Deucalion
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
| Revision as of 08:49, 15 September 2009 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) ← Previous diff |
Current revision Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{Template}} | {{Template}} | ||
| - | :''[[Historical and cultural perspectives on zoophilia]]'' | ||
| - | In [[Greek mythology]], '''Pasiphaë''' (Eng. /pə'sɪfɪi:/ [[Greek language|Greek]]: '''Πασιφάη''' Pasipháē) was the daughter of [[Helios]] and the sister of [[Circe]]. She was raised as a princess at Cholchis, and then given in marriage to King [[Minos]] of [[Crete]]. With Minos, she was the mother of [[Ariadne]], [[Androgeus]], [[Glaucus]], [[Deucalion]], [[Phaedra (mythology)|Phaedra]], and [[Catreus]]. She was also the mother of the [[Minotaur]], after a curse from [[Poseidon]] caused her to mate with a white [[Cattle|bull]]. | ||
| - | Pasiphaë was worshipped as an oracular goddess at Thalamae outside of [[Sparta]]. The geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] describes the shrine as small, situated near a clear stream, and flanked by bronze statues of Helios and Pasiphaë. His account also equates Pasiphaë with [[Ino]] and [[Selene]]. | + | In [[Greek mythology]], '''Deucalion''' ({{lang-grc|Δευκαλίων}}) was a son of [[Prometheus]] and [[Pronoia]]. When the anger of [[Zeus]] was ignited against the [[hubris]] of the [[Pelasgians]], Zeus decided to put an end to the [[Ages of Man|Bronze Age]] with the [[Deluge (mythology)#The flood of Deucalion|Deluge]]. For [[Lycaon (mythology)|Lycaon]], the king of Arcadia had sacrificed a boy to Zeus.<!-- GOOD STORY TO BE PUT ELSEWHERE: This was a sacrifice that was forbidden in the new Olympian order, utterly inappropriate as an offering, and repugnant besides. Zeus struck [[Lycaon (mythology)|Lycaon]]'s house with a thunderbolt and turned him into a wolf. But it was the treatment Zeus received when he visited the hall of the fifty sons of Lycaon, in the usual poverty-stricken disguise. They set him a stew of sheep guts—hearts, livers and tripes—in which they included the stewed innards of their brother [[Nyctimus]].--> Zeus was appalled at this cannibal offering and others like that<!--, and turned them all into a pack of wolves; he then restored Nyctimus to life-->. So Zeus set upon loosing a deluge, where the rivers would run in torrents and the sea encroach rapidly on the coastal plain, engulf the foothills with spray, and wash everything clean. Deucalion was then saved from this deluge, by the aid of his father Prometheus, like his Biblical analogue [[Noah]] and the Mesopotamian counterpart [[Ziusudra|Utnapishtim]] by building an ark. |
| - | + | ||
| - | [[Cicero]] writes in ''[[De Natura Deorum]]'' that the Spartan [[Ephors]] would sleep at the temple to receive prophetic dreams to aid them in governance. According to [[Plutarch]], Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic era. In one case, an ephor dreamed that some of his colleagues' chairs were removed from the [[agora]], and that a voice called out "this is better for Sparta"; inspired by this, King [[Cleomenes]] acted to consolidate royal power. Again during the reign of King [[Agis]], several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles from Pasiphaë's shrine promising remission of debts and redistribution of land. (See Plutarch, ''Lives of Agis and Cleomenes'') | + | |
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
Current revision
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
In Greek mythology, Deucalion (Template:Lang-grc) was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Bronze Age with the Deluge. For Lycaon, the king of Arcadia had sacrificed a boy to Zeus. Zeus was appalled at this cannibal offering and others like that. So Zeus set upon loosing a deluge, where the rivers would run in torrents and the sea encroach rapidly on the coastal plain, engulf the foothills with spray, and wash everything clean. Deucalion was then saved from this deluge, by the aid of his father Prometheus, like his Biblical analogue Noah and the Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim by building an ark.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Deucalion" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
