by Andrew Fowler
Zeetes was a winged man who helped Jason on his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Zeetes was the son of Boreas, the North Wind.
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by Andrew Fowler
In some tales, the catoblepas was a creature that looked like a bull with scales. It was mentioned in a book by Gustave Flaubert, but it was first “sighted” by Pliny on a travel between Ethiopia and Egypt. He said that the locals called it “Catoblepas.”
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by Amanita
Reproduced from _The Bard_, Vol. 1, No. 2 – Imbolc 1980
Although occult tradition tells us that color was used therapeutically in ancient times for a wide variety of mental and physical afflictions, today there is scant remaining information on the subject. We find from what is left however, that the healing priesthood of ancient Egypt utilized “color halls” where they researched the science of light and color therapy. The Greeks as well, experimented with it, and believed that color was absorbed by the body through the eye. The seven hues of the visible spectrum were considered representative of the seven fold nature of mankind, and corresponded to the seven chakras in Ayurvedic (Hindu) medicine also.
by Allison Kupec, Clarksville Middle School
Briareus was one of the Hecatonchires, the hundred-handed ones with fifty heads. His mother, Gaia, was the most ancient Greek goddess and was known as mother earth. He also had two brothers. One of his brothers was Gyes; the king of Cydia and the other was Coltus. Briareus was thrown into Tartarus by Uranus, but was then rescued by Zeus, whom he then urged to help him struggle against the Titans. During that battle, the Hecatoncheires took advantage of their one hundred hands by throwing rocks at the Titans.
by Alex Hopson
Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since it’s predynastic origins. The nine bows symbolise the various peoples that had been ruled over by the pharaoh since Egypt was united. The goddess Nekhbet symbolised the unity of the peoples under the pharaoh, her epitaph was ‘She who binds nine bows’ The arrow itself was a symbol of divine power, which was personified by Neith, the goddess of war, whose cult was symbolised by two crossed arrows. Two crossed arrows could also represent the power of Hemsut, which was a female form of Ka.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
The name Ida or Idaea (Idaia) appeared in the Greek myths as the name of two nymphs who were living in various places. The first nymph lived on Ida, which is the highest point of Crete (in modern times called Mount Psiloritis 2456m) and the second one was living on Mount Ida (now named Kaz Gagi 1774m) in ancient Phrygia near Troy, in the north-western region of Turkey. Ida, -idi means in the Greek language the wooded mountain, so this word became the name of the mountains as well as the name of these female divinities; the nymphs who were — according to the myths — living on Mount Ida.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D.
According to Pausanias Eumolpus was a son of Poseidon and Chione, who was the daughter of the North-East Wind and Oreithuia from the Athenian royal family of Erechtheus. When Eumolpus was born, his mother Chione, afraid of her father, threw the baby inside the sea. Poseidon took care of his little boy and he brought him to the shore in Ethiopia. Poseidon’s sister Benthesikyme reared him and later on she married him to one of her daughters. But Eumolpus was in love with the other one and Benthesikyme banished him to Thrace. From there he had to run away, because he was preparing some conspiracy against his king-protector Tegyrios. So, he came to Eleusis.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
According to the ancient authors Despoina was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon, worshipped at Arcadia in the Peloponnesus. Pausanias gave us a mythical story, which was known by the people of Thelpousa and Figalea. They said, that the event happened, when Demeter came to Arcadia, looking for her lost daughter Persephone. When Poseidon pursued her, the goddess turned herself into a mare and hid herself between the herds, but unfortunately Poseidon discovered her trick. He changed himself into the form of a stallion and begot upon her a daughter and later on even a famous mythical steed sprouted of her body.
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
According to the myths Cychreus was the son of the god Poseidon and the nymph Salamis, the daughter of the river-god Asopus. Cychreus became a legendary king of the biggest island in the Saronic Gulf — Salamis — and he was worshiped there as a mysterious divine hero. In this mythological story the island was named after Cychreus’ mother, the nymph Salamis, but the place was also called “the Snake Island” in relation to the following myth about the king Cychreus. (Originally, the island Salamis took its name from the Phoenician emigrants coming there from Cyprus, for them this place was schalam, “peaceful.”)
by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.
Originally Ariadne was a vegetation goddess in Crete related to the other Cretan goddesses especially to Britomartis. Sometimes Ariadne was associated with the surname “Very Holy Maid,” because her name is a variant of Ariagne from the Greek word àgni, which means “the most holy.” Under this title — àgni — Aphrodite on Delos was honoured.
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