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"Hermes Psychopompos"; the guide of souls to the Underworld.

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But Ayn Rand decided that the metaphorical Atlas in Atlas Shrugged is actually the billionaire capitalists, the least fitting choice.

A much better mythological figure for billionaire capitalists is Tantalus, who wanted to feast with the gods, and got his wish. But when that was not enough for him he stole the gods' ambrosia.

Long ago, there lived a woman named Oneira, who was a talented and imaginative storyteller. Her stories would never fail to put any child to a deep and pleasant sleep.

Oneira's talent drew the envy and ire of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. And so Calliope schemed to bring her down.

At first she called on Aletheia, the goddess of truth, and told her of Oneira's "lies and fabrications". But when Aletheia came to confront Oneira, Oneira told her a story so beautiful that Aletheia couldn't help to see the profound truths it conveyed, despite being fiction.

Frustrated, next Calliope tricked Oneira into drinking from a pond which was the favorite hunting spot of the goddess of the hunt, Artemis. Upset, Artemis asked her brother Apollo to steal Oneira's voice, so she won't be able to tell her stories.

After the deed was done, Apolli realized he was used. He made it up to Oneira by teaching her how to write, so that she may still express her imagination to the masses.

Foiled once more, Calliope tried one last scheme. She approached a mortal man named Amathos. He was a skilled orator with a beautiful voice, but lacked imagination. She told him of Oneira's plight, and suggested that he should help her by reading Oneira's tales aloud. Amathos took off to meet Oneira, and the two quickly became collaborators and later lovers. They became famous throughout the land for their performances. And Amathos' voice was so powerful it reached Olympus.

One night, Calliope cursed Amathos with insomnia. As he woke, she told him that he owed her a debt, and all he has to do to repay it is get Oneira to write a specific story. A story about a world where the gods did not exist. Oneira was suspicious when her unimaginative husband told her he had an idea for a story. But out of love, she agreed to write it.

Once the story was ready, it was time to perform it before a crowd. And when Amathos read it aloud, the god Zeus heard it and became mad, thinking that the two lovers were trying to turn humanity against him. He went down to the Earth and cursed Oneira and Amathos.

Oneira was turned to sand, and Amathos was punished by having to carry her in a large sack on his back for all eternity.

Now every night, Amathos, still stricken with insomnia, must place a single grain of Oneira into each eye of every child, putting them to sleep. Only when the sack is empty, will Oneira's soul be free. But every time Amathos himself gives in to exhaustion and falls asleep, the pieces of Oneira magically return to the sack, ensuring that his task is never complete.

The sand, still carrying the pieces of Oneira's soul, continue to imagine fantastical stories and show them to the children in their sleep. This is what we call dreams.

“It felt like a memory that never happened. Her hand was warm. Everything else wasn't.”

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The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

His wife was actually Merope, one of the seven Pleiades, and she was turned into a star by Zeus along with her six sisters.

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

I think it would be really funny if Clark's parents in the dcu were just doomsday preppers or something lol

girl jack is femme because all sam and dean know is gender performance so they buy her pretty things and spoil her and promise to keep her safe ane sometimes dean’s eyes linger just a little too long which makes her blush and she wishes the world was a little softer and she’s terrified of her power.

girl jack is empty because she’s a cw character so she has a flimsy female-cut flannel and pleather boots and she wakes up with mascara and lipstick plastered on and she smirks when dean flirts with her and she knows how to use her powers and she dies after a season so that she can be remembered with love. the fandom remembers her as a perverted daughter-figure for years before forgiving her.

girl jack never exists because why would grown men have anything to do for more than an episode with a young girl they can’t fuck?

girl jack joins the wayward sisters. they don’t like her because her backstory isn’t tragic enough and she doesn’t have cw curls, and she can’t control her powers. she misses sam, dean, and cas, but she doesn’t belong on the main show. #girlpower.

girl jack ends up with her father. they call her jezebel, not jack.

When Co-workers do things like ask about weekend plans, chat about non-work topics, eat lunch in the same room, they are--subconsciously--reaffirming that they are part of a cooperative (or, minimally, non-antagonistic) social group.

The other primates cement social bonds by grooming each other; we do it by making small talk.

If they solicit your participation in these rituals, and you repeatedly refuse those bids, you are marking yourself out as, at best, an outsider to the group, and thus potentially antagonistic.

This is all happening on the monkey-brain level; they have no idea what they're doing or how they are interpreting your response, so there's no way to clear up the misunderstanding.

To the ape sleeping in your co-worker's DNA, either you are part of the grooming circle, or you are an outsider who, for all it knows, may be coming to steal all the bananas.

at some point, either in response to an invitation, or just in the natural course of conversation, you can add in that you are a "quiet type" who "needs their silence" or what have you. customize to your personal needs. i find it helpful to imagine a well dressed elderly woman describing the sort of peace she needs to manifest.

roughly once a week if you see a group of people chatting, engage with them. keep it pleasant. it can be superficial. word will travel that you are Nice and Quiet and Not The Chatty Type protecting you from group lunches etc. if you have an office with a door that you keep closed a lot, putting up any kind of decor will also send positive signals.

The world burns by You’ve got smoke in your eyes.