Ancient Greek Modes Backstory

Harmony of the world, 1806, Ebenezer Sibly

Magnesia on the Maeander

Cyrus the Great with a Hemhem crown, or four-winged Cherub tutelary divinity

15th-century map showing Ionia.

Ion

“Ion” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, thought to have been written between about 414 and 412 BCE. It describes the tale of the orphan, Ion, eponymous forefather of the Ionian race, as he discovers his true origins and parentage after being abandoned as a child.

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Ptolomeic Uranography Part 2: Cassiopeia, Perseus, Auriga

Cassiopeia Cassiopeia The constellation is named after Cassiopeia, the queen of Aethiopia . Cassiopeia was the wife of King Cepheus of Aethiopia and mother of Princess Andromeda . Cepheus and Cassiopeia were placed next to each other among the stars, along with Andromeda. She was placed in the sky as a punishment after enraging Poseidon with the boast that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids or, alternatively, that she herself was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. She was forced to wheel around the North Celestial Pole on her throne, spending half of her time clinging to it so she does not fall off, and Poseidon decreed that Andromeda should be bound to a rock as prey for the monster Cetus . Andromeda was then rescued by the hero Perseus , whom she later married. Cassiopeia in her chair, as depicted in Urania's Mirror Hyginus Cassiopeia It was Poseidon who placed Cassiopei...

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Jerusalem: Posses-sion of Peace

The Emerald Table: The All and the One

Tis true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that is below to do the miracles of one only thing And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation. The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse. The father of all perfection in the whole world is here. Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth. Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry. It ascends from the earth to the heaven and again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior. By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world and thereby all obscurity shall fly from you. Its force is above ...

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