Bird is the Word
Posted on 11/27/2018 11:43:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv
.jpg!Large.jpg "Leda and the Swan, c.1520 - Michelangelo")
Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan
Sometimes, I suspect, more likely to be into water sports, like anything involving paddling.
This dig also found a Priapus, I left it in the text excerpt, but didn't use that photo, for obvious reasons.
It’s not possible for us to see these things in the same way that people of the time did. Even when we think we understand something of their symbology and philosophy, we just don’t have the same eyes or think from within the same paradigms.
There are quite a few Leda and the Swan compilations if one does a search. Some are quite interesting.
What do you think is worse — having sex with a swan or killing innocents before their birth?
Think of what God has in mind for that generation.
That’s nothing compared to the likeness of Priapus I saw there.
By knitting them shirts made from stinging nettles. She also had to keep silent until they returned to their normal forms. Because of her silence she was accused of being a witch.(Even though the prince had fallen in love with her and pledged a troth to her.) She was sentenced to be burned, and as the stake was to be put alight her brothers came to rescue her. She quickly threw the shirts over their forms. One shirt was not finished so the youngest brother had a swan wing instead of an arm for the rest of his days.
In some tales it is 12 brothers.
Am I imagining an expression of “please don’t poop!”?
I’ve seen the picture..................
That is remarkably well-preserved.
What did they do, remodel the bedroom and cover it up
with some sort of cheesy oak paneling?
Well, after all, it was Leda who would have to sit on the eggs.
That’s right! Thank you. It’s one of the great folk tales.
Actually, it was a goose.
Goose? Are you sure? I'll have to take another gander.
Are there any pics of him going down on her?
First time I was in Pompei was in 1976. They had the Priapus at the House of the Vettii behind a metal box. You had to bribe the guard to see it....
Swanee! Swanee! How I love you! How I love you, my dear old Swaneeeee!
Wherever it is I betcha they threw some good parties there.
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