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Ways of Worship: Demeter
Demeter is the Goddess of agriculture, harvest, the cycle of life and death, fertility, and sacred law. Her Roman name is Ceres. She is one of the 12 Olympians and sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, and Chiron. Her parents are Cronus and Rhea, but her age isn't known. Her children are Persephone, Despoina, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus, Eubuleus, Chrysothemis, and Amphitheus. She has ad consorts with Iasion, Zeus, Oceanus, Karmanor, Poseidon, and Triptolemus.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Inclined
He looked at the big board again. Millions of faces of mostly men with grimaces, some oddly smirking, flashed across the digital display. Bert Jaunt looked over to his associate Kanika Haverford. Only the two of them oversaw the large database center, owned by the private company DataFind in Dover, Delaware. The building remained vast, but this particular section saw only about 10 employees control the stations. The remaining eight controlled similar posts.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hera
Hera is the Goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and family. Hera is also the patroness and protectress of married women, presiding over weddings and blessing marital unions. She is the Queen of the Gods and one of the 12 Olympians. Hera is one of the Goddesses born of Kronos and Rhea. Her siblings are Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, and Demeter. She married her brother Zeus, whom she reigns over Mount Olympus with. Her children are Angelos, Ares, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Her Roman form is Juno. Hera is known for her jealous rages as much as Zeus is known for his sleeping around. She always takes this rage out on Zeus's lovers, children, and mortals who crossed her. Usually, when there's conflict on Olympus, it's because Zeus and Hera are fighting over the latest "sex scandal turned murder."
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Travelers' Season 3
The third season of Travelers would have been excellent anyway. MacLaren struggling against his own erased memory, the team dealing with a traveler who got into the body of a serial killer, the deadly chess match with the Faction, the unreliability of the director, members of the team grappling with all kinds of personal lethal crises—all of that with the customary repartee about our culture, as seen from the distant future, and true-to-life dialog like "You only ever wear a third of your wardrobe, anyway," (MacLaren's wife Kathryn to MacLaren; for me it's more like a 10th) made for a series of episodes as good as those in the first two seasons. But the ending of season three made for something very different, and lifted the series to a whole new level.
By Paul Levinson7 years ago in Futurism
The Far Side of the Moon
For people who are interested in space exploration, 2019 is already becoming a historic year. Just a few hours after the new year, the New Horizons probe did a fly by near a far far object named, Ultima Thule. A small and peanut-shaped object inside the Kuiper belt. Officially known as 2014 MU69, Ultima Thule orbits the sun every 298 years at the distance of 6.5 billion km from us. On the first day of January, it became the farthest object in the solar system that has been visited by an earthling spaceship.
By Pouria Nazemi7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hestia
Hestia is the Greek Goddess of the hearth, home, architecture, the state, and family. She’s also one of the virgin/maiden Goddesses who is seen as a protector deity. Her Roman form is Vesta. She is the daughter of Rhea and Kronus (Cronus). Her siblings are Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, and Demeter. She is the first born child of Rhea and Kronus but after Zeus freed her and the rest of her siblings from having been eaten by their father she was the last to be spit out. This makes people regard her as both the oldest and youngest of the siblings. She has no husband or children, being a maiden Goddess. However, Hestia was such a crucial part of worship that she was pictured and honored in every temple of every God or Goddess.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Review: "The Escape Artist" - 'Star Trek: Short Treks' Episode Four
“The Escape Artist” rounds off a very mixed bag of mini-episodes that make up the first set of Short Treks. After a fun but wonky character piece with “Runaway,” an excellent sci-fi short with only tenuous links to the main series in “Calypso,” and a decent but unoriginal flashback in “The Brightest Star,” Short Treks explores one of the best received guest characters of Star Trek: Discovery.
By Daniel Tessier7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Apollo
Apollo is the God of music, poetry, arts, oracles, prophecy, truth, knowledge, archery, herds/flocks, diseases (specifically the plague), healing, medicine, light, sun, knowledge, and protection of young. His Roman name is Apollo and he is sometimes known as Apollon. Apollo traditionally doesn't care about the gender of the person he was with. His myths are filled with him taking mortal and immortal lovers of all genders. Despite this, he has no significant other. He does have a twin Artemis and together they are traditionally known as the twin archers since both use a bow and arrow. Apollo is also one of the Twelve Olympians.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hecate
Hecate, also known as “The Distant One,” is the Greek Goddess of the crossroads and witchcraft. She is also Queen of the Night, and is highly connected to All Hallow's Eve. She is commonly depicted as a three-headed Goddess, or the Greek version of The Triple Goddess, being the Maiden, Mother, and Crone depending on the season. Hecate is also seen to rule/have power over magic, the night, ghosts, necromancy, pathways, heaven, Earth, and the sea. She is one of the Gods who lives in the Underworld. Her Roman form is Hekate, although she is often confused for the Roman Goddess Trivia who is the Goddess of the crossroads and guardian of roads.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
