Pygmalion: Love Can Be Hard - Greek Mythology - Extra Mythology

Wow that's the most tame Aphrodite has ever been

Pygmalion: the first Incel.

Whoa! Aphrodite has arms!😮🖖🏻

The first weeb and his closest thing to a body pillow.

Pygmalion kisses a statue and becomes a tale of legend,
I do it and get told I have to leave the department store.

I think that in the original telling of the myth the statue was not named, but in later versions and retelling she was called Galatea.

P.S. if you have heard that name elsewhere in pop culture… it came from this myth.

The dream behind AI

Pygmalion was based and right

Is it me or only Aphrodite has an actual neck?

Ivory? The Elephant tusk? Must have been a really big elephant to have human sized tusks.

TF is the moral of this story???

I heard another version of the myth
Pygmalion was a greek sculptor wich lived on a city with alot of biutefull women, but he said thay they were "not perfect" and so he built a statue the best and perfect woman
And he got struck by love, living with her, sleeping ther and have romance with her
He was sad thoug, becouse she wasn't real and sl asked aphrodite, the goddes of love to make the statue real.
He then went back home, went to the statue he kissed her, and slowly the statue became human, wich pygmalion then married and togheter had a child in wich would grow up and found a city in the name of Aphrodite

Pygmalion: the Greek incel otaku

Fun fact: the was an anthropological experiment teaching chimpanzees the concept of currency

The first thing the chimps did was the males would trade for sex and the females would use it for food.

Voluntary incel... volcel?

...you keep saying "ivory." You mean marble, right?

It's not like you are going to have a solid block of elephant tusk big enough to make a human sized statue.

Ahh how much i would wish to have a statue like that. 😢

So he was An Adult Virgin

To me he was an Asexual icon! Sometimes the art is better! As an asexual I can relate to his panic! 😂

Rawr

Religion: ME
Occupation: SKY

wtf(what the falafel)

Ancient Greek asexual representation, I love it 😂😂

Well, He's was right- Sex is majorly overrated. My most romantic dreams I have are of having a best friend that I can talk to about anything with, hug, cuddle, touch (in a cuddly way), but without sexuality involved. I'm even okay with an open relationship, but I don't trust anyone to be honest enough in that sort of situation to trust so really- just a fantasy that's impossible. Kinda sucks wanting more than friendship, but without Sex- it's very hard to find others who want the same thing =\

Oh so that is how the waifu pillows came to be

looks like that statue wasn’t the only thing that was hard 💀

the first beta simp?

As you can see, incel culture has a long and storied history

Real women are terrifying

"He wanted to remain celibate so he swore off female contact"

Not the most foolproof defense in Ancient Greece

AYO WTF!

So he the OG incel?

The myth i heard was that aphrodite brought the statue to life to punish Pygmalion for falling for an inanimate woman because he didn't want sex and then he ran away when she came to life and wanted to have sex.

So this is what inspired the movie Mannequin. 🤔

"Not to mention Cupid shooting people for fun"

Hey that's Eros thank you very much Cupid is Roman

first waifu

Sounds like the inspiration for mannequin

An interesting interpretation of this myth, alright.

My favorite Greek mythology story, Blessed be.

For a real sponsorship deal, should have gone to real dolls.

I always remember when Jennifer Anniston starred as Galatea in Hercules the Animated Series retelling of Pygmalion

Lucky Pygmalion got the wife he wanted

Okay now whenever i get intimate with my anime figures, i could just say im reenacting a famous ancient myth!

Replace this with an anime body pillow and you have something resembling contemporary times.

Love is what you make it, right? 😉

Carved in IVORY????? Where did he find a tooth big enough to carve a staue out of? Just wondering...

Cossack Cossack 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Cossack🇺🇦

all I can think about is how much pigmalion spent on an Ancient Greek waifu figure.