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uncarnetmaisvirtuel:

uncarnetmaisvirtuel:

Hey guys ever heard of how Saint Sebastian came from “old martyr with tanned skin” to “young suffering white boy and gay icon”

#please tell us 

@epicene-street-light ALRIGHT SO

Sebastian was like, your regular christian martyr from late antiquity (he lived during the 3rd century AD aparrently but??? we don’t know for sure??).

He… was a christian who somehow managed to become a high-ranking soldier in Diocletian’s army. Problem : Diocletian is a pagan and persecuted christians lmao SO (after some troubles) Sebastian ended up tied up to a poteau/tree and he was sentenced to death by…….. getting shot by multiple arrows (nice)

Except that Sebastian didn’t even die immediately, he firmly held on to his faith and impressed the people who were watching (like who wouldn’t be impressed) and of course like in any good martyr story he either SURVIVED or CAME BACK TO LIFE (and died – again – shortly after) because God can allow that you know

Anyway here’s the story. But the scene of him getting shot became really popular in art history.

I can’t find any pic of him from the 6th-7th century AD but I assure you he’s depicted as an old man, fully dressed in a robe, and with a tanned skin (some sources say he was mediterranean but we’re not sure about that either)

So far so good right?

Then comes the 14th century and the FUCKING RAT PLAGUE in Europe

The arrows that wounded him started to represent the plague : they were an illustration of the punishment God sent on Earth. Which means… good christians (like Sebastian) would survive the plague like Sebastian survived his punishment

Bad christians would die ofc

SO

In order to show Sebastian was an epitome of purity, artists started to…….. undress him….. and make him look more and more younger, beautiful and white…… To show we must keep our hope in the Lord….. Sure, guys, sure…. Like you need to know nudes are fairly rare in christian iconography….. Sebastian literally became an excuse to draw nudes if you were a christian artist/an artist commissioned by the Church

And when I say he became more and more beautiful, I mean he became more and more… greek (like the kalos kagathos guy, which means good and sexy)… homoerotic vibes uh?

DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW IF I SAY, AS TIME PASSED, THE ARROWS BECAME THE ARROWS OF LOVE

With this new appearance and the new meaning tied to it, Sebastian is now a coded figure of male homosexuality

LISTEN HE CAME FROM MARTYR TO GAY ICON CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT

holy shit???? thanks for the explanation!

thats……. what i call a weird flex but ok!!! 

girafeduvexin:

epicene-street-light:

women in literature b like… im mad and not straight, time to throw myself in a body of water and honestly? big mood

Can I add : women in Racine’s plays be like. Men are disappointing. I’m gonna make a monologue then I’m gonna kill someone or myself or both.

girl thats just my daily life tf

imwithyouhobbes:

birchwitchbasic:

jenny-hanniver:

lanibgoode:

shelbysbutt:

aanubis:

ungrammaticholiday:

yggdrasilly:

christmasblogger:

Penguin falls down resulting in best sound ever [x]

oh my god

NOOOOOOO

they all gasped like OHHH

IM CRYING IM PHYSICALLY CRYING HE FALLS AND THERE ALL LIKE WHAAAAWHOA U OK BRO AND HE GETS UP LIKE *SIGH* YEAH ITS FINE

Having a bad day? push play, and within six seconds all you will feel is tears of laughter streaming down your face and the stomach cramps of laughing too hard.

This is one of the finest things ever captured on film.

I’m so happy this is back

Pingu is real

overlooked roman gods

emperorclaudiusofficial:

candlestickwitch:

some gods and goddesses that are overlooked in common mythos, or don’t have Greek counterparts and are often ignored!!

Caelus: father of the sky and heavens, consort of Terra/Gaia. counterpart of Uranus

Carmenta: goddess of childbirth, motherhood, prophecy, and technological innovation. supposedly created the Latin alphabet. although similar to Hera and Leto, no Greek counterpart

Dis Pater: god of agriculture and underground riches, later became an underworld god, often confused with Pluto/Hades, the husband of Proserpina/Persephone (Pluto also was her husband, but Pluto is featured in the abduction of Proserpina myth, while Dis and Proserpina seem to have had a consensual and loving relationship). Dis, Orcus, and Pluto became conflated as a later version of Pluto, who was the counterpart of Hades

Feronia: goddess of wildlife, fertility, health and abundance. also was seen as the goddess who granted freedom to slaves

Flora: goddess of flowers, fertility, youth, and springtime. counterpart of Chloris

Furrina: goddess of springs and bubbling water, according to Varro (a Roman writer/scholar). it’s actually unknown if this is true or not but based on the origins of her name, it’s likely that it is true

Janus: god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, doorways, duality, most often portrayed with two faces, looking to the future and the past. probably the most famous Roman god with no Greek counterpart

Liber: god of wine, fertility, freedom, speech. sometimes associated with Dionysus/Bacchus but not equivalent

Ops: goddess of fertility and the earth. wife of Saturn/Cronus, and mother of Jupiter/Zeus, Neptune/Poseidon, Pluto/Hades, Juno/Hera, Ceres/Demeter, and Vesta/Hestia. counterpart of Rhea

Orcus: a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths, often confused with Dis and Pluto. Dis, Orcus, and Pluto became conflated as a later version of Pluto, who was the counterpart of Hades

Pales: deity/deities of shepherds, flocks and livestock. not much is known about Pales, but some regard them as male, some as female, and grammatically could refer to more than one deity, so their gender (or multiplicity too I guess) is really up to interpretation

Pomona: goddess of fruit, gardens and orchards. may have been a wood nymph. although associated with Demeter, no Greek counterpart

Portunus: god of keys, doors, livestock, and seaports. originally had no counterpart, but later became synonymous with Palaemon

Salus: goddess of the safety, welfare, health, and well-being of the Roman state and people. sometimes associated with the Greek Hygieia, but has no actual counterpart

Summanus: god of nocturnal thunder and lightning, as opposed to Jupiter, the god of diurnal thunder. it’s thought that at one point, Summanus was more revered than Jupiter, but later, Jupiter surpassed him

Terra: mother earth, consort of Caelus/Uranus. counterpart of Gaia

Vertumnus: god of seasons, plant growth, and vegetables(?). tricked and seduced Pomona 

Volturnus: god of the Tiber river, and possibly all rivers

can I add some of my favourites 

Carna: Goddess of door-hinges 

Fornax: Goddess of baked goods

Mefitis: Goddess of farts (actually of all sulphurous gasses) 

Fascinus: god of Dicks

Mutunus Tutunus: god of dicks

Priapus: yeah he’s another god of dicks  

strange-goodfellows:

lilybaud:

gayleontologists:

i can’t stop fucking thinking about my english prof talking about the queer historical significance of the word “sweet” as a deliberate indicator of homosexual love and how that relates to both edward ii and gaveston, as well as hamlet and horatio. so, because shakespeare was likely totally knowledgeable about codes that queer men were using (cos like duh obvs), the inclusion of “sweet prince” at the end of hamlet is in all likelihood a completely deliberate indication that hamlet and horatio were in love

i’m???? so gay for literature and history lmao

my good sweet honey lord????

I WROTE A WHOLE PAPER ON THIS SHIT IN DOCTOR FAUSTUS HIT ME UP LITERALLY ANY TIME YO.

clockworkrobotic:

littlepinkbeast:

rainbowbarnacle:

revolutionaryshoe:

zooophagous:

coloricioso:

shadows-takes-all:

I have read (and see) something about Hades and Persephone having chickens in the underworld, but this is really a fact or is something invent?

Chickens were indeed sacred to Hades and Persephone and an example of this are the  terracotta votive tablets from Locri -the ones of the pictures-. There are some books about this subject like Iconography of Religions by Bianchi or Locrian Maidens by Redfield.

The cock/chicken “became the chthonic bird, and was used on tombs, as emblematic of the hope of a reawakening to life”. (Peters) and it is also refered as “an infernal animal of passage” by Bernabe in his book Instructions for the Netherworld: the orphic gold tablets.He also says: ”Cocks allude to the world of the afterlife: as intermediaries between the soul and the Beyond, they intercede between the world of the dead and that of the living”.

Remember Persephone was the goddess of renewal, so at least in Locri, the cock was an usual attribute of her. And in other cultures cocks-chickens were seen as animals related to renewal and life (eggs have that symbolism tooo).

😀 so. chickens for Hades and Persephone all the way.

(sources 1 – 2 – 3)

I KNEW chickens were sacred, I just didn’t know to whom

“Why did the chicken cross the road?”

“To intercede between the world of the living and that of the dead, as intermediaries between the soul and Beyond.”

“You mean…to get to the Other Side?”

“….yes.”

@lizardlicks, @rockpapertheodore

(They got hens on The Other Siiiide…)

@paranoidgemsbok