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Originally Posted by ftil
So Styx circled the underworld 9 times ending in a swamp (rather than a lake or ocean) and there were a bunch of other rivers as well. I assume its source was somewhere on earth, but perhaps in legend it doesn't need a source.
Hm….you said legend. Don’t you think that it is interesting to see that the same myths are present in every religion?
I tell you its the aliens!!! LOL!
I have arrived to the same conclusion.:brow: But they are aliens who look like humans. :smilielol5: I am not fond of channeled knowledge but Jadczyk was talking about organic people. According to her organic people don't have souls and they are a link between 2 and 3 dimension. Rudolf Steiner also talked about them but called them pre Adamic people. He was involved in occult...so he had hidden knowledge. :eek6:Quote:
Originally Posted by jersea
Uh-oh, watch out for Steiner and the anthroposophiests- they are going to take over the world.
I didn't noticed earlier that Athena's armor had the same image of protruding tongue like goddess Kali or Medusa. But we have more connections. lol I guess I need to look in Africa.:rofl:
Aztec Calendar
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http://www.theoi.com/image/K5.5BAthena.jpg
Athena
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Perseus and Medusa
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Goddess Kali.
Before I look at Bacchus, I want to go back to Zeus.
http://www.theoi.com/image/Z1.4Zeus.jpg
Cyprus Museum, Nikosia, Cyprus
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Zeus seduces the Spartan princess Leda in the guise of a swan.
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Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo, 1515-1520, Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England.
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Paul Rubens
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Paul Prosper Tillier
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Paul Cezanne's Leda and the Swan, now in the Barnes Foundation Collection, Merion, Pennsylvania has been dated as early as 1868 and as late as 1886-1890
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Theodore Gericault paintings LEDA AND THE SWAN
http://www.greatdreams.com/leda/leda...ucher-1741.jpg
Francis Boucher
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Dali, Salvador. Leda atomica (1949)
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Micheal Parkes
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DAPHNE was a Naiad nymph of the river Peneios in Thessalia or the Ladon of Arkadia. She was loved by the god Apollon who pursued her until she grew exhausted, cried out to Gaia for help and was transformed into a laurel tree.
http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheDaphne.html
Apollo and Daphne, Poussin
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythol...hnePoussin.jpg
Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, Diego de Velázquez
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Apollo and the Muses, Gustave Moreau
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Apollo and two Muses , Batoni
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythol...usesBatoni.jpg
One of the most interesting examples of Greek art is the so-called art of Gandhara, which represent a number of Buddha statues in Greek robes:)
I would argue that Gandhara is the most interesting examples of Greek art. We have a different taste LOL! But it makes us think why Buddha had Greek robes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Zemelka
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Prince Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni (1st–2nd century)
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The Bodhisattva Maitreya (2nd century)
That's one is quite intriguing.:ihih:
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The Buddha and Vajrapani under the guise of Herakles
More Gandhara
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Hellenistic scene, Gandhara (1st century)
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Scene of the life of the Buddha (2nd–3rd century)
A Buddhist version of Bacchus.....:lol:
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Wine-drinking and music, Hadda (1st–2nd century)
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Athena in the art of Gandhara
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Greek myth and legend is filled with a wide variety of monsters and creatures ranging from Dragons, Giants, Demons and Ghosts, to multiformed creatures such as the Sphinx, Minotaur, Centaurs, Manticores and Griffins.There were also many fabulous animals such as the Nemean Lion, golden-fleeced Ram and winged horse Pegasus, not to mention the creatures of legend such as the Phoenix, Unicorns (Monocerata) . Even amongst the tribes of man, myth spoke of strange peoples inhabiting the far reaches of the earth such as the hopping Umbrella-Foots, the one-eyed Arimaspians, the Dog-Headed men, and the puny Pygmies.
http://www.theoi.com/Bestiary.html
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Chimera was a monstrous beast which ravaged the countryside of Lykia in Anatolia. It was a composite creature, with the body and maned head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, a set of goat-udders, and a serpentine tail.
Virgil, Aeneid 6. 287 (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
"Many monstrous forms besides of various beasts are stalled at the doors [of Haides], Centauri and double-shaped Scyllae, and the hundredfold Briareus, and the beast of Lerna, hissing horribly, and the Chimaera armed with flame, Gorgones and Harpyiae, and the shape of the three-bodied shade [Geryon]."
Seneca, Medea 828 (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
"[The witch Medea employs various fabulous ingredients in a spell to create magical fire:] I have gifts from Chimaera's middle part, I have flames caught from the bull's [the bronze Kolkhian bull's] scorched throat."
Hesiod, Theogony 319 (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"She [Ekhidna] bore the Khimaira (Chimera), who snorted raging fire, a beast great and terrible, and strong and swift-footed. Her heads were three: one was that of a glare-eyed lion, one of a goat, and the third of a snake, a powerful drakon. But Khimaira (Chimera) was killed by Pegasos and gallant Bellerophon. But she also, in love with Orthos, mothered the deadly Sphinx . . . and the Nemeian Lion."
Homer, Iliad 16.:
"Amisodaros, the one who had nourished the furious Khimaira (Chimera) to be an evil to many."
http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Khimaira.html
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Chimera. Apulian red-figure dish, ca. 350-340 BC.
Louvre Museum
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Chimera of Arezzo": an Etruscan bronze
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Gold reel with winged Pegasus and the Chimera , Magna Graecia or Etruria, fourth century BCE (Louvre)
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Pebble mosaic depicting Bellerophon killing Chimaera, from Rhodes archaeological museum
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Beham, (Hans) Sebald (1500-1550): Ornament with Two Genii Riding on Two Chimeras, 1544, P.241, B.236.
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Jacek Malczewski, Poet and Chimera
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View west over the city of Paris from the Galerie des Chimères of Notre-Dame de Paris. One of the famous gargoyles (chimères) of the cathedral
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Cathedral of Bamberg, Germany
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Detail from portal in Mære church (12th century), Steinkjer, Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Peter Paul Rubens, Bellerophon, Pegasus and Chimera
Musée Bonnat
Chimera
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Royal Bohemian Chancery ( Old Royal Palace, Prague castle ).
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Berlin, Neues Museum Bellerophon Chimera
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Chimera. Massandra Palace. Ukraine.
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Chimera, St. Georg Church, Nördlingen, Germany
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The Main Gate and original entrance to St John's College, Cambridge
I have never heard the yale. The Main Gate and original entrance to St John's College, Cambridge depicts the yale.
The yale (also "centicore", Latin "eale") is a mythical beast found in European mythology. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
The name might be derived from Hebrew "yael", meaning "mountain goat".
The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. The creature passed into medieval bestiaries and heraldry, where it represents proud defense. It was used by the English Royal Family as a supporter for the arms of John, Duke of Bedford, and by England's Beaufort family. Margaret Beaufort's yale supporters can be seen over the gateways of Cambridge's Christ's College and St. John's College. There are also yales on the roof of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. The Yale of Beaufort is a Queen's Beast at Kew Gardens, amongst others placed there after the Festival of Britain outside the gardens' palm house.
In the US, the yale as a heraldic symbol is weakly associated with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_(m...re)?uselang=pl
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Heraldic image of a Yale.
I like this Chimera the best, ready to catch whatever is going to fall into its mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by ftil