#ceraon

[drhoz]

#2103 - Ceraon vitta

One more from the top of Mt. Ainsley, where like so many of the other insects I saw, was making a meal of the Acacias.

Originally described as Centrotus vitta in 1851, from a badly damaged holotype from an unknown location. 5 years latter the same entomologist described it as Oxyrhachus contorta, and a bit latter on in 1907 another entomologst named it Zanophara albovittata in the Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3.

Ceraon was a demigod responsible for the mixing of wine in Greek myth, but I have no idea if that was relevent when they named the genus.

A Membracid from the wetter parts of SE Australia and Tasmania, where it's usually found on Acacia. Reasonably common.

Mt. Ainsley, ACT

[diana-thyme]

Greek Gods 101: Ceraon

Ceraon is a deity of the mixing of water and wine.. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Mixed Wine

Unmixed Wine

Unmixed Water

Food with Wine in It

Grape Vines

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for him include:

Mixing Wine

Drinking Wine

Serving Mixed Wine

Using Wine in Food

He is not celebrated in any Athenian holidays.

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

MATTON & CERAON

In Greek mythology, Matton and Ceraon were Spartan demi-gods of the preparation of meals. Matton was the breadmaker, literally "kneader of dough", and Ceraon the mixer of wine. X