Hyperfixating on Calypso so here I present mine:
🐚Aτλαντος θυγατηρ, Καλυψώ, δία θεαων🐚
(Daughter of Atlas, Calypso, beautiful goddess)
I based her look in this headdress I found in google:
I didn’t even investigate the name or if it was a true headdress in Ancient Greece I just saw a form of a sea urchin:
Couldn’t help it🤪 I highly associate Calypso to beaches and these more or less unspiked can be found in beaches.
My personal theory is that Ogygia is located somewhere between Ceuta and Melilla, although most who place it on the North African coast tend to lean more towards the coast of present-day Libya, but oh well, headcanons 😜
For the earring, while looking for historical jewelry from this area, I stopped to look at all the Amazigh traditions of Morocco, but I didn't think Calypso could be representative of a society when she mainly lives on an island (i.e., isolated) with her nymphs (yes, could be considered a society, but idk the amount of nymphs or idk🙁 don’t give me vibes of amazighs).
I looked a little more and found that the oldest jewelry in the world consists of perforated sea snails (Collumbela rustica) dating back more than 150,000 years and were found in a cave in Atlantic Morocco (Atlas lol). The cave is called Bizmoune Cave in the province of Essaouira. yeah a little far from mediterranean region but still Calypso is said to live in a cave and also has beach because she lives in an island. For me Calypso and cave are synonyms, so couldn’t be in another way.
⬆️ Set of necklace beads made from Columbella rustica
⬆️ Collumbella rustica shells 🐚 also present in the Mediterranean Sea
In the rectangle the location of the cave; Ceuta is home to top of the small horn that forms part of the Strait of Gibraltar and Melilla is marked in the map.
Aaaaaaaaghhhhh Calypso why you did that? I would have love you so much😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
And yes, I'm putting it here because, as you can probably tell, I'm in love with the western Mediterranean and I want my piece of the pie (even if it's not the best or the most reputable😂😂). And also because it's at the foot of the Atlas (yes, the mountain range, but also her petrified father🙃), taking liberties with the passage in the Odyssey saying that Calypso instructs him to keep the Bear to his left while sailing (aka at some point of the west😀)
