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The Great Pyramid at Giza, build ca. 2589-2566, took over 2 million blocks & 20 years to construct & is one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Inside includes a king's & queen's chamber. The pyramid likely acted as a tomb for a king. The structure around 480 ft. high.

Atusa (550-475 BCE) was the daughter of #persian emperor Cyrus the Great & married to Darius who held the vast Persian empire that spanned huge portions of Asia. Atusa was considered an influential #woman & helped put Xerxes in power after Darius. She suffered from mastitis.

Hermês is an #Olympian god charged w/ care of herds, travelers, roads, athletes. A powerful god, he is called to assist others such as Perseus & Odysseus w/ perilous tasks. From birth he was mischievous, hiding & killing oxen sacred to Apollo.

Bartholomaeus Spranger (d. 1611)

Paris holds the golden apple to #Aphrodite, Hera & #Athena. #Hermes & other #gods and #goddesses watch on. #GreekMythology

Judgment of Paris, after Rosso Fiorentino, 1553, engraving

The Goat-Unicorn appeared in a bestiary-like text within The Physiologus (ca. 100-300 CE) but it's origin can be found in various Near Eastern and Far Eastern #folklore & #myth.

John Jonston, Historiae Naturalis, 1657

The Spindle of Fate was used by
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.

The Three Fates (1558-9), Giorgio Ghisi, engraving, 13.8 x 22.2 cm

Hephaistos (Ἡφαιστος), Olympian #god of metalworking & fire. His main cult centers were on Lemnos & at #Athens. 🔨#mythology #greekmythology

Vulcan's Forge in "Allegory of Divine Providence," completed in 1639, Pietro da Cartona

Men wearing the mask of #Anubis oversee mummification. Various amulets adorn the body's layers prior to the application of a coffin and burial. #ancientegypt #mummies

The #Pleiades we seven daughters of #Atlas, placed in the heavens after death. Only six are visible. Merope is the lost Pleiad.

The Pleiades (1885), Elihu Vedder

Jupiter, the Roman father of the gods, appears in zodiac form. #FolkloreThursday #zodiac #gods #Classics

German Woodcut, ca. 1510-1560, after Hans Burgkhmair the Elder