#The nymph Clytie was in love with Helios

[fluffyfangirl]

Lucas: Peony - symbolizes bashfulness and compassion; the big fluffy blossoms symbolize healing and care.

Max: Gladiolus - symbolizes strength of character, faithfulness and honor

El: Lily - symbolize feminine beauty and purity

Dustin: Tulip - symbolize eternal love and devotion

Mike: Marguerite - symbolizes love fortune telling, secret love, fidelity, and sincerity

Will: Sunflower - symbolizes adoration and dedication and dedicated love.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: The Sun

Acronycal - occurring at sunset.

Auroral - pertaining to sunrise.

Fulgid - shining, glittering, briefly flashing light.

Heliotropic - plants that turn towards the sun.

Lucific - light-producing.

Lucifugous - light-avoiding; nocturnal.

Soliform - like the sun; sun-shaped.

Solisequious - following the course of the sun.

Sun glitter - sparkling light on water.

The sun...

Rotates around its own axis every 25.38 Earth days.

Accounts for 99.9% of the mass of the solar system.

Can reach 15 million degrees Celsius at its core.

Could fit over a million Earths inside it.

NOTES

Your weight on the Sun would be 28 times that on Earth.

It takes approximately 8 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Interaction between solar wind & the Earth’s magnetic field create the auroras.

Crepuscular rays are sunbeams or sun rays that appear to radiate from the sun.

A green flash sometimes occurs at the moment before sunset or after sunrise, caused by the bending and scattering of sunlight.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth.

Eclipses occur in pairs, usually with 2 weeks between a lunar and solar eclipse.

The Gregorian Calendar is a solar calendar based on a solar year of 365 days.

A heliograph is a device that uses a mirror to flash reflected, telegraphic messages, usually in Morse code.

A sun dog or parhelion is a phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight that creates the illusion of bright spots to the left and right of the sun.

The polar day or midnight sun occurs during the summer in the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, when the sun is still up at midnight.

The polar night is the time when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon at Earth’s polar regions. Although it lasts for 6 months, only 11 weeks are spent in total darkness, the rest in twilight.

The subsolar point is the point on Earth at which the Sun appears directly overhead, and objects seem to cast no shadow. The subsolar points travel between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.

There are two solstices a year, one around 21 June, and one around 21 December. The solstices mark the longest or shortest day of the year (except at the equator). They are also the point in time when the sun’s declination reaches its highest or lowest limit and appears to stand still before changing direction, leading to the Latin etymology: “sol” meaning, “sun”, and “sistere” meaning, “to stand still”.

IN THE ARTS

Many cultures have a dawn deity in addition to a solar deity.

An aubade is a poem or song about lovers who must part at daybreak.

Dawn is considered a sacred time by many religions and often dedicated to prayer and meditation.

Clytie was a nymph in Greek mythology who, because of her unrequited love for the sun god, Helios, was turned into a sunflower, which was believed to follow the course of the sun.

Sir John Herschel coined the word, “photography” in 1839. He also invented the “actinometer” which measures the heat of direct sunlight.

The Sun is the 19th card of the Major Arcana of the Tarot. It is often thought to signify vitality, optimism, and playfulness.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Word List: Sun ⚜ Star ⚜ Glow

[piyatosenainanalaagere]

In another life

I wish I wouldn't have met you

In another life

I wouldn't have know you

In another life

I wouldn't have fell for you

Atlast this is not another life

This is the life I met you

This is the life I fell for you

But this is the life you didn't fall for me

This is the life you loved someone else than me

This is the life you forgot about me

And just like you the world too has forgotten me

Except the bright flowers who are like you

Carrying the story of me

In another life

You'd have met me first

In another life

You would have loved me first.

In Greek mythology, the sunflower is often associated with the myth of Clytie and Helios. Clytie was a water nymph, and deeply in love with the sun god Helios. Sadly, he left her for another goddess, and it’s said that Clytie watched Helios crossing the sky in his golden chariot for days, without any food or water. Eventually, she was transformed into a sunflower, and it’s said this is why sunflowers always face the sun.

[a-d-nox]

Hi nox, how are you? Can you give some information and insight related to (73) KLYTIA if you have not yet spoken about this asteroid.

Thanks, have a nice day 💟

klytia, the water nymph who was in love with the sun (asteroid 73)

Clytie was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys thus she was an Oceanid. In Metamorphoses by Ovid, Clytie was a lover of Helios, the sun god. Helios, however, turned his attention away from Clytie to Leucothea. Clytie was jealous and told Leucothea's father, Orchamus, about his daughter's impure relations with the sun god. In turn, Orchamus buried his daughter alive. Clytie believed that with Leucothea gone that Helios would return to her, but he only grew to hate her. Clytie was depressed and desperate for the attention of Helios, so she laid out on the rocks near her home along the shore. For nine days, she laid there naked without eating or drinking. On the ninth day, she transformed into a flower, the heliotrope (in some versions, she becomes a sunflower). IN MY OPINION Klytia in a chart can represent a) who you adore most, b) where you feel rejected by the person you love most, c) how you get revenge on the people you are jealous of, and/or d) romantic related depression.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of klytia along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of klytia!

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[raphlecia]

Clytie by George Frederic Watts, c. 1868

The name of this delicious flower [ Heliotrope ] is derived from the Greek helios, ‘the sun’, and tropos, ‘turning’, reflecting the heliotrope’s habit of turning towards the sun and following its course around the horizon. The plant is associated with the sorrowful story of the nymph Clytie, who fell in love with Apollo, the sun god. Apollo spurned her because he was in love with another, and Clytie fell into deep despair, spending every day prone upon the cold, bare earth, her pleading eyes riveted on Apollo in his sun chariot. Out of pity, the gods turned her into a heliotrope, and so for all eternity she follows Apollo’s daily journey, her love unchanged. George Frederic Watts captured Clytie’s yearning in his 1868 sculpture of that name, which shows the nymph metamorphosing from a cluster of leaves, straining and twisting her neck to catch a glimpse of Apollo behind her. Watts believed that Clytie’s devoted, searching gaze also represented man’s quest for spiritual enlightenment.

— Mandy Kirkby, A Victorian Flower Dictionary

[badlydrawndrawnings]

New members of the crew means more research! Due to a lack of character names, I’m going to be focusing on the apparent code-names and the Personas. Mostly the Personas.

Seiji: a Japanese name that has many meanings due to different kanji combinations. However, by searching ‘Seiji name meaning’, the top result of one name meaning that shows up claims it’s ‘Lawful’ and/or ‘Just’. If anyone who knows Japanese can confirm the kanji itself, that will be great!

Leucothea: A name that has a variation that is somewhat common in Greek mythology. One Leucothea is a transformed nymph Halia (whose name means salty), who jumped into the ocean itself and became Leucothea.

A Leucothoe, who is a Babylonian princess that was loved by the sun God Helios (cursed by the Goddess Aphrodite due to him ratting out her affair with Ares to her husband Hephaestus) either comes Helios’ lover or was raped by him (depends on version heard/told). Clytie, Leucothoe’s sister (and nymph), a previous lover of Helios, rats on her sister by informing her father, Orchamus, she [Leucotheo] is no longer a virgin.

Buried alive, after her death, Leucothoe got transform by Helios into a turned her into a frankincense tree (olibanum-tree). The yellow-white coloring of the tree’s flower reflects the Persona’s feathers and parts of design itself, so maybe Leucothea is Leucothoe? Does that explain the bird in the cage (probably not; that’s a detail that has my attention the most).

Mont: A Latin word that means mountain, or a French word that means ‘Mount’, which still relates to mountain.

Terpsichore: One the nine Muses and the goddess of dance and chorus. Going by the design looking French-like, I think Mont’s code-name is the french word. And I’m not going to lie, Terpsichore looks like she’s ready to dance! Fitting choice in my opinion.

Yuki: another Japanese name that has many meanings due to different kanji combinations, this name tends to be associated with snow though. Again, if anyone who knows Japanese can confirm the kanji itself, that will be great!

Styx: A well known river in Greek mythology that like, goes to the underworld and has powers. There is also a river goddess known as Styx too who supported Zeus in the Titanomachy, or the Titan Wars, with lasted ten years. Apparently there was a Nymph who also shares the same name, and too supported Zeus in the war. Are they the same person? No idea. But the Persona is battle-ready, which I think fits either one.

Interesting how the new Personas are more Greek focus than the initial trio, and how two out of the three are water-based in some way or form even by stretching it out. I really hope it relates to the new Velvet Room and Merope somehow, because it’s showing up more times than it could be.

[immissmoralofthestory]

In another life

I wish I wouldn't have met you

In another life

I wouldn't have know you

In another life

I wouldn't have fell for you

Atlast this is not another life

This is the life I met you

This is the life I fell for you

But this is the life you didn't fell for me

This is the life you loved someone else than me

This is the life you forgot about me

And just like you the world too has forgotten me

Except the bright flowers who are like you

Carrying the story of me

In another life

You'd have met me first

In another life

You would have loved me first.

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In Greek mythology, the sunflower is often associated with the myth of Clytie and Helios. Clytie was a water nymph, and deeply in love with the sun god Helios. Sadly, he left her for another goddess, and it’s said that Clytie watched Helios crossing the sky in his golden chariot for days, without any food or water. Eventually, she was transformed into a sunflower, and it’s said this is why sunflowers always face the sun.

[vyragosa]

my peter englert sure is heliotrope

from revolving around the sun yes, as a particle of god 

heliotrope from the flower of “eternal and undying love” turning toward the sun, yes yes very much so, a symbol of prophetic dreams too, a tool too, an instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor, bloodstone also called heliotrope. a stone made of blood. the rock that is the meaning of peter, and an armor made of blood-like red....

“the myth of clytie, an ocean nymph, beloved by the sun god helios, who deserted her, changed into the heliotrope, a flower which is supposed to always to turn its head in the direction of the sun's movement”

(clytie’s name also derived from “to hear” ...one more emphasis on “hearing, understanding”)

a maiden who is in love with an unwilling god, perhaps

[valkyries-things]

LEUCOTHOE // PRINCESS OF BABYLON

“She was a Babylonian princess. The daughter of Orchamus, a king of Persia, Leucothoe was either a lover of the sun god Helios or a victim of rape. A nymph or Leucothoe's own sister named Clytie, who loved Helios and was jealous of Leucothoe, informed Leucothoe's father that Leucothoe, despite being unmarried, was no longer a virgin, whereupon Orchamus buried his daughter alive in punishment. Helios then transformed Leucothoe's dead body into a frankincense tree.”

(painting is ‘Apollo (as the sun) caressing the Nymph Leucothoe’ by Antoine Boizot)

[professor-azran]

It takes you a moment to remember the names, meanings and associated stories for each flower, it doesn't help that you only have the petals and the occasional damaged part of a stem to go off. But eventually to get the names of the three different flowers, the small delicate form of a heliotrope, and the larger shape of pink camellia petals and daffodil flowers.

Heliotropes stand for eternal love and devotion, the name coming from a myth to do with the god Helio. He was deeply beloved by a water nymph by the name of Clytie, but when he left her for another woman she was overcome by jealousy and revealed the affair to the other woman's father. This lead to woman being buried alive, and did not gain her Helio's love back. She pined after him, and refused both food and drink, and watched his rise and decent through the sky as she wasted away, eventually leading to her transforming into a heliotrope.

Camellias have many meanings, known for their gorgeous symmetrical shapes they can represent perfection. They are a flower of love, even more so than roses in some places. The meaning of them changes depending on the colour with pink camellias representing longing for someone. When seen in dreams they are seen as an indication that you seek a deeper connection with someone or are going to enter a romantic relationship in your future. Ironically it can be used as a cure for respiratory issues.

Daffodil meaning regard, unequalled love, longing for something that cannot be obtained. For some people they mean selfishness, or given to someone to represent the love they never gave to them. The petals of the daffodils have primarily been yellow, which means strength, and overcoming the obstacles. While you aren't sure of it, you have coughed up some white petals, which in daffodils symbolise desire for a transformation and lead people to a better way of living.

*He’s faced with the sudden, very real notion of an imminent death looming on the horizon. He swallows painfully.*

I need to speak to them.

[honoringthor]

🌻 sunflower

☀️Helianthus annuus

Aka. common sunflower, corona, marigold of Peru, queen of annuals, solis,

🌻General info.🌻 Sunflowers are annuals native to North America. Like the flowers in the photos, wild sunflowers have multiple branches. The flowers themselves are made up of florets that bloom in summer and fall. The petals are individual flowers called "ray flowers".

It's believed that sunflowers were domesticated about 5000yrs ago, probably in Mexico. Some native Americans planted them on the north side of their gardens where they grow corn, beans, and squash. Some groups offer seeds to the dead.

They were brought to Europe in the 16th century. There they became important to the Russian Orthodox Church where their oil became a replacement for animal fat during Lent. They're the national flower of Ukraine. Sunflowers are the state flower of Kansas, one of the city flowers of Kitakyushu, Japan. They became the symbol of the aesthetic and spiritualist movements. In the UK sunflowers are used to share that you have a hidden disability. Sunflowers gathered from the crash site of Malaysia flight 17 were planted in memory of the 15 Dutch victims, Australia did the same.

☀️🌻uses.🌻ornamental, oil, flour, feed, snacks, cleaning soil(including of radiation)

Mythology 🌻 there's a myth that the nymph Clytie turned into a sunflower in her longing for Helios. She was actually turned into a heliotropium since Ancient Greeks didn't know sunflowers existed. Seeds eaten by people wanting to conceive.

Symbolism🌻 they're sacred to solar deities. Sunflowers symbolize ambition, constancy, fall, summer, devotion, false witches, flexibility, good luck, healing, cleansing, homage, nourishment, loyalty, opportunity. Pride, vitality, unhappy love, fertility, happiness 😊, strength, sustenance, wisdom, wishes, spiritual attainment, 💛 masculine, 🌞, 🔥,

Sources. 📚

Hidden disabilities

Wikipedia Common Sunflower

Dietz, S. Theresa, The Complete Language of Flowers

Diaz, Juliet, Plant Witchery

Cunningham, Scott, Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

[cantillat-moved]

❝ ... A word of advice. I might not be exactly too bright when it comes to these matters and I certainly mean no disrespect but when you say you are just two ninjas from the same clan, nothing more and nothing less, it does sounds like that another entirely different type of relationship is afoot.❞ Many of Aiguille’s favorite tales are the romantic type, even when he himself is inexperienced in these affairs – how could he really hope to find someone to love him with that useless body of his? But even someone like him can tell that Kotaro sounded more like someone with a crush – and without context it could lead to some rather grave misunderstandings.

The young man heard the story – a tragic tale from Kotaro’s homeland. ❝ Ah, those delicate red flowers from Japan, yes? It is such a beautiful and sorrowful tale, born of a misunderstanding and grueling fate. Evildoers seldom have a happy ending, no?  ❞ he hummed, lingering in the moral of the story. Was it what they call “karma”? A life of deceit leading to paranoia when it was, in fact, simple misfortune.

❝ In the land of Greece the nymph Clytie harbored a passion for the sun god Helios. Every day she would watch him as he travelled across the sky from East to West in his carriage – however, he preferred the company of another. A forbidden love, no less, and thus in a fit of jealousy Clytie alerted the girl’s father, a king. As punishment for the affair, the king ordered his daughter to be buried alive! Sadly, the god was too late to save the princess, who endured such cruel demise. When Helios learnt of Clytie’s role in his beloved’s death, his indifference became hatred. Yet, Clythe’s love for him still consumed her despite the rejection, watching him moving across the horizon. Shunning the nymphae beneath the open sky, Clytie sat gazing upon his face for nine long days and nights, never tasting  food or drinking, feeding her hunger on her tears and dew. There on the ground she stayed, languishing, only turning his head to follow her beloved Helios – until her body was no more, becoming the heliotrope flower which nowadays we call the sunflower.  ❞ A tale for a tale. A flower for a flower. A tragedy for a tragedy.

✦ ─ ━ Ѕһɩɴоβɩ There was a slight sigh of relief coming from him there, it was nice to know that his master won’t say anything else about the matter but still, it was embarrassing there and not to mention he doesn’t want Danzo to mourn or suffer any more than she already has-the memories of the two are long gone for her now but for Kotaro, it was something he will always remember.

❝Good….it’s best that it’s kept quiet from her. To her, we are just two ninja’s from the same clan-nothing more and nothing less, it’s better that way…❞

He gave a small hum to his words there, even though he does sometimes wish that she can remember it but that time was long ago. But seeing that his master would like to hear it, he smiled more into it.

❝Alright then. This one is based on one of our very own, as each one had a different life, different twist and turns but in the end, reached the same ending. The one I’m going to tell it’s known as ’‘The Spider Lily Kitsune’. There was once a beautiful kitsune, she had the most elegant fur that could entrance those who see her dance and twirl in her human form. Those who approached her have asked for her to perform and in turn, she has gained favour among the humans, for all her life she has bedazzled many others and gained their praised-this was her dream. However, that changed one fateful day as she was by the river in her original form, just drinking and resting up by the sun a hunter slowly approached her as she was mistaken for a normal fox and upon being rudely awakened she thought “It must be them! They were the one’s who sold me out!”, so when she escaped from her captors she sneakily stole something precious of her formal admirer and ran into the night, trying her best to evade those who chased her. One day, high up on the mountain tops she met a red pheasant who was accompanied by another. Wounded and tired as she was, she glanced up at the bird-not out of hunger but out of fear, however, the bird noticed the wounded fox as he could clearly see through her and spoke “Young kitsune, it seems that you are in trouble. However I think I can help your predicament; would you like to die out here alone or would like to become a flower of the night, ever fleeting in the winds?” Upon hearing those words she agreed to follow the pheasant who have saved her from her fate, even though it wasn’t easy she soon become known as The spider lily of the night. ❞

[drsilverfish]

Here Comes the Sun(flower)

Lata wears a sunflower motif on her headscarf in 1x06 The Art of Dying.

And she personifies sunshine, choosing a path of love and non-violence, despite her abusive past at the hands of a war-torn father with PTSD.

Sunflowers are associated with mythology in a number of different cultures.

In Greek mythology, the water-nymph Clytie falls in love with the sun-god Helios (tragically, of course) and eventually becomes a sunflower, face endlessly seeking her love in the sky.

Ah! Sun-flower

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the travellers journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.   

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43649/ah-sun-flower

If we are reading The Winchesters as Dean’s mindscape (which, of course, on one level, we are) we already know the significance of sun and sunshine metaphors for the way Dean and Castiel are drawn to one another, long for one another, and feel about each another:

Dean’s longing for Castiel, palpable in this scene 9x06 from Heaven Can’t Wait (with it’s Gas n’ Sip sunshine motif):

The way Dean calls Cas “sunshine” in 12x03 The Foundry:

The way we know Dean is also Castiel’s sunshine, thanks to the cursed deal with The Empty, because in 14x08 Byzantium, The Empty tells Cas:  “And then, when you finally give yourself permission to be happy and let the sun shine on your face, that’s when I’ll come. That’s when I’ll come to drag you to nothing.”

And it is when Cas tells Dean he loves him (15x08 Despair) that the sun metaphorically shines on his face, because it is then that The Empty comes to collect on her deal:

If The Winchesters is Dean’s mindscape, he is still searching for his sunshine. 

[daughterofnature]

Clytie by Lord Frederic Leighton (1892)

In Greek mythology, Clytie (or Klytie) was an water nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the lover of the sun god Helios, who eventually deserted her to pursue Leucothea, daughter of Orchamus. Clytie was enraged and told Orchamus about the love affair. He sentenced his daughter to death by burying her alive. Clytie thought that the death of Leucothea would make Helios return back to her, but it only made him think even less of her. In the end, Clytie lay herself naked for nine days on the rocks, simply staring at the sun, without drinking or eating anything. On the ninth day, she was transformed into a flower, the heliotrope or turnsole, which turns towards the direction of the sun.

Source

[embroiderers-of-the-carpet-earth]

Heliotrope

Heliotropium

devoted affection

Heliotrope is often associated with the greek myth about the nymph Clytie, who fell in love with Helios, who loved someone else. After Helios rejected her, she stripped herself and laid on the rocks without food or water, looking at the sun. After nine days, the gods took pity in her and she was transformed into Heliotrope.

[loneberry]

The Girl Who Turned into a Sunflower

Her Muse means water, the moisture on the banks,

which can be awakened by a drop of oil.

Her hair is bound by disturbing fidelity,

hands lingering around her neck

make her shoulder the shape of the island,

sprinkle a balsam that spasms the clouds.

He had won her in an archery contest,

a tame stag who wore pearl earrings

descended from a work of art, the head,

though not the body, painted from life.

Cries of animals hunted centuries earlier

took possession of the mountain.

Apples tended by nymphs of the evening

and effortlessly harvested had been the earth’s

wedding present, the losers in the singing contest

mutated into magpies. She gave birth as a myrrh tree

narrated across forty-four north wall windows.

Were it not for her exhausted transformations

she would know the hedge behind the Muses

is of unchanging laurel and resists fire.

–Medbh McGuckian, from My Love Has Fared Inland (2010)

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This is too much. A poem about a girl who turns into a sunflower that begins “Her Muse means water”? Lord. I bow to the great Medbh McGuckian.

“The poem’s title refers to the Greek mythical figure Clytie, whose tragic love for the sun god, Helios, led to her transformation into a sunflower. The series of allusions to mythical transformations of women, bookended by water and the paradoxically ‘unchanging laurel,’ meta-poetically refers to both the mutability and the permanence of the poetic form.”

Actually, Clytie was turned into a heliotrope, not a sunflower. I allude to this in one of my poems when I write: What is the distance between tournesol and turnsole, a whole mythology erected on a false recognition—tournesol being French for sunflower, while turnsole is the English word for heliotrope. (Yet I’m grateful for this mistake.)