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Trip Out West - Day 09 - reading Circe
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Odysseus
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Siren Song: Odysseus looking out over the ocean, pondering his next conquest. (If Odysseus was ever transformed into an insect by one of the Gods, . . .)
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A fearless rose ~ An exemplar of Odysseus’ heart and the fire and passion that consumes. A delicate yet powerful force of human nature.
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Circe in her house on her island Aeaea
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Circe in her house on her island Aeaea
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Helios, flailing with anger just before agreeing to banish Circe to Aeaea
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Araea - the island Circe is banished to
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“When a bee flies, a soul will rise”
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“When a bee flies, a soul will rise”
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“When a bee flies, a soul will rise”
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Cerberus guarding the Gates of Erebus
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The dead souls at Erebus, the gateway of the Underworld, at the edge of River Styx
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Tartarus; The Fields of Punishment
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Tartarus; The Asphodel Meadows
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Tartarus; Elysium (or Elysian Fields)
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Tartarus; Elysium (or Elysian Fields)
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Tartarus; Elysium (or Elysian Fields)
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The River Styx; the river of unbreakable oath by which gods took vows. It’s the boundary between the Underworld and Earth.
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We found 7 four leaf clovers and put them in Circe. Thought Circe might have a potion she makes from four leaf clovers that could come in handy ~ in honor of the 7 Pleiads, although we doubted that the 7 Pleiads were in the book Circe.
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“The 7 Pleiads” painted by Elihu Veddar – 1885
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Lethe; river of forgetfulness
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Phlegethon; river of fire
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Cocystus; river of lamentation
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Acheron; river of woe
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Floating island that Æolus, the Lord of the Winds, lives on
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The fire Prometheus gave to mortals
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Prometheus ~ bound to a rock while a vulture eats his liver . . . every day . . . day after day . . .
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Odysseus and his crew fighting Scylla: Odysseus pleading with his crew as they try to hide from the hideous six headed monster hanging from the cliffs of Calabria. Scylla was turned into the six headed, twelve tentacle-like legged monster by Circe.
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Scylla, the hideous six headed monster, hanging from the cliffs of Calabria
