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What if the God of War was the Goddess of War?
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‘escape the stresses of everyday life and retreat to a simpler time’
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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur had the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. Before Minos became king he asked the Greek god Poseidon for a sign, to assure him that he, and not his brother, was to receive the throne. Poseidon agreed to send a white bull as a sign on the condition Minos sacrificed the bull to the god in return. Indeed, a bull of unmatched beauty came out of the sea. After seeing it King Minos found it so beautiful that he instead sacrificed another bull hoping that Poseidon would not notice. Poseidon was enraged when he realized what had been done and caused Minos’s wife, Pasiphaë, to be overcome with a fit of madness in which she conceived a passion for the bull. She tried to seduce the bull without success before requesting the help of Daedalus who constructed a hollow wooden cow covered with cowhide for Pasiphaë to hide in and allow the bull to mount her. As a result of this union Pasiphaë gave birth to the Minotaur. Pasiphaë nursed the Minotaur in his infancy, but he grew and became ferocious. Minos, after getting advice from the Oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus.
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In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a vicious female monster with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Seeing the face of a Gorgon turns the viewer to stone. Hesiod makes the number of Gorgons three—Stheno (the mighty), Euryale (the far-springer) and Medusa (the queen), and makes them the daughters of the sea-god Phorcys and of Keto. Their home is on the farthest side of the western ocean; according to later authorities, in Libya. The Attic tradition, reproduced in Euripides regarded the Gorgon as a monster, produced by Gaia to aid her sons the Titans against the gods and slain by Athena. Of the three Gorgons, only Medusa is mortal. According to Ovid, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and this was due to Athena cursing her. Medusa had copulated with Poseidon, who was aroused by the golden color of Medusa’s hair, in a temple of Athena. Athena therefore changed the enticing golden locks into serpents. Aeschylus says that the three Gorgons had only one tooth and one eye among them, which they had to swap among themselves.
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Mermaids are legendary aquatic creatures with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. Much like the Sirens of Greek mythology, mermaids in stories would sometimes sing to sailors and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or cause shipwrecks. Other stories would have them squeeze the life out of drowning men while trying to rescue them. They are also said to take them down to their underwater kingdoms. In Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid it is said that they forget that humans cannot breathe underwater, while others say they drown men out of spite. The Sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed as mermaid-like; in fact, some languages use the same word for both creatures.
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Collaboration with Chiaki and Ona. Wall art here /
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Variation of another tee.
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My boyfriend came up with this idea, after I told him about a ‘I LOVE NERDS’ t-shirt I saw, which I would’ve gotten myself if it said geeks instead of nerds. To us it’s funny, because he is a Greek and a geek and I do love him lots.. * VBS *
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Ancient greek nude male with a laptop and cellphone. Drawn in ancient greek style, with the words “modernos technos”.
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Aphrodite and her son Eros, Goddess and God of Love. ... More Olympians
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What better way to say I Love You in every language! / Lisa C. Weber ©2008 / Visit My Complete RedBubble Portfolio for all My 3D Artwork & Products
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What better way to say Hello in every language! / Lisa C. Weber ©2008 / Visit My Complete RedBubble Portfolio for all My 3D Artwork & Products
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In Greek mythology, the Sphinx is a lion with a human head. Believed to be a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, Hera or Ares sent the Sphinx from her Ethiopian homeland (the Greeks remembered the Sphinx’s foreign origin) to Thebes where, in Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, she asks all passersby history’s most famous riddle: “Which creature in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?” She strangled anyone unable to answer. The word “sphinx” comes from the Greek — Sphigx, apparently from the verb — sphiggo, meaning “to strangle” (note that the ng and nx sounds were written in ancient Greek as a double gammas). Oedipus solved the riddle: man — he crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age. Bested at last, the Sphinx then threw herself from a high rock and died. An alternative version tells that she devoured herself
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a lovely maiden kneels as she creates magic beneath the full moon. This acolyte with upraised arm entreats the goddess to aid her.
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