#palaimon

[ulises-aithon]

I'm on an artistic mood and seeing everyone's asking through polls this is my take on it

Which figure/pair/group do you want me to draw?

Odysseus/Penelope and Telemachus (ithaki)

Phaecian royal family (balear islands)

Selene and Endymion (Caria)

Icarus and Daedalus (ikarian sea)

Circe (thyrrenian)

One of my ocs (cyberpunk)

Calypso with her nymphs (cyrenaica)

Ino and Palaimon (aegean)

Helen of Sparta (laconia)

Phrixus and Helle (colchis)

Pan (arcadia)

Nereus, the Nereids and Nerites (aegean)

Voting ended onMay 15

Thanks to everyone that participates! And for a reminder of my drawing style it will be done traditional with pencil and rubber

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[theogonyofbeauty]

Melicertes was a Boeotian prince as the son of King Athamas and Ino, daughter of King Cadmus of Thebes.

Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, and both were changed into marine deities: Ino as Leucothea, noted by Homer, Melicertes as Palaemon.

Palaemon appears for the first time in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris, where he is already the "guardian of ships". The paramount identification in the Latin poets of the Augustan age is with Portunus, the Roman god of safe harbours, memorably in Virgil's Georgics.

[pink-lemonade-rose]

Like Theseus, Melikertes falls into the sea (in his case to avoid death at the hands of his father) and is then carried away by a dolphin. Despite his eventual apotheosis, the Greeks in their worship of him focused on the dead human body delivered to the Isthmos, where nocturnal, mournful rites were instituted in his honor. Like Theseus, his precise age is differently reported or illustrated, with images of him ranging from a baby in his mother’s arms to a large child able to ride a dolphin like a horse. Palaimon, moreover, becomes the focus of an important mystery cult at Isthmia, in a small sanctuary placed alongside the panhellenic sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite. We know that the sanctuary had very high walls to protect the secrecy of the rites and that some kind of mystery cult was celebrated, but as is often the case the precise details elude us, beyond the obvious conjecture that the miraculous sea-change of the mortal boy Melikertes into the god Palaimon most likely provided a model or at least inspiration for the initiates themselves. [...] Although there is no literary or epigraphical evidence for any initiatory immersion ritual during the mysteries of Palaimon, the existence in his Isthmian sanctuary of a waterproof underground chamber with blue painted walls and floor suggests that the initiates may indeed have had some kind of initiatory experience in an ‘underwater environment.’

Christopher A. Faraone, "Gender Differentiation and Role Models in the Worship of Dionysos"