A company in Vancouver and LA with a line of silver and gold pendants based on Victorian wax seals. These are cast from the wax seals thus cracks and various imperfections are seen. This one reads "L'espoir me reste dans l'orage", or hope remains in the storm. The little cherub is hanging on for dear life in the storm. The company is Pyrrha

You are a work of art made in black and white

You think life is colorless and bland

Alas, I don't like to leave white spaces

You are my canvas now and I promise

To put the color back into your world of monochrome

I will turn your life into a whole *** spectrum

Poem by Pyrrha/Texas

The wheels collide with the jagged ground (As sometimes so do I)

Smoothly gliding across as if sailing through a calm ocean

The wind wrapping me in it's safe and calming embrace

Cleansing me of the worst parts of me

All the anger, anxiety, and sadness is left behind

As I roll over them on my magic board

In those moments I feel free, safe, and certain

I'm not confused or mistaken

I know for once what I'm feeling and what I'm doing

Although it may not be true

I feel as though this little wooden plank with wheels

Could take me anywhere

Across the sea or to another galaxy

For once I'm simply free

~By Pyrrha

Details on my Blog

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrha

macro 10x sobre ala de mariposa Perezosa grande, autoctona de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Actinote pyrrha

Ο νομός Φθιώτιδας περιλαμβάνει χώρους μεγάλου ιστορικού ενδιαφέροντος για το έθνος των Ελλήνων. Εδώ ζούσαν κάποτε ο Δευκαλίων και η Πύρρα οι οποίοι μετά τον κατακλυσμό γέννησαν τους πρώτους Έλλήνες. Στις περιοχές εδώ καθώς και βορειότερα στην Θεσσαλία ήταν η επικράτεια του Πηλέα καθώς και του υιού του Ομηρικού ήρωα, Αχιλλέα. Εδώ διεξήχθη η μάχη των Θερμοπυλών.

The prefecture of Fthiotida includes places of great historical interest for the nation of Greeks. Here once lived Deucalion and Pyrrha, who after the flood spawned the first Greeks. In areas here and further north in Thessaly was the territory of Peleus and the son the Homeric hero, Achilles. Here the battle of Thermopylae was conducted.

Rhyncholaeliacattleya Pyrrha

( Rhyncholaelia glauca x Cattleya labiata )

Span: perezosa grande, transiluminada

Engl: big lazy, back-lit

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Le città invisibili di Claudio Cumin

In Mostra alla

Sala Comunale d'Arte G. Negrisin

Piazza Marconi, 1 - Muggia (Trieste)

dall 8 febbraio all 4 marzo 2012

www.benvenutiamuggia.eu

Le città e il nome. 3.

A lungo Pirra è stata per me una città incastellata sulle pendici d’un golfo, con finestre alte e torri, chiusa come una coppa, con al centro una piazza profonda come un pozzo e con un pozzo al centro. Non l’avevo mai vista. Era una delle tante città dove non sono mai arrivato, che m’immagino soltanto attraverso il nome: Eufrasia, Odile, Margara, Getullia. Pirra aveva il suo posto in mezzo a loro, diversa da ognuna di loro, come ognuna di loro inconfondibile agli occhi della mente. Venne il giorno in cui i miei viaggi mi portarono a Pirra. Appena vi misi piede tutto quello che immaginavo era dimenticato; Pirra era diventata ciò che è Pirra; e io credevo d’aver sempre saputo che il mare non è in vista della città, nascosto da una duna della costa bassa e ondulata; che le vie corrono lunghe e diritte; che le case sono raggruppate a intervalli, non alte, e le separano spiazzi di depositi di legname e segherie; che il vento muove le girandole delle pompe idrauliche. Da quel momento in poi il nome Pirra richiama alla mia mente questa vista, questa luce, questo ronzio, quest’aria in cui vola una polvere giallina: è evidente che significa e non poteva significare altro che questo.

La mia mente continua a contenere un gran numero di città che non ho visto né vedrò, nomi che portano con sé una figura o frammento o barbaglio di figura immaginata: Getullia, Odile, Eufrasia, Margara. Anche la città alta sul golfo è sempre là, con la piazza chiusa intorno al pozzo, ma non posso piú chiamarla con un nome, né ricordare come potevo darle un nome che significa tutt’altro.

Le città invisibili

di Italo Calvino

Einaudi, Torino 1972

Hesperiidae, Pyrginae: Celaenorrhinus pyrrha

Perezosa Grande / Actinote pyrrha pyrrha

Fam. Nymphalidae

Subfam. Heliconiinae

Tribu Acraeini

Adulto 55-75 mm.

Necochea - Argentina

Rhyncholaeliacattleya Pyrrha

( Rhyncholaelia glauca x Cattleya labiata )

La Perrhybris pamela glessaria es una mariposa de la familia Pieridae, subfamilia Pierinae, tribu Pierini, que vimos entre las veredas Río Vides y La Castellana, cerca de Villagarzón, en el departamento del Putumayo.

En learnaboutbutterflies pude encontrar que "la combinación de marcas negras y anaranjadas conspicuas sobre un fondo blanco es un tema común entre los Pierinae y Dismorphiinae. Esta coloración aposemática es indicativa de sus conocidas cualidades tóxicas nocivas que disuaden a los depredadores aviares".

"En la superficie superior de las alas los machos son blancos con un ápice negro, pero las hembras son totalmente diferentes, con un patrón de bandas de color naranja, amarillo y negro. Se les considera como imitadores müllerianos de los Ithomiines del género Mechanitis".

"Según la teoría batesiana del mimetismo, cualquier ave que sufra la desagradable experiencia de probar una especie nociva recordará su patrón y, en consecuencia, rechazará a la vista cualquier especie palatable de color similar. El mimetismo mülleriano funciona de forma diferente. La teoría de Müller aborda los casos en los que un grupo de especies nocivas comparten un esquema de color común. Afirma que la evolución de un esquema común refuerza una "imagen" aposemática en la mente de las aves, lo que proporciona a cada especie una mayor protección que si cada una tuviera un patrón aposemático diferente".

"El género Perrhybris tiene una distribución exclusivamente neotropical. Se conocen 3 especies: lorena, lypera y pamela. Esta última especie también se conoce con el sinónimo junior pyrrha. Perrhybris pamela tiene 18 subespecies reconocidas, que se encuentran en México, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, Guayana Francesa, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia".

"Esta especie se reproduce en los bosques húmedos de las tierras bajas, en altitudes comprendidas entre el nivel del mar y unos 900 metros.".

"Los machos suelen encontrarse en pequeños grupos de hasta media docena de ejemplares, que se mueven en el barro entre agregaciones de otras mariposas blancas, como Protesilaus swordtails y varios píridos. Las hembras suelen verse solas, visitando las flores de las plantas herbáceas o volando por los senderos del bosque en busca de lugares de oviposición. Ambos sexos se posan durante la noche entre las hierbas".

Fuente (acudiendo al uso justo): www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Perrhybris%20p...

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Rhyncholaelia glauca x Cattleya labiata

A couple of weeks ago we had to say goodbye to our little rescue dogs Pyrrha. She had been with us for over 10 years after originally being a little ferel stray dog from the streets of Greece. She was determined to never get caught and it actually took over 4 years for us to finally catch her. Year after year she would have litter after litter of puppies. Most would be simply destined to be run over or poisoned which is why we tried so hard for so many years to catch her and sterilise her. Our friend finally managed to catch her one day when she found her litter of puppies and placed them in a spring trap waiting for her to come rescue them. Even then she took over 10 hours before she finally tried to rescue them.

She has had a good life with us and sadly cancer put an end to her fairytale.

Goodnight darling you will be very much missed xx

The base for this fig was Captain Marvel's body and LBM Barbara Gordon's head. Made in Photoshop fix.

Rhyncholaelia glauca x Cattleya labiata

Orobanche minor Sm., syn.: Orobanche langei Huter, Porta & Rigo, Orobanche major f. hypochoeridis Beck, Orobanche maritima Pugsley, Orobanche salisii Req. ex Coss. Orobanche crithmi Bertol., Orobanche grisebachii Reut., Orobanche salisii Reut., Orobanche pumila Rchb., Orobanche pyrrha Rchb., Orobanche barbata

and about 20 other names.

Family: Orobanchaceae Vent.

EN: Lesser Broomrape, Common Broomrape, DE: Kleine Sommerwurz, Klee-Würger, Kleeteufel

Slo.: mali pojalnik

Dat.: May 5. 2023

Lat.: 44.51458 Long.: 14.31025

Code: Bot_1523/2023_DSC2872

Habitat: sandy sea shore, among grasses and other tall herbs; locally flat terrain; open, sunny, dry place; precipitations ~ 900 mm/year, average temperature 12-14 deg C, elevations 6 m (20 feet), Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.

Substratum: sandy soil.

Place: Adriatic Sea region, island Susak, sea shore about 200 m north of the harbor, Kvarner archipelago, Rijeka region, Croatia.

Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Orobanche minor): Orobanche minor was a few hundred years ago a Mediterranean species. However, it was spread by men by agricultural trade almost all over the world. Today it can be found in the almost whole Europe, in Africa, Asia, America and New Zeeland. Although widely distributed, it is quite a rare plant. The possible exception is monoculture agricultural land where its hosts grow e.g. clover fields, where it can appear massively and can completely destroy the harvest.

This find is from island Susak in Adriatic Sea having a unique geology. The island is the only one among hundreds of islands along east shore of Adriatic Sea, consisting 100% from sand.

Orobanche species are very variable. Proper determination is not always an easy task. In addition, their appearance depends on their actual host. This heavily pertains to Orobanche minor since its hosts are many: several species of Trifolium, other Fabaceae as well as Asteraceae. However, the combination of traits of the plants shown here speak in favor of Orobanche minor: small to medium size plants with densely glandular pubescence, small flowers (compared to other similar species), tubular, only slightly inflated at the end, corolla with conspicuous violet veins near the upper lip, almost glabrous style with dark purple-brown two-lobed stigma, entire calix segments and long bracts.

Ref.:

(1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 578.

(2) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 3. Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 235,

(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 417.

(4) C.A.J. Kreutz, Orobanche, The European broomrape species, Vol.1., Central and Northern Europe, Stichting Natuurpublicaties Limburg, Maastrich (1995), p 120.

macro 10x sobre ala de mariposa Perezosa grande, autoctona de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Actinote pyrrha

Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) - Deucalion and Pyrrha - frescoes of the perspective room (1519) - Villa Farnesina - Rome

da Iginio - Fabulae

«Quando avvenne il cataclisma (che noi chiamiamo diluvio oppure inondazione), tutta la razza umana perì a eccezione di Deucalione e Pirra che si rifugiarono sull’Etna, il monte più alto (si dice) che sorga in Sicilia. Essi non potendo sopravvivere per la solitudine, chiesero a Giove di concedere loro degli uomini oppure di annientarli come era successo agli altri. Allora Giove ordinò di gettare delle pietre dietro la schiena: quelle gettate da Deucalione divennero uomini, quelle da Pirra donne. Questa è l’origine della parola laos (“popolo”), poiché in greco Laas significa pietra.»

by Iginio - Fabulae

"When the cataclysm happened (which we call great flood or deluge), all the human race perished except Deucalion and Pyrrha who took refuge on Mount Etna, the highest mountain (it is said) that rises in Sicily. They could not survive because of loneliness, so they asked Jupiter to give them men or to destroy them as it had happened to others. Then Jupiter ordered to throw stones behind his back: those thrown by Deucalion became men, those thrown by Pyrrha women. This is the origin of the word laos ("people"), because in Greek Laas means stone.

Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) - great flood - frescoes of the perspective room (1519) - Villa Farnesina - Rome

da Iginio - Fabulae

«Quando avvenne il cataclisma (che noi chiamiamo diluvio oppure inondazione), tutta la razza umana perì a eccezione di Deucalione e Pirra che si rifugiarono sull’Etna, il monte più alto (si dice) che sorga in Sicilia. Essi non potendo sopravvivere per la solitudine, chiesero a Giove di concedere loro degli uomini oppure di annientarli come era successo agli altri. Allora Giove ordinò di gettare delle pietre dietro la schiena: quelle gettate da Deucalione divennero uomini, quelle da Pirra donne. Questa è l’origine della parola laos (“popolo”), poiché in greco Laas significa pietra.»

by Iginio - Fabulae

"When the cataclysm happened (which we call great flood or deluge), all the human race perished except Deucalion and Pyrrha who took refuge on Mount Etna, the highest mountain (it is said) that rises in Sicily. They could not survive because of loneliness, so they asked Jupiter to give them men or to destroy them as it had happened to others. Then Jupiter ordered to throw stones behind his back: those thrown by Deucalion became men, those thrown by Pyrrha women. This is the origin of the word laos ("people"), because in Greek Laas means stone.

Pandora - Return to the Sky 3

Alborz Mountains, Tehran Northwest, Iran

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Pandora

In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by the gods, specifically by Hephaestus and Athena on the instructions of Zeus. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts". Her other name—inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum—is Anesidora, "she who sends up gifts"(up implying "from below" within the earth).

According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box" releasing all the evils of humanity—although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod—leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.

The Pandora myth is a kind of theodicy, addressing the question of why there is evil in the world.

Hesiod, both in his Theogony (briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest version of the Pandora story.

Theogony

The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (ca. 8th–7th centuries BC), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given. He commands Hephaestus to mold from earth the first woman, a "beautiful evil" whose descendants would torment the human race. After Hephaestus does so, Athena dresses her in a silvery gown, an embroidered veil, garlands and an ornate crown of silver. This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days. When she first appears before gods and mortals, "wonder seized them" as they looked upon her. But she was "sheer guile, not to be withstood by men." Hesiod elaborates (590–93) :

From her is the race of women and female kind :

of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who

live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,

no helpmates in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.

Hesiod goes on to lament that men who try to avoid the evil of women by avoiding marriage will fare no better (604–7) :

He reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years,

and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives,

yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them.

Hesiod concedes that occasionally a man finds a good wife, but still (609) "evil contends with good."

Works and Days

The more famous version of the Pandora myth comes from another of Hesiod's poems, Works and Days. In this version of the myth (lines 60–105), Hesiod expands upon her origin, and moreover widens the scope of the misery she inflicts on humanity. As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion (63–82): Athena taught her needlework and weaving (63–4); Aphrodite "shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs" (65–6); Hermes gave her "a shameful mind and deceitful nature" (67–8); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her "lies and crafty words" (77–80) ; Athena then clothed her (72); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery (72–4); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown (75). Finally, Hermes gives this woman a name: Pandora – "All-gifted" – "because all the Olympians gave her a gift" (81). In this retelling of her story, Pandora's deceitful feminine nature becomes the least of humanity's worries. For she brings with her a jar (which, due to textual corruption in the sixteenth century, came to be called a box) containing "burdensome toil and sickness that brings death to men" (91–2), diseases (102) and "a myriad other pains" (100). Prometheus had (fearing further reprisals) warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept any gifts from Zeus. But Epimetheus did not listen; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar. As a result, Hesiod tells us, "the earth and sea are full of evils" (101). One item, however, did not escape the jar (96–9):

Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house,

she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not

fly away. Before [she could], Pandora replaced the

lid of the jar. This was the will of aegis-bearing

Zeus the Cloudgatherer.

Hesiod does not say why hope (elpis) remained in the jar.

Hesiod closes with this moral (105): "Thus it is not possible to escape the mind of Zeus."

Hesiod also outlines how the end of man's Golden Age, (an all-male society of immortals who were reverent to the gods, worked hard, and ate from abundant groves of fruit) was brought on by Prometheus, when he stole Fire from Mt. Olympus and gave it to mortal man, Zeus punished the technologically advanced society by creating woman. Thus, Pandora was created as the first woman and given the jar (mistranslated as 'box') which releases all evils upon man. The opening of the jar serves as the beginning of the Silver Age, in which man is now subject to death, and with the introduction of woman to birth as well, giving rise to the cycle of death and rebirth.

Homer

There is also a mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon humanity in Homer's Iliad :

The immortals know no care, yet the lot they spin for man is full of sorrow; on the floor of Zeus' palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones. He for whom Zeus the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Zeus sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.

Later embellishments

Archaic and Classic Greek literature seem to make no further mention of Pandora, though Sophocles wrote a satyr play Pandora, or The Hammerers of which virtually nothing is known. Sappho may have made reference to Pandora in a surviving fragment.

Later, mythographers filled in minor details or added postscripts to Hesiod's account. For example, the Bibliotheca and Hyginus each make explicit what might be latent in the Hesiodic text: Epimetheus married Pandora. They each add that they had a daughter, Pyrrha, who married Deucalion and survived the deluge with him. However, the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, fragment #5, had made a "Pandora" one of the daughters of Deucalion, and the mother of Graecus by Zeus. The 15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo credited a manuscript he claimed to have found to the Chaldean historian of the 3rd century BC, Berossus, where "Pandora" was also named as a daughter-in-law of Noah; this attempt to conjoin pagan and scriptural narrative is recognized as a forgery.

In a major departure from Hesiod, the 6th-century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis of Megara tells us :

Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind;

the others have left and gone to Olympus.

Trust, a mighty god has gone, Restraint has gone from men,

and the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth.

Men's judicial oaths are no longer to be trusted, nor does anyone

revere the immortal gods; the race of pious men has perished and

men no longer recognize the rules of conduct or acts of piety.

Theognis seems to be hinting at a myth in which the jar contained blessings rather than evils. In this, he appears to follow a possibly pre-Hesiodic tradition, preserved by the second-century fabulist Babrius, that the gods sent a jar containing blessings to humans. A "foolish man" (not Pandora) opened the jar, and most of the blessings were lost forever. Only hope remained, "to promise each of us the good things that fled."

An independent Pandora tradition that does not square with any of the literary sources is the tradition in the visual repertory of Attic red-figure vase-painters, which sometimes supplements, sometimes ignores, the written testimony; in these representations the upper part of Pandora is visible rising from the earth, "a chthonic goddess like Gaia herself." Sometimes, but not always, she is labeled Pandora.

My 400 Followers "Thank you Post"

Thanks guys! Now onto the interesting stuff before anyone suggests the face reveal I said I'd do if I got 400 followers, idk if it was that number heh but who cares?! Btw I'm going to be pretty candid so yeah, you've been warned!

Here's all of my favourite characters ever - with spoilers for some...

1st row - Yup I'm doing this! (L-R)

Light Yagami: The one villain I truly screamed "NOOOOO" at when he died. He's the one villain I believe I would actually be, which is worrying.

Hawkgirl: After watching everything Justice League I just loved this character, her thing with Solomon Grundy just made her better than everyone in the show. Yup I said it. Sue me. Please don't. Haha

Flash: A great hero I relate to and also because of my non-gay man crush on Grant Gustin :3

Bellamy Blake: One of the most layered characters of The 100 I truly adore, also again because of a man crush XD I swear I'm not gay! Seriously though, the badass look and puppy loveable eyes make him freakin' so sympathetic & yet strong.

McCreary: The Best. Badass. Villain. Ever. (Who better not have died)

Murphy: Damn The 100 has great characters... Murphy is the type of character I also see myself in from time to time, more so in the later seasons.

Neagan: "I am bigger. I am badder. And I got a bat." I hate and love this character at the same time, a perfect villain with great one liners. Not to mention so likeable! Even the actor was awesome! He's the reason I also like The Comedian from The Watchmen.

Harley Quinn: *speechless*

2nd Row - You've reached level 30 well done, Noble Knight!

Spider-Man: Ever since I was little, I wanted to be like him. I know this sounds kinda sad but He and my Grandad were like father figures to me. I also relate to him as Peter Parker (minus the "nerdy" look, so Andrew Garfield). XD

Shane: "I'M BETTER THAN YOU, MAN!" Such a likeable character, really enjoyed him on TWD.

Katsuki Bakago (probably the wrong spelling): Just LOVE him, he's got a villain attitude but hero heart. Really a great take on a hero, it's why he's my fave MHA character.

Wildstyle: The kickass ninja chick who dumped Batman!

Simon: "I have that juice, I have that momentum." Mmmmmmh damn I freakin' loved the crap outta this TWD character. My biggest guy crush ever, also he was the voice actor for Trevor from GTA (who I like). As an actor he's so passionate and giddy about his role, really gives it his all. Stoked to see him in Stranger Things S3.

Mabel: So funny and loveable, really great character in general!

Roger: Just so funny! All of his 100+ personas and outfits crack me up! He keeps American Dad alive without him the show knows it wouldn't of made it past the pilot haha.

Peter Griffin: Funniest sociopath, serial killer, Dad, Husband, Actor, Everything. Most of his antics make me laugh and his randomness just is so funny! All the cutaways and stuff and the whole "show within a show" makes it all justified and intriguing. To me anyway.

3rd Row - Well damn... You're still here. Go on, scat!

Sombra: Hot damn I adore this character, her design, personality and just everything about her makes her such a fun and awesome villain. She's a pain to fight against in the game but I like her. Her animated short clip on YouTube is just brilliant as well.

Kid-Arachnid: I really liked the age, costume, ethnicity and power take on Spider-Man it made him all the more interesting to me as a character! I'm excited to see the movie too, even if the animation style isn't up my alley.

Bumblebee: My mum loves him so I love him XD.

Jake Peralta: Jeez, this character makes me laugh so much. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is so funny and he's one of many characters I find hilarious!

"Butters": Never before have I seen a character like this with both a timid, gullible but bold personality character. He's one of my favourite South Park characters!

Agent Texas: *Jaw drops in awe*

"Caboose": "Tucker did it!" Just such a loveable and great character, so sympathetic too.

Iron-Man: Mainly because of Robert Downey Jr. (Love the actor)

4th Row - You've earned this medal of honour and a lifetime supply of Gratitude. That's a brand of chocolate. You gonsta get fat :P

Tyreese: *lip quivers whilst tearing up*

Batman: "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NA-"

Percy Jackson: Rick Riordan is my favourite author, he made this character whom (idk if I used that right) I just cherish. Such an inspirational character I admire and Rick Riordan helped me strive to taking up writing.

Pyrrha Niko: Her & Jaun need to get together and she needs to come back to life! BRING HER BA- *gets shot by an arrow*

Invincible: The comic is amazeballs, still need to continue reading. Just love this character and story, I think he also inspired me to make my Hope character.

Venom: Read the comics, need to watch the film still, LOVE the concept of the bond and character as a whole.

Scarecrow: Killian Murphy (I think that's the right spelling) is just such an interesting actor and he brought the role of the character to justice (heh). I really like Scarecrow, especially the Arkham one in particular from the game with the syringe fingers glove. This one (concept art I don't own) and many other different takes I've seen looks so cool.

Jaguar/Killmonger: I just freakin' loved this character, love the actor too and every minute of his screen time. Great movie (mainly 'cause of him haha).

Holy crap - I said so much XD like damn! Anyways, thanks for 400 Followers! If I see one "congrats" I'm going to tell Batman your mother's name is Martha!

Taken for the beautifulest creations of the oh-so talented Hanna Broer Design!

www.hannabroer.com

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Made for Carson Tate. Part selection was his, custom decal designs and painting by me.

Name- Regalia Aku-No

Species- Human

Occupation- Huntress (unofficially, self proclaimed)

Kingdom of Origin- Vacuo

Academy- N/A

Team- UMBR

Weapon- Knyte and Shayd (collectively known as Nightshade). Knyte is a short barrelled, high impact dust shotgun with a blade attached to the top. Shayd is a large sickle, which can double as a grappling hook. Both of these weapons were stolen from dead Huntsman.

Semblance- Reflection. Regalia, in a bind, can summon a duplicate to assist her in battle. However, the stronger she is, the weaker the dupe is, and vice versa. The dupe is sentient and will often feed her inane compliments.

Origin- not much is known about Regalia's backstory. While Midori Bōshi was venturing through vacuo, he found himself pursued by a pair of pro Huntsman, hoping to gain a bounty from his life. However, before they could take Bōshi in, Regalia appeared from the shadows and took one of them down with her bare hands, allowing Bōshi the chance to kill the other. Bōshi was initially uninterested with Regalia, seeing her as little more than a savage stray, but upon seeing her take on a Beowulf, using the weapons from the two slain huntsman, and win with primal force, he decided to take her on, not as a friend or protege... but a pet.

Under Bōshi's wing, Regalia enhanced her skill, discovering her semblance and becoming vastly more dangerous than she already was, earning her a spot, alongside Bōshi as one of remnants most wanted criminals.

Eventually, Regalia and Bōshi were approached by Ulysses Bleach, who offered them a place on a team he was forming, comprising of less than refutable Huntsman performing less than refutable jobs. They, along with infamous atlesian scientist Betrügar Flax, would become known as Team UMBR.

Regalia is unique amongst most huntsman and huntresses as she has no consistent fighting style. She just pounces on her enemies, attacks with deranged ferocity and it works. Regalia is undoubtedly insane, but one of her most unusual traits is her obsession with the heiress Weiss Schnee. Despite Regalia having never met Weiss, had Weiss play any significant note in her life and seemingly not knowing much about Weiss anyway, Regalia is committed to killing her should she ever meet her.

Regalia's character basis originates from the 'Evil Queen'. Her first name 'Regalia' eludes to royalty and thus a queen, while her last name is Japanese for Evil. Aongisude these traits, her semblance eludes to the magic mirror from the Snow White, and the names of her weapons, nightshade, references the type of poison the queen uses in the original story. Rounding this all out is her irrational obsession with killing Weiss Schnee, who, if you didn't know, is based on Snow White.

Bonus segment-

The RWBY volume 5 soundtrack came out today, so I thought I'd rank all the new songs on the soundtrack (remixes or covers aren't included).

7. All That Matters- I was a little dissapointed with this one TBH. I was expecting a big sentimental song about all of Team RWBY, but in the end it just ended up being about Yang and Blake. While by no means a bad song, it felt like a more derivitive version of Wings (and I really liked Wings). Favourite line- 'The one thing I can always count in, is that I can't count on you)

6. This Time- I've heard this song quite a bit already as it was the first full one we got. The rallying the troops tone is done really well, butt overall the song is somewhat... basic. Favourite line- 'ready or not, there's a war to be fought, only one way through'

5. The Path to Isolation- to be honest I was slightly underwhelmed by PtS. The full version wasn't that different to the trailer vision. I really like he panicky tone of the song, reflecting Weiss' inner turmoil. A sold Weiss song, but not that mind blowing Favourite line- 'scars that cover wounds can't heal the self inflicted pain'.

4. Ignite- this song is pretty much I burn part II, and I am perfectly satisfied. The whole thing is pure Yang: confident, hard hitting fun. One thing that took me pleasantly by surprise was the jazzy beat, which gave me serious team FNKI vibes! Trumpets really suit Yang. Favourite Line- YANG! (I can't believe they kept Ruby's line in from the trailer, that was brilliant touch!)

3. Smile- Wow. Since we only heard like 5 seconds of this before, I hide very little idea what to expect. And yet I was very much surprised by what I got. Ilia isn't a character I cared much about, but this song (thigh sang to her as opposed to by her) made me really understand and like her. Im pretty sure I got some Polynesian influences Favourite line- 'you're as perfect as the wind and sky, but they'll treat you like you're out of place'.

2. The Triumph- if you were to tell me this would surpass 'Time to say goodbye' as my favourite opening song, I would have said 'stop lying you stupid lying liar!'. I would have been wrong. I love me some defiant, spit in the face of undeniable obstacles songs, and this is the concentration of everything I love about them. So good. Favourite line- 'I may be a Girl, but I'm also a Gun'.

1. All Things Must Die- Whoo! I had high hopes for this song already, but damn, did it outdo all of them. It was sinister and badass all at the same time. It took Cinder 5 volumes to get a song, and it was well worth the wait. Favourite line- 'Life is just a journey, yours is near its end'

Question- what songs would you like to see in volume 6? I would personally like a new Salem song, possibly a solo Emerald song and definitely a Jaune song (unless you count cold, which was more for Pyrrha/Monty, he hasn't had one yet).

Le Bat Mite appears, having possessed Zodiac Master’s bod…

Bat-Mite: “Uh… no, this isn’t right. Too many Teeth, don’t these Third Dimensionals know that you only need two gigantic ones to get by! And the mouths are miniscule and…

Enter Le Wonder Woman (for comedy reasons read all lines like Pyrrha Nikos)…

Wonder Woman (cheerily): “Hello Ted, my morally outstanding boyfriend! I know I’m supposed to be in space and all, but I heard that Gotham was facing a nuclear threat over some monopoly card, so I came to visit you! I suppose I could deal with the threat myself, but… nah! ”

Bat-Mite: “Um, right… do I know you?”

Wonder Woman: “I’m your Girlfriend?”

Bat-Mite (through 4th wall): “How the F*** did that happen?” (Fourth Wall repaired) “I’m kind of busy, have you got something better to do? What is it that Third Dimensional women like to do? Ummmm… why don’t you go… ovulate or something.”

Wonder Woman (suspicious): “Riiiiiiiiight… I’ll go save a warehouse full of kittens from a fire, we cant all save continents of them like you do!”

Le Exit Wonder Woman

Bat-Mite: “Okay, clearly Zodiac has some sort of multi-faceted lie going on there… right, lets go after this card!”

Le Bat-Mite attempts to teleport. Le Bat-Mite fails miserably.

Bat-Mite: “Ah, it seems some of my powers have been stunted in this third dimensional frame… I’ll hitchhike, its quick, and never goes wrong!”

2 hours of hitchhiking later a man and a dog in a strange purple car pulls up in front of Bat-Mite

Bat-Mite: “Thank god, someone has finally stopped! Excuse me sir, can you give me a lift to wherever this ‘Get out of Hell Free Card’ everyone is raving about is.

???: “Why of course, hop in…”

Bat-Mite: “Thank you very much!”

Dick Dastardly: “…we were about to head there ourselves!”

Fade to black as iconic noise nostalgia-philes will lose their shit to plays…

Muttly: “*snickers*”

I decided I would do this for fun, since working out character inspirations is one of my favourite parts of watching. There’s a threshold of belief with the inclusion of certain characters. If you learn anything from this, yay me (and you... I guess).

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Entries from others for the Byul-tiful contest round two. From pyrrha.

Pyrrha's entry for the first round of Byul-tiful.

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A sculpture that was to be part of Lorado Taft's never completed Fountain of Creation.

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A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life".The Mesopotamian flood stories concern the epics of Ziusudra, Gilgamesh, and Atrahasis. The Sumerian King List relies on the flood motif to divide its history into preflood (antediluvian) and postflood periods. The preflood kings had enormous lifespans, whereas postflood lifespans were much reduced. The Sumerian flood myth found in the Deluge tablet was the epic of Ziusudra, who heard the gods' plan to destroy humanity, in response to which he constructed a vessel that delivered him from great waters. In the Atrahasis version, the flood is a river flood.In the Genesis mythology of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh decides to flood the earth because of the depth of the sinful state of mankind. Righteous Noah is given instructions to build an ark. When the ark is completed, Noah, his family, and representatives of all the animals of the earth are called upon to enter the ark. When the destructive flood begins, all life outside of the ark perishes. After the waters recede, all those aboard the ark disembark and have Yahweh's promise that he will never judge the earth with a flood again. He causes a rainbow to form as the sign of this promise.In the 19th century, Assyriologist George Smith translated the Babylonian account of a great flood. Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account closest to that in Genesis found in a 700 BC Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.[5]:20 In this work, the hero Gilgamesh meets the immortal man Utnapishtim, and the latter describes how the god Ea instructed him to build a huge vessel in anticipation of a deity-created flood that would destroy the world. The vessel would save Utnapishtim, his family, his friends, and the animals.

In Hindu mythology, texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana and the Puranas contain the story of a great flood, wherein the Matsya Avatar of Vishnu warns the first man, Manu, of the impending flood, and also advises him to build a giant boat.In Plato's Timaeus, Timaeus says that because the Bronze race of Humans had been making wars constantly Zeus was angered and decided to punish humanity by a flood. Prometheus the Titan knew of this and told the secret to Deucalion, advising him to build an ark in order to be saved. After nine nights and days, the water started receding and the ark was landed at Mount Parnassus.In ancient Mesopotamia, the Sumerian King List reads. After kingship came down from heaven .... the kingship was taken to Shuruppak. In Shuruppak, Ubara-Tutu became king; he ruled for 5 sars and 1 ner. In 5 cities 8 kings; they ruled for 241,200 years. Then the flood swept over.Excavations in Iraq have revealed evidence of localized flooding at Shuruppak (modern Tell Fara, Iraq) and various other Sumerian cities. A layer of riverine sediments, radiocarbon dated to about 2900 BC, interrupts the continuity of settlement, extending as far north as the city of Kish, which took over hegemony after the flood. Polychrome pottery from the Jemdet Nasr period (3000–2900 BC) was discovered immediately below the Shuruppak flood stratum. Other sites, such as Ur, Kish, Uruk, Lagash, and Ninevah, all present evidence of flooding. However, this evidence comes from different time periods. Geologically, the Shuruppak flood coincides with the 5.9 kiloyear event at the end of the Older Peron. It would seem to have been a localised event caused through the damming of the Kurun through the spread of dunes, flooding into the Tigris, and simultaneous heavy rainfall in the Nineveh region, spilling across into the Euphrates. In Israel, there is no such evidence of a widespread flood. Given the similarities in the Mesopotamian flood story and the Biblical account, it would seem that they have a common origin in the memories of the Shuruppak account. Earth's sea level rose dramatically in the millennia after the Last Glacial Maximum. Floods in the wake of the last glacial period may have inspired myths that survive to this day.[15] It has been postulated that the deluge myth in North America may be based on a sudden rise in sea levels caused by the rapid draining of prehistoric Lake Agassiz at the end of the last Ice Age, about 8,400 years ago. The geography of the Mesopotamian area was considerably changed by the filling of the Persian Gulf after sea waters rose following the last glacial period. Global sea levels were about 120 m (390 ft) lower around 18,000 BP and rose until 8,000 BP when they reached current levels, which are now an average 40 m (130 ft) above the floor of the Gulf, which was a huge (800 km × 200 km (500 mi × 120 mi)) low-lying and fertile region in Mesopotamia, in which human habitation is thought to have been strong around the Gulf Oasis for 100,000 years. A sudden increase in settlements above the present water level is recorded at around 7,500 BP. Adrienne Mayor promoted the hypothesis that global flood stories were inspired by ancient observations of seashells and fish fossils in inland and mountain areas. The ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans all documented the discovery of such remains in these locations; the Greeks hypothesized that Earth had been covered by water on several occasions, citing the seashells and fish fossils found on mountain tops as evidence of this history. Another hypothesis is that a meteor or comet crashed into the Indian Ocean around 3000–2800 BC, created the 30-kilometre (19 mi) undersea Burckle Crater, and generated a giant tsunami that flooded coastal lands. In the late 17th century, there were famous speculations accounting for the Genesis flood by natural causes. Thomas Burnet’s Telluris Theoria Sacra (Sacred Theory of the Earth) had water rising from the hollow earth. William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth postulated that major changes in the earth’s history could be attributed to the action of comets. Speculation regarding the Deucalion myth has also been introduced, whereby a large tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea, caused by the Thera eruption (with an approximate geological date of 1630–1600 BC), is the myth's historical basis. Although the tsunami hit the South Aegean Sea and Crete, it did not affect cities in the mainland of Greece, such as Mycenae, Athens, and Thebes, which continued to prosper, indicating that it had a local rather than a regionwide effect. One of the latest, and quite controversial, hypotheses of long term flooding is the Black Sea deluge hypothesis, which argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea. This has been the subject of considerable discussion. A world-wide deluge, such as described in Genesis, is incompatible with modern scientific understanding of natural history, especially geology and paleontology. To compare: some of the largest tsunamis in history, resulting from the Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, were thought to have affected roughly the entire Americas (or nearly all of the Western Hemisphere).

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In the Genesis mythology of the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh decides to flood the earth because of the depth of the sinful state of mankind. Righteous Noah is given instructions to build an ark. When the ark is completed, Noah, his family, and representatives of all the animals of the earth are called upon to enter the ark. When the destructive flood begins, all life outside of the ark perishes. After the waters recede, all those aboard the ark disembark and have Yahweh's promise that he will never judge the earth with a flood again. He causes a rainbow to form as the sign of this promise. In the 19th century, Assyriologist George Smith translated the Babylonian account of a great flood. Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account closest to that in Genesis found in a 700 BC Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.:20 In this work, the hero Gilgamesh meets the immortal man Utnapishtim, and the latter describes how the god Ea instructed him to build a huge vessel in anticipation of a deity-created flood that would destroy the world. The vessel would save Utnapishtim, his family, his friends, and the animals.In Hindu mythology, texts such as the Satapatha Brahmana and the Puranas contain the story of a great flood, wherein the Matsya Avatar of Vishnu warns the first man, Manu, of the impending flood, and also advises him to build a giant boat. In Plato's Timaeus, Timaeus says that because the Bronze race of Humans had been making wars constantly Zeus was angered and decided to punish humanity by a flood. Prometheus the Titan knew of this and told the secret to Deucalion, advising him to build an ark in order to be saved. After nine nights and days, the water started receding and the ark was landed at Mount Parnassus.

The flood myth motif is found among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian flood stories, Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, Manu in Hinduism, the Gun-Yu in Chinese mythology, Bergelmir in Norse mythology, in the lore of the K'iche' and Maya peoples in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in North America, the Muisca, and Cañari Confederation, in South America, and the Aboriginal tribes in southern Australia. The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 in the Book of Genesis) is the Hebrew flood myth.[1] The story tells of God's decision to return the Earth to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and then remake it in a reversal of creation.The flood is part of what scholars call the Primeval history, the first 11 chapters of Genesis.These chapters, fable-like and legendary, form a preface to the patriarchal narratives which follow but show little relationship to them.For example, the names of its characters and its geography - Adam ("Man") and Eve ("Life"), the Land of Nod ("Wandering"), and so on - are symbolic rather than real, and much of the narratives consist of lists of "firsts" - the first murder, the first wine, the first empire-builder.Most notably, almost none of the persons, places and stories in it are ever mentioned anywhere else in the Bible.This has led scholars to suppose that the History forms a late composition attached to Genesis to serve as an introduction.Just how late is a subject for debate: at one extreme are those who see it as a product of the Hellenistic period, in which case it cannot be earlier than the first decades of the 4th century BCE;[8] on the other hand the Yahwist source has been dated by others, notably John Van Seters, to the exilic pre-Persian period (the 6th century BCE) precisely because the Primeval History contains so much Babylonian influence in the form of myth. The flood narrative is made up of two stories woven together. As a result many details are contradictory, such as how long the flood lasted (40 days according to Genesis 7:17, 150 according to 7:24), how many animals were to be taken aboard the ark (one pair of each in 6:19, one pair of the unclean animals and seven pairs of the clean in 7:2), and whether Noah released a raven which "went to and fro until the waters were dried up" or a dove which on the third occasion "did not return to him again," or possibly both.[11] Despite this disagreement on details the story forms a unified whole (some scholars see in it a "chiasm", a literary structure in which the first item matches the last, the second the second-last, and so on),[Note 2] and many efforts have been made to explain this unity, including attempts to identify which of the two sources was earlier and therefore influenced the other.Flood narrative: Genesis 6:9-9:17 Noah was a righteous man and walked with God. Seeing that the earth was corrupt and filled with violence, God instructed Noah to build an ark in which he, his sons, and their wives, together with male and female of all living creatures, would be saved from the waters. Noah entered the ark in his six hundredth year, and on the 17th day of the 2nd month of that year "the fountains of the Great Deep burst apart and the floodgates of heaven broke open" and rain fell for forty days and forty nights until the highest mountains were covered 15 cubits, and all life perished except Noah and those with him in the ark. After 150 days "God remembered Noah ... and the waters subsided" until the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. On the 27th day of the 2nd month of Noah's six hundred and first year the earth was dry. Then Noah built an altar and made a sacrifice, and God made a covenant with Noah that man would be allowed to eat every living thing but not its blood, and that God would never again destroy all life by a flood. The flood and the creation narrative. The flood is a reversal and renewal of God's creation of the world. In Genesis 1 God separates the "waters above the earth" from those below so that dry land can appear as a home for living things, but in the flood story the "windows of heaven" and "fountains of the deep} are opened so that the world is returned to the watery chaos of the time before creation.[16] Even the sequence of flood events mimics that of creation, the flood first covering the earth to the highest mountains, then destroying, in order, birds, cattle, beasts, "swarming creatures", and finally mankind. (This, incidentally, mirrors the Babylonian flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh, where at the end of rain "all of mankind had returned to clay," the substance of which they had been made). The ark itself is likewise a microcosm of Solomon's Temple. Intertextuality: the flood story as the reversal of creation "Intertextuality" means the way episodes in the biblical books refer to and echo each other. Such echoes are seldom coincidental - for example, the word used for Noah's ark is the same used for the basket in which Moses is saved, implying a link between the stories of Moses and Noah, both of them divinely chosen saviours in a world threatened by water and chaos. The most significant such echo is with the Genesis creation narrative: the division between the "waters above" and the "waters below" the earth is removed, the flood covers the dry land, all life is destroyed, and only Noah and those with him survive to obey the divine command to "be fruitful and multiply." The Quran states that Noah (Nūḥ) was inspired by God, believed in the oneness of God, and preached Islam.God commanded Noah to build an ark. As he was building it, the chieftains passed him and mocked him. Upon its completion, the ark was loaded with the animals in Noah's care as well as his immediate household. The people who denied the message of Noah, including one of his own sons, drowned.The final resting place of the ark was referred to as Mount Judi. According to the Yazidi Mishefa Reş, two flood events occurred. The first flood involved Noah and his family, whose ark landed at a place called Ain Sifni in the region of Nineveh Plains, 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-east of Mosul. In the second flood, the Yazidi race was preserved in the person of Na'mi (or Na'umi), surnamed Malik Miran, who became the second founder of their race.[24] His ark was pierced by a rock as it floated above Mount Sinjar, but settled in the same location as it is in Islamic tradition, Mount Judi.While some scholars have tried to offer possible explanations for the origins of the flood myth including a legendary retelling of a possible Black Sea deluge, the general mythological exaggeration and implausibility of the story are widely recognized by relevant academic fields. The acknowledgement of this follows closely the development of understanding of the natural history and especially the geology and paleontology of the planet. The Masoretic Text of the Torah places the Great Deluge 1,656 years after Creation, or 1656 AM (Anno Mundi, "Year of the World"). Many attempts have been made to place this time-span to a specific date in history. At the turn of the 17th century CE, Joseph Scaliger placed Creation at 3950 BCE, Petavius calculated 3982 BCE, and according to James Ussher's Ussher chronology, Creation took place in 4004 BCE, dating the Great Deluge to 2348 BCE

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Deucalion and Pyrrha praying before the statue of the goddess Temi ( 1542 circa )

The stories below are flood stories from the world's folklore. I have included stories here if they are stories; they are folklore, not historical accounts or fiction by a known author; and they involve a flood. In most borderline cases, I included the story here anyway. For example, one story (Hopi) tells of a flood which was avoided and never occurred. The stories are summarized both to save space and to avoid copyright infringements, but I have attempted to preserve all the motifs and all the names that were given in the cited account. However, where the story gives intricate account of events before and/or after the flood (such as in the Zhuang story of Bubo vs. the Thunder God), some of the details peripheral to the flood itself may have been summarized out of existence. In a few cases, two or more overlapping and non-contradictory fragments from the same culture were combined into one summary. Complete references are given at the end; consult them for more details. Within each continent or region, stories are grouped by language family. See Language Grouping for Flood Stories for elaboration of the language groups which, as best I can determine, the stories belong to.

Zeus sent a flood to destroy the men of the Bronze Age. Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest. All other men perished except for a few who escaped to high mountains. The mountains in Thessaly were parted, and all the world beyond the Isthmus and Peloponnese was overwhelmed. Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha (daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora), after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus. When the rains ceased, he sacrificed to Zeus, the God of Escape. At the bidding of Zeus, he threw stones over his head; they became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women. That is why people are called laoi, from laas, "a stone." [Apollodorus, 1.7.2]

The first race of people was completely destroyed because they were exceedingly wicked. The fountains of the deep opened, the rain fell in torrents, and the rivers and seas rose to cover the earth, killing all of them. Deucalion survived due to his prudence and piety and linked the first and second race of men. Onto a great ark he loaded his wives and children and all animals. The animals came to him, and by God's help, remained friendly for the duration of the flood. The flood waters escaped down a chasm opened in Hierapolis. [Frazer, pp. 153-154] An older version of the story told by Hellanicus has Deucalion's ark landing on Mount Othrys in Thessaly. Another account has him landing on a peak, probably Phouka, in Argolis, later called Nemea. [Gaster, p. 85] The Megarians told that Megarus, son of Zeus, escaped Deucalion's flood by swimming to the top of Mount Gerania, guided by the cries of cranes. [Gaster, p. 85-86] An earlier flood was reported to have occurred in the time of Ogyges, founder and king of Thebes. The flood covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country remained without kings until the reign of Cecrops. [Gaster, p. 87] Nannacus, king of Phrygia, lived before the time of Deucalion and foresaw that he and all people would perish in a coming flood. He and the Phrygians lamented bitterly, hence the old proverb about "weeping like (or for) Nannacus." After the deluge had destroyed all humanity, Zeus commanded Prometheus and Athena to fashion mud images, and Zeus summoned winds to breathe life into them. The place where they were made is called Iconium after these images. [Frazer, p. 155] "Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years" since Athens and Atlantis were preeminent. Destruction by fire and other catastrophes was also common. In these floods, water rose from below, destroying city dwellers but not mountain people. The floods, especially the third great flood before Deucalion, washed away most of Athens' fertile soil. [Plato, "Timaeus" 22, "Critias"

The gods had decided to destroy mankind. The god Enlil warned the priest-king Ziusudra ("Long of Life") of the coming flood by speaking to a wall while Ziusudra listened at the side. He was instructed to build a great ship and carry beasts and birds upon it. Violent winds came, and a flood of rain covered the earth for seven days and nights. Then Ziusudra opened a window in the large boat, allowing sunlight to enter, and he prostrated himself before the sun-god Utu. After landing, he sacrificed a sheep and an ox and bowed before Anu and Enlil. For protecting the animals and the seed of mankind, he was granted eternal life and taken to the country of Dilmun, where the sun rises. [Hammerly-Dupuy, p. 56; Heidel, pp. 102-106]

Three times (every 1200 years), the gods were distressed by the disturbance from human overpopulation. The gods dealt with the problem first by plague, then by famine. Both times, the god Enki advised men to bribe the god causing the problem. The third time, Enlil advised the gods to destroy all humans with a flood, but Enki had Atrahasis build an ark and so escape. Also on the boat were cattle, wild animals and birds, and Atrahasis' family. When the storm came, Atrahasis sealed the door with bitumen and cut the boat's rope. The storm god Adad raged, turning the day black. After the seven-day flood, the gods regretted their action. Atrahasis made an offering to them, at which the gods gathered like flies, and Enki established barren women and stillbirth to avoid the problem in the future. [Dalley, pp. 23-35]

The gods, led by Enlil, agreed to cleanse the earth of an overpopulated humanity, but Utnapishtim was warned by the god Ea in a dream. He and some craftsmen built a large boat (one acre in area, seven decks) in a week. He then loaded it with his family, the craftsmen, and "the seed of all living creatures." The waters of the abyss rose up, and it stormed for six days. Even the gods were frightened by the flood's fury. Upon seeing all the people killed, the gods repented and wept. The waters covered everything but the top of the mountain Nisur, where the boat landed. Seven days later, Utnapishtim released a dove, but it returned finding nowhere else to land. He next returned a sparrow, which also returned, and then a raven, which did not return. Thus he knew the waters had receded enough for the people to emerge. Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to the gods. He and his wife were given immortality and lived at the end of the earth. [Sandars, chpt. 5] Sharur destroyed Asag, demon of sickness and disease, by flooding his abode. In the process, "The primeval waters of Kur rose to the surface, and as a result of their violence no fresh waters could reach the fields and gardens." [Kramer, p. 105]

The god Chronos in a vision warned Xisuthrus, the tenth king of Babylon, of a flood coming on the fifteenth day of the month of Daesius. The god ordered him to write a history and bury it in Sippara, and told him to build and provision a vessel (5 stadia by 2 stadia) for himself, his friends and relations, and all kinds of animals. Xisuthrus asked where he should sail, and Chronos answered, "to the gods, but first pray for all good things to men." Xisuthrus built a ship five furlongs by two furlongs and loaded it as ordered. After the flood had come and abated somewhat, he sent out some birds, which returned. Later, he tried again, and the birds returned with mud on their feet. On the third trial, the birds didn't return. He saw that land had appeared above the waters, so he parted some seams of his ship, saw the shore, and drove his ship aground in the Corcyraean mountains in Armenia. He disembarked with his wife, daughter, and pilot, and offered sacrifices to the gods. Those four were translated to live with the gods. The others at first were grieved when they could not find the four, but they heard Xisuthrus' voice in the air telling them to be pious and to seek his writings at Sippara. Part of the ship remains to this day, and some people make charms from its bitumen. [Frazer, pp. 108-110; G. Smith, pp. 42-43] According to accounts attributed to Berosus, the antediluvians were giants who became impious and depraved, except one among them that reverenced the gods and was wise and prudent. His name was Noa, and he dwelt in Syria with his three sons Sem, Japet, Chem, and their wives Tidea, Pandora, Noela, and Noegla. From the stars, he foresaw destruction, and he began building an ark. 78 years after he began building, the oceans, inland seas, and rivers burst forth from beneath, attended by many days of violent rain. The waters overflowed all the mountains, and the human race was drowned except Noa and his family who survived on his ship. The ship came to rest at last on the top of the Gendyae or Mountain. Parts of it still remain, which men take bitumen from to make charms against evil. [H. Miller, pp. 291-292]

God, upset at mankind's wickedness, resolved to destroy it, but Noah was righteous and found favor with Him. God told Noah to build an ark, 450 x 75 x 45 feet, with three decks. Noah did so, and took aboard his family (8 people in all) and pairs of all kinds of animals (7 of the clean ones). For 40 days and nights, floodwaters came from the heavens and from the deeps, until the highest mountains were covered. The waters flooded the earth for 150 days; then God sent a wind and the waters receded, and the ark came to rest in Ararat. After 40 days, Noah sent out a raven, which kept flying until the waters had dried up. He next sent out a dove, which returned without finding a perch. A week later he set out the dove again, and it returned with an olive leaf. The next week, the dove didn't return. After a year and 10 days from the start of the flood, everyone and everything emerged from the ark. Noah sacrificed some clean animals and birds to God, and God, pleased with this, promised never again to destroy all living creatures with a flood, giving the rainbow as a sign of this covenant. Animals became wild and became suitable food, and Noah and his family were told to repopulate the earth. Noah planted a vineyard and one day got drunk. His son Ham saw him lying naked in his tent and told his brothers Shem and Japheth, who came and covered Noah with their faces turned. When Noah awoke, he cursed Ham and his descendants and blessed his other sons. [Genesis 6-9]

Men lived at ease before the flood; a single harvest provided for forty years, children were born after only a few days instead of nine months and could walk and talk immediately, and people could command the sun and moon. This indolence led men astray, especially to the sins of wantonness and rapacity. God determined to destroy the sinners, but in mercy he instructed Noah to warn them of the threat of a flood and to preach to them to mend their ways. Noah did this for 120 years. God gave mankind a final week of grace during which the sun reversed course, but the wicked men did not repent; they only mocked Noah for building the ark. Noah learned how to make the ark from a book, given to Adam by the angel Raziel, which contained all knowledge. This book was made of sapphires, and Noah put it in a golden casket and, during the flood, used it to tell day from night, for the sun and moon did not shine at that time. The flood was caused by male waters from the sky meeting the female waters from the ground. God made holes in the sky for the waters to issue from by removing two stars from the Pleiades. He later closed the hole by borrowing two stars from the Bear. That is why the Bear always runs after the Pleiades. The animals came to the ark in such numbers that Noah could not take them all; he had them sit by the door of the ark, and he took in the animals which lay down at the door. 365 species of reptiles and 32 species of bird were taken. Since seven pairs of each kind of clean animal were taken, the clean animals outnumbered the unclean after the flood. One creatures, the reem was so big it had to be tethered outside the ark and follow behind. The giant Og, king of Bashan, was also too big and escaped the flood sitting atop the ark. In addition to Noah, his wife Naamah, and their sons and sons' wives, Falsehood and Misfortune also took refuge on the ark. Falsehood was initially turned away when he presented himself without a mate, so he induced Misfortune to join him and returned. When the flood began, the sinners gathered around it and rushed the door, but the wild beasts aboard the ark guarded the door and set upon them. Those which escaped the beasts drowned in the flood. The ark, and the animals in it, were tossed around on the waters for a year, but Noah's greatest difficulty was feeding all the animals, for he had to work day and night to feed both the diurnal and nocturnal animals. When Noah once tarried in feeding the lion, the lion gave him a blow which made him lame for the rest of his life and prevented him from serving as a priest. On the tenth day of the month of Tammuz, Noah sent forth a raven, but the raven found a corpse to devour and did not return. A week later Noah sent out a dove, and on its third flight it returned with an olive leaf plucked from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, for the Holy Land had not suffered from the flood. Noah wept at the devastation when he left the ark, and Shem offered a thank-offering; Noah could not officiate due to his encounter with the lion. [Ginzberg, pp. 319-335; see also Frazer, pp. 143-145] Aprocryphal scripture tells that Adam directed that his body, together with gold, incense, and myrrh, should be taken aboard the Ark and, after the flood, should be laid in the middle of the earth. God would come from thence and save mankind. [Platt, p. 66, 80 (2 Adam 8:9-18, 21:7-11)] A woman "clothed with the sun" gave birth to a man child who was taken up by God. The woman then lived in the wilderness, where the Devil-dragon, cast down to earth, persecuted her. At one time he cast a flood of water from his mouth trying to wash her away, but the earth helped the woman and swallowed the flood. [Revelation 12]

Yima, under divine superintendence, reigned over the world for 900 years. As there was no disease or death, the population increased so that it was necessary to enlarge the earth after 300 years; Yima accomplished this with the help of a gold ring and gold-inlaid dagger he had received from Ahura Mazda, the Creator. Enlargement of the earth was necessary again after 600 years. When the population became too great after 900 years, Ahura Mazda warned Yima that destruction was coming in the form of winter, frost, and subsequent melting of the snow. He instructed Yima to build a vara, a large square enclosure, in which to keep specimens of small and large cattle, human beings, dogs, birds, red flaming fires, plants and foodstuffs, two of every kind. The men and cattle he brought in were to be the finest on earth. Within the enclosure, men passed the happiest of lives, with each year seeming like a day. [Frazer, pp. 180-182; Dresden, p. 344]

In early times, the earth was full of malign creatures fashioned by the evil Ahriman. The angel Tistar (the star Sirius) descended three times, in the form of man, horse, and bull respectively, causing ten days and nights of rain each time. Each rain drop became as big as a bowl, and the water rose the height of a man over the whole earth. The first flood drowned the creatures, but the dead noxious creatures went into holes in the earth. Before returning to cause the second flood, Tistar, in the form of a white horse, battled the demon Apaosha, who took the form of a black horse. Ormuzd blasted the demon with lightning, making the demon give a cry which can still be heard in thunderstorms, and Tistar prevailed and caused rivers to flow. The poison washed from the land by the second flood made the seas salty. The waters were driven to the ends of the earth by a great wind and became the sea Vourukasha ("Wide-Gulfed"). [Carnoy, p. 270; Vitaliano, pp. 161-162; H. Miller, p. 288]

Allah sent Noah to warn the people to serve none but Allah, but most of them would not listen. They challenged Noah to make good his threats and mocked him when, under Allah's inspiration, he built a ship. Allah told Noah not to speak to Him on behalf of wrongdoers; they would be drowned. In time, water gushed from underground and fell from the sky. Noah loaded onto his ship pairs of all kinds, his household, and those few who believed. One of Noah's sons didn't believe and said he would seek safety in the mountains. He was among the drowned. The ship sailed amid great waves. Allah commanded the earth to swallow the water and the sky to clear, and the ship came to rest on Al-Judi. Noah complained to Allah for taking his son. Allah admonished that the son was an evildoer and not of Noah's household, and Noah prayed for forgiveness. Allah told Noah to go with blessings on him and on some nations that will arise from those with him. [Koran 11:25-48]

Manu, the first human, found a small fish in his washwater. The fish begged protection from the larger fishes, in return for which it would save Manu. Manu kept the fish safe, transferring it to larger and larger reservoirs as it grew, eventually taking it to the ocean. The fish warned Manu of a coming deluge and told him to build a ship. When the flood rose, the fish came, and Manu tied the craft to its horn. The fish led him to a northern mountain and told Manu to tie the ship's rope to a tree to prevent it from drifting. Manu, alone of all creatures, survived. He made offerings of clarified butter, sour milk, whey, and curds. From these, a woman arose, calling herself Manu's daughter. Whatever blessings he invoked through her were granted him. Through her, he generated this race. [Gaster, pp. 94-95; Kelsen, p. 128; Brinton, pp. 227-228]

The great sage Manu, son of Vivasvat, practiced austere fervor. He stood on one leg with upraised arm, looking down unblinkingly, for 10,000 years. While so engaged on the banks of the Chirini, a fish came to him and asked to be saved from larger fish. Manu took the fish to a jar and, as the fish grew, from thence to a large pond, then to the river Ganga, then to the ocean. Though large, the fish was pleasant and easy to carry. Upon being released into the ocean, the fish told Manu that soon all terrestrial objects would be dissolved in the time of the purification. It told him to build a strong ship with a cable attached and to embark with the seven sages (rishis) and certain seeds, and to then watch for the fish, since the waters could not be crossed without it. Manu embarked as enjoined and thought on the fish. The fish, knowing his desire, came, and Manu fastened the ship's cable to its horn. The fish dragged the ship through roiling waters for many years, at last bringing it to the highest peak of Himavat, which is still known as Naubandhana ("the Binding of the Ship"). The fish then revealed itself as Parjapati Brahma and said Manu shall create all living things and all things moving and fixed. Manu performed a great act of austere fervor to clear his uncertainty and then began calling things into existence. [Frazer, pp. 185-187]

The heroic king Manu, son of the Sun, practiced austere fervor in Malaya and attained transcendent union with the Deity. After a million years, Brahma bestowed on Manu a boon and asked him to choose it. Manu asked for the power to preserve all existing things upon the dissolution of the universe. Later, while offering oblations in his hermitage, a carp fell in his hands, which Manu preserved. The fish grew and cried to Manu to preserve it, and Manu moved it to progressively larger vessels, eventually moving it to the river Ganga and then to the ocean. When it filled the ocean, Manu recognized it as the god Janardana, or Brahma. It told Manu that the end of the yuga was approaching, and soon all would be covered with water. He was to preserve all creatures and plants aboard a ship which had been prepared. It said that a hundred years of drought and famine would begin this day, which would be followed by fires from the sun and from underground that would consume the earth and the ether, destroying this world, the gods, and the planets. Seven clouds from the steam of the fire will inundate the earth, and the three worlds will be reduced to one ocean. Manu's ship alone will remain, fastened by a rope to the great fish's horn. Having announced all this, the great being vanished. The deluge occurred as stated; Janardana appeared in the form of a horned fish, and the serpent Ananta came in the form of a rope. Manu, by contemplation, drew all creatures towards him and stowed them in the ship and, after making obeisance to Janardana, attached the ship to the fish's horn with the serpent-rope. [Frazer, pp. 188-190] At the end of the past kalpa, the demon Hayagriva stole the sacred books from Brahma, and the whole human race became corrupt except the seven Nishis, and especially Satyavrata, the prince of a maritime region. One day when he was bathing in a river, he was visited by a fish which craved protection and which he transferred to successively larger vessels as it grew. At last Satyavrata recognized it as the god Vishnu, "The Lord of the Universe." Vishnu told him that in seven days all the corrupt creatures will be destroyed by a deluge, but Satyavrata would be saved in a large vessel. He was told to take aboard the miraculous vessel all kinds of medicinal herbs, food esculant grains, the seven Nishis and their wives, and pairs of brute animals. After seven days, the oceans began to overflow the coasts and constant rain began flooding the earth. A large vessel floated in on the rising waters, and Satyavrata and the Nishis entered with their wives and cargo. During the deluge, Vishnu preserved the ark by again taking the form of a giant fish and tying the ark to himself with a huge sea serpent. When the waters subsided, he slew the demon who had stolen the holy books and communicated their contents to Satyavrata. [H. Miller, pp. 289-290; Howey, pp. 389-390; Frazer, pp. 191-193] One windy day, the sea flooded the port city of Dwaravati. All its occupants perished except Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, and his brother Balarama, who were walking in the forests of Raivataka Hill. Krishna left his brother alone. Sesha, the serpent who supports the world, withdrew his energy from Balarama; in a jet of light, Balarama's spirit entered the sea, and his body fell over. Krishna decided that tomorrow he would destroy the world for all its evils, and he went to sleep. Jara the hunter passed by, mistook Krishna's foot for the face of a stag, and shot it. The wound to Krishna's foot was slight, but Jara found Krishna dead. He had saffron robes, four arms, and a jewel on his breast. The waters still rose and soon lapped at Jara's feet. Jara felt ashamed but helpless; he left deciding never to speak of the incident. [Buck, pp. 408-409]

The Supreme Sovereign ordered the water god Gong Gong to create a flood as punishment and warning for human misbehavior. Gong Gong extended the flood for 22 years, and people had to live in high mountain caves and in trees, fighting with wild animals for scarce resources. Unable to persuade the Supreme Sovereign to stop the flood, and told by an owl and a turkey about _Xirang_ or Growing Soil, the supernatural hero Gun stole Growing Soil from heaven to dam the waters. Before Gun was finished, however, the Supreme Sovereign sent the fire god Zhu Rong to execute him for his theft. The Growing Soil was taken back to heaven, and the floods continued. However, Gun's body didn't decay, and when it was cut apart three years later, his son Yu emerged in the form of a horned dragon. Gun's body also transformed into a dragon at that time and thenceforth lived quietly in the deeps. The Supreme Sovereign was fearful of Yu's power, so he cooperated and gave Yu the Growing Soil and the use of the dragon Ying. Yu led other gods to drive away Gong Gong, distributed the Growing Soil to remove most of the flood, and led the people to fashion rivers from Ying's tracks and thus channel the remaining floodwaters to the sea. [Walls, pp. 94-100] The goddess Nu Kua fought and defeated the chief of a neighboring tribe, driving him up a mountain. The chief, chagrined at being defeated by a woman, beat his head against the Heavenly Bamboo with the aim of wreaking vengeance on his enemies and killing himself. He knocked it down, tearing a hole in the sky. Floods poured out, inundating the world and killing everyone but Nu Kua and her army; her divinity made her and her followers safe from it. Nu Kua patched the hole with a plaster made from stones of five different colors, and the floods ceased. [Werner, p. 225; Vitaliano, p. 163]

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Urbex Hellas -

According to Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, after the “Deucalion Deluge”, a terrible flood in Greek mythology, (of which there are three; the Ogyges deluge, the Deucalion deluge and the Dardanus deluge), similar to the story of Noah and his Ark, or The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Greek civilization was wiped out, leaving only two survivors.

The two who made it through the “Deucalion Deluge” were Deucalion, son of the Titan, Prometheus, creator of mankind (Greek mythology), who later gave them fire, and Pyrrha, daughter of Pandora, the first woman to be created by the gods.

Orobanche minor Sm., syn.: Orobanche langei Huter, Porta & Rigo, Orobanche major f. hypochoeridis Beck, Orobanche maritima Pugsley, Orobanche salisii Req. ex Coss. Orobanche crithmi Bertol., Orobanche grisebachii Reut., Orobanche salisii Reut., Orobanche pumila Rchb., Orobanche pyrrha Rchb., Orobanche barbata

and about 20 other names.

Family: Orobanchaceae Vent.

EN: Lesser Broomrape, Common Broomrape, DE: Kleine Sommerwurz, Klee-Würger, Kleeteufel

Slo.: mali pojalnik

Dat.: May 5. 2023

Lat.: 44.51458 Long.: 14.31025

Code: Bot_1523/2023_DSC2872

Habitat: sandy sea shore, among grasses and other tall herbs; locally flat terrain; open, sunny, dry place; precipitations ~ 900 mm/year, average temperature 12-14 deg C, elevations 6 m (20 feet), Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region.

Substratum: sandy soil.

Place: Adriatic Sea region, island Susak, sea shore about 200 m north of the harbor, Kvarner archipelago, Rijeka region, Croatia.

Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Orobanche minor): Orobanche minor was a few hundred years ago a Mediterranean species. However, it was spread by men by agricultural trade almost all over the world. Today it can be found in the almost whole Europe, in Africa, Asia, America and New Zeeland. Although widely distributed, it is quite a rare plant. The possible exception is monoculture agricultural land where its hosts grow e.g. clover fields, where it can appear massively and can completely destroy the harvest.

This find is from island Susak in Adriatic Sea having a unique geology. The island is the only one among hundreds of islands along east shore of Adriatic Sea, consisting 100% from sand.

Orobanche species are very variable. Proper determination is not always an easy task. In addition, their appearance depends on their actual host. This heavily pertains to Orobanche minor since its hosts are many: several species of Trifolium, other Fabaceae as well as Asteraceae. However, the combination of traits of the plants shown here speak in favor of Orobanche minor: small to medium size plants with densely glandular pubescence, small flowers (compared to other similar species), tubular, only slightly inflated at the end, corolla with conspicuous violet veins near the upper lip, almost glabrous style with dark purple-brown two-lobed stigma, entire calix segments and long bracts.

Ref.:

(1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 578.

(2) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 3. Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 235,

(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 417.

(4) C.A.J. Kreutz, Orobanche, The European broomrape species, Vol.1., Central and Northern Europe, Stichting Natuurpublicaties Limburg, Maastrich (1995), p 120.

Mariposa - Perezosa grande - Actinote pyrrha - RECS - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Cosplayer Dustbunny dressed up as "Pyrrha Omega" from the Soulcalibur games (series 4 & 5 I believe).

This is a bit of an usual photo as I wanted to emote a mysterious/dangerous vibe from Phaleure but also wanted to draw attention to her eyes (contacts and double mascara), her sword, and hand. When I asked her about them, she said that she made them from scratch. She. Freakin'. Made. THEM. Hand-carved, casted with Smooth-On products (Dragonskin) and all hand-painted/tinted. While we were talking, she mentioned that the Katsucon Cosplay judges were unnecessarily critical of her skills and work(wom)manship and this kind of dampened her enthusiasm for cosplaying. I told her, "F*ck 'em!"

In my not-so-humble opinion, she's a really good cosplayer and a helluva lot better prop-maker and seamstress than I am.

Pyrrha (RWBY) - DayDream C0splay

Photographer Page - Dan Seiter Photography