The view from my window right now 🌙
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April 🌱
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In the Argonautica, Jason famously travels to Colchis on a quest for the Golden Fleece, but where did this relic come from? Phrixus and Helle were the children of King Athamas of Boeotia and Nephele the cloud goddess. Their wicked stepmother Ino plotted to have them killed, but Nephele sent the magical golden ram Chrysomallos to rescue them. It flew them to Colchis, but Helle fell off along the way; the Hellespont sea strait was named for her #MythologyMonday
🎨 Ancient Roman mosaic, Pompeii
I’m not a maker (or eater) of Christmas pudding, but the Stir Up Sunday vibes were heavy in the air today so I made beef and onion pasties, and caramel apple and cinnamon cake.
If you’re unfamiliar with Stir Up Sunday, it comes from a line in the Church of England’s collect for today, which served as a handy reminder for people to go home and make their Christmas pud #folklore
Hello Mastodarlings, enjoy these pics I took today of my local town centre’s Fishmas tree and commemorative Fail Whale (with a horde of people walking swiftly away from it). Blorp 🐳
This whole business with trying to migrate my account has got me thinking about place names and our inner geography. I’ve recently moved house, and the hill I live on once gloried in the name of Faerie Knowe. That place is gone now, swallowed up by change; it has a much more prosaic street name today. But I wonder what it was named for? The ancient and fey oak tree in my garden? The whimsy of a Victorian gentleman? The in-jokes of 18th century potters? Here it is on a map #folklore #faeries