hmmmm...that sounds so wrong when you say it, but the symbolism is very powerful none the less.
I guess I even sort of take exception to all the rape/transformation symbolism in Greek mythology. It works though and it inspires much reflection...and the flowers coming out of her mouth are beautiful.
also, agammemnon sacrifices his daughter iphegenia to the gods, before sailing off to fight in Troy.
in some variations, she comes back as a deer, or is transformed to a deer right before the killing.
and then, of course, there's the story of Issac, with the grumpy old YHWH demanding abraham sacrifice his son... but only doing it just to test him and providing a ram at the last second.
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Very nice...although isn't chloris often depicted with flowers spilling from her lips?
it also has energy and tension!
very cool.
i think the flowers are post-rape...
hmmmm...that sounds so wrong when you say it, but the symbolism is very powerful none the less.
I guess I even sort of take exception to all the rape/transformation symbolism in Greek mythology. It works though and it inspires much reflection...and the flowers coming out of her mouth are beautiful.
change and transformation, powerful themes here.
uh... zeus and... oh, who was it? the woman who turns herself into a tree to avoid being raped by him?
someone did a great sculpture of it.
aargh. i'll try to find it.
also, agammemnon sacrifices his daughter iphegenia to the gods, before sailing off to fight in Troy.
in some variations, she comes back as a deer, or is transformed to a deer right before the killing.
and then, of course, there's the story of Issac, with the grumpy old YHWH demanding abraham sacrifice his son... but only doing it just to test him and providing a ram at the last second.
i'm ranting now.
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