#areion

Ploutos and Philomelos as the eldest and twins

Korybas is a few years later I think so Iasion recovers from his injuries (dare I say even 5-7 years for fun)

Iasion dies before the birth of Eubouleos. How? Idk maybe he lived till only 40-50 due to the trauma of his body (it may counteract my love for Iasion getting longevity before dying of age, but seeing as I’m reviving him it’s fiiine—) also who doesn’t love trauma for one of the kids not growing up with a dad and regaining that time when he’s revived?(also Eubouleos names his daughter after Karmanor as Karme and that’s sooo cute—) Also Eubouleos intrigued me the most out of Karmanor’s kids due to him being affected by Persephone’s abduction (though this is Eubouleos with a different parentage so it doesn’t work here for me—)

Khrysothemis is their first daughter together upon Iasion’s revival

And Akakallis is their youngest and second daughter, though she and Khrysothemis are possibly the same person, I’m having them as separate Goddesses

Making this list also makes me wonder how Iasion would treat the children Demeter had from Poseidon

A stage with one side blue and one side red lights up into neon pink and neon teal. A rockstar and popster take the stage and pose.

“Bonjuri!” But then the two glare at each other.

Erinys could only be referring to her as wrathful and full of vengeance, but I’m not certain if in this case it points to Demeter’s anger at Poseidon, or at least not that alone. The myths of Poseidon raping her are told during her search for Persephone throughout which she is most definitely in an unstoppable fury. A particularly important role of the Erinyes themselves was their concern for “offences against gods.” Demeter’s vengeance, her act in fury (as a Fury) was to shut herself away and cause the world to starve as the crops wilted and perished and the ground would not put forth new life. I think, and I emphasise that this is my opinion here, Poseidon’s act was the last straw for the goddess at that time.

Was Demeter’s anger and vengeful bent at losing her daughter exacerbated by being pursued and raped by another god? Undoubtedly. But I do think this speaks more to the state she was already in and not purely caused by Poseidon.

For Areion to be born a fully-formed horse I’d argue both gods had to be in the form of a horse at the time. Pausanias’ retelling does say so, for example, but this is also based off other half-human or oddly-birthed offspring. Helen and her sister were born of eggs when Zeus slept with Leda in the guise of a swan, for example. It could be caused by Poseidon alone as the god of horses but I’d say more likely at least one of them had to be in horse form for the child to be as well. As an alternative to that, the Arkadians believed Demeter also birthed Despoina to Poseidon at that time, which again fits the usual myth narrative; one god a horse, one humanoid, one offspring a horse, one humanoid.

On a side note I rather like the wording of Ovid here:

“The corn’s most gracious mother, golden-haired, suffered him as a horse.”

still not over how good this nemesis design is

One of the constant themes throughout The Crystal Crux series is the cycle of life. While some people are ambitious and constantly striving for tomorrow, for the next new thing, the next best pleasure, there are others who want to cling to the now and not only live in the now, but imprison it, lock it up and preserve it so nothing ever changes because change can be scary. Pero de Alava has gone…

Areion is a mythological horse of ancient Greece that is gifted with the ability to speak.  Working with horses, I have noticed how each horse has a way of speaking very clearly, using their bodies. This ability to communicate, and to listen, helped facilitate the extensive human-horse relationship that has lasted throughout the millennia as well as the perseverance of this social species in the wild.  This painting is of a wild herd in Utah and shows a kind of "conversation", their ears expressing and listening to each other.  My take is that the mythological Areion is a representation of the innate communicative quality of the horse.  2019, oil on wood panel,  36" X 24". Exhibited Equine Art Show, Washington, 2019 and Oxford Arts Allianc

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