#zalmoxis

Based on this meme please perceive it it's so fucking funny

Every M&W player (Look Outside artist/doodler) roll initiative, what will the apartment guests' characters do??? He can't get away with this!

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I gotta do everything myself

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/nosferatu-beauty-ending-shot/

Thoughts on this review?

That’s the person who says Ellen sacrifices herself to save Thomas when Lily-Rose Depp literally tells him only Orlok can fulfill Ellen. I think that alone, makes it clear there’s nothing of worth on that review. Also he calls the Solomonari codex of secrets “Knock’s 19th century diary”… a Early Modern codex based on Romanian folklore. As an Historian that made me want throw my phone against the wall. Dude is also clueless about the historical context surrounding the story if he thinks there’s any “equal footing” between Ellen and Hutter, when she’s his property. This is the early 19th century.

Moving on, I think it’s obvious dude never read “Wuthering Heights” because how is that a story about “love being supplanted by self-annihilation”? The thing about Cathy and Heathcliff is they can only be together in death, the book ends with their ghosts haunting the Moors, together at last and there’s peace in the land (doesn’t it ring any bells?) Eggers said several times he was inspired by Cathy-Heathcliff-Linton love triangle to write his Ellen-Orlok-Thomas. Death and the Maiden is not a “classic tale”; it’s a Art History motif. In several interviews, Eggers talked about the literary archetype of the “demon lover”, not the 17th century ballad.

This reviewer says Eggers told him, years ago, he wanted to do a story of that sort (forsaking love for self-annihilation), and yes, he did that… in “The Northman” since Amleth not only chooses his vengeance/death over a life with Olga and their children (love), but his soul goes to Valhalla at the end, to where Olga can’t never follow due to their different religious backgrounds. Their love lives on their bloodline, yes, but their souls can’t never reunite. While in “Nosferatu” (if we go by the supernatural being real), Orlok initiates Ellen into the mysteries of Zalmoxis by selecting her as the Messenger, so both their souls can ascend, together, to the “blessed kingdom of Zalmoxis”.

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All Characters and comic, onwed by me

I've been wondering if I should post some art from my previous games that wasn't already on my Tumblr whenever I don't have any new art from FoP I can post, and I've decided yeah why not.

People mistakenly associate the double axe—properly called a labrys (pl. labryes), and pronounced LAB-rus—with Hephaistos. Ergo, it must be a symbol for Hephaistion.

This has all sorts of problems.

First, the labrys is also found in several civilizations adjacent to Greece, including both the bronze-age Minoans as well as the Thracians…who are just north of Macedonia, remember. In Minoan Crete it was only ever associated with FEMALE goddesses, and both the labyrinth of myth as well as Ariadne, “mistress of the labyrinth,” are connected to a female goddess, perhaps the Mistress of the Animals. So, there is some connection to hunting, but it’s primarily viewed as a religious symbol.

In Thrace, it belongs to Zalmoxis, the storm/thunder god. Zalmoxis was, additionally, the patron of the royal Odrysian house, not unlike Zeus as patron of the royal Macedonian house. So, it is a distinctly male (and royal) attribute in Thrace. There were Thracians in Alexander’s army, recall, and Sitalkes was one of ATG’s important generals, a friend to Koenos’s family (apparently). He was almost certainly an Odrysian prince.

If all we pay attention to is the AXE, we can make a far better case that the fellow hunting with Alexander is Sitalkes!

In Greece, the labrys pops up in mythical hunts, as for the Kaladonian Boar, so it can symbolize heroization not unlike showing people hunting or fighting naked. (We’re Big, Tough Heroes! We don’t need no stinkin’ armor!) Sometimes Zeus is shown with it, in place of the lightning bolt.

It is not especially associated with Hephaistos. He does have a double hammer, and I did spot a labrys on one pot in Berlin, but it’s highly specific there to the birth of Athena. One usage does NOT a motif make! Near as I can guess, the popular connection of Hephaistos with a labrys comes from a video game.

Er…

Pragmatically, it’s been theorized that the double-axe was used in hunting to deliver the final blow (coup-de-gras), which is exactly how it appears to be used in that mosaic.

All this explains why naming that figure Hephaistion because he’s holding a labrys is a bunch of hooey. As the Thracians were just north and already shared a goodly number of cultural connections, including some religion, I’m far more inclined to see the double-axe as a reference to Zalmoxis…assuming it references any god and isn’t exactly what it looks like there.