#zetes and kalais

[blizzards-and-breezes]

Khione’s Family

Parents

Father: Boreas

“BOREAS was the purple-winged god of the north wind, one of the four seasonal Anemoi (Wind-Gods). He was also the god of winter who swept down from the cold mountains of Thrake (Thrace), chilling the air with his icy breath.” Source

Mother: Oreithyia

“OREITHYIA (Orithyia) was the mountain-nymph wife of Boreas the North-Wind who dwelt with her husband in a cave on Mount Haimos (Haemus) in Thrake. […] Oreithyia was probably the goddess of chill mountain winds for her name means ‘mountain-rager’" Source

Siblings

"While Orithyia was playing by the Ilissos river, Boreas carried her off and had intercourse with her; and she bore daughters, Kleopatra (Cleopatra) and Khione (Chione), and winged sons, Zetes and Kalais (Calais)." Source

Zetes and Kalais

“Zetes and Calais were the sons of Boreas, the North Wind, in Greek mythology. They were known as the Boreads, the winged sons of the wind, and were prominent figures in the story of Jason and the Argonauts, the legendary crew of heroes led by Jason on their quest for the Golden Fleece. Zetes and Calais were famous for their incredible speed and their ability to fly due to their wings, which they inherited from their father. Their wings were said to be as strong as those of birds, allowing them to soar through the air with great agility.” Source

Kleopatra

“Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (North wind) and the Athenian princess, Oreithyia. She was the first wife of Phineus by whom he had a pair of sons” Source

Other children of Boreas include Butes and Haemus

Lovers

In the myths, Khione had one lover, Poseidon.

“Khione (Chione) had intercourse with Poseidon, and when she gave birth to Eumolpos (Eumolpus), without letting her father [Boreas] know, she threw the baby into the deep sea to avoid discovery.” Source

Children

Eumolpos

“Khione (Chione) had connexion with Poseidon, and having given birth to Eumolpos (Eumolpus) unknown to her father, in order not to be detected, she flung the child into the deep. But Poseidon picked him up and conveyed him to Aithiopia (Ethiopia), and gave him to Benthesikyme (Deep Wave), a daughter of his own by Amphitrite, to bring up.” Source

[cervenakoviny]

HeroForge figúrky k príbehu Sekera z bronzu, rúno zo zlata.

Sýkorka - veštkyňa a kňažka Veľkej matky Astérios - niekdajší strážca a býčí veľkňaz krétskeho labyrintu Ahurmuna - chetitský bojovník v sprievode trójskeho princa Kyrias - trácky bojovník v sprievode trójskeho princa Podarkés - trójsky princ na diplomatickej ceste do Podkarpatia Sokol - vladyka Sokolieho hniezda a Sýkorkin brat Iáson - ten, čo sa zmocnil zlatého rúna a má zálusk na jantár Médea - kňažka Hekaté, Iásonova partnerka Orfeus - spevák so schopnosťou omámiť poslucháčov Théseus - ten, čo vzal krétsky labyrint útokom a takmer zabil Astéria jeden z dvojčat Kálais a Zétes - okrídlení polobohovia, deti Borea

Zdroj - Ďuro Červenák Fans, facebook.com

[tylermileslockett]

ARGONAUTICA series 6: "Harpies and the Clashing Rocks"

Book 2 begins with the crew docking upon the coast of the Bebrykians, where king Amykos, with outrageous arrogance, challenges the best argonaut to a brutal boxing match. Polydeuks (son of Zeus, and twin half-brother to Castor) rises to meet the challenge. The men wrap their fists with dried leather thongs, and rush headlong into fierce combat. The warriors exchange brutal blows until finally, Polydeukes sizing up the kings weaknesses, delivers the fatal blow, shattering the bones in the kings head. The warriors on both sides rush into battle, the argonauts fighting like wild wolves, and the Bebrykians finally scattering like bees from smoke.

 The following day the Argo sails out through the Bosporos strait where the ship Helmsman, Tiphys, overcomes a giant wave. Here they put in at the Thynian coast where they meet the pitiful King Phineus, who had been given the power of prophecy by Apollo. But having revealed too much truth to mankind, Zeus cursed the king, taking away his eyesight, lengthening his lifespan, and ever hounded by the terrifying Harpies,(half-bird half-human creatures) that descend from the clouds to steal the kings food as he eats, leaving behind a rank odor that spoils everyones appetites. Here the argonaut twin heroes Zetes and Kalais, (twin sons of Boreas, the North wind) with their black wings on their temples and feet, flew after the harpies chasing them away forever, thus saving the king from his curse.

 In appreciation, Phineus warns the men of the deadly passage through the dark, clashing rocks, advising them to send a dove through first, to test the timing. The following day the men journey through the clashing rocks, using the dove, and with Athena’s aid, barely escape death.

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[littlesparklight]

Zetes, Kalais, Ascalaphus and Ialmenus - (all in the mid-late teenage range) in unison: Dad's watching, we're fine.

(Different fathers, though.)

Thinking about the Argo's journey again and who's going etc... (this is using my own headcanon for characters' ages):

Laertes - I am not taking my ~sixteen year old son with me, besides, this will be a good learning experience for him. Tyndareos - Oh, sure, I'll let my twin sixteen year olds go off to Iolkos and then on a journey of uncertain length and danger without me. :) There are other adults there that can look after them - and one of my sons is a son of Zeus, it's fine. Caeneus - (Has at least one, maybe two sons with him, somewhere in the older teenager-twenty year old range) Family outing! :D Telamon - Even if I could fetch my son easily from Chiron given we're relatively close, he stays there. (*there's not really any source that has Ajax training with Chiron as far as I can remember, but it makes sense so why not.)

Other things of note; is Herakles glaring daggers at Augeas on the other side of the gathering/ship until he's left behind? Do the Dioskouroi and the Apharetidai get along, still, or do they already have beef? (Grown men having issue with teenagers though...) Tydeus and Amphiaraus having a fun little vacation before the attack on Thebes in a couple years...

[littlesparklight]

Do you have any headcanons for Orpheus? (who's the father? 🤔🧐)

;) The father is Oiagros. Not that Apollo and Kalliope couldn't be the parents and still give birth to what's nothing more but the equivalent of a demigod, but I think it's more straightforward if it's a mortal/Oiagros and Kalliope. For the length of Orpheus' childhood, the Muses lived in a palace on the mortal side of the Earth (Do they have a palace on Mount Helicon? I don't remember.), though Kalliope undoubtedly gave birth to Orpheus in Apollo's palace on Olympos. I feel like Apollo gave Orpheus a kithara for his seven-day gift, and Kalliope was simultaneously pleased and exasperated "he is A BABY, Apollo! A mortal baby!" (a mortal baby who can't even hold his own head up, though if Kalliope has given birth to Linos, she's at least ready for mortal baby floppiness by now.) "he'll grow into it."

Orpheus was involved with both Zetes and Kalais during the Argonauts' journey. (This is drawn from Phanocles, but in his case it was only Kalais Orpheus loved, but I say, there's twins, why shouldn't Orpheus get both of them???) Either he was betrothed to Eurydike before the journey and married her after, or they meet and marry after it, either way it's after the journey that she dies and he goes down into the Underworld. After that he's just so heartbroken about the whole thing he just can't stomach getting involved with another woman he does not get married again and rejects any possible suggestions to. He does get back together with Zetes and Kalais (who definitely do not die by any means during the Argonauts' journey), and while that's only two men, I'm sure that makes it easy for the spurned women to feel like there's a whole parade of them.

This finally angers a group of women in Thrace (a couple years after, maybe?), though it takes them until they're in a frenzy during celebrations to Dionysos before they act on it. You know how it ends.

Kalliope didn't ask for her son back, of course, but she DID ask Hades and Persephone to honour him, not just with a place in Elysium, but at their court. They did.