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“I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”

Mary Shelley’s The Modern Prometheus, The alternative title that makes so much more sense than the one we know best...

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Asteroid Ceres is named after the Roman goddess associated with agriculture, fertility, motherly relations & funeral rites among other things. Astrologers equate her placement in our birth charts with our nurturing qualities & how we process grief, etc

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In Greek mythology, Endymion was either a shepherd or an astronomer and fell in love with the moon, Selene. Zeus ends up putting Endymion to sleep eternally at Selene's request and they have 50 daughters together.

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The Four Symbols are the guardians of the four cardinal directions and masters of the major constellations in China. Each is represented by an animal: Black Tortoise-Snake of North, Azure Dragon of East, White Tiger of West, and Vermilion Bird of South.

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All the constellations have a story behind them. Cancer the crab is no different. Hera sent it to distract Heracles during his fight with the hydra. He killed it but Hera placed it in the sky as a constellation because…at least it tried?

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Some see the constellation of Virgo as Astraea, goddess of Justice. In the Golden Age the gods lived with us on earth but the increasing iniquity of humanity drove them one by one, to leave the earth and go to live in the heavens.
She was last to leave.

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Emblems from Sammlung unterschiedlicher bewährter chymischer Schriften, Johannes Isaac Holladus & Michael Sendivogius, 1746, including The Hand of the Philosophers and a Globus cruciger. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind

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Hit by an asteroid! Showing 4 images of what they found on my flattened body.

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Wednesday is Odin's Day - his counsel regarding "speaking out" is timeless and much needed in the 2020s!

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Gas masks, anti-comet pills & umbrellas sold wildly after newspapers reported astronomer Camille Flammarion’s prediction that deadly cyanogen gas would kill life on earth in 1910 when it passed through the tail of Halley’s comet. Flammarion was wrong. Joy ensued.

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Orion represents a struggle between Cold Wind – a salmon thief – and Chinook Wind, who banished him to the east. Even today, according to the Wasco and Wishram people of the Pacific Northwest, Chinook Wind conquers his chilly rival each spring.

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✨ Stars ✨

"I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia" Ptolemy

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Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Thomas Westropp, 1923.
23rd and 24th: St John's Eve and Day; Beltane fires lit.
"Carrying a coal from a Beltane fire brings luck to fishing if brought in the boat, and protects from fairies on shore."

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MIDSUMMER'S EVE In Ireland, Midsummer’s Eve is celebrated on 23 June; also St John’s Eve. Titania dotes on Bottom transformed into a donkey by the elusive Puck in Night's Dream 🎨
Oliver Messel; Hubert von Herkomer; Edwin Landseer; Arthur Rackham

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Blood and Apples from Hopeless, Maine for

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"The witches used to gather on this mountain... Satan... gave the command for the sabbath, in which he chose for himself the witches who caught his fancy"

Mussorgsky finished his take on the Witches Sabbath "Night on the Bald Mountain" 1867

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In Irish legend Children of Lir, Lir’s jealous new wife Aoife magically transforms his four children into swans that sing with beautiful human voices. When the 900 year spell ends they return to human form only to rapidly age & die...
🎨 Gennady Spirin

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In ancient Irish myth, before 'The Terminator' or 'The Six Million Dollar Man', King Nuada, ("silver arm"), the first king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, lost an arm in battle & replaced it with a cybernetic silver prosthetic to reclaim his throne.

Images: Pinterest

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IRISH AISLING DEFEATS BRITISH VAMPIRE BAT The Irish National League is depicted as the armed and vigilant Aisling figure, ready to defend Ireland from the monstrous vampirism of the British empire; from The Irish Pilot, 1885.

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