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Trans people in Greek mythology 🏳️‍⚧️💗

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1. Caenis, a Thessalian princess who was Poseidon’s lover. The god granted him the wish to turn him into a man and as a gift gave him impenetrable skin. He changed his name to Caineus.

2. In the island of Cyprus some statues were found that depicted Aphrodite with a penis, these were called ‘Aphroditus’. This figure was believed to avert evil and bestow good luck.

3. Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite and the god of intersex people and feminine men. He was depicted as a winged teenager with both male and female features- usually female thighs, breasts, and hairstyle, and male genitalia.

4. There’s a myth where Prometheus was creating humans, got drunk and accidentally placed male genitals in a female body and viceversa.

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theoi-crow

In honor of the new Barbie movie I decided to heal my inner child and get a barbie I can pose and dress!

I put her on Aphrodite's altar for Aphrodite to bless her since she's the one, along with my spouse, that gave me the idea to get her (because I'm a part of the trans community, I put her in the flag colors!):

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When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to play with Barbie dolls despite being AFAB because my mother HATED Barbie and would force me to play with those baby dolls that make kids pretend to be mothers even though I never wanted to have kids and couldn't see myself ever being a mother because my mom was trying to "train me" to be a good house wife for a future husband™️.

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

For Christmas because of my very poor economic status, I was given a barbie doll by the local fire fighters toy donation drive. She was my first barbie doll, and she meant the world to me. While I know there are a lot of people who have problems with Barbie for various reasons, to me she was very accepting and incredibly kind. To me she represented potential and because barbie herself was never a mother, to someone like me who was constantly being trained to be a mother and used for free baby sitting labor (I've taken care of over 80 kids from almost every stage of life from toddler to 13 year olds) she represented freedom! The freedom to be who I wanted to be and not what my mother expected.

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

I only had her for three months before my mother threw her away. I was devastated and after that I never got another doll again but I started doodling Barbie and would make my own cut outs of her so I could dress her with outfit cutouts. I read barbie books and would watch her movies because I still kept her in my heart.

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Originally posted by blackemptysea

I tried to ignore my feelings regarding the first Barbie trailer but after the latest one and watching Barbie cry I broke down and cried for my childhood and missing my doll and getting good at drawing because I drew her so often. Sky and Aphrodite convinced me to get a Barbie doll to heal my inner child and I finally did and it feels like I'm finally healing. So I'm really happy to look at her and say:

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Originally posted by kazs-inej

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I want to thank and give a happy inner child update to everyone who has been so kind and congratulated me on finally healing my inner child in the comments/reblogs!

I have been giving my Barbie a new outfit everyday and have been taking a picture of her so I can carry her with me on my phone to remind me that I did it! I stood my ground against my mother and have been able to officially become an LGBT child-free person who is not a stay at home mom (like she wanted) but studying to become a future archeologist/professor and have reached the freedom my child self was desperately wishing for!

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Thank you for liking my post about Barbie!

I appreciate all of this so much!

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In honor of the new Barbie movie I decided to heal my inner child and get a barbie I can pose and dress!

I put her on Aphrodite’s altar for Aphrodite to bless her since she’s the one, along with my spouse, that gave me the idea to get her (because I’m a part of the trans community, I put her in the flag colors!):

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When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to play with Barbie dolls despite being AFAB because my mother HATED Barbie and would force me to play with those baby dolls that make kids pretend to be mothers even though I never wanted to have kids and couldn’t see myself ever being a mother because my mom was trying to “train me” to be a good house wife for a future husband™️.

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

For Christmas because of my very poor economic status, I was given a barbie doll by the local fire fighters toy donation drive. She was my first barbie doll, and she meant the world to me. While I know there are a lot of people who have problems with Barbie for various reasons, to me she was very accepting and incredibly kind. To me she represented potential and because barbie herself was never a mother, to someone like me who was constantly being trained to be a mother and used for free baby sitting labor (I’ve taken care of over 80 kids from almost every stage of life from toddler to 13 year olds) she represented freedom! The freedom to be who I wanted to be and not what my mother expected.

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Originally posted by margoterobbies

I only had her for three months before my mother threw her away. I was devastated and after that I never got another doll again but I started doodling Barbie and would make my own cut outs of her so I could dress her with outfit cutouts. I read barbie books and would watch her movies because I still kept her in my heart.

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Originally posted by blackemptysea

I tried to ignore my feelings regarding the first Barbie trailer but after the latest one and watching Barbie cry I broke down and cried for my childhood and missing my doll and getting good at drawing because I drew her so often. Sky and Aphrodite convinced me to get a Barbie doll to heal my inner child and I finally did and it feels like I’m finally healing. So I’m really happy to look at her and say:

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Originally posted by kazs-inej

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aimee-maroux

This is your obligatory Hermes love post

theoikos

Reblog if you really love Hermes, like if you really love Hermes.

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Literally cannot ignore or I will get the shit pranked out of me.

daughter-of-artemis

this is worse than those fricking chain posts

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you all have looped me into a horrific cycle because I know my mutuals will likely reblog this and that means I’ll have to which means you’ll have to again and 

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Still not risking it

onepersassydragon

I choose peace thanks

themysticwood

I must, over and over again… and herein lies the joke, and it is on us… laugh it up Hermes, laugh it up… I love you all the more…

ekstasia

My heart sings for the Bringer of Luck. <3

akira-programs

fuck. trapped in the got damn circle ;-;

phemonoi

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Originally posted by lizerally

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Originally posted by giantmonster

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☝️two types of hermes worshippers

aimee-maroux

Can never not reblog 😊

Hey quick devotee tip on intimidating gods:

if you find a deity you’re drawn to and wish to work with is too intimidating in their main form, imagine them in one of their animal forms or any of their other forms.

I personally find Apollo and Athena incredibly intimidating but as a Hellenic polytheist who is also in college, I seek them for help with school all the time:

So I imagine Apollo as a crow: because crows bring me a lot of comfort so it helps when I talk to him in his crow form.

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Originally posted by copperbadge

and Athena as an owl: because owls are my second favorite birds in the bird kingdom and their little faces make me happy so imagining Athena this way makes me feel better about the harsh advice she occasionally delivers in a stern manner).

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Originally posted by samttalraheel

(disclaimer: you also have the option of working with other deities in the same field but are not as intimidating but sometimes their intimidating energy is due to you having a terrible relationship with someone from your past that shares a similar energy to them and you’re also trying to heal from that. Ex: Apollo has a very matter-of-fact scientific/math teacher-like energy about him when he helps me with school & the science/math teachers were somehow always my bullies when I was growing up in poor public schools because I was terrible at their subjects).

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You Know...?

Imagine being a teenager living on an island where a idiot king like Polydectes forcefully tries to marry your mother Danaë and making impossible the live of your adoptive parents unless you accomplish a series of task that involve your death; with a sheer of luck you get rid of Medusa but then you have to rescue a princess whose mother is a pain in the ass from a sea monster, later, fighting the consort of said princess who doesn't give two shits about the well-being of Andromeda, and then rescuing your mother from Polydectes and thanking your adoptive parents with a powerful gesture of giving to them the crown of the island for the Tumblrinas to imagine you as a raging asshole and wanting you dead because D A D D Y Ovid and your pop mythology authors are always right.

What a bummer.

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theoi-crow

This is both accurate, sad and hilarious!

And people here don’t realize that the only reason why Ovid re-told the story that way was because he thought the concept of a virgin priestess being SA in the temple of a virgin goddess was hot. This is another possible reason (out of so many) for why Emperor Augustus banned Ovid from Rome, so yeah, even the leader of the Romans thought he was weird.

Augustus about Ovid probably:

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Originally posted by rowansforest-deactivated2023062

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