Latest posts tagged with #MythAndPower on Bluesky
Did you know Lynn Flewelling crafted a tale of intrigue and power in 'The Oracle's Queen'? This novel weaves fantasy and political drama, showcasing Flewelling's skill in blending myth with human complexity. (Q137804031) #FantasyLit #MythAndPower
Promotional graphic for the audio of Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed on NoShortcutsToNow.Substack.com. The top half features the title in white serif text on a dark background. The lower half shows a black-and-white engraving of the Oracle of Delphi seated above a smoking fissure, arms raised in trance, surrounded by robed attendants inside a temple.
“About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.”
Soon they had a priestess, an oracle, and knowledge.
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#MythAndPower #Delphi #Nietzsche #OnTheReturnOfTheRepressed
When an experience overwhelms us, do we discover truth—or invent it?
“Bewildered, they needed to understand the experience.
So they invented knowledge.”
🏛️ Only the God Changed
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#Philosophy #Delphi #GreekMythology #Epistemology #MythAndPower
As the earth iced over, Dionysus entered the temple.
Then the faithful honored the irrational heart.
🏛️ Waypoint 4.5
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#Delphi #MythAndPower #Philosophy #GreekMythology
Promotional image for Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed. Title and subtitle appear above a 19th-century engraving of the Pythia at Delphi seated in trance, surrounded by robed attendants and ritual vessels inside a temple.
New religions borrow the robes of the old.
The priestess remained;
only the god changed.
🏛️ Waypoint 4.5 — Only the God Changed
Delphi, fault lines, and the birth of authority.
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-4...
#Delphi #GreekMythology #MythAndPower #Philosophy #Authority
Detail from Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia by Eugène Delacroix: A muscular, bare-backed man draped in red stands before an altar holding a sacrificial lamb, blood dripping from its body. Smoke rises from a brazier wrapped with a coiled serpent. Behind the altar, the Pythia sits elevated on a pedestal, partially turned away, as if receiving divine inspiration. The scene is rendered in warm, shadowed tones, emphasizing ritual, sacrifice, and sacred authority.
What must be buried for order to stand?
At Delphi, a dragon died.
But her breath still spoke.
🎧 Waypoint 4.4 — The Oracle at Dolphin
A retelling of Apollo and Python — and how power sustains itself over what it cannot destroy.
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#MythAndPower #Delphi
A dark classical painting depicts Saturn (Cronus) devouring an infant, his aged face tense with fear and desperation. Overlaid text reads: “Waypoint 4.3 — The Wombstone: A Story of Flow Made Stone,” by K. L. Homme, with a small headphone icon indicating an audio companion.
Cronus swallowed his children.
The prophecy of overthrow becomes the logic of tyranny.
Fear mistakes control for safety—and time is devoured in the attempt.
🎧 Waypoint 4.3 — The Wombstone
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#NoShortcutsToNow #MythAndPower #Authoritarianism
