#clashing rocks

[neurodivergent-fangirling]

I’m still not sure why nobody mentioned the Clashing Rocks as an alternate route. I mean, with the wind thermos, they definitely could have made it through with nobody getting killed.

[peterwebscott]

Our country is closed by Seferis

This poem was published in Seferis’s 1935 collection of poems, Mythistorima (Fiction). As with the Ritsos poem I translated here I find strong resonances with the political and social situation in our own country at the moment. I was puzzled by what Seferis meant when he said that Greece was ‘closed’ and it was not until I understood the mythological reference in the penultimate verse that it…

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[crispylive]

Triton displays his great strength (and body) as he holds the Clashing Rocks in place for our heroes. 

[textsfrommythology]

[eurydiceunderground]

the clashing rocks

Truly there was no place of refuge, but impelled by a frothing wind storm, their clashing would destroy us as we went through. The crash sent waves through the sea and the spacious sky and stirred up the waters in such a way that the boiling sea made much noise with its immense waves.

... And I, by my song, charmed the lofty rocks. They receded in turn, and a wave rushed in with a loud sound. The rocks permitted the ship to pass ...we escaped through a narrow channel between the Cyanae, and the rocks took root and stood motionless as though they had always been fixed.

--Orphic Argonautica