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What is your favorite obscure Greek mythological fact

Hm, probably the Orphic fragment that says that Persephone was born with a monstrous appearance (fragment 87 according to Athanassakis, fragment 58 in the translation of Otto Kern’s compilation of fragments at HellenicGods.org):

…"of the daughter of Zeus, whom he begat of his mother Rhea; or of Demeter, as having two eyes in the natural order, and two in her forehead, and the face of an animal on the back part of her neck, and as having also horns, so that Rhea, frightened at her monster of a child, fled from her, and did not give her the breast (θηλη), whence mystically she is called Athêlâ, but commonly Phersephoné and Koré"…

It's so totally different from all other versions that only describe her as very beautiful (as goddesses tend to be). Sometimes I regret that I didn't give my Persephone horns.

Cats at the Temple of Philae, Egypt

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the girl with a pomegranate (1875)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Ariadne ♡

Whimsical fans are not talked about enough

The Colour of Pomegranates, 1969

Cross-dressing in Photographs of 1920s and 1930s Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon X

Commission for Johnicholas Hines! Based on this drawing

Terracotta Bust of Isis-Aphrodite Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 300-30 B.C.