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more women whump. more women pushing themselves and passing out from sleep deprivation and exhaustion. more women training until their knuckles bleed and their legs give out from under them. more women being held prisoner and remaining stoic until the very end or perhaps when they’re rescued. more women under truth serum and terrifying hallucinogens. more women waking up in a pool of blood, their own and others’ and not knowing what happened but that something is terribly wrong with them. more women falling apart o ly when rescued. more women pushed to their breaking point. more women whump.
chp 38 of 'the spirit queen'/一代灵后 presents several fascinating characters as foils (i think that's the word for it) of one another: ling zhi, aluoye saya and the empress dowager.
all three of them are noble women fiercely loyal to their people, who enter the imperial political/harem sphere to revitalise the glory of their respective peoples (spirit, mirage, and human).
i love how the author/artist shows the parallels of their situations and how it accumulates into this scene, where all three of them echo each other in the same phrase. they've all sacrificed themselves in similar and different ways, the only difference is how far they're willing to go in the end.
Indeed, this series is a low fantasy, but the way it depicts gender, class and race dynamics is clearly rooted in real history (and places where they are still the norm in the present 😢) and thus it points out the wrongness of social injustices, unequal social structures and prejudices very well.
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It is one of the most poorly studied cetaceans, partly due to its remote range in the Southern Ocean. Researchers have uncovered spectacled porpoise remains within the kitchen middens of the canoe people who lived in Tierra del Fuego between 6000 and 1400 years ago.
Dreamtime is the name often used for the spiritual and mythic worldview of Indigenous Australians. It explains how the world was created, why life has meaning, and how people should live. For many communities, it is not a story from long ago, but a living reality that still shapes the land and human life.
Key Facts
Dreamtime is more than a dream. It is a whole philosophy, cosmology, and way of life.
It teaches that the world was formed by spiritual beings.
The Dreaming is understood as always present, not trapped in the past.
Indigenous stories about Dreamtime have been passed down for thousands of years.
These stories are shared through song, storytelling, dance, and art.
Ordinary dreams are different from the sacred spiritual dreams linked to Dreamtime.
In this worldview, people are believed to have a duty to live according to the terms set by ancestral beings.
Historical Context
The Dreaming is rooted in ancient Indigenous Australian traditions and has been preserved through oral culture for millennia. Instead of being written down, these beliefs were carried forward through performance, memory, and community practice. This kept the stories alive across generations.
Historical Significance
Dreamtime is central to Indigenous Australian identity because it connects people, place, and purpose. It offers a sacred explanation for creation and a guide for living in the world. Its endurance also shows the power of oral tradition to preserve deep history and cultural knowledge.
A bone figurine of a woman with lapis lazuli eyes, from Egypt, the Amratian culture, dating to approximately 3700-3500 BC. Currently on display at the British Museum.
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Hi Katerina! I have a question about the Mycenaean makeup with the little red suns. Did the women also paint their faces stark white? Like is there historical evidence that they did? The plaster head that was found is white, but that's because it's plaster and it's also thousands of years old. Did western classicists just assume Greek women painted their faces white because they can't concieve that Greek people had the capacity to have fair skin, and just ran with it? Fair skin was an ideal beauty standard for women, but that doesn't mean they couldn't be naturally fair.
Hello! And certainly dear Anon you are absolutely right! I admit that even I have actually almost perpetuated the idea of the women have a white-painted face and on top of that have the circles in some of my drawings but I admit I mostly did it to show the idea that there is make-up on more than anything! Haha
Quite frankly there seems to be even some debate if that Mycenaean plaster face even depicts makeup at all and whether the dotted patterns are actually some artistic representation rather than makeup suggestion or if it is to characterize a deity instead.
I personally still want to believe it is some makeup suggestion (without being absolutely certain of course) but for sure it is not some common makeup. That probably it is ceremonial or some important thing to do with peak situations like marriage or high deity ceremonies (I would also suggest some ritual in which the woman would personify a deity for some reason with it aka take some ritual role)
Certainly I do not think it would be like an everyday makeup that the average gal would have to look pretty. I mean we do not have much evidence for that. Sadly just like it happens with Egypt, art for murals do not show us the totality of makeup traditions for bronze age. I mean we know for instance that Egyptian women also wore shadows from malachite but that is rarely every depicted to the ancient murals. It seems similar case here with bronze age Greek art.
Now we have very little evidence on the bronze age era but if we can assume on historical continuity, we have more evidence from later classical and hellenistic eras. We actually DO meet many references of white pigment being used to the faces called ψιμύθιον (psimýthion) or "powder" We even find samples of such pigments:
the powder was of course lead-based so it was toxic for the epidermis. White skin was considered beautiful for women as well as a sign of femininity and nobility.
Honestly dear anon I wouldn't be surprised since people say that all the time, that Greeks have not "pale" skin and of course to the level of "pale" they always put northern countries to perspective, ignoring what "pale" or rather "healthy pale" (because yes just like nowadays our grandmas and mothers tell us that "we look pale and we need some color on our cheeks" they mean someone EXCEEDINGLY pale means they are sick or feeling unwell) tones considered for southern regions and countries Greece included, does not include the same tones as the north.
So I think we sometimes forget the essence of relativity aka what people considered "pale" and how much of it was considered within the "normal levels" of pale (because yes way too pale was not good either as opposed to medieval central and western Europe that the paler the better or worse in the 19th century peak that "deathly pale" seemed to be promoted in literature as beautiful, Greeks and ancient Greeks didn't seem to share that either and preferred pallidness to a more closer to their spectrum)
But anyways yes for women was preferable on average to have paler skin which is also why they used products to make their face look paler.
To be fair I don't know if classical studies assumed that Greek women couldn't possibly be "pale" but rather that the way that makeup works in medieval contexts sometimes eludes the imagination of people into thinking that somehow that is the same tradition in antiquity of Greece too.
However it seems that at least from some men's perspective at works, having exceedingly much makeup was not good either (kinda reminds me of today how natural look seems preferable) so unlike for instance the fancier makeup of other places, Greece seemed to be fancying more moderate makeup. In fact there were some texts that borderline stated that it is suspicious for a woman to put way too much makeup at some point because that meant she was trying to impress another man hahaha
Generally exceeding makeup doesn't seem to be attractive. There even seem to be some mentions that painting the eyes too much with eyeliner would be considered more something prostitutes would do rather than women that considered themselves respectable.
Now does any of this prove that women never used these products regardless of their position? Absolutely not, In fact as I said in the past, because there is commentary towards it, means that there was more than a handful of women who fancied excessive makeup or loved to have their faces toned up for various of reasons.
I would expect though, that at least as far as the later years of iron age on were concerned, the vast majority of women who wore makeup might as well do it in a more discreet manner and wouldn't starch their faces with so much makeup as to make it white as marble. After all the idea of natural looks would be ruined. So I would say that if makeup would be applied would be more to bring up some of the natural pallidness of their skin rather than make their faces unnaturally pale (for instance I am not sure that the Greek women on average would love to paint their faces totally white like dunno Queen Elizabeth). Would there be women who would do that? I believe they would but I think generally there seems to be a promotion of more natural looks or at least naturally-looking.
Other tricks used would be for instance the use of soot to darken or fullen the eyebrows especially for women who had thinner or uneaven eyebrows or pigments from plants to tone up the rosy cheeks. Hair dyes also seem to exist or at least tricks to darken or lighten the hair but all seems to go more to the areas of natural looks
In later years of roman empire we seem to have even more intensely uses of more artificial looks with prosthetic hair or wigs which of course we can expect that they happened in Greece as well.
Would such practices or beliefs be apparent to the bronze age? Hard to tell. I do not see a reason why not given that the depictions are more or less similar on the aesthetic area although of course the idea of styles of clothing or what is considered modest or appropriate seems to be shifting. Makeup in murals is not always apparent. In bronze age we see some aspects of women wearing rouge and lipstick but apart from that as you brilliantly stated, the female bodies were already toned up with white pigments in drawing to emphasize their femininity.
So yes I do not think we have efficient evidence to say that women in bronze age Greece painted their faces totally white but I suppose it is on the table. Maybe the existence of more "theatrical" white pigments would be used to draw the red circles on top of the basis (again if we assume that the red circles are indeed makeup or face paint)
Forget Cerberus, do you know that Zeus has a pet dog too? Well don't try to kidnapped it however.
PANDAREUS: When Rhea, fearing Cronus, hid Zeus in the Cretan cavern, a goat offered her udder and gave him nourishment. By the will of Rhea a golden dog guarded the goat. After Zeus drove out the Titans and deprived Cronus of power, he changed the goat into an immortal. There is a representation of her among the stars to this day. He ordered the golden dog to guard this sacred spot in Crete. Pandareus son of Merops stole the dog and carried it off to Mount Sipylus. He gave it to Tantalus, son of Zeus and Pluto, to guard. After a time Pandareus went to Mount Sipylus and asked for the dog. Tantalus swore he had never received it. To punish him for the theft Zeus turned Pandareus into a rock where he stood. Tantalus, for going back on his oath, he struck down with a thunderbolt and set Mount Sipylus on top of his head.
-Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 36
“just like when the daughter of Pandareos” (ὡς δ᾿ ὅτε Πανδαρέου κούρη)
Homer differs from the post-Homeric poets by not calling her the daughter of Pandion, unless he has two names. Pandareos, the son of Merops and a Milesian by birth, had three daughters by Harmothoe: Aedon, Cleothera, and Merope. This man stole from Zeus’ sanctuary on Crete a golden dog, a living creation of Hephaistos, and gave it to Tantalos for safekeeping. When Zeus sent Hermes to demand it back, Tantalos swore that he didn’t have it, so Zeus brought Mt. Sipylos crashing down on him.
D Scholia to the Odyssey, 19.518a
“just like when the wind-blasts took away the daughters of Pandareos, etc.” (ὡς δ᾿ ὅτε Πανδαρέου κούρας ἀνέλοντο θύελλαι, κτλ.)
Pandareos, the son of Merops and an Oread nymph, was Milesian by birth and married Harmothoe, the daughter of Amphidamas. They had three children, Aedon, Cleothera, and Merope, whom Aphrodite, Athena and Hera raised. Pandareos came to Crete and stole the dog of Zeus. He did not bring it to Miletos for fear of Zeus; instead, he went to Phrygia and gave it to Tantalos for safekeeping, telling him that he was bringing it from Phoenicia. Tantalos took it in and kept it safe. Then Hermes, who had been ordered by Zeus to search for the dog, came to Tantalos. The latter denied having it and swore by Zeus and the other gods that he did not know anything about the dog. But Hermes discovered the dog in his house. When Pandareos learned of this, he fled from his homeland with his wife Harmathoe and his daughters, Cleothera, Aedon, and Merope (who were unwed), to Athens, and from Athens to Sicily. When Zeus caught sight of him, he killed him and his wife, and he set the Harpies on his daughters. They stole them away and gave them to the Erinyes to serve. What is more, Zeus also sent a disease upon them, which is called “the dog.”
This scene reminds me of historical mangas,, manhwas and manhuas “Kaze to ki no uta” by Keiko Takemiya, “Asakiyumemishi” by Waki Yamato, “Yume no shizuku, kin no torikago” by Chie Shinohara, “The rose of Versailles” by Ryouko Ikeda, “Hatshepsut” and “Hi izuru tokoro no tenshi” by Ryouko Yamagishi, “Buddha” and “Hi no tori” by Osamu Tezuka, “Chang ge xing” by Xia Da, “Non tua” and “Whale star: The Gyeongseong mermaid” by Na Yoonhee, “Blue glass” by Oh Ji-Hyeh, “Ooku: The inner chambers” by Fumi Yoshinaga, “Sakuran” by Moyoco Anno, “Itezuru” and “Tsugaru sangenka- Onryou Juusanya” by Kazuo Kamimura, “Aisopos” by Kim Yangsoo and DOGADO, the low fantasy series “The apothecary diaries” by Natsu Hyuuga, “Her tale of Shim Chong” by Seri and Bi-wan, “Under Heaven” by Guy Gavriel Kay and “The spirit queen” by TUTU, the classic anime “Revolutionary girl Utena” by Be-Papas and the historical fantasy books “Sappho’s leap” by Erica Jong and “The radiant emperor” by Shelley Parker-Chan as they have too the theme that people who have always lived and live a life of priviledges thanks to their gender and social status (and, in some cases, ethnic group) can’t understand people who have never had said priviledges and live a life of hardships.
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Genghis Khan was very fond of Abika Khulan, and most of the time she was the only empress accompanying him on many campaigns, notably the western campaign against the Khwarezmid Empire. She continued to travel with Genghis Khan until she died during one of Genghis Khan's campaigns against India. She was buried under thick snow.
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