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Myths and Legends

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather (1908 - 1976)


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1  Debussy - L'embarquement pour Cythere
Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Claude Debussy's 'Island of Joy," (originally 'L'embarquement pour Cythere -after Watteau) was...
 
2  Gaia, Uranos, Kronos, Aphrodite.
Gaia Gaia (Lat. terra: "The earth") was the first being, who appeared out of the chaos. In the theory of...
 
3  Excellent Myths site.
Particularly for APHRODITE http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/aphrodite_t.html Aphrodite governs desire and...
 
4  Barbarossa. References to the infamous pirate from...
http://www.cindyvallar.com/havens2.html © Cindy Vallar Editor, Pirates and Privateers:...
 
5  Alexandre Cabanel's - Birth of Venus
Although I have never fully understood why; this is my favourite picture of the Kytherian goddess Aphrodite. It...
 
6  Venus - the PLANET - Facts and stats
Venus with Visible and Radar Illumination Target Name: Venus Spacecraft: Mariner 10, Magellan Produced by:...
 
7  Venus - the PLANET - Venusian landscape - Gula...
Gula Mons and Crater Cunitz Target Name: Venus Spacecraft: Magellan Produced by: NASA/JPL Copyright: NASA...
 
8  Venus - the PLANET - pelican in motion, across the...
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
9  Venus - the PLANET - from Sydney, Australia.
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
10  Venus - the PLANET - seven-year-old Jodie McGowan,...
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
11  Venus - the PLANET - crowds gather at the...
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
12  Venus - the PLANET - the Transit of Venus, 8th Jun...
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
13  Venus - the PLANET - Transit of Venus [Jun 8,...
"Its a pretty big turnout for a dot..." Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess...
 
14  Venus - the PLANET - named after Kythera's goddess
Venus, the PLANET, was named after the Romanised version of Kythera's goddess - Aphrodite. I regard Venus as Kythera's...
 
15  IONIAN - origin of the word from mythology
Detail of a Greek red-figure stamnos: the cow Io, Hermes, and Argus. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo: Erich...
 
16  Homers Odyssey and Kythera
Odysseus derives from Kythera's island neighbour in the eptanissia - Ithica. Odysseus journey kept him from his wife and...
 
17  The Birth of Cytherea (Aphrodite) in Hesiod's...
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the feminine, exotic, beautiful...
 
18  Pilgrimage to Cythera
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the feminine, exotic, beautiful...
 
19  The Embarkation for Cythera
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the feminine, exotic, beautiful...
 
20  Agios Kosmas
Not far from Drymonas is a private church called Agios Kosmas, which was formally the site of a monastery about which little...
 

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Pilgrimage to Cythera
In Western culture Kythera is connected to a literary archive of idealised representations of the feminine, exotic, beautiful and desirable. This connection finds its origin in ancient Greek...

 
IONIAN - origin of the word from mythology
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