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Owl and eagle owl: Dionysus The three daughters of Minyas rejected the worship of Dionysus and criticized the women who chose to be his Maenads/Bacchae. Dionysus visited them himself and terrified them. In the end, he turned one sister into a bat, another into an owl, the third into an eagle owl. In another version all three became bats ...
Metamorphosed by Minerva into an owl after she had had intercourse with her father. II: 590 [170] Ocyrhoë: Daughter of Chiron and Chariclo; possessed by Apollo in his quality as god of prophecy. She was metamorphosed into a mare. II: 637-675 [171] Olenus (1) Father of Tectaphus the Lapith. XII: 433 [172] Olenus (2)
In Inuit culture the owl, fish, and raven are of greatest prominence. Ravens are also common in the Inuit artwork and they have several stories that tell of Raven's birth which is often juxtaposed with the owl with whom Raven shared a deep friendship. [12]: 5 The Inuit say that Raven was born out of the darkness. He was weak and lost.
The Amsler grid showing the visual perception of the left eye of a person experiencing metamorphopsia (straight lines appear bent or curved) [1] [2]. Metamorphopsia (from Ancient Greek: μεταμορφοψία, metamorphopsia, 'seeing mutated shapes') is a type of distorted vision in which a grid of straight lines appears wavy or partially blank.
"It Can Wait" is a song by Australian rapper Illy, featuring Owl Eyes and was released in October 2010 as the second single from Illy's second studio album, The Chase. "It Can Wait" peaked at number 58 on the ARIA Charts and was certified gold in Australia in 2011. "It Can Wait" was listed at number 29 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010. [1]
Nyctimene's name is derived from the Greek words νύξ (genitive νυκτός) meaning "night" [2] and μένω meaning "I stay", [3] that is, she who stays up at night (the owl). Both compound words are of Proto-Indo-European origin; νύξ from the PIE root *nókʷts , [ 4 ] and μένω from *men- .
The appearance and calls of owls, such as the Eurasian scops owl, may have influenced Greek ideas of the blood-drinking strix. "Le Stryge" Chimera overlooks Paris from atop Notre-Dame de Paris . The strix (plural striges or strixes ), in the mythology of classical antiquity , was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis , that fed on ...
Published under the title La Métamorphose d'Ovide figurée (The Illustrated Metamorphosis of Ovid) by the Maison Tournes (1542–1567) in Lyon, it is the result of a collaboration between the publisher Jean de Tournes and Bernard Salomon, an important 16th-century engraver.