Star Stroll ⭐✨🌟

Just my usual obsession with translucent dresses haha

A stunning view of the southern Crab Nebula taken from the Hubble space telescope.

The moment where he calculates.

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Atalanta #4 (Atalanta Outwrestles Peleus)

At the funeral games for King Pelius, Atalanta wrestles the Argonaut, Peleus, winning the match through strength and technique.

Looking to Homer and the Iliad and the funeral games for Patroclus, we can get a overview of the ancient greek funeral games. The body of the fallen was placed upon a funeral pyre, offerings or sacrifices are made, and the pyre burnes. In the funeral games was an opportunity for Greek men to compete and show their Arete, or excellence, in a given skill. Events like; Chariot races, boxing, wrestling, running, sword fighting, shotputting, archery, and javelin throwing. The winners of the contests could hope to be awarded the glorious olive wreath crown; or other precious objects like tripods or horses. In fact these funerary competitive games are seen as the ancient roots of the Olympic games. Although it was Hercules who created the first Olympic games to honor his father, Zeus.

Let’s take a look at Atalanta’s wrestling partner; Peleus, who plays an important role in Greek myth. As one of the heroes of the Argonautica, he later becomes a king of Phthia (in Thessaly) and is most famous for his marriage to the sea nymph Thetis. Zeus learned the prophecy that through his coupling with Thetis, her offspring would overthrow the Olympians, so he gave Thetis to a mortal; King Peleus. Chiron the centaur gave King Peleus the tip that he should ambush and hold tight to Thetis, as she transformed between forms. After succeeding to capture her, she agrees to marry, and the gods attend the wedding ceremony. This is the banquet where Eris, goddess of discord, sneaks in the golden apple inscribed with “for the farest,” setting off an argument between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. When Paris, prince of troy is Aphrodite promising Helen to Paris, setting off the Trojan war.

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In The Homeric Hymn to Demeter Hekate is the only one besides Helios who actually hears Persephone scream, unlike Persephone’s companions who heard nothing for some reason. 

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Yeah, my comics are not 100% historically accurate.

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I just chose a random name for the female victim of the curse. 

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I thought it would be fun to reintroduce Hekate in the story (since we haven’t seen her since page 8) by citing a curse tablet where she is mentioned. This spell is not from a curse tablet, though, but from a papyrus found in Egypt (I believe). However, I felt it wasn’t so very different from the texts on curse tablets and it gave such a nice presentation of Hekate as lady of the restless dead.

Source: Ancient Greek Love Magic by Christopher Faraone.

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Athena already tried with Hera.

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There maybe won’t be a new page next week, since my friend will visit me again and during that time I’m supposed to work on the comics that we draw together. Unless I manage to draw one more page before he arrives, but I can’t promise anything. ^^

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Bad timing for getting your period.

I recently printed Destroyer of Light as a book in English! I have it for sale in my Ko-fi shop, so if you ever wanted a physical copy of my comics, this is your chance. :)

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