#melissanthi

[hidd3nblad3]

let me say it again:

melissanthi mahut is a GREEK GODDESS.

[hidd3nblad3]

what if one day melissanthi goes on tumblr and finds the acod tag or her tag and then stumbles upon all my borderline cult-type posts worshipping her

[representation-matters]

Atonement

Every time I sinned a door half opened, and the angels who in my virtue had never found me beautiful tipped over the amphora of their floral souls; every time I sinned, it was as though a door had opened and tears of compassion dripped among the grasses; but if the sword of my remorse chased me from heaven every time I sinned a door half opened and though men thought me ugly, the angels thought me beautiful. —Melissanthi a.k.a. Eve Choughi-Skandalaki (1910 - c.1991). Trans. Yannis Goumas. Four poems. It's women in translation month, isn't it? She knew German, French, and English, and translated across all four languages - Emily Dickinson, for instance.

[hellas-inhabitants]

One of the most impressive sights of Kefalonia, with strong historical and geological interest, is the cave of Melissani. In ancient times, the lake was a place of worship of Pan and the nymph Melissanthi. Legend says that Melissanthi committed suicide in the lake of regret because Pan did not respond to her love. According to another version, the shepherdess Melissanthi lost a sheep and as he tried to find it, he stumbled and fell into the lake. In the lake is an island to which archaeologist S. Marinatos discovered a sanctuary of Pan, the findings of which are in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli. Ένα από τα πιο εντυπωσιακά αξιοθέατα της Κεφαλονιάς, με έντονο ιστορικό αλλά και γεωλογικό ενδιαφέρον, είναι το σπήλαιο της Μελισσάνης. Στην αρχαιότητα, η λίμνη ήταν τόπος λατρείας του Πάνα και της νύμφης Μελισσάνθης. Ο μύθος λέει πως η Μελισσάνθη αυτοκτόνησε μέσα στη λίμνη από τη λύπη της, επειδή ο Πάνας δεν ανταποκρίθηκε στον έρωτά της. Σύμφωνα με μια άλλη εκδοχή η βοσκοπούλα Μελισσάνθη έχασε ένα πρόβατο και καθώς προσπαθούσε να το βρει, σκόνταψε και έπεσε μέσα στη λίμνη. Μέσα στη λίμνη βρίσκεται ένα νησάκι, στο οποίο ο αρχαιολόγος Σ. Μαρινάτος ανακάλυψε ιερό του Πάνα, τα ευρήματα του οποίου βρίσκονται στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Αργοστολίου.

[afallowfield-blog]

I return from the kingdom of Pluto, my dark husband, holding a small sprout for a torch to light with this the blaze of spring.

In Hades, coldness and fire, a cycle of unbroken silence beyond each hope holds me, a bound, living corpse. Next to the dead ones I kept vigil every brilliance of the world returning to ash. None is made with mortal body to resist such coldness and fire The fingers fall, mortify, The eyes burn, dry up --But by a tear of snow beneath the eyelids They can stay years guarded-- Hades has no words to teach you only if he can sever from you a scream at the hour when your voice is strangled in an iron vice. No one ever, away from danger, learned the secrets of hell Look at this small sprout, the torch I bring and, if possible, divine the colour of Hades.

Melissanthi, "Persephone," trans. from the Greek by Maria Kotzamanidou and Michael Heldman, in The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, eds. Peter Constantine, et al. (W.W. Norton & Co, 2010).

[internnet]

MoGro is a mobile grocery store launched in New Mexico, aspiring to address the needs of "Food Deserts." It is currently widening its network of operation, as it was successfully received.

[internnet]

A crowdsourcing platform to make New York greener and more sustainable

[internnet]

Power Planets is a resource management game designed by Area/Code, where players are responsible for their miniature planets.