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The Temple of Aphaia (Greek: Ναός Αφαίας) or Afaea is located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia. Formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, the great Doric temple is now recognized as dedicated to the mother-goddess Aphaia. It was a favourite of the Neoclassical and Romantic artists such as J. M. W. Turner.
It stands on a c. 160 m peak on the eastern side of the island approximately 13 km east by road from the main port of Aegina island, which lies in the Saronic Gulf, Greece.
Aphaea (Greek: Ἀφαία, Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively here. She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias:
On Aigina as one goes toward the mountain of Zeus, god of all the Hellenes, the sanctuary of Aphaia comes up, for whom Pindar composed an ode at the behest of the Aeginetans. The Cretans say (the myths about her are native to Crete) that Euboulos was the son of Kharmanor, who purified Apollo of the killing of the Python, and they say that Britomartis was the daughter of Zeus and Kharme (the daughter of this Euboulos). She enjoyed races and hunts and was particularly dear to Artemis. While fleeing from Minos, who lusted after her, she cast herself into nets cast for a catch of fish. Artemis made her a goddess, and not only the Cretans but also the Aeginetans revere her. The Aeginetans say that Britomartis showed herself to them on their island. Her epithet among the Aeginetans is Aphaia, and it is Diktynna of the Nets on Crete. Description of Greece 2.30.3
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The story of the Red Thread of Fate above.
Maybe it's not a coincidence that I chose to upload this foto today (not knowing about the story) on our wedding anniversary and title it "The Red Thread" although there is a lot more iron to see.
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(For my wonderful husband)
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"Que le meilleur gagne" est non seulement une piètre interprétation de la théorie de l'évolution, mais surtout une très mauvaise idéologie pour maintenir la cohésion d'un groupe, et a fortiori la vie sur terre.
Pourquoi vouloir écraser l'autre ? Pourquoi chercher à ce point la solitude, la division et l'aliénation ? Ce mythe ne serait-il pas en réalité un puissant instrument de domination ?
La victoire culturelle de cette idéologie ne s'est pas faite en un claquement de doigts; elle a mobilisé pendant des décennies des forces et des sommes d'argent considérables.
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Texte : Pablo Servigne & Gauthier Chapelle.
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Lieu : Leukerbad, Suisse.
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This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
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Golden Myths - Twin Souls by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Audiomachine - Reaching
A creative dual toned classic/mythic composition with a vintage edition.
Stock images and images of mine. Art collage, textured layered techniques, color saturations techniques and digital painting processes.
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Un mite de Barcelona a Camprodon - A myth from Barcelona to Camprodon - Un mito de Barcelona en Camprodon
Captura: Plaça del Doctor Robert, Camprodon.
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A Satyr, a Centaur, and a Siren.
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L'ultimo raggio di sole illumina le cime dei Cadini di Misurina, prima di una notte stellata
Foto dell'inverno scorso
Buona giornata
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But we have this hostility to the external world
Because of the superstition, the myth
The absolutely unfounded theory
That you yourself exist only inside your skin
Now I wanna propose another idea
You're not something that is the result of the Big Bang
Or the end of the process
You are still the process
You are the Big Bang
The original force of the Universe
Coming on as whoever you are
See when I meet you
I see not just what you define yourself as
This is so and so and this is so and so and this is so and so
I see everyone of you as the primordial energy of the Universe
Coming on at me in this particular way
And I know I'm that too.
iPhoneography on iPhone 7 Plus; Prescott, Arizona; January 26, 2018. Two PANO images blended in Superimpose app.
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They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.
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Narcissus were well known in ancient civilisation, both medicinally and botanically, but formally described by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum (1753). The genus is generally considered to have about ten sections with approximately 50 species. The number of species has varied, depending on how they are classified, due to similarity between species and hybridisation. The genus arose some time in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene epochs, in the Iberian peninsula and adjacent areas of southwest Europe. The exact origin of the name Narcissus is unknown, but it is often linked to a Greek word (ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") and the myth of the youth of that name who fell in love with his own reflection. The English word "daffodil" appears to be derived from "asphodel", with which it was commonly compared.
The species are native to meadows and woods in southern Europe and North Africa with a centre of diversity in the Western Mediterranean, particularly the Iberian peninsula. Both wild and cultivated plants have naturalised widely, and were introduced into the Far East prior to the tenth century. Narcissi tend to be long-lived bulbs, which propagate by division, but are also insect-pollinated
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28plant%29?wprov=sfla1
some cars are famous, some cars are legendary, and then there are those rare few that become mythical to us gear heads
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Snowball : Raindale - Snowday picnic - snowballs
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wall decor : Sway's [Infinity] wall decor . Moon&Stars . silver
Sofa : Sway's [Infinity] Sofa . black
Basket : Sway's [Advent 2018] Basket with Pillows . Snowflake @ Christmas Advent Calender 4th
Brick wall : Sway's [Ethan] Brick with Hedge Fence . snowy . short
Brick pillar : Sway's [Ethan] Brick Pillar . snowy
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GOOSE - Ski bench
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Garden : Frozen Garden set A (left) by Simply Shelby
Garden : Frozen Garden set A (right) by Simply Shelby
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Funerary figures are often surrounded by myths that say they accompany and protect the souls of the deceased in the afterlife. These figures symbolize the belief in life after death and the idea that they help the dead survive in the other world and fulfill their tasks.
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Grabfiguren sind oft von Mythen umgeben, die besagen, dass sie die Seelen der Verstorbenen im Jenseits begleiten und beschützen. Diese Figuren symbolisieren den Glauben an
ein Leben nach dem Tod und die
Vorstellung, dass sie den Toten helfen, in der anderen Welt zu bestehen und ihre Aufgaben zu erfüllen.
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MYTHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE is the topic for October 19th – 25th 2024, Group Our Daily Challenge
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"Pink sky at night sailor's delight" probably not true tonight since we are expecting a Nor'easter tomorrow...lots of rain, wind and maybe even snow. This is straight out of camera RAW, from the side of the road as I drove home from work this evening. I was surprised to see all this pink with the impending storm, and I love the interesting cloud formation.
Following a question from Lynne Berry (Photographic Queen of Steetley Pier fame) regarding the location of an opening scene from a recent TV series, it prompted Horace and I to take a look at said location in Mid Cornwall.
Whilst I bagged a couple of shots of this outcrop, Horace wondered off into the village of Roche armed with his notebook, (he is very good at short trotter) where he would keep his snout to the ground and leave no rasher unturned.
Totally out of character Horace walked into the Pub in Roche with his little notebook to source local knowledge regarding this ruined 15th century hermitage and the myth and mystery that surrounds it.
Horace gleamed that the ruined chapel on top of this outcrop was built around 1409 and dedicated to St Michael.
According to local folklore, a hermit and his daughter lived within the rocky structure, another story suggests the hermitage was occupied by some people who contracted leprosy and stayed here to avoid infecting others in the village.
Horace kept probing with his own journalistic style (mines a pint mate) to discover other tales, one being that Jan Tregeagle (Cornwall’s own Faust) a tortured sinner made a pact with the devil then tried to find refuge in the chapel when being chased by demons. (And people think I make things up).
It’s also said that doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde, from a medieval legend, hid here when their love had been discovered by Isolde’s husband, King Mark. It was at this point Horace looked at his empty glass and thought it is time to quit while he was able.
Once again I was very fortunate that whilst preparing to take this shot it poured down with rain, however as it started to clear this sky appeared and the rest is history.
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Island in the middle of River Tejo. Santarém, Portugal
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Thanks to Lennabem for the texture
Gothic Myths - The Lady Of Crows by Daniel Arrhakis (2017)
Work of my new series : "Dyuranhd - Gothic Myths"
With the music : Gothic Storm Music - Endeavor
She is eternal and independent, wrapped in mystery and darkness but with the power to love forever and transform herself in her flights of thousands of crows ... timeless and free !!
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