#hephaestus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hephaestus, aggregated by home.social.
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2001837/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
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"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2001837/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same
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but the power that provides unification is foreign to the one who presides over the division and opposition of encosmic things [Ares]. So it is this cooperation of dissimilar causes that the myths have referred to as adultery." Proclus, Commentary on the Republic 141f. (2/2)
I like this from Proclus as it works as a continuation of #Empedocles idea of the Cosmos sustained by Love/Strife
#Proclus #Polytheism #Aphrodite #Ares #Hephaestus #Paganism #Myth #Neoplatonism #GreekMythology #Mythology
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"Both require Aphrodite for their own activity: Ares so that he can implant harmony and order among the opposites, Hephaestus so that he can produce in perceptible creations beauty and splendour because communion with the cause which produces beauty and binds together belongs by nature to the demiurge of perceptible things [Hephaestus], (1/2)
#Proclus #Polytheism #Aphrodite #Ares #Hephaestus #Paganism #Myth #Neoplatonism
