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Pre-pubescent and adolescent Athenian girls were sent to the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron to serve the Goddess for one year. During this time, the girls were known as arktoi, or little she-bears. A myth explaining this servitude states that a bear had formed the habit of regularly visiting the town of Brauron, and the people there fed it, so that, over time, the bear became tame. A girl teased the bear, and, in some versions of the myth, it killed her, while, in other versions, it clawed out her eyes. Either way, the girl’s brothers killed the bear, and Artemis was enraged. She demanded that young girls “act the bear” at her sanctuary in atonement for the bear’s death.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth : Act II, Scene III (via vladadoll)

Moodboard: Autumn

Venice.

John Keats, Lamia (via soracities)

“salt-skinned sea wreathed girls sail the ocean waters like ships. emerald scales float upon their skin like flower petals upon a lake.”

↳ athena,  goddess of war strategy,  wisdom and inspiration

Jenn Shapland, “Finders Keepers” in Tin House (via expeditum)

Don DeLillo (via star-eaters)

“Eekholt” by Frank Stöckel 

Susan Howe, The Art of Poetry No. 97 (via virgodura)

A convertible piece, the three jeweled portions of this tiara could also be mounted on a brooch frame or tortoiseshell combs which came with the set.

Greek mythology : Naiads (Ναϊάδες) Naiades were believed by the ancient Greeks to inhabit the freshwater streams, springs, wells, fountains, wetlands, rivers and lakes and featured in the legends and mythology of Ancient Greece. The Naiades were minor goddesses of nature, specifically the rivers and waterways of the world. Naiades in art and legend are often depicted as young, beautiful maidens situated near a waterway, carrying a water jug (hydria).