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"As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
[...]
After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comrades’ heads with the drained blood and promptly spread the sails of their ships to the winds, thinking to placate them."
Dudo of St Quentin
🏛️ Thor the Wind-Raiser, whalebone idol, Lund, Skåne, #Sweden
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"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þrymskviða 30, translation by Frank E. Bryant, 1903
🏛️ Bronze figurine identified as #Thor from Eyrarland, Iceland, discovered in 1815 CE
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"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143
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"And now the day was spent, the hour stole on when one would doubt if it were light or dark, some lingering light at night's vague borderlands. Suddenly the whole house began to shake, the lamps flared up, and all the rooms were bright with flashing crimson fires, and phantom forms of savage beasts of prey howled all around."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.389
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"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3
🏛️ #Zeus and #Ganymedes, Attic red figure vase painting
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"Men say that the marriage of Zeus and Hera was held in the territory of the Knossians, near the river Theren, where now a temple stands in which the natives of the place annually offer holy sacrifices and imitate the ceremony of the marriage, in the manner in which tradition tells it was originally performed."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.72.4
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"13 miles inland from Pilo [in Elis] is the shrine of Jove of Olympus, which owing the celebrity of its Games has taken possession of the calendar of Greece."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 4. 14
🏛️ #Jupiter, 1st century CE, Tivoli
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"Zeus Kronides received him in a chamber fit for birth and having covered him in his thigh shut him up with golden clasps, hidden from Hera. And he brought forth, when the Moirai had perfected him, the bull-horned god and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks."
Euripides, Bacchae 90
🏛️ Birth of Dionysos by George Platt Lynes, 1945-49
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"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b
🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman bronze, 1st century CE
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"And Zeus, when Prometheus had taken fire and given it to men, put him in chains."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.15.2
🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes in The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, 1878 CE
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