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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
井の頭線渋谷駅は盛りだくさんです。スクランブル交差点を見ることもできれば岡本太郎の傑作を見ることもできます。
Shibuya Station on the Inokashira Line has many viewpoints. You can see the Shibuya Scramble Crossing or see Taro Okamoto's masterpiece.
"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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The ruins of Whitby Abbey crown a clifftop over the historic fishing port of Whitby. The headland has hosted St Hild’s Anglo-Saxon monastery, the great medieval abbey and a Stuart mansion, and it’s long been the focus of myths and legends.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1545.
Since that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland. Since the 20th century, the substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage. The site museum is housed in Cholmley House, a 17th-century banqueting hall repurposed by design studio Stanton Williams in 2002.
Streoneshalh
The monastery was first founded in AD 657 by Oswy, King of Northumbria, as Streoneshalh, the older name for Whitby. He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess.
The double monastery of monks and nuns was home (614–680) to the great Northumbrian poet Cædmon.
A lidar view of Whitby Abbey and surrounding archaeological residues.
In 664, the Synod of Whitby took place at the monastery to resolve the question of whether the Northumbrian church would adopt and follow the Easter dating of Iona, the 84-year cycle which had been previously used in Rome and on the continent, or the new 19-year cycle which had recently been adopted at Rome. There was also discussion of what kind of tonsure clergy and monks should use. The decision, with the support of King Oswy, was for adopting the newer Roman Easter calculation, as was used in other English kingdoms to the south.
Streoneshalch monastery was laid to waste by Danes in successive raids between 867 and 870 under Ingwar and Ubba, and remained desolate for more than 200 years. A locality named 'Prestebi' was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, which may be a sign that religious life was revived in some form after the Danish raids. 'Witebi' (Whitby) is also mentioned. Prestebi, from Old Norse, means a habitation of priests. The old monastery given to Reinfrid comprised about 40 ruined monasteria vel oratoria, similar to Irish monastic ruins with numerous chapels and cells.
Whitby.
Reinfrid, a soldier of William the Conqueror, became a monk and travelled to Streoneshalh, which was then known as Prestebi or Hwitebi, from Old Norse, meaning "White settlement". He approached William de Percy for a grant of land, who gave him the ruined monastery of St. Peter with two carucates of land, to found a new monastery. Serlo de Percy, the founder's brother, joined Reinfrid at the new monastery, which followed the Benedictine rule. The greater part of de Percy's building was pulled down and the monastery was rebuilt on a larger scale in the 1220s.
The Benedictine abbey thrived for centuries as a centre of learning. This second monastery was destroyed by Henry VIII in 1540 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The abbey was bought by Sir Richard Cholmley. It remained in the Cholmley family and their descendants, the Strickland family. The Strickland family passed it to the UK government in 1920. The ruins are now owned and maintained by English Heritage.
In December 1914, Whitby Abbey was shelled by the German battlecruisers Von der Tann and Derfflinger, whose crew "were aiming for the Coastguard Station on the end of the headland. Scarborough and Hartlepool were also attacked. The abbey buildings sustained considerable damage during the ten-minute attack.
The flower heads were dry and brittle....just the perfect place for a Harvestman insect to lie in wait for a tasty snack.
My heart always skips a beat when I'm admiring the structure of a plant and then discover I'm looking into the eyes of a small critter.
Here's a link to information about this marvelous critter
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.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone for 2025 - stay healthy and keep looking up!
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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The Portara of Naxos (or the Great Door) is a massive marble doorway that stands proudly as the jewel of Naxos.
It lies close to the port, on the islet of Palatia.
In ancient times, a strip of land connected the northern side of Naxos port to the islet of Palatia. Today, the strip of land has been replaced by a causeway.
Myth has it that the islet of Palatia was exactly where Ariadne, the Minoan princess, was abandoned by her lover Theseus after he killed Minotaur on the island of Crete.
K-Pax | Man Of No Ego
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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.
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They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.
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Scollis mountain is located southwest of Patras and west of Mount Erymanthos. It is also referred to as "Portovuni". "Portiano" or "Santamerianiko" from the villages located on its slopes (Portes and Santameri respectively), while in the Iliad it is found as "Olenia stone". "Neraidotropa" is also located here, a deep cave chasm on the rocky slope above the village of Portes, below the ridge, which has fueled the popular imagination with many myths and legends.
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The Nix - the story/ myth of the Nix, called Nykurin in Faroese, a sea creature that lures people close before dragging them into a lake. The Nix is a very dangerous and strange creature.
It lives in almost all lakes in the Faroe Islands, and its favourite occupation is to lure people close and then drag them with him to a watery end.
The Nix has the magical ability to transform himself into many different shapes. When he spots people, preferably children, approaching the lake, he comes out of the water and tries to attract their attention. But the moment someone touches him, they get stuck, and the Nix drags them with him into the lake. Now, if you should find yourself stuck to a Nix, there is one trick you should know: quickly shout his name out loud and the Nix will lose his power, and you will be free. Often, the Nix takes the shape of an exceptionally beautiful horse, an animal that is so handsome that most people can’t resist getting closer to and wanting to climb up on his back.
On the island of Vágar lies the biggest lake in the Faroe Islands, called Leitisvatn. This lake once was the home to a frightfully annoying Nix who was extremely eager to capture people who were passing by. One clear, sunny day, some village children went to play at the lakeside. The waters of the lake sparkled in the sunshine, and the mountains all around shone green. The children spotted a beautiful horse, peacefully drinking water by the mouth of the river that runs into the lake. The children, fascinated by the beauty of the horse, ran towards it and helped each other to climb up onto its back. The Nix was cunning, and he stood still until the children were on his back. But then he took off, running like the wind towards the deep part of the lake. Luckily, among the children that day, there were two brothers: Niclas, the eldest, was first up on the horse’s back, but his younger brother, Hanus, only two or three years old, was not as fast as the others and left behind. Watching the horse disappearing with his brother and the others on its back, in despair, Hanus called for his brother to come back for him. But being little, he could not say his older brother’s name properly: “Brother Nics!” he shouted, “Brother Nics, wait for me!”. And instantly, the Nix lost his power, and the children were free to throw themselves off his back just before he jumped far out into the lake and disappeared beneath the dark water. Well, this Nix was a nuisance to the inhabitants of Vágar and help was badly needed to get rid of the Nix so people could travel safely along the lake side.
In those days, some priests had the power to drive away ghosts and other bad spirits. One especially skilful priest, living on Vágoy, was asked to rid the village of the Nix. So, one day when the priest was walking by the lake, he saw a strange creature sitting by the path, combing its hair with a gold comb. The priest picked up a stone, threw it down towards the lake, and cast a spell on it. Miraculously, the stone started to grow until it became a large rock, and the priest uttered: “Enter the rock, beast, and be gone from this place”! And so, he sealed the Nix inside the rock and after that, it was never seen again - until now...
.....legend has it that this distant cousin to the koala will drop from the trees on unsuspecting tourists caught staring up at them, ready to lash out with razor sharp claws, and hoping to to devour them as a tasty snack!
Sculpture of Romulus and Remus suckling on a she-wolf on a column on Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.
Sunflowers all face the same way and follow the sun across the sky. Ever wonder why?
According to Greek mythology, the water nymph Clytie fell in love with the god of the sun, Apollo, who dazzled the earth as he drove his golden chariot across the sky each day. When he rejected Clytie’s affection, it nearly drove her mad. She spent days without food or water as she searched the heavens and waited for Apollo to appear.
In the end, she was transformed into a sunflower, a plant which turns its face toward the sun as it moves across the sky each day.
Now you know.
Sunbeams warm the wet trunk of the tree and vapors dance with the morning breeze. Forest nymphs and Druids wake up!
There is no planet B.
Island in the middle of River Tejo. Santarém, Portugal
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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.
If you are planning to hike up the Kleiner Mythen, check out my blog post and hike report on the best vantage points on this hike.
I went back to the Kleiner Mythen for Sunset this weekend. This shot was taken about an hour before sunset.
The first time I hiked up the Kleiner Mythen, I came across a couple of good vantage points on the way up. This is one of them, I think it's called, and it's called Zwüschet Mythen. The lake in the middle is Lake Lucerne.
Panorama made of 4 vertical images.