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The Telkhines were Rhodian sorcerers often said to have the heads of dogs and fins for hands. These magician-craftsmen were able to control the elements and obliterate things w/ their eyes. They were known to be jealous, vile, spiteful. Images: pub. dom.

The sculpture (c. 2nd cent BCE/1st cent CE) may be Hellenistic or a later copy. It highlights the grief of Trojan priest, Laocoön, as two killer serpents rise from the sea after he rejects the notion of the Trojan horse as a gift

1.Vatican Museum2.Alessandro Allori 3.Marco Dente

Confined to the underworld for attempting to deceive the gods, Tantalus reaches above his head to a branch that bares fruit though he cannot successfully pluck the food from the bough to sate his hunger. Water rises to his neck, but he is unable to drink to quench his thirst.

Drawings of these fantastic Egyptian architectural capitals, c. 1849-1859 by Karl Richard Lepsius. Photo courtesy Wikipedia.

RT July17: Zeus sent a great deluge upon the land to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. At Prometheus' behest, Deukalion fashioned a chest in which he and his wife Pyrrha rode out the flood for nine days and nine nights, the only two humans to survive.

The Flood, Paul Merwart

"O Delion king, whose light-producing eye views all within, and all beneath the sky; whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, who omens good revealest, and precepts pure" --Orphic Hymn 34 to Apollo

The Chariot of Apollo, or Phoebus Apollo (c.1880), Gustave Moreau

A dolphin rescues Arion, a poet accosted by hostile sailors who was forced to leap into the sea to save himself. The dolphin perished after the journey but was given a burial and monument and was placed in the heavens among the constellations. #FolkloreThursday

N.C. Wyeth, 1938

After charges were brought against his son, Hippolytus, Theseus asked Poseidon to punish the youth. While riding in his chariot sea-bulls belonging to the sea god scared the horses, overturning the chariot & killing Hippolytus

The Death of Hippolytus Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Hypnos (Sleep) & Thanatos (Peaceful Death) are the sons of Nyx & Erebus. They lived in the Underworld & were 2 of the 5 siblings born from primeval goddess Chaos. The duo gave us words such as thanatology & hypnosis.

Underworld Scene, Felix J. Gardon (active 1924-1972)