#hydra greece

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blue spaces july 2023

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your tags. yeah. it's not that they are progressive or feminist or even written by women -- but they are doing something with women that is complex and worth paying attention to, and in many cases they are the reason we have a version of a particular woman's story at all

yeah that's one of the marketing conceits of the myth retelling novel industrial complex that bothers me, it's the framing as if no one has ever paid attention to these female characters who are buried unnoticed in the myths when often the most complete or the most authoritative version of the character's story that survives from antiquity is in tragedy, a genre that is notoriously interested in bringing female characters out of the house and putting them on stage in active roles, and in using those female characters to explore issues of gender and the place of women in contemporary society.

like to a certain degree it makes sense for the homeric women who don't appear in (extant) tragedy, like briseis or the hanged women in odyssey 22, but we have stories where clytemnestra and deianira and medea insist on make narrative space for themselves to tell their own stories from their own perspectives, refusing to be silent about the violence their society inflicts upon women and the lasting damage it does. they're called aeschylus' agamemnon and sophocles' trachiniae and euripides' medea. and maybe you want to retell those stories for modern audiences, changing things or emphasizing different aspects of them! and that's great! but framing it as if they've been ignored and their stories are as-yet-untold is just not accurate, and it's a cheap way to paint your work as innovative and subversive.

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Hydra Island! In Christmas 🎄 mood! 🇬🇷🇬🇷 || Giannis Tsounis (Blueman)💦

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dove il tempo scorre diversamente, hydra, 2024

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Hydra, Greece

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📍Hydra,Greece 🇬🇷

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#hydra #saronicislands

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Chasing Sunset, Hydra Island ~ October MMXXIV.

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Oh boy do I have Lore for you!

Bone Elementals are born from dragon bones that protrude from the hydra-esque creature (like Shin Godzilla) and share similar features as to blend in with the family/nest of baby dragons.

Bone Elementals reproduce asexually; however, they cannot do it themselves. They would need a dragon to create another one of their kind.

Bone elementals usually stick with the family if the hatching of the baby dragons is successful and are adopted into the herd. Usually the mother dragon will nurture the Bone Elemental (creating them prematurely, before laying eggs) until they are old enough/fit to raise the young hatchlings.

If the dragon looses their children via miscarriage or the eggs are destroyed, the Bone Elemental will be exiled. If the Bone Elemental is too young by the time the Dragon can no longer come to be with child, the Dragon may attempt to find another family to take care of it. However, another mother dragon will never take in a Bone Elemental they did not create it themselves.

Bone Elementals are an undead species and have an indefinite life span, since dragons live longer than most humans.

Cupid’s mother was a Greek Hydra (Dragon) specific to the Milos Catacombs, yet when she had a miscarriage only a few weeks into her pregnancy, she migrated to Acropolis to give Cupid up. That being said, she landed on Eros’ doorstep where she then became a demigoddess, and her biology had shifted somewhat to match.

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I know that it may sound dumb, but I had this thought for a while.

Imagine you're a fisherman and you get drunk. It's already dark outside, so you cannot see anything too well around you either. Suddenly, you see something moving into the water. It looks like a snake. There is another, and another, and another... and then you realize that all of them seem to be attached to the same body. You freak out and turn back home. In the next days, you tell your family and best friends about what you saw that night. And because everyone hears what they prefer to hear and over exaggerate things just to make them seem greater than they already were, the legend of a snake with multiple heads slowly starts to appear. Years later, Hesiod includes that said monster in the Theogony, as part of the twelve labours of Heracles.

That's how an octopus accidentally became the source of inspiration for the Hydra.

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blue spaces july 2023

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Daisy Jones and The Six, Episode 7

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H Y D R A

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The Battle of Hercules and the Hydra by Henry de Groux