aware, remembering well how miserable schooling had been before they'd made their precious friends. They knew better than most, too, how trying to force it would only make their darling daughter miserable. Far better, in their mind, that Hadianna know beyond a shadow of a doubt her parents would always support her, than feel she would be left at the mercy of her peers. One hand rested protectively on the little one's head as they smiled softly.

"Of course, sweetling. Or, if you can help Mama keep track of time, we can go on a little trip - there's a very beautiful place that isn't too far, and isn't likely to be crowded." Those who weren't aching with the loss of a friend or loved one rarely visited Thesprotia, and Hadi was likely to appreciate the beauty of the public gardens.

" I can try and help." Hadianna stated as she looked at her mother. She could have been better with time too, but at least she didn't get lost. That was at least a plus. " Where are we gonna go?"

#atdutiesend #threads of twilight(hadianna)