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Time-lapse #digitalart of a cyclops from #GreekMythology in #Procreate. An attempt was made.

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Following the death of his wife Orpheus went to Hades to get her back. He was allowed if he could make the trip without looking back at her. Making it to the upper world, he looked back but she hadn't yet crossed the boundary. She vanished forever

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Janus, the two-faced Roman god of doorways, openings, and beginnings. Basically, rites were devoted to him any time something began, like life, marriage, planting and harvests, etc.

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Magic!

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One of the stories about Pisces:
Typhon rose up before Aphrodite and her son Eros one day. Terrified, they fled to the water where two fish carried them to safety. As a reward Aphrodite placed the two fish in the sky as the constellation Pisces.

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#GreekMythology has a flood myth, though it's not as famous as the Noah or Utnapishtim stories. In this one Zeus, angry over a human sacrifice, flooded the world. Prometheus told his son Deucalion to build a chest, which he and his wife used to survive.

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Zeus burned Semele (Dionysus' mother) to death so he sewed Dionysus to his thigh which "in labour became female, and the boy too soon born was brought forth, but not in a mother’s way, having passed from a mother’s womb to a father’s."(DIONYSIACA 9, Book 1)

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The hydra might be the most famous monster in #GreekMythology. Poisonous breath, blood so toxic that the smell was deadly, and an undetermined number of heads that later regenerated exponentially. Herakles killed it with help from his nephew.

#MythologyMonday #Mythology The Olympic Games started out as a festival for Zeus. Like many things in #GreekMythology, it has multiple origin stories. In the earliest, the games were a race by the dactyls to entertain the newborn Zeus, and the winner received an olive wreath.

In #GreekMythology dreams were personified as part of the "tribe of Dreams" (φῦλον Ὀνείρων), a group of unnamed offspring of Nyx. Morpheus and his brothers came later, from the Roman poet Ovid, and were members of the "Somnia", children of Somnus. #Mythology #MythologyMonday