It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"[Zeus] made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia."
Hesiod, Theogony 921
🏛️ #Hera and #Zeus, marble relief from Temple E in #Selinunte, dated ca. 450 BCE. Today in the Museo archeologico regionale di #Palermo.
Honey touches the tongue, activates a cell, and sends a signal. All in one-tenth of a second. In one hundred milliseconds. A hundred camera flashes. A hundred flaps of a fly's wings. Receptors bind to the memory of a substance that's already slipping away.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet this beautiful Zeus Keraunios, Zeus of the Thunderbolt, from Apollonia. In the Archaic and Early Classical periods, numerous bronze statuettes of the thunderbolt-wielding Zeus appear at his cult centres of Olympia, Dodona, and elsewhere in Greece and other territories.
🏛️ Zeus statuette from the Greek colony of #Apollonia in Illyria
Happy Thursday. Don't whittle down your Weird. Embrace it and let its Awesome power silence any naysayers in your path. Have a good day #horrorfam & assorted Odd others🤘🏼
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Figurine of Zeus Keraunos (Zeus of the Thunderbolt) from Dodona, one of his major cult centres. Homer describes Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Priestesses and priests interpreted the rustling of the oak leaves in his sacred grove for divination.
🏛️ Zeus Keraunos bronze figurine from #Dodona, National Archaeological Museum #Athens
There are patterns that govern our lives. Postulates that outline what we think to be true. Methodologies. Beliefs. Strategies. Assumptions. Master narratives and grounding principles. Our own personal unified theory of being in the world.
And then, there are moments when we discover that all of our itemized presumptions don't mean shit.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
There was a beauiful boy named Aëtos ("eagle"), a friend and playmate of #Zeus while he was growing up on Crete. Suspecting that Zeus was in love with him, Hera turned him into an eagle.
The story survives in Sophokles frag 320 & Servius' Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid.
🏛️ Zeus with eagle, tondo from a black-figure cup, ca 560 BCE, Louvre, Paris
Something happens when you feed a thread through a needle. When you sit cross-legged counting breaths. When you learn every lyric to a song. Something happens when you give your awareness to things that happen gradually. To the sure strum of a chord, to good books, to writing, to words. Things that need time to proof. Things that rise and bake. The things that make you wait.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"He [#Zeus] made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried."
Fulgentius, Mythologiarum Libri III
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture of Zeus-Iupiter, #AsiaMinor, 2nd - 3rd century CE