Sedna is an Inuit deity who ends up in the ocean in many a legend and tale. Along the way, she loses her fingers, which turn into water animals and make their homes in her hair. She offers the ocean's bounty to angakoks who comb her hair 🐋


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“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water…”

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In the Clash of theTitans, movie, Calibos was reportedly a son of the Goddess Thetis. Calibos angered Zeus who transformed him into a satyr. The former prince was forced to live away from humanity, in swamps and marshes.

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According to the mother stork, all children want to have a new brother or sister. All of the boys who mocked the storks will not get a new sibling. One of the unborn babies in the pool is already dead. That baby will be delivered to the very bad boy's house. 2/2

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Darklings!

It's the customary time now to rendezvous with another creature from the swamps to meet you tomorrow for especially during

And don't forget to share your tales & images as well!

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It’s not easy being green.

—Kermit The Frog
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I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea
- Walt Whitman



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"a flash of lightning:
into the gloom
goes the heron's cry." (Basho)

Japanese painter Maruyama Ōkyo was born 1733

🎨 "Heron on a Willow Branch" (cropped, c 1770)

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"Dawn.... Soon all the birds are telling each other their dreams.... Why did I ever leave this place? I want to walk here forever. I want to struggle with the alligators.... I want to be alive and grow and rise up."
-Alan Moore & Stephen Bissette, Swamp Thing

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"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Happy Birthday,

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1908) https://t.co/sodigLboVa

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The of Little Sunlight, where a bad fairy curses a new babe to never be awake in sunlight, only in the light of the the curse made her wane like it too. 'But the bad fairy lived in a horrid mud house, in the middle of a dark swamp.'

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I have kept hidden in the instep arch
Of an old cedar at the waterside
A broken drinking goblet like the Grail
Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it…
Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

~ Robert Frost

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Hydra is a fearsome multi-headed dragon that inhabited swamps of Lerna.

The beast symbolizes the difficulties in the fight against evil: as soon as one of her heads is cut off, a new one immediately grows. More: https://t.co/77ewsLGSNj

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An aeroplane crash-lands on a coral island and the survivors, a party of schoolboys, find themselves cast-away in ideal surroundings...



📖 Lord of the Flies by William Golding 🎨 André François

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'Dragonfly' by Wilhelm Kotarbinski

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In Serbian mythology, Vodenjaci (water demons) are spirits of unbaptized or evil men who drown people in order to turn them into their servants, usually around water mills. Fishermen usually offer them animal sacrifices to be left alone. Image is by Ivica Stevanovic

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The nuns of Thetford came down to the riverside to cover St Withburga's body with lilies. Several flowers fell into the River Little Ouse, took root, and within an hour, covered all the banks to Ely with blooms that glowed radiantly at night...

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Night was coming and Roland had not yet taken Malverde. So the warrior asked God for granting him one more hour of light after the sun had set. The wish was granted. Roland took Malverde and sank the city under the waters of the Carregal pond (co. Ribeira,

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'Mount Fuji at sunset on the lake in Suruga Province' - Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1880.

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