WITCH AESTHETICS: THE OCEAN
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” (for tiffany.)
Tag: mythology
mythology aesthetics: chryseis.
chryseis was agamemnon’s war prize in greek mythology. when agamemnon refused to return her to her father, her father called on apollo to swarm the land with plagues. forced to give her back, agamemnon was enraged, but he sent odysseus to return her anyways. in later mythology, she was renamed astynome and cressida.
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people who caused the Trojan War:
1) Aphrodite (for bribing Paris with Helen, without Helen’s consent or any regard for her wishes)
2) Paris (for accepting Aphrodite’s bribe, without any regard for Helen’s wishes)
3) Tyndareus and Odysseus (for making all Helen’s suitors swear an oath to take up arms against any man who ‘stole’ her)
4) Menelaus (for going to war with Troy to get Helen ‘and all her wealth’ back, without any regard for Helen’s wishes)people who did not cause the Trojan War:
1) Helen
The Pleiades were seven mountain nymph daughters of the Titan Atlas. Their leader was Maia, the mother of Hermes by Zeus. Five of the others were also loved by gods, becoming ancestresses of various royal families including those of Troy and Sparta. When they were pursued by the lustful giant Orion, Zeus set them amongst the stars as the seven-starred constellation Pleiades. Their name was derived from the Greek word pleiôn, meaning “plenty.”
One of the oldest symbols in Japanese mythology is the 3-Legged Bird, called Yatagarasu (八咫烏) in Japanese. This legendary bird was said to have led the Emperor Jimmu from Kumano no kuni (熊の国), which is present-day Wakyama Prefecture, to Yamato no kuni (大和国), which is present-day Nara Prefecture. The three-legged (or “tripedal”) bird is a creature found in various mythologies and arts of Asia, Asia Minor, and North Africa.It is often thought to inhabit and represent the sun.
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