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According to the Semitic cosmology, we are all of us under the sea! The Firmament protects us from the Ocean of Heaven, which the gods of Mesopotamia and the Levant famously break to flood the world when done with humanity's shenanigans. #MythologyMonday

They invite her father, unknowing of who the bride would be, and they serve him a while wedding menu without a grain of salt.The king grows more and more upset and desperate as everyone else enjoys their meal while he can't find any flavor in his, until he starts crying, and the host asks what's going on.- alas, I do now understand how my daughter loved me, as you see how salt is way more important than gold and silver when it's missing.The daughter comes out, everyone is reconciled.

a not-story for #MythologyMonday on the theme of #stars The Greeks didn't know the star they saw in the morning was the same they saw in the evening (Venus), and gave them 2 different names: Phosphoros and Esperos.Phosphoros: is a cool name, "light bearer", but it's more popular in his latin version: Lucifer. Centuries later a german alchemist was trying to obtain the philosopher's stone, and managed to get some luminous substance. He gave the new element an appropriate name: phosphorus.

In Finnish mythology, the thunder god Ukko wielded the hammer Vasara. This was probably originally a stone axe, as pagan Finns who discovered neolithic stone axes believed they were the weapons of Ukko left behind after a lightning strike. Shamans collected these stone axes, believing them to hold supernatural powers.#MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Finland #Neolithic #Stone

In St Levan's Churchyard, Cornwall, is St Levan's Stone - a boulder split down the middle. It's said that St Levan would sit on the stone to rest after his fishing trips. One day, he struck the stone with his staff and repeated this rhyme:" When with panniers astride,A packhorse can ride,Through St Levan's Stone,The world will be done."Thankfully, the split is not yet wide enough to usher in the apocalypse. Some have speculated that the stone, due to its 'labial' shape, may have been a focus of pagan rituals that later transferred themselves to a Christian saint. #mythologymonday #folklore #weird #mythology #Cornwall #history

blackbird daysThe last snow meltsA promise of springHey almost a clash with #MythologyMonday :)"giorni della merla" Is the name given to the last days of January, supposedly the coldest days of winter, in Italian folklore.The legend goes that a female blackbird, which back then was white, hid in a chimney with her chicks to escape the cold, but by the time they came out they had turned black.And that's why blackbirds are black.#haiku#daikyhaikuprompt - #blackbird

Greetings, Myth Lovers! Join us tomorrow for the theme insects, bugs, and crawlies. Which myths have insects, arachnids, a millipede or similar? Are they helpful or are they pests? Tell us a myth with creepy or not so creepy crawlies and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you tomorrow! 🐛If joining from #BlueSky: follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact with your posts. See you soon!🎨 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1893#mythology #folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary.bsky.social @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @ljwrites @pj-richards.bsky.social @AnnaJunePage @nataljastgermain.bsky.social @JessMahler @beefolklore.bsky.social @FolkloreFun @psychescinema.bsky.social @PatFurstenberg