A Little Bit Off Kilter

Lakeside Memories

Yesterday - 120 views
Lakeside Memories

Bratty

12 days ago - 66 views
Bratty

Lagoon

23 days ago - 230 views
Lagoon
Summer is on the way!
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Warm Day

4 months ago - 226 views
Warm Day

Barefoot

4 months ago - 260 views
Barefoot
Can't wait for warm weather!
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Quiet

4 months ago - 476 views
Quiet

Chilled To The Core

4 months ago - 670 views
Chilled To The Core
The cold does not agree with me :( I've been feeling a bit under the weather. I can't wait for it to start warming up.

A Hopeless Romantic

4 months ago - 779 views
A Hopeless Romantic

Slowly Healing

4 months ago - 713 views
Slowly Healing

Astrape

4 months ago - 713 views
Astrape
Astrape, Greek goddess of lightning, handmaiden of Zeus.
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 14 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
[From a description of an ancient Greek painting depicting the death of Semele :]
"Bronte (Thunder), stern of face, and Astrape (Lightning), flashing light from her eyes, and raging fire from heaven that has laid hold of a king’s house, suggest the following tale, if it is one you know. A cloud of fire encompassing Thebes breaks into the dwelling of Kadmos as Zeus comes wooing Semele; and Semele apparently is destroyed, but Dionysos is born, by Zeus, so I believe, in the presence of the fire."
 
In the Apulian vase painting below, Astrape (labelled) stands beside the throne of Zeus bearing the armaments of the sky-god. She also wields a torch and is a crowned with a shining aureole.
(From here: http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Astrape.html )