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Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

tail, habits, proof

Something was in that Spartan water 💀

Telemachus: And then, I went to Sparta and met your best friend-

Odysseus: Diomedes was in Sparta?

Telemachus: No, your other best friend.

Odysseus: Agamemnon’s ghost?

Telemachus: No, his brother-

Odysseus: Castor? That’s Agamemnon’s brother in law silly.

Telemachus: No, the person you went to Troy for.

Odysseus: Aw, Helen said we were best friends? That’s sweet.

Telemachus: No, her husband.

Odysseus: I always knew Paris liked me deep-down.

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eostre, according to the stories, is a goddess associated with flowers and springtime.

Eostre first makes her appearance in literature about thirteen hundred years ago in the Venerable Bede’s Temporum Ratione. Bede tells us that April is known as Eostremonath, and is named for a goddess that the Anglo-Saxons honored in the spring.

Interestingly, Eostre doesn’t appear anywhere in Germanic mythology, and despite assertions that she might be a Norse deity, she doesn’t show up in the poetic or prose Eddas either. However, she could certainly have belonged to some tribal group in the Germanic areas, and her stories may have just been passed along through oral tradition.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[G] - Gaia or Gaea (Γαῖα) is the personification of the Earth, and, for all intents and purposes, the Mother of Everything Beautiful in the world.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eris (Ἔρις) was goddess of chaos, strife and discord.

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[A] - Apollo (Ἀπόλλων) was the god of poetry, art, archery, plague, sun, light, knowledge and music

Slavic mythology from A to Z:

[A] - Alkonost and Sirin (Алконост и Сирин)

Alkonost in Russian legends is a bird of paradise with the head and hands of a girl. Legends say that Alkonost carries eggs to the depths of the sea in the middle of winter. Alkonost is singing so beautifully that the one who has heard it forgets about everything in the world.

In the medieval Russian legends, Sirin is definitely considered to be a bird of paradise, which sometimes flies to the earth and sings prophetic songs about future bliss, but sometimes these songs can be harmful to humans. Therefore, in some legends, Sirin acquires a negative value, so that it is even beginning to be considered a dark bird, the messenger of the underworld.

The Anemoi - Greek gods of wind The Four Brothers: Zephyrus (The West), Notus (The South), Eurus (The East), and Boreas (The North).