Over time culture has rapidly transformed stereotypes surrounding blonde hair. Over the course of time it has been associated with beauty, prostitution and low intelligence👌🏼
‘Harpy’ comes from the Ancient Greek harpyia (ἅρπυια) who were wind spirits with the face of a woman and the body of a vulture. They would take the dead to Hades or Tartarus, had faces pale with hunger, and were vicious.
Image found on Florida wild and free (on Instagram)
While reading about cave formations earlier I came across this on Wikipedia- such a nice depiction. So many cool terms
A reminder from @BobEnglehart that there are 100,000,000,000,000 microbes in your body🦠 Today I gave a presentation on how relationships between gut bacteria diversity and severity of anxiety symptoms has been recently uncovered. Is very interesting for understanding/treatment
My sister holding nutmeg (from the tree Myristica fragrans) seeds we found in the rainforest in Grenada 🇬🇩
The net-like red casing (aril) is dried to create mace
Botanical illustration by Koehler (1887)
A few more photos demonstrating MacQueen’s genius. I love the incorporation of bones, scales, organic dyes, horns, and movement.
I love the artwork of @zoekellerdraws. On the left is the beautiful Luna moth, relatively common in North America. These moths only live a week as they don’t have a mouth (hence they’re never spotted visiting flowers) and instead live off stored fat (from their caterpillar days)
These glossy black pebbles of obsidian are often called ‘Apache tears’. This comes from the legend of the apache tribe who faced defeat against US cavalry so rode their horses off a cliff. Their wives and families cried, their tears turning to stone upon hitting the ground