Corona borealis

4159010682_3b11745e96_b

“When Ariadne wed Liber on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus and the Horae. But there is another tradition, as the author of the Cretica relates, that before that time Liber came to Minos with the hope of lying with Ariadne and he gave her this crown as a present. Delighted with it, she did not refuse the terms. It is said, too, to have been made of gold and Indian gems, and by its aid Theseus is thought to have come from the gloom of the labyrinth to the day, for the gold and gems made a glow of light in the darkness.” — Hyginus, Astronomica 2.5

Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

Post navigation

2 thoughts on “Corona borealis

  1. The image and the song are wondrous. I LOVE Dead can Dance.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Adventure Journal by Contexture International.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 276 other followers

%d bloggers like this: