icontrive: The Return of Amphitrite (2020, Inspiration for the wedding wreath taken from a pinax fro

icontrive:

The Return of Amphitrite (2020, Inspiration for the wedding wreath taken from a pinax from Corinth 575–550 BC)

Amphitrite in Greek mythology is a water nymph, the wife of Poseidon, and one of the many daughters of Nereus (the old god of the sea) and his wife Doris. She sparked Poseidon’s interest with her dancing skills but she was just playing. When he asked her to marry him she ghosted hard to Atlas leaving him on read until he sent a smooth as butter, dolphin shaped god, named Delphin to talk her into coming back. “Medusa was just a friend, you could be queen of all the seas.” he told her, and who could deny such logic? The dolphin was transformed by Poseidon into the constellation delphinus as a reward for the return of his future queen. Amphritrite liked Delphin so much she made dolphins a mortal thing as well as seals and arguably narwhals because narwhals must be something mythological, they’re SEA UNICORNS!

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