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PugJesus

@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · 2d ago

Bronze headdress decoration depicting the 'decapitator god', Peru, 400 BCE - 600 AD

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Ellis Cú Anann Arcwolf

@ellisarcwolf@hcommons.social · Jun 06, 2026

Ellis's Introductory Post (CW: Eye contact; 1/2) Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

Hi! I'm Ellis: a clinician, a speculative author, a philosopher, a scientist-practitioner, and a mythopoeist. By day, I serve as a mental health professional and work with high-acuity, underprivileged folks in Pittsburgh. By night, I weave legends from the transgressive reality of our cruel, uncaring world. I publish under Ellis Cú Anann Arcwolf, but I do business as, J. Ellis Burgos. Right now I'm working on developing my career both as clinician and as both fiction and nonfiction author. I'm thrilled to join all of you here at hcommons.social, and I'm excited about building culture with all of you. My bibliography is accessible from my website: https://www.ellisarcwolf.com #Introduction #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction #TransgressiveFiction #Worldbuilding #AmWriting #Essays #Mythology #Linguistics #Conlangs #QueerWriter #Neurodivergent #Plurality #FFXIV

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PugJesus

@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · Jun 07, 2026

Bronze statuette of Hercules, Italy, 1519 AD

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PugJesus

@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · May 06, 2026

Phoenix-shaped water jug, stoneware, Vietnam, 15th-16th century AD

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · May 02, 2026

I think that once #Collections are up and running and have become well-established, and once people have curated some good #folklore and #mythology - themed Collections around here, I will write a "Folklore on the #Fediverse " page for my website. I've long promoted a free and open approach to folklore research (which is why I have put all my translations of German folk tales under a Creative Commons Zero license), and thus it is in my best interest to promote the Fediverse as a great place to hang out for folklore enthusiasts. And I remember what a massive boost Collections were for Google+ until Google killed the platform, so I hope Collections will do wonders for the popularity of the Fediverse. (As a reminder, I want the Fediverse to grew much larger than it is currently so that it can supplant commercial social media platforms - most of which are now among the primary tools of fascists, and thus a dire threat to the long-term survival of human civilization.) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

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The Gods and Their Croziers

@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus · Apr 30, 2026

Today's issue of The Gods and Their Croziers is out: Cellach & Muiredach (AKA Cúchongeilt) - The Divided Divine Twins of Killala. These two are as close as #IrishLegends come to the Asvins or Dioscuri. These brothers¹ represent possibly the most popular God in international mythology, the God whose incarnations and hypostases form the protagonists for probably half of all Epic literature. They come in two *main* flavours, and the story of Cellach & Muiredach gives us both. While they are not, I thimk, *direct* parallels of Aengus Mac Óg & Cúchulainn, they come of the same essence and demonstrate my modelling of these two iconic characters as parts of a unified essence. https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/may-1st-cellach-muiredach-the-divided-divine-twins/ ¹ These gods are in fact *usually* not Twins - that's an artefact of the comparative mythology of their most obvious exemplars #Irish #Mythology #Pagan

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PugJesus

@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · Apr 21, 2026

Gold ornament depicting roses and a griffin, Greece?, ~620 BCE

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The Gods and Their Croziers

@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus · Apr 10, 2026

Hi all - this is a new account just for my comparative mythology project on the Celtic-Christian Saints, which I've previously been sharing over on @seachaint@masto.hackers.town 'til now. "The Gods and Their Croziers" is my current passion - applying a comparative mythology model inherited from others such as "Taliesin's Map", I've been able to identify some key clusters of Gaelic and British saints who are, in fact, entirely Gods rewritten as Saints. Indeed, almost every saint prior to 650CE (possibly later) appears to be a fictional re-writing of a Celtic mythological character. Even more interestingly, their names and locations of worship seem to frequently, perhaps usually, correspond to native epithets and associated sites. I'm currently publishing dossiers on the God-Saints the day before their feast-days according to the Christian calendars. I try to include in each issue enough information to understand the connection, to get an idea of the function of the deity in context, and some information on names, places, animals/plants, and other dates or events that might be relevant to the god. Anyone into #Celtic or #Irish #Paganism or #Mythology ought to enjoy this work - some of Ireland's "missing" gods are _only_ recorded clearly as Saints, having never been written as native mythology (or only in highly fragmentary, coded form). But, with the "Key" from the Saints, we can unpack mythology that's remained obscure until now. I hope ye'll join me in exploring this whole new frontier of Irish mythological exploration. https://buttondown.com/godsandcroziers/archive/ #Introduction

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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Apr 01, 2026

In Finnish folklore, the demigod magician Väinämöinen fell into the sea. There, a waterfowl lay three eggs on his knee. Väinämöinen moved his leg, causing the eggs to break. The yolks became the sun, the egg whites became the moon, and the shells' crumbs became the stars. #WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Finland #Väinämöinen #Vainamoinen

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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas@mstdn.ca · Feb 09, 2026

In Welsh mythology, the woman Blodeuwedd was created from the flowers of the broom, meadowsweet, and oak by the wizard Gwydion to marry his ward Lleu. However, Blodeuwedd fell in love with Gronw and tried to murder Lleu. As a punishment, Gwydion transformed her into the first owl. 🎨 Yuri Leitch #MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Wales #Celtic #Bird #Owl #Mabinogion #Mabinogi

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Bronze statuette of Hercules, Italy, 1519 AD

Phoenix-shaped water jug, stoneware, Vietnam, 15th-16th century AD

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