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Medusa Medusa was one of three sisters born to Phorcys and Ceto known as the Gorgons. According to Hesiod's Theogony, the Gorgons were the sisters of the Graiai and lived in the utmost place towards the night by the Hesperides beyond Oceanus. Later authors such as Herodotus and Pausanias place the Gorgo...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

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Ampelos Adı üzüm kütüğü anlamına gelen Ampelos bir satyr'le bir nympha'dan doğmadır. Tanrı Dionysos bu güzel delikanlıya gönül verip bir karaağaç dalından salkım salkım sarkan asmayı ona armağan etmiştir. Ampelos ağaca tırmanıp bir salkım üzüm koparacakken düşmüş ve ölmüştür. Ardından Dionysos sevgilisin...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Ampelos Ampelos was a handome, young Thrakian Satyros (Satyr) loved by the god Dionysos. There were two accounts of his death. In one he was slain by a wild bull and transformed by the grieving god into the first grapevine. In the other Ampelos fell from an elm tree while picking grapes and was set among...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Ampelos Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Sphinx Sfenks, genellikle bir aslanın gövdesini bir insanın başı ile birleştiren, kanatlı bir yaratıktır. Mısır, Antik Yakın Doğu ve Yunanistan'ın sanat ve mitlerinde sıkça kullanılan hayali bir varlıktır. İlk sfenksler, Mısır ve Mezopotamya ikonografisinde, M.Ö. 3. binyılın başlarında koruyucu figürler...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Sphinx Aslan gövdeli, insan başlı mitolojik yaratık. Yunan sanatında Sfenks M.Ö. 1600 dolayında ortaya çıktı. Girit'te ele geçen Orta Minos Dönemi sonlarından kalma buluntulardaki ve Mykenai'deki Geç Helenistik Dönem kuyu mezarlarından çıkarılan eşya arasındaki sfenkslerin kanatlı olduğu görülmüştü. Yun...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Sphinx The Sphinx was a female monster with the body of a lion, the head and breast of a woman, eagle's wings and, according to some, a serpent's tail. She was sent by the gods to plague the town of Thebes as punishment for some ancient crime, preying on its youths and devouring all who failed to solve...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Sphinx (Egyptian: shesep ankh, "living image") Imaginary beast, usually combining the body of a lion with the head of a human being, frequently found in the art and myths of Egypt, the Ancient Near East and Greece. The earliest sphinxes appeared in the iconography of Egypt and Mesopotamia in the early 3...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Sphinx Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Baaxpee Native American mythology. A spiritual transformative power. It is often used to describe fortunate or serendipitous events. Wisdom or wise choices come from having baaxpee; those things transformed are called xapaaliia (medicine).Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Baaxpee Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Charon KHARON (Charon) was the Ferryman of the Dead, an underworld daimon (spirit) in the service of King Haides.Hermes Psykhopompos (Guide of the Dead) gathered the shades of the dead from the upper world and led them down to the shores of the Akherousian (Acherusian) mere in the underworld where Kharo...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Charon A son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead — though only of those whose bodies were buried — across the rivers of the lower world. For this service he was paid by each shade with an obolus or danace, which coin was placed in th...Added by archaeologs | English|Mythology

Charon Kharon, öbür dünyaya ölenlerin ruhlarını taşıyan sandalcının adı.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Mythology

Charon Added by archaeologs | Mythology

Dithyramb Dithyrambos, tanrı Dionysos'a verilen bir addır. "Bakkha'lar" tragedyasının bir korosunda baştanrı Zeus'un ağzından şu sözler söylenir: Gel, Dithyrambos, baldırıma gir, bir erkeğin rahminde büyü. İstiyorum ki, ey Bakkhos, Thebai seni iki kere doğmuş tanrı diye ansın ve kutlasın.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Hymnodies, Mythology

Dithyramb A surname of Dionysus, derived from a hymn song at the festivals of Dyonisus. It celebrated the sufferings and actions of the god, particularly his double birth. In time it developed into a special class of Greek lyric poetry, called dithyramb.Added by archaeologs | English|Hymnodies, Mythology

Dithyramb Dithyrambos: Yunanistan'da MÖ 7. yüzyılda şarap tanrısı Dionysos onuruna yapılan şenliklerde, "şarap şimşeğine çarpılmış" birinin yönetiminde çalınıp söylenen doğaçlama şarkı.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Hymnodies, Mythology

Dithyramb The dithyramb (Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions "the birth of Dionysos, called...Added by archaeologs | English|Hymnodies, Mythology

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