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The moment(s) BEFORE Orpheus looks back...

For more on this #myth & our #retcons, check out this episode on the #constellation #Lyra : https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lyra-myths-and-retconstellations/

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Jason (& the Argonauts)

Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero & leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is in Greek literature.He’s the son of Aeson, who was the rightful King of Iolcos (modern-day Vollos). He was married to the “sorceress” Medea, the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.

Jason appears in various literary works in the classical world of Greece & Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica & the tragedy Medea.

Pelias (Jason’s half-uncle & his dad’s half-brother) was power hungry & sought to gain authority over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the offspring of a union between their shared mom, Tyro (the daughter of Salmoneus), & the sea god, Poseidon.

In a bitter feud, Jason overthrew Aeson (again, who was the rightful King), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reasons.

Aeson’s wife, Alcimede I, had a newborn son named Jason. She saved from Pelias by having female attendants cluster around the infant & cry as if he were stillborn. Being scared that Pelias would eventually notice & unalive her son, Alcimede sent him away to be raised by the centaur, Chiron. Chiron also tutored Achilles & Asclepius.

She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. Pelias, fearing that his ill-gotten kingship might be challenged, consulted an Oracle who warned him to beware of a man wearing only 1 sandal.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of Poseidon when the grown Jason arrived in Iolcus, having lost 1 of his sandals. He lost this sandal in the river Anauros/Anaurus while helping an old woman across the water.

The old woman was actually Hera, the goddess, in disguise. She (Hera) blessed him because she knew what Pelias had planned. When Jason entered Iolcus, Pelias recalled what the Oracle had warned him about. Jason aware that he was the rightful King, informed Pelias.

Pelias agreed to step down from the throne, on the condition that Jason brings back the Golden Fleece. Jason agrees to these terms.

Jason then assembles the group that becomes known as the Argonauts. They were named after their ship, the Argo. Jason commissions the shipbuilder Argus to build the Argo. (We feel like Argus named the ship after himself.)

The Argo was a vessel that was outfitted with a piece of talking oak from the sacred grove of Dodona. Argus becomes an Argonaut. Jason then recruits the rest of the Argonauts.

The Argonauts list:

Acastus

Admetus

Atalanta, the formidable huntress

Augeas

The winged Boreads, Zetes & Calais (sons of the North Wind)

The Dioscuri, Castor & Pollux/Polydeuces

Euphemus

Heracles/Hercules (Yes, THAT one. He eventually left the quest.)

Idas

Idmon, the seer

Lynceus

Meleager

Orpheus

Peleus (Achilles’ dad)

Philoctetes

Telamon

Tiphys, the helmsman

After a few detours, Jason & his comrades came to Colchis (modern-day Black Sea coast of Georgia, the country) to get that sweet, sweet Golden Fleece. Colchis had a king (King Aeetes). The Fleece was given to him by Phrixus. The king promised to give Jason the Fleece, for a price: 3 tasks.

When presented with these tasks, Jason got discouraged & depressed. The goddess Hera was on Jason’s side. Hera convinced Aphrodite to convince her son, Eros, to make King Aeetus’ daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason. As a result of this love-god meddling, Medea ended up being the key to Jason’s success.

First, Jason had to plow a field with a fire-breathing oxen (the Khalkotauroi) that he had to yoke himself, Medea gave Jason an ointment that made his skin fireproof from the oxen’s flames. Then Jason planted the teeth of a dragon into a field. The teeth sprouted into an army of warriors called spartoi. Medea told Jason how to defeat the spartoi.

Before the spartoi attacked Jason, he threw a rock into the crowd. The spartoi weren’t able to figure out where the rock came from. So the spartoi turned on each other & defeated one another. Jason’s last task was to overcome the sleepless dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. Medea to the rescue, again.

She gave Jason a potion that he sprayed the dragon with. The dragon fell asleep. Jason was able to get the Golden Fleece. Then he sails away with Medea. Medea distracted her dad (who chased the pair as they fled) by unaliving her brother, Apsyrtus, & throwing pieces of his body into the sea.

King Aeetus stopped to gather each piece of Apsyrtus’ body. This gave Jason, & Medea, time to escape. On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus (the Argo’s helmsman) that he would one day rule Cyrene. This prophecy came true through Euphemus’ descendant, Battus.

Zeus, as punishment for the slaughter of Medea’s brother, sent a series of storms at the Argo & blew it off course. The Argo then actually spoke & said that they should seek purification with Circe, a nymph living on the island of Aeaea. After being cleansed, they continued their journey home.

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass by the Sirens. The same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey. The Sirens lived on 3 small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli & sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them, which result in the wrecking of their ships on the islands.

When Orpheus heard their voices, he said, “Here, hold my drink a sec!” He pulls out his lyre & played music that was more beautiful & louder, drowning out the Sirens’ songs so the sailors couldn’t hear them!

The Argo then came to the island of Crete, guarded by Talos, who was a man made of bronze. As the ship came close, Talos hurled huge stones at the ship, keeping it at bay. Talos had 1 ichor vessel (like a blood vessel) that went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by 1 bronze nail. (Ichor is pretty much the blood of the gods.)

Medea, helping Jason, cast a spell on Talos to calm him. She then removes the bronze nail. Talos ends up bleeding to death. The Argo was able to sail on.

Jason, celebrating his return with the Golden Fleece, saw his dad was too sick & old to participate in the celebrations. Jason asks Medea to take some years from his own life & add the years to his dad’s life. (This is actually sweet.)

Medea complied. There was no cost to Jason’s life. Medea withdrew the blood from Aeson’s body & infused it with certain herbs. She put it back into his veins. This invigorated him. Pelias’ daughters took notice of this, & wanted a piece of that action from their own dad.

Using her sorcery, Medea told Pelias’ daughters that she could make their dad smooth & vigorous as a kid by chopping him up into pieces & boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water & magical herbs. Medea shows that she can do this with the oldest ram in a flock, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls naively sliced up their dad & put in the cauldron.

Medea just didn’t put in the magical herbs to revive Pelias. So Pelias was dead. Pelias’s son, Acastus, drove Jason, & Medea, into exile for the unaliving. The couple settles in Corinth.

In Corinth, Jason gets engaged to marry Creusa/Glauce, a daughter of the king of Corinth. He did this for political advancement. Medea confronts Jason about this engagement. Because SHE’S already his wife. She reminds Jason of all the help she’s given him & the vow he made, to Hera, to love Medea & only Medea forever.

Jason tells Medea that it’s not her that he should thank but it’s Aphrodite who should get the kudos. Because Aphrodite made Medea fall in love with Jason. (Ok, Jason’s kinda right. It was Aphrodite via Eros.) Medea was incensed! (Rightfully so.)

Jason had vowed to be only Medea’s forever so Medea took her revenge by giving Creusa/Glauce a cursed dress, as a wedding gift. This dress stuck to her body & burned her to death as soon as she put it on. Cerusa/Glauce’s dad, Creon, burned to death with his daughter as he tried to save her.

Then Medea killed her sons that she had with Jason to ensure he had no legacy. When Jason learned of this, Medea was already gone. She fled to Athens in a chariot pulled by dragons that was sent by her grandpa, Helios (the sun-god).

As a result of breaking his vow to love Medea only forever, Jason lost his favor with Hera & died lonely & unhappy. He spent his final years as a broken man, wandering the docks where the rotting hull of the Argo sat. One day, while he was resting under the ship’s prow, a piece of the decaying wood broke off & fell onto Jason’s head, unaliving him instantly.

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In Greek mythology, when the demigod Orpheus lost his wife Eurydice forever, he wandered all over Greece in misery as he constantly sang and played his lyre. His music was so sad that humans, animals, and even the trees and rocks all cried in grief. It offended the priestesses of Dionysus, who tore him to pieces.

#MythologyMonday #Mythology #Folklore #Greece #Roman #Orpheus #Music

🪷 17 Jan is the Greek Patras Carnival with lots of chocolate. This is a modern survival of ancient revelries of #Dionysus and #Orpheus. So for sweetly divine inspiration, have a party and eat lots of chocolate in honor of #Dionysos and the beautiful #Patras #Antinous bust.
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Hm, one of the places that comes to my mind first which fits that description are #torrent trackers actually. With all these strict rules on most of them, you will rarely find some trashy #AImusic there, same as you won't find any poor-quality #YouTube rips, which destroy your ears' ability to tell low-bitrate files from lossless ones. For me these places are really a blessing and I wish I could get my friends to use them, but I get that it's pretty niche.

#ai #orpheus #bittorrent #redacted

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Orpheus #Classics #AllAboutEve 10 Movies From 1950 That Are Now Considered Classics http://dlvr.it/TQCV4r

Desire

Orpheus releases his 17th album on January 5, 1976. It's almost a soundtrack of his famous Rolling Thunder Review with many of the performers taking part in that also helping out on Desire." The album is the follow-up and perfect bookend for Blood On The Tracks released in '75 ... my two favorite Dylan releases. Desire is #174 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Listen to Desire by Bob Dylan on Amazon Music ... #bobdylan #orpheus #desire…

http://robinbannks.com/2026/01/05/desire/

#Orpheus charming the animals. Christine de Pisan, L'Épître Othéa, Paris c. 1410-1414. BL, Harley 4431, fol. 125v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Un pretesto per rivedere/risentire "Orfeo 9", l'opera-rock anni 70 diretta da Tito Schipa Jr. con gli sconosciuti (allora) Renato Zero e Loredana Bertè, e cercare nelle sale l'appena uscito #film d'animazione "Orfeo" ispirato ai fumetti di Dino Buzzati. Luce sull’invisibile.
La poesia di #RainerMariaRilke https://www.avvenire.it/agora/cultura/luce-sullinvisibile-orfeo-vive-nella-poesia-di-rilke_101665

@cultura

#poetry #literature #Austria #Orpheus

🪷 The Sun is sextile to #Pluto and the Star Of Antinous on the cusp of #Capricorn and #Aquarius to empower you to transcend barriers and discover your hidden destiny, like #Orpheus. Don't look back! Next week's #Antinous #MoonMagic #Astrology Forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/astro-forecast-november-27th-7th-2025.html 🪷

superseded by Batman and Scooby Doo

A Fake Poem about the Life of James Buchanan
John Greiner

#Poetry #JohnGreiner #FakePoem #JamesBuchanan #ArthurRimbaud #Batman #ScoobyDoo #Orpheus

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-john-greiner-2/

DON'T LOOK BACK!

For more on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (and why looking back is bad), check out our #mythology episode about the #constellation #Lyra here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/lyra-myths-and-retconstellations/

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#GreekMythology #meme #silly #Gru #Orpheus #StarLore #Eurydice #GreekMyth #Mythology

カリオペの【Orpheus】踊ってみた💀💕 #MoriCalliope #Orpheus #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/izsKEfXSXGU

#youtube_AkiRosenthal

And this is sketched out now nicely... Time to make the final version. 😊 🥰
#art #drawing #sketching #greekart #greekmythilogy #malefigure #maleanatomy #muscle #queerart #orpheus #affinity

A relief sculpture of Orpheus playing a lyre on the McLennan Arch in Glasgow. Easily overlooked, this is one of two relief sculptures salvaged from the facade of Robert and James Adams 1796 Assembly Rooms on Ingram Street by John Carrick when they were demolished in1890. Along with other rescued elements, these were used to create the triumphal arch which now stands on Glasgow Green

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #mclennanarch #orpheus #glasgowgreen

【#orpheus】カリオペちゃんの Orpheus を一緒に踊ってみた🕺✨【白銀ノエル】
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0tqtRLm3254

#youtube_ShiroganeNoel

🪷 The Sun is square to #Pluto and the Star Of Antinous on the cusp of #Capricorn and #Aquarius to empower you to transcend barriers and discover your hidden destiny, like #Orpheus. Don't look back! Next week's #Antinous #MoonMagic #Astrology Forecast: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/10/astro-forecast-october-23rd-2nd-2025.html 🪷

Mori Calliope「Orpheus」#姫森ルーナ #カリオペ #hololive #shorts #orpheus #dance
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ca06xrnFAcw

#youtube_HimemoriLuna #ホロライブ #hololive #バーチャルyoutuber #Vtuber

Aus der Serie: Martin Badenhoop und Bukowski finden #klassiker

#crausstrophobie #orpheus #arnoschmidt
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