#hamadryas

Grey Cracker (Hamadryas februa ferentina), family Nymphalidae, Panama

Today's three!

Hamadryas: Child of Oreios, First oak tree nymph.

Thalassa: Child of Aither and Hemera. Primordial goddess of the Sea

Okeanos: Child of Ouranos and Gaea. Titan of the River Okeanos

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Hamadryas' digital future -possibly-

Hamadryas / ἁμαδρυάς (sacred oak tree spirit. With Oxylus became mother of all tree nymphs that inhabit living trees and die with them).

Ernst Deger: Portrait of a Young Woman, 1835 [Angelic youth face mix, from Renaissance and Early German masters, used as iconography for spiritual propaganda (Christian)]

Tiepolo's Daphne (front) and Theodoor van Thulden after Rubens Apollo and Daphne 1636 mix

Nicolas Henri Jacob for Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 1831, Paris: Delaunay.

SNAKE Photo by Alexandra Von Fuerst

Burt Glinn Swing, Child and Gaudi Cathedral Barcelona, 1959

HAND Edita Vilkeviciute by Solve Sundsbo

Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon 1982 [strong arm]

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Erysichthon (Gr myth): Ἐρυσίχθων ὁ Θεσσαλός ("earth-tearer"), son of Triops, dared to timber the sacred oak (killing hamadryas nymph) inside a grove of Ceres / Demeter; as punishment, she sent Famine to posses his body and torment him by insatiable hunger. He sold all his possessions and even sold his daughter Mestra -Μήστρα- numerous times, taking advantage of her shape-shifting power (Poseidon’s gift). Never having enough to eat, Erysichthon eventually consumed himself.

[Eva, Daphne, Flora, all connect with tree narratives]

Dec 29 update

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadryad

Cebann Veekan was a Hamadryas actor who lived in Mos Eisley, on Tatooine. A regular patron of Chalmun’s Cantina, Veekan had difficulty finding work, due to discriminatory Imperial law. Ackmena, the night shift bartender, teamed with Veekan as the two began writing a play based on the life of Luke Skywalker, who Veekan would star as.

Source: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

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HAMADRYAS

Zooly Art Challenge, day 15: Baboon

My fave baboon is the hamadryas, so impressive! And yet an avatar of the egyptian god Thot, he was a wise guardian of scripture, language and knowledge. A toothy good boi.