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The Distrito Federal (DF) (picture) is in the core area of the cerrado region. Brasília, the capital city of Brazil, is in the DF, which also encompasses seven satellite cities and additional settlements and rural communities. The DF is situated in the Brazilian Uplands on the Pratinha Plateau, east of the Planalto de Mato Grosso and Middle Massif of Goiás and west of the São Francisco Basin.
The area is an integral part of the central sector of the geological Tocantins province, and is composed of rocks of the Canastra Formation and Paranoá Group of Middle to Late Precambrian age, with a lateritic detritus cover of Tertiary-Quaternary age and recent Quaternary alluvial deposits (Barros 1990). The most extensive soil class is latosols, which occupy 54% of the region. The deep, well-drained latosols are restricted to essentially level terrain (slopes of less than 8%). They are associated with the cerrado sensu stricto (Haridasan 1990), and are the most extensively cultivated. Other soil types in the DF are dystrophic cambisols, podzols, hydromorphic soils, and very small areas of limestone-derived soils and limestone outcrops.
Hypsometric data indicate that the DF is 57% uplands above 1000 m (Novaes Pinto 1990a), which are a divider for the Paraná-La Plata, Tocantins-Amazon and São Francisco drainages. Because of the predominance of metamorphic rocks, aquifers are mainly fissural, in which each year about 1.2 billion m³ of water percolate (Barros 1990). These rocks act as impervious water tanks with special characteristics. The lentic environment is represented by small natural lakes (Lagoa Bonita, Lagoa Joaquim Medeiros, Lagoa Carás, Lagoa QL3 Norte), as well as three reservoirs (Descoberto, Santa Maria, Paranoá). The DF has four hydrographic basins: Descoberto, São Bartolomeu, Maranho and Preto. The first and second drain southward into La Plata Basin, the third northward into the Amazon Basin and the last eastward into the São Francisco Basin.
The climate in the cerrado region is tropical (Köppen's Aw). Mean annual precipitation generally varies from 1100 to 1600 mm, with c. 90% occurring in the warmer wet season (October-April); there is a marked dry season from May to September. The annual temperature averages from 18°-20°C, with July being 16°-18°C and September and October 20°-22°C.
The DF has a mosaic of different vegetation types that can be put into two groups: forest and savanna. There are gallery forests, mesophytic forests, semi-deciduous forests, and "cerradão" (cerrado woodlands) (picture). Savanna ("cerrado") includes a gradient of decreasing density of trees: cerrado denso, cerrado sensu stricto, campo cerrado, campo sujo de cerrado and campo limpo de cerrado (Eiten 1972, 1990). The "campo limpo de cerrado" has no trees, being dominated by herbs (primarily grasses), with subshrubs and shrubs. Accessory vegetation types include seasonal marshes (wet campos), permanent marshes, "veredas" (swamps), campos de murunduns and a few rocky or litholic fields (Eiten 1990).
The vegetation is overwhelmingly dominated by cerrado sensu stricto (cerrado típico), which is floristically heterogeneous (Felfili and Silva 1993). Gallery forests occur along rivers and semi-deciduous forests on limestone-derived soils and limestone outcrops. Mesophytic forest and cerrado were once fairly common, but are now the rarest types of vegetation in the DF - because their soil is richer and more productive, they have been cleared and transformed into agricultural fields and pastures. A few tracts are in protected areas; those outside the conservation system face a bleak future.
The gallery forests are of two distinct types: swampy and dry. The swamp forest remains waterlogged all year; the dry forest is never waterlogged. Some key species characterize swampy gallery forests: Talauma ovata, Euterpe edulis, Geonoma schottiana and Mauritia vinifera - a palm which is also characteristic of veredas. The "veredas" (or "brejos") are ecologically very important because they are the headwaters of many watercourses. As they have surface water all year, they are oases critical to the survival of many species. Animals gather at veredas to drink during the driest months.
"Campos de murunduns" consist of areas with rounded earth mounds (murunduns) covered by woody cerrado plants, and between the mounds predominately grasses, sedges and Xyris spp. Mound height varies from 0.05-2 m and the mounds are generally semi-elliptical. Their origin appears to be related to drainage patterns and differential erosion (Araújo Neto et al. 1986).
The rocky and litholic fields resemble campo-rupestre areas. They are dominated by Vellozia spp., Lychnophora ericoides, Paepalanthus spp., Xyris spp. and Dyckia spp. These habitats occur in small patches amongst the general cerrado vegetation and are generally overlooked. Their flora is very different from the surrounding areas and their limited soil is rocky and sandy.
The DF flora is only partially known. There is a checklist with 2500 native species of vascular plants (Filgueiras and Pereira 1990) but several areas have never been adequately surveyed; at least 3000 species are expected to occur. A project for an illustrated Flora is under way (Cavalcanti and Proença, pers. comm.). Extensive field collecting was carried out in 1992 and projected to continue in an effort to sample the remaining native vegetation.
Families with the largest number of species are Leguminosae, Gramineae (305 spp. - Filgueiras 1991), Compositae, Orchidaceae (233 spp. - Bianchetti et al. 1991), Rubiaceae, Myrtaceae and Melastomataceae. Genera especially diverse in species are Paspalum and Panicum (Gramineae), Habenaria (Orchidaceae), Vernonia (Compositae), Chamaecrista and Mimosa (Leguminosae), Miconia (Melastomataceae) and Hyptis (Labiatae).
Several endemic, rare or threatened species or populations are known. A single gymnosperm Podocarpus brasiliensis occurs in the DF, where it is considered threatened; only two small populations of this relict species have been found. Other examples of species rare in the DF are Wunderlichia mirabilis, Weinmannia organensis, Manihot anomala, Apoclada cannavieira (a single population), Arthropogon filifolius, Hymenolobium heringerianum, Lupinus insignis and Drimys winteri. Among the endemics are Calea heringeri, Panicum subtiramulosum, Hymenolobium heringerianum and Cedrela odorata var. xerogeiton. Lychnophora ericoides is threatened, even though three sizeable populations have been located, because it is over-exploited by those who collect and commercialize medicinal plants. The herbaceous bambusoid grasses Aulonemia aristulata and Pharus lappulaceus are common through their overall ranges, but only a single population of each has been found in the DF.
Useful plants
Many useful plants occur in the DF. Most have been used traditionally, yet new uses are constantly being sought (Almeida, Silva and Ribeiro 1987). These plants fall into various categories: timber, charcoal, fibre, cork, food, forage, oil, honey, medicinal, tannin and ornamental.
A number of tree species are commercialized for their wood. Especially sought are Hymenaea spp., Blepharocalyx salicifolius (B. suaveolens), Ocotea spp., Pterodon pubescens, Copaifera langsdorffii and Calophyllum brasiliense. Most of the cerrado trees can produce good quality charcoal, which has become a quick source of income to farmers who own tracts of undisturbed cerrado. The collection and commercialization of wild plants for dried flower arrangements employs hundreds of people during the year.
Fruits of many tree species are harvested and sold in street fairs or local markets. Examples are "pequi" (Caryocar brasiliense), "mangabá" (Hancornia speciosa), "araticum" (Annona crassiflora) and "cagaita" (Eugenia dysenterica). Liqueurs and spirits of native fruit species can be found in any local market. Especially famous are the liqueurs made from pequi, "murici" (Byrsonima spp.) and "genipapo" (Genipa americana).
Medicinal plants are an important aspect of Brazilian culture, especially in rural areas. The number of medicinal plants is considered high in the cerrado in general (Siqueira 1981) and in the DF (Barros 1982). These plants (e.g. Lychnophora ericoides, Centrosema bracteosum, Pterodon pubescens, Anemopaegma arvense) are routinely collected for private use as well as sold both locally and elsewhere in the country.
Social and environmental values
The Distrito Federal represents only 0.07% of Brazilian territory, but its political, social, cultural and economic importance is enormous. It is a melting pot for Brazilian culture, attracting people from all parts of the country. Besides permanent residents, Brasília also has a large fluctuating population of politicians, lobbyists and executives, who have temporary homes in the city and pay premium prices for top quality housing. Conservation issues in the DF are especially significant because what happens is likely to be regarded as a model for the entire cerrado region and perhaps the whole country. There is considerable pressure to create an industrial district that will generate numerous jobs, which will bring still more people.
The diversity of fauna recorded from the DF is quite high. In the cerrado region of Brazil there are c. 300 species of mammals; in the DF, notable species include 30 bats, four monkeys, several anteaters (including the giant anteater) and five cats. Over 400 species of birds are known from the DF, c. 200 of which are associated with the cerrado biome; c. 14 species are regionally endemic or rare. The threatened endemic bird known as the Brasília tapaculo (Scytalopus novacapitalis) survives locally in swampy gallery forest and dense streamside vegetation in the states of Goiás, the Distrito Federal and Minas Gerais. The DF has over 50 species of Lepidoptera (Rocha et al. 1990).
The area's diverse biological wealth has attracted the attention of a great number of scientists, to the extent that the DF is much better known than any other area in the cerrado region (Novaes Pinto 1990b; Dias 1990). The project Flora do Distrito Federal to prepare an illustrated Flora is led by local scientists who work in close cooperation with international botanical institutions.
The DF has a tradition of developing cooperative research programmes among different institutions, which has proven very effective in disciplines such as ecology. The following have a history of conducting joint research projects: Universidade de Brasília, EMBRAPA (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária), Reserva Ecológica do IBGE, Jardim Botânico de Brasília and SEMATEC (Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, Ciência e Tecnologia). Non-governmental organizations such as FUNATURA (Fundação Pró-Natureza) are also very active in promoting research and related activities.
Economic assessment
The DF has considerable economic activity. Commerce and services predominate, but agriculture also has an important role, especially for vegetables, fruits (oranges - Citrus) and recently soybeans (Glycine max) and dairy products. Although the cerrado soils are poor in some essential minerals (e.g. nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium), they may become quite productive through technologies such as liming, fertilizing and the general use of pesticides.
Cattle production is carried out using native pasturage in the wet season; 135 grass species are of forage value (Filgueiras and Wechsler 1992; Filgueiras 1992). During the dry season, planted pastures supply the bulk of the forage (mostly Andropogon gayanus, Brachiaria spp., Hyparrhenia rufa, Panicum maximum). Several legume species (commonly Stylosanthes spp. and Leucaena spp.) are also planted in the pastures to increase their nutritional value.
Despite increasing environmental awareness, charcoal is still being produced in the DF and is very profitable. It has become a cash crop - yet no investment is needed and there is no risk. The farmer normally sells the raw material as a type of standing crop, i.e. the cerrado in its natural state; the woody plants are extracted and made into the charcoal, especially for use in the steel industry.
The flourishing business in wild plants for flower arrangements is a source of income for many families. In 1984 to the south-east in the region of Diamantina, Minas Gerais (within CPD Site SA20), 257 tonnes of dried plants were collected (Burman 1991). A sizeable portion of these plants is destined for international markets, especially in U.S.A. and Japan. As these resources are becoming scarce within the DF, collectors are slowly moving to other areas where the plants are still abundant.
The fruits of some native species are readily harvested and sell at a good price wherever they occur in reasonable quantities, e.g. Caryocar brasiliense, Annona crassiflora, Hancornia speciosa and Mauritia vinifera ("buriti"). Medicinal plants are gathered in the DF in large quantities and sold locally or exported to other areas (Goiás, Minas Gerais). The trade involves both untreated plants and liquid extracts from them ("garrafadas"). These medicinals can be purchased in any marketplace in Central Brazil; in the DF they are readily available in all open markets and in speciality shops.
Quarrying is restricted to extraction of limestone, gravel and sand. The limestone is converted into cement, which is the principal building material. Cement production is one of the major industrial activities in the DF. The gravel and sand are used in road construction and repair as well as building homes. There is increasing demand for gravel and sand in the area because Brasília and the satellite cities are growing rapidly. Thus major income for many families in operating their businesses depends on these public-land resources.
The biggest threat to the biodiversity of the Distrito Federal is the steady increase of the human population. Brasília was projected to accommodate 500,000 people towards the year 2000. However in 1990, 30 years after its foundation, the city's population was over 1 million. The estimated DF population is now 2 million, which encompasses the satellite cities Ceilândia, Taguatinga, Guará I, Guará II, Núcleo Bandeirante, Sobradinho and Planaltina, as well as several settlements and many rural communities. New settlements appear every year through the DF - some legal, some illegal. Migration has become common because Brasília attracts people from all parts of the country looking for jobs, health facilities, schools and housing.
The shortage of water is already a problem and demand is growing with the population. In 1992 there were projects to build a new dam to store water for human consumption and generating electricity. The São Bartolomeu River has been selected not because of the quality of its water -it is simply the largest river available in the region. Plans exist to bring water from outside the DF in the near future, because very serious water shortages are projected. Drainage of wetland areas (especially veredas) for agriculture additionally threatens the water supply as well as this specialized vegetation. Water pollution and contamination (mostly from pesticides) already are major concerns. Farms in the Descoberto River Basin supply most of the vegetables consumed in the DF, but also contribute significantly to the pollution in the area.
The price of land in the DF is extremely high for Brazil. There is a chronic housing shortage mainly for those with low and middle incomes and tremendous pressure for new housing developments. Closed condominiums ("condomínios fechados") are appearing as a viable alternative for middle-class families; they are in rural and semi-rural areas on public and private lands. The condominiums are primarily situated in Áreas de Proteção Ambiental (APAs), making their establishment a serious threat to these legally conserved zones. As the condominiums were not included in the original plans for the DF, a battle was under way in 1992 to legalize them.
The classification as an APA can be misleading; it is a weak type of conservation unit. Entire neighbourhoods, large settlements, agriculture and some industries are found within such areas. The APA do Lago Paranoá can hardly be considered even semi-rural; it is heavily populated and includes the two most prestigous residential sections of Brasília, with large estates and country homes. The APA do Rio São Bartolomeu has become almost totally colonized by condominiums, small farms and new settlements. Consequently, the APAs at best should be considered as semi-rural or rural multiple-use zones rather than nature conservation units.
Additionally, various conservation units are becoming progressively isolated as they are surrounded by farms and settlements. The human influences on these areas are notable. Some of the problems are an increase in the number of human-provoked fires, illegal hunting and fishing, the presence of feral animals (dogs and cats), and weeds. Feral animals are a serious problem in Brasília National Park, where dog packs have been reported to prey on large mammals such as tapir, deer and capybara. Habitat alteration is a serious problem caused by weeds such as Melinis minutiflora, Panicum maximum, Andropogon gayanus, Hyparrhenia rufa and Brachiaria decumbens. These African grasses are commonly cultivated in the pastures but because of their aggressiveness, they invade conserved areas and compete with native species, sometimes eliminating them (Filgueiras 1989).
Fire is a serious threat, particularly to the conservation units. Human-provoked fires occur every year and some are very damaging to the animals and plants alike. A long-term cooperative project involving national and international scientists is assessing the effects of different fire regimes on the cerrado environment. The results of their research will help to establish management policies for conservation units throughout the region where fire has been a regular natural occurrence.
The main conservation units in the DF are indicated in Table 59 (cf. Map 57) (SEMATEC and GDF 1992; Dias 1990). About 3.2% of the DF is in totally protected areas (which is higher than the c. 2.5% of the country as a whole). However, the entire range of the DF vegetation types is not conserved. For example, calcareous outcrops are not protected - they are aggressively exploited for their limestone. Also litholic fields and campos de murunduns are not adequately protected. Representative portions of these habitats should be legally and effectively preserved - while good areas still remain.
Three contiguous areas (Estação Ecológica do Jardim Botânico, Reserva Ecológica do IBGE, Estação Ecológica da Universidade de Brasília) within the APA Gama-Cabeça de Veado are the site of several ecological research projects, from floristic surveys to the effects of fire on plants, animals, soil and water. The Reserva Ecológica do IBGE is perhaps the best studied of all the DF conservation units (more than 30 theses and dissertations have been carried out), and it has the best data on flora (1700 species), fauna, soil, and fire practices. A management plan for this reserve was nearing completion in 1993.
Brasília National Park is the only conservation unit that has had a (preliminary) management plan, which is being revised by a team of experts. The APA de Cafuringa (which was created in 1988 but presently exists without protection) is particularly important ecologically because it links the park and the Chapada da Contagem, and thus plays a key role in preventing the park's isolation.
As a result of a symposium on alternatives for developing the cerrado region carried out by FUNATURA (Dias 1992), it was recommended to the federal government that the APA de Cafuringa, Brasília National Park, Estação Ecológica de Águas Emendadas, APA do Rio São Bartolomeu and APA Gama-Cabeça de Veado (totalling c. 1866 km²) be designated as a Biosphere Reserve, due to their biological significance as well as their economic, social, political and cultural values.
The government is making an effort to create new protected areas and responding to environmental groups and the local scientific community, which has a history of acting politically together with community leaders on important conservation matters. At least 8% of the Distrito Federal needs to be well preserved through legal protection and management of the best natural areas. The present goals are to bring new natural areas into conservation (e.g. the limestone outcrops, the litholic campos, the campos de murunduns) and to procure funds to assist the nature conservation units so that they may become a full reality rather than mainly existing legally. Financial support is urgently needed to provide the conservation units with the basic infrastructure to secure effective protection of biodiversity. This includes the purchase of some land and of equipment for fire control, construction of buildings and fences and hiring of forest guards and administrative personnel.
The urban population of Brasília is becoming increasingly aware of conservation issues. Environmental education is becoming very important in Brasília and several institutions are begining to develop their own programs to educate school children, teenagers and adults. Once available, these programs become very popular and much sought after especially by the school system. Ecology-related topics have a special appeal that intrigues and fascinates both younger and older generations. Special attention should be paid to the populations living around the conservation units. If well motivated and educated, they can have key roles in preserving the biodiversity of the areas they live near.
Map 57. Distrito Federal, Brazil (CPD Site SA21) (after SEMATEC and GDF 1992)
Almeida, S.P., Silva, J.A. da and Ribeiro, J.F. (1987). Aproveitamento alimentar de espécies nativas dos cerrados: araticum, baru, cagaita e jatobá. Documentos 26, EMBRAPA-CPAC (Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária dos Cerrados), Planaltina, D.F., Brazil.
Araújo Neto, M.D., Furley, P.A., Haridasan, M. and Johnson, C.E. (1986). The murunduns of the cerrado region of Central Brazil. Journal Trop. Ecol. 2: 17-35.
Barros, J.G.C. (1990). Caracterização geológica e hidrogeológica do Distrito Federal. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado: caracterização, ocupação e perspectivas. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 257-275.
Barros, M.A.G. (1982). Flora medicinal do Distrito Federal. Brasil Florestal 12: 35-45.
Bianchetti, L., Batista, J.A.N., Salles, A.H., Maury, C.M.R.F. and Andrade, F.A.T. (1991). Contribuição ao conhecimento da família Orchidaceae no Distrito Federal novas citações. In Rizzo, J.A. (ed.), Resumos dos trabalhos do Congresso Nacional de Botânica. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia. Pg. 384.
Burman, A.G. (1991). Saving Brazil's savannas. New Scientist 1758: 30-34.
Dias, B.F.S. (1990). Conservação da natureza no cerrado brasileiro. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 582-640.
Dias, B.F.S. (ed.) (1992). Alternativas de desenvolvimento dos cerrados: manejo e conservação dos recursos naturais renováveis. FUNATURA (Fundação Pró-Natureza); IBAMA (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis), Brasília.
Eiten, G. (1972). The cerrado vegetation of Brazil. Bot. Review 38: 201-341.
Eiten, G. (1990). Vegetação do cerrado. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 9-65.
Felfili, J.M. and Silva Jr., M.C. da (1993). A comparative study of cerrado (sensu stricto) vegetation in Central Brazil. Journal Trop. Ecol. 9: 277-289.
Filgueiras, T.S. (1989). Africanas no Brasil: gramíneas introduzidas da África. Cadernos de Geociências 2: 41-46.
Filgueiras, T.S. (1991). A floristic analysis of the Gramineae of Brazil's Distrito Federal and a list of the species occurring in the area. Edinburgh Journal Bot. 48: 73-80.
Filgueiras, T.S. (1992). Gramíneas forrageiras nativas no Distrito Federal. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 27: 1103-1111.
Filgueiras, T.S. and Pereira, B.A.S. (1990). Flora do Distrito Federal. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 331-388.
Filgueiras, T.S. and Wechsler, F.S. (1992). Pastagens nativas. In Dias, B.F.S. (ed.), Alternativas de desenvolvimento dos cerrados: manejo e conservação dos recursos naturais renováveis. FUNATURA; IBAMA, Brasília. Pp. 47-49.
Haridasan, M. (1990). Solos do Distrito Federal. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 309-330.
Novaes Pinto, M. (1990a). Caracterização geomorfológica do Distrito Federal. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 277-308.
Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.) (1990b). Cerrado: caracterização, ocupação e perspectivas. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. 657 pp.
Rocha, I.R.D., Cavalcanti, R.B., Marinho Filho, J.S. and Kitayama, K. (1990). Fauna do Distrito Federal. In Novaes Pinto, M. (ed.), Cerrado. Editora Universidade de Brasília, Brasília. Pp. 389-411.
SEMATEC and GDF (1992). Mapa ambiental do Distrito Federal 92. Scale 1:150,000. Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, Ciência e Tecnologia (SEMATEC), IEMA ICT and Governo do Distrito Federal (GDF), Brasília.
Siqueira, J.C. de (1981). Utilização popular das plantas dos cerrados. Ed. Loyola, São Paulo.
This Data Sheet was written by Dr Tarciso S. Filgueiras [Instituto Brasileiro de
Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Caixa Postal 08-770, 70200-200 Brasília, D.F., Brazil].
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MELBOURNE – Coal explorer Carabella Resources Ltd. is considering selling a minority stake in one of its key projects in Australia's Queensland state to help raise development funding, a spokesman for the company said Friday.
The company in October said it was setting up a so-called data room for suitors after being approached by companies interested in the project, but the spokesman said no formal proposal has yet been made.
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The company earlier this month raised about 24 million Australian dollars (US$24 million) with the issue of almost 18.5 million shares after it secured capacity at Abbot Point port to export 2 million metric tons of coal a year. The money will allow Carabella to continue developing its Grosvenor West project and exploring the wider Mabbin Creek area.
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March 28, 2007
DOE and EPA Honor Outstanding Energy Star Partners
DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored 85 businesses, groups, and government entities on March 21st for their outstanding commitment to the Energy Star program. The Energy Star differentiates energy efficient products in more than 35 product categories for the home and workplace. The program also uses energy performance rating systems for new homes and commercial buildings; top performing buildings receive the Energy Star. More than 9,000 organizations have partnered with Energy Star and demonstrated their commitment to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes, and businesses. The program and its industry partners have helped consumers save more than $14 billion on utility bills in the past year.
DOE and the EPA recognized seven Energy Star award winners, including Bosch Home Appliances for Excellence in Energy Star Promotion – Appliances. Sustained Excellence Awards went to GE Consumer & Industrial; Gorell Enterprises, Inc.; Osram Sylvania; and Whirlpool Corporation. The Partners of the Year were Pella Corporation in the window manufacturer category and Precision Entry, Inc. in the door manufacturer category. See the DOE press release, the EPA press release, and the full list of award winners.


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"This historic Red Sox relic serves as the physical incarnation of the exorcism of 'The Curse of the Bambino just as the 'The Buckner Ball' is the curse's embodiment," said Chris Ivy, Director of Vintage Sports Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. "Since we sold 'The Buckner Ball' in April of 2012 for almost $420,000, we thought this was a great opportunity to balance the scales and give collectors a chance to decide which moment is worth more."
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Sunday, 11 July 2010
A Busy Week
So only sneaky peeks of the stuff I have been working on I am afraid as they are due to be released later this year and next (I have been working on mothers day cards for next March!) but before I show you those here is a little something I did whilst waiting for drawings to scan and print etc.
I am not sure which version I prefer I suspect I will use both. The reason it came about was whilst searching for inspiration for my cards, I discovered the illustrator Gladys Peto.
I get SO excited when I discover a new artist that I love and always make Russ (who is usually deep in concentration in his own work) come and take a look. I am not sure he shares my excitment for vintage illustrations of children! Anyway you can see lots of examples of her work here, but it was this one that caught my attention the most and I knew I had to draw my own Belle & Boo version. I know I am not half as good as Gladys but I aim to be one day.
Sneaky peeks of the cards
Sneaky peek of an illustration I did for the front cover of Famillies North magazine, out Set/Oct
Another sneaky peek has already happened over on our face book site, Suzie who brilliantly looks after that & Belle & Boo's Twitter site has shared some photos from the Autumn/Winter 2010 collection of B&B clothes. Here are a few, hop over there to see more.
ssshhhh don't tell anyone but that bottom outfit is reversible! who had a C&A reversible jumper in the 80's hands up? I have a sunshine yellow snoopy one & Loved it!
One last thing before I go and enjoy some of this glorious sunshine that we have been blessed with for an astonishingly long time now, at Bubble Tracy & I were lucky enough to meet 2 sensational sisters Rebekka and Carla. They are soon opening their own online boutique we can't wait to see what lovely items they stock, for now you can read about their adventures here.
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C&A's ... the good old days !!!ReplyDelete
Love the illistartions of Belle holing Boo, the top one reminds me of Milly Molly Mandy...C & A's I remember buying ski pants in all differnt colours fron there when I was about 15 and wearing them with my Nanas nylon polo neck top and my fishtail parka and bowling shoes, really did think I was cool !ReplyDelete
I had a M&S who loves roger rabbit one!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing your "find"! I love finding fabulous, new to me, artists.ReplyDelete
I love your little girl and bunny, too. I think I slightly prefer the dark-haired version, but maybe because I'm used to your dark-haired girls already? But the eye seems to gravitate towards it more.
I agree sweet busy friend...creating is sooooo exciting! All your hard work now will pay off...I am in the same boat right now..working like a crazy women on some future adventures.ReplyDelete
Love love those sweet outfits on those darling little girls..hugs to you for a happy productive week...xo
oh my goodness Mandy, just so many new delights! I get just as excited about vintage drawings, I just gasp when I see a new one that I discover too! Just as I gasp when I see your work :) Oh reversible jumpers, I had a turquoise mickey mouse one!! Yes I admit it! Catherine xReplyDelete
You are just as good as Gladys!ReplyDelete
I had a bright yellow mickey mouse reversible padded jumper. I think mine was from C&A too!
Hugs, Sarah x
Hi MandyReplyDelete
So much goodness in this post!
I like your illustration just as much as the one by Gladys. It was so interesting to see where your inspiration came from.
The rabbit for the magazine cover looks so cute!
On the subject of reversible jumpers I too had a snoopy one in bright pink! I think the belle&boo top will be loved by the little ones, because if I remember rightly when you're that age you just love anything that can be reversed! Such a novelty :)
love kat xx
Your artwork always make me smile.ReplyDelete
The little outfits are adorable.
Your sneak peaks are just wonderful!!!ReplyDelete
I love your stuff so it was an absolute pleasure to find it and post it on my blog. If I had a few pennies spare at the moment I'd be hot-footing it to your store. Alas, for now I will just have to store it in the back of my mind for a sunny day :)ReplyDelete


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Keith and Nicole, who were married June 25 in Sydney, will make their home in Nashville, although they won't have much time to adjust to their new life. Keith is getting ready to resume touring, with shows in Canada and Michigan next week. He'll also be playing the massive Jamboree in the Hills Country Festival in Ohio July 15. Meanwhile, Nicole will soon begin work on a new movie, The Lady From Shanghai.
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MLS Power Rankings – Week 7
Not a lot of movement this week, especially in the top half, as it appears a lot of teams have defined themselves. Rather unfortunately , in Montreal's case…
We do have a top six that have shown the capacity to really dominate opponents, with varying degrees of consistency. The next group doesn't really isn't very close, even though the capacity is there. Below 10, though, there really isn't enough talent to challenge to get into the upper group. It is a long season, of course, but at this time, there is a bigger gap between 10 and 11 than any other grouping.
1 (1) Real Salt Lake – I may just leave this up here until something changes… "Workman like results. Who is going to really test Jeff Cassar's men?" Every week there is another challenger, and every week the challenger goes home the lesser side.
2 (2) Los Angeles Galaxy – It took some heroics from Vancouver to get a tie at home. This is a good spot for Arena's boys and it is going to take something special to move them down.
3 (3) Sporting Kansas City – A dominating result from a team with the potential to do that a lot. If I were other MLS clubs, I would be worried. Then again, it was only Montreal.
4 (4) Seattle Sounders – The Clint Dempsey Show continues. This is a team that is going to put a hurt on anyone who doesn't have a stout lineup and an even stronger constitution. This is the Seattle side that Sigi was looking for the past few seasons, especially since the acquisition of Dempsey last year.
5 (6) FC Dallas – Quite the bounce back from their first loss of the season. Even after being down a goal, the Red Menace just kept coming. It is definitely Pick Your Poison with Pareja's lads – clog it up and Michel puts the ball on someone's head for the win, open up and Mauro Diaz does his surgical best. Question is, now that their long home run is ending, can they take their success on the road? If they can get these results on the road, then it is going to get awfully crowded in the top tier.
6 (5) Colorado Rapids – Mastroeni's team is definitely better than many expected but tying San Jose at home, tough as the EarthQuakes may be, is not going to keep them moving to the top of the list. But a lot of the results this team has gotten of late are quite impressive.
7 (7) Toronto FC – The injuries are definitely taking their toll. In this case, the bet on holding off the Dallas side with good defense came close, but fell short by a handful of minutes. Considering the opponent, they maintain their spot.
8 (8) Columbus Crew – What was a hot team to start the year is no longer. Now they are struggling to get a tie against the very same United side they embarrassed on opening day.
9 (9) Vancouver Whitecaps – Just not in the same league as the Galaxy.
10 (10) New England Revolution – They got the result they needed, but it could have been a loss against a sub-par side. Not the kind of result that will move them up.
11 (13) Chivas USA – Lose at home, and you move up? That says a lot about your opponent, but also about the teams below you. Is this team close to making the playoffs? Maybe not, but certainly they are closer to having a successful season than the teams trailing them.
12 (14) DC United – Is this a team starting to put it together? Six weeks ago, United was crushed at home by this very Crew team. Now, the Columbus team couldn't replicate the win at home.
13 (11) Houston Dynamo – What has happened to this team? Now they can't get a win at a tired Philadelphia team? This isn't a team on track for the playoffs at this pace.
14 (12) Philadelphia Union – It seems the league has adjusted to their off-season moves. Scary thought – What now?
15 (16) New York Red Bulls – Finally, a win. Is this the start of something big, or just a win over a bad Union side?
16 (15) San Jose EarthQuakes – Found a way to get a result, but will the disciplinary committee have something to say about a player or two?
17 (17) Chicago Fire – Mired in the gutter is not where this franchise wants to be, but that is what happens when you seem to find a way to tie just about every game.
18 (18) Portland Timbers – Almost want to move them up for not getting smoked by RSL, but a loss is a loss. At what point do they have to do something drastic to get off this awful run of form?
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[ thai food : pad ka-na pla kem ]
Thai Recipe Ingredients
* 50 grams salted fish
* 4-6 chinese kales
* 1 tablespoon minced garlic
* 1/2 cup red chili, sliced diagnally
* 1 tablespoon fish sauce
* 1 tablespoon soy sauce
* 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
* 1 teaspoon sugar
* powder pepper (sprinkle before serving)
* cooking oil
Thai Food Preparations
1. Wash chinese kale in clean water. Drain and cut dianally into well pieces.
2. Heat oil in a wok over medium heat. Add salted fish, and fry until done.
3. Add minced garlic, stir fry until golden and aromatic. Add chinese kale and red chili. Season with fish sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Turn up to high heat, add 2 tablespoons of water. Stir quickly until all ingredients mixed well. Remove from heat.
4. Transfer to a serving plate. Sprinkle with powder pepper and serve immediately with hot steamed rice.
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Shopping Service is a JavaFX application that search and displays products using Yahoo! Shopping Web Services API. It can search for product offerings using text string queries.
Visit JavaFX Samples website for source code.
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News :: Vinton veteran Hilner finally receives WWII discharge
· 8:45am July 7th, 2014
Vinton World War 2 veteran Clarence Hilner waited 70 years to receive his official US Military discharge and DD214.
Clarence was too young to join the regular military when the war began, so at age 16 he joined the Merchant Marines and was sent to the South Pacific to deliver much needed supplies to US Troops.
Clarence wanted to do his part in the war effort and can recall how scared he was during some of his trips overseas. "Washing Machine Charlie" was a constant reminder of the enemy close at hand. "Washing Machine Charlie" was so named because his plane sounded like a washing machine and that sound of his aircraft overhead was a constant reminder their position was noted for a possible submarine or air attack.
Clarence served aboard the SS Capulpa and the SS McKittrck Hills during WWII and had many close encounters with the enemy.
Now with official discharge and DD214 in hand Clarence is eligible for Veterans Benefits he has not had since WWII. The Merchant Marines did not become eligible for benefits until nearly 40 years after the end of the war; each veteran had to apply individually to receive veteran's status and benefits.
Clarence is one of The Greatest Generation and a true American Hero and has been invited to be on the September 23 Eastern Iowa Honor Flight. How fitting to receive his Discharge on the 4th of July week-end.
Pictured with Clarence is Roger Uthoff of the American Legion who assisted with the paper work, and Clarence's wife, Beverly.
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My goodness, how I would love to go to South Africa!!! My mom is actually getting ready to go in March and I'm sooo jealous!!! If it weren't for that stupid mountain of mine next year I would totally jump into her suitcase... or would actually got my own ticket =)
Today's journey takes us to South Africa. When I think of this country, the Kruger park immediately comes to mind. My Tanzanian safari was one of the best trips of my life, and I would sure love to experience it again at Kruger park! My nails today are based on some of the animals that can be found there.
First I painted all but one of my fingernails with OPI "Don't Pretzel My Buttons", a perfect nude that covered completely in 2 coats. My index finger has 2 coats of my go-to white, OPI "Alpine Snow".
Then I stamped all my nails to show different animals. My index finger has a zebra stamp taken from Gals plate GA-32 and done with Finger Paints "Black Expressionism". My middle and ring fingernails show a giraffe design from BM-313 and using Finger Paints "Artist's Inspiration". Finally, my pinky nail has a cheetah design from BM-222 and again, Finger Paints "Black Expressionism".
The giraffe I'm holding in my hand is a really thin and really long wooden giraffe that I got as a souvenir in Tanzania!
I sponged each fingernail with white OPI "Alpine Snow" and stamped animals at the bottom. The antelope and elephant are from GA-32 plate, and the giraffe and the ostrich from GA-46. Now if only I was able to stamp them on straight and not amputate giraffe's leg, this mani would actually be one of my best!!!
I guess I still really like it despite the stamping mistakes. I hope you do too!!
Here are some pictures from my own safari trip, I thought the little animals were the cutest!!!
|this ostrich is actually performing a mating dance!!
Thanks so much for visiting and traveling with me!!!
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Avalanche Farm Report: Jan. 11
Prospect Spotlight On AHL All-Star Ryan Stoa
Tuesday, 01.11.2011 / 2:19 PM MT / Features
By Aaron Lopez - Special to ColoradoAvalanche.com
Spotlight On: Ryan Stoa
Ryan Stoa has been turning his game on in recent weeks, and the result was a nod to the American Hockey League's Western Conference All-Star Team .
The rosters were announced for the 2011 AHL All-Star Classic on Tuesday, and Stoa was the lone member of the Lake Erie Monsters to be honored. This year's AHL All-Star Classic will take place Jan. 30-31 in Hershey, Pa.
Stoa, a native of Bloomington, Minn., currently leads the Monsters in goals (14) and power-play goals (5), while ranking second in points (25) in 39 contests. The All-Star appearance will be the first of his professional career.
After starting the season with just one assist over his first 10 games, the 6-foot-3, 200-pound forward has come on strong offensively by totaling 24 points (14g/10a) over his past 29 games.
More recently, he has averaged over a point-per-game in his last eight contests, totaling nine points (5g/4a) during that span.
Now in his second professional season, Stoa has totaled 65 points (37g/28a) in 93 American Hockey League games.
The Monsters picked up one victory in four contests last week.
Lake Erie began the week with a 4-3 loss to Rochester last Tuesday, during which Justin Mercier, Travis Gawryletz and Ryan Stoa scored goals and John Grahame made 22 saves. The Monsters were then blanked, 3-0, on Friday night in Houston. Jason Bacashihua stopped 38-of-41 shots in the loss.
Lake Erie picked up its only victory of the week on Saturday, defeating Texas by a 3-1 count. Stoa (1g/2a) and Ben Walter (1g/1a) both had multi-point games, Patrick Rissmiller chipped in with a goal and Grahame made 18 saves.
The Monsters finished the week by falling to Oklahoma City, 5-1, on Sunday. Stoa scored Lake Erie's lone goal, while Grahame made 19 saves in a losing cause.
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Colorado's Central Hockey League affiliate split two games last weekend, first beating Quad City by a 4-2 score on Friday and then falling to Missouri, 3-2, on Saturday.
Trevor Cann was in goal for both games, stopping 37 shots during Friday's victory and making 34 saves in Saturday's loss. In seven CHL contests this season, Cann has a 4-2-0 record to go along with a 2.77 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage.
-Kieran Millan turned aside 29 shots as Boston University defeated Hockey East foe Vermont, 4-2, on Sunday. With the victory, Millan improved to 6-3-6 on the season with a 2.98 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage.
-Boston College forward Paul Carey notched a goal Friday as the Eagles downed Providence, 4-1. Carey sits third on the Eagles' scoring chart with 18 points (9g/9a) through 20 games. The junior forward's nine goals match his career high set during the 2009-10 campaign.
-Freshman forward Luke Moffatt scored a power-play goal on Friday during Michigan's 4-3 overtime loss to CCHA rival Michigan State. In 18 games this season, Moffatt has totaled 10 points (3g/7a).
-Senior forward Brad Malone picked up two assists during North Dakota's 8-0 blanking of Robert Morris on Friday and currently ranks fourth on the team with 20 points (7g/13a) in 22 contests.
-Minnesota goalie Kent Patterson stopped all 15 shots he faced in 32:12 of action during the Gophers' lone game last week – a 9-0 exhibition victory over the U.S. National Under-18 Team.
-Stefan Elliott was named the WHL Player of the Week for the Jan. 3-9 time period after picking up six points (2g/4a) and posting a +7 rating in two games. Elliott had a goal and three assists last Tuesday as Saskatoon shut out Calgary, 4-0. The defenseman then added a goal and an assist as the Blades earned a 5-1 triumph over Prince Albert on Friday. Elliott leads all WHL blueliners in goals (18) and points (44) in 40 games.
-In his first game back with Kelowna after winning a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2011 IIHF World Junior Championship, Tyson Barrie scored a power-play goal and added two assists to lead the Rockets to an 8-1 victory over Kamloops. Barrie currently stands 11th among WHL defensemen in scoring with 28 points (5g/23a) in 24 games.
-Calvin Pickard appeared in net during all four of Seattle's games last week. He began the week by making 37 stops in an 8-4 loss to Tri-City last Tuesday, but then bounced back by turning aside 28-of-29 attempts in Seattle's 3-1 triumph over Kelowna on Friday. Pickard was a hard-luck loser on Saturday despite stopping 42-of-44 shots in a 2-1 loss to Portland. Pickard and the Thunderbirds rounded out the week with a 5-4 overtime loss to Chilliwack on Sunday, during which the goaltender made 22 saves. Pickard has appeared in 38 of Seattle's 41 games, posting a 17-14-3-4 record with a .922 save percentage.
-2010 first-round pick Joey Hishon scored both of Owen Sound's goals Friday in a 4-2 loss to Kingston and then recorded four points (1g/3a) as the Attack fell to Ottawa, 6-4, on Sunday. Hishon leads the Attack and is tied for fourth in the Ontario Hockey League with 59 points (25g/34a) in 30 games.
-Brandon Maxwell made one appearance last week, stopping 33 shots as Kitchener fell to Erie by a 4-2 final score. In 27 appearances, Maxwell has a 16-7-3-0 record with a .910 save percentage.


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Newton Distance Elite
$155, Newtonrunning.com
The draw: Explosiveness
Newton's spring-loaded lug system creates an unmistakable sensation of "pop" in every shoe the company produces, regardless of weight. This shoe, however, has a little extra energy. Newton stripped away much of the overlays on the upper to shave several ounces without compromising cushioning, and the difference is perceivable. Fit does suffer a bit—the minimalist upper doesn't secure the foot as soundly as some.
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which the Skunkware emacs and xemacs stopped working after the rs506a,
oss646c, gwxlibs-2.1.0Ba, and other patches.
I can live with my manually compiled xemacs, but I'd prefer emacs (due
to familiarity: I prefer its handling of RCS files and C indenting).
But getting a workable one, with SCO terminal settings, cleanly
compiled seems rather difficult. Has anyone got a good working emacs
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Compiling the latest raw tarball, using the 'gnutools' package from
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| I have a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 server where I need to replace the SCSI
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| would like to replace it with an Adaptec 29160n. The original 2940U2W
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Electronic cigarettes are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes. Although they do not contain the numerous hazards that are found in regular smokes while delivering nicotine,e cigs do not eliminate the risk associated with using nicotine. If you choose to make the shift to vapor smoking,it can be a healthier alternative but does not eliminate the inherent dangers of nicotine.
Why Is Nicotine Dangerous?
Nicotine has been found to be a large risk factor associated with heart attack. It will raise your blood pressure,speed up your heart,and is considered a vasoconstrictor (ie it makes it more difficult for your heart to pump blood through your arteries). Nicotine also is a catalyst for your body to release stores of fat into your blood and can result in gout by restricting blood flow to your extremities.
Nicotine Addiction is Hard to Beat
On the good hand,nicotine has not been proven to be a carcinogen. It is,however,one of the most addictive substances on earth. Trying to beat nicotine addiction has been likened to trying to quit hard drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine. Due to the addictive nature of nicotine,electronic cigarette companies market their products to people who are regular smokers and not to non-smokers.
Nicotine Can Be Deadly
Nicotine is a poisonous substance. If your child or pet were to ingest your e liquid,it could prove to be fatal. If you already have high blood pressure or a heart condition,it can be harmful to your health potentially resulting in heart attack. Most companies will recommend that you keep your e liquid locked away so that your family can not access it when you're not around. If you are making your own e liquid,you will also need to pay special attention to wearing personal protective equipment to avoid splashing the liquefied nicotine on your body. A lethal dose of nicotine for a child can be as little as 10mg where for an adult it will normally be between 30 and 60 mg.
How is Nicotine Measured in E Liquid?
When you buy e liquid for your electronic cigarette,the e juice will come in bottles measured in ML with specific nicotine contents measured in MG. For example,0mg,12 mg,18 mg,and 36 mg with some variation between manufacturers. When you buy a bottle of e liquid,if it is labeled 18 mg it will have 18 mg of nicotine per 1 ml of e juice by most manufacturers. As a comparison,a traditional tobacco cigarette contains approximately 12 mg of nicotine.


text: Hi guys, im new to the site and basically logged on just to ask this question. I was thinking of starting up a Payday loan business. Maybe im being naive but i was hoping to do so with a budget of £20k. This is money I have in the bank from an inheritance and I want to try and make it work. I could also start it as a partnership with my brother who would be able to add an extra £20k but I would prefer to do this on my own. Being broken down basically I was thinking... Up to £10k on setting up. This would include money set aside for lease payments on an office untill i got up and running, money required to set up office, the costs of any licences, legal fees etc Then the remainder as the money i would loan out. Being optimistic if i had the full amount loaned out I would be looking at earning £2500 per month. (ive been researching and on average these companies charge £25 per £100 and the maximum loan time is 1 month, untill their next pay date.) I would imagine I would be able to run it on my own so i wouldnt have any more wages to pay. I am sure there are a few laughing at my optimism but in my head it appears possible. Please feel free to coment, good or bad. I look forward to the replies.


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I am trying to help my daughter divide fractions the problem is 2/3 divided by n = 3/4. I am having a terrible time figuring it out and of course she has no book for examples. Can anyone help? Thanks so much:)
Dividing by a fraction is the same as muiltiplying by its inverse:
for teaching, figuring it out like
(2/3) / n = (3/4)
(2/3) /= (3/4) *n
(2/3) / (3/4) = n
n= (2/3) / (3/4)
n= (2/3) * (4/3)
n= (2*4)/(3*3)
n= 8/9
Welcome to the forum, !mathfun and lostmathmom.
I'm moving this to the Help Me forum ... hopefully you'll still be able to find it. I'll leave a redirect.
Thanks guys, and have fun on the forum.
all you need to do , is to put the divisor up side down and multiply
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Numbers are the essence of the Universe
(2/3) / (3/4) = [(2/3) / (3/4)] x [(4/3) / (4/3)] = (2/3) x (4/3) = 8/9
Here is a guide http://hubpages.com/hub/Adding-and-subtracting-fraction
Hi Recey;
These pages seem stronger than that one:
Welcome to the forum!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
A number by itself is useful, but it is far more useful to know how accurate or certain that number is.
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ZEUS was the King of the Gods, and the god of weather, fate, law and order.
He had numerous lovers in mythology. This page describes his various divine consorts.
The second and third Loves pages contain the stories of his liaisons with Nymphs and mortal woman respectively.
Before his marriage to Hera, Zeus consorted with a number of the female Titanes (and his sister Demeter). These liaisons are ordered by Hesiod as follows: (1) Metis; (2) Themis; (3) Eurynome; (4) Demeter; (5) Mnemosyne; (6) Leto.
Some authors add Dione and Persephone to the list, as well as the unsuccesful attempts to seduce Asteria and Aphrodite.
Hesiod, Theogony 886 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Now Zeus, king of the gods, made Metis his wife first, and she was wisest among gods and mortal men. But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athene, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly . . .
Next he married bright Themis who bare the Horai (Seasons), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Eirene (Peace), who mind the works of mortal men, and the Moirai (Fates) to whom wise Zeus gave the greatest honour, Klotho, and Lakhesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have.
And Eurynome, the daughter of Okeanos, beautiful in form, bare him three fair-cheeked Kharites (Graces), Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows.
Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him.
And again, he loved Mnemosyne with the beautiful hair: and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born who delight in feasts and the pleasures of song.
And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bare Apollo and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven.
Lastly, he made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia.
But Zeus himself gave birth from his own head to bright-eyed Tritogeneia [Athena, whose mother Metis had earlier been swallowed whole by Zeus], the awful, the strife-stirring, the host-leader, the unwearying, the queen, who delights in tumults and wars and battles . . .
And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods, for she went
up into his holy bed.
And Semele, daughter of Kadmos was joined with him in love and bare him a splendid son, joyous Dionysos,--a mortal woman an immortal son. And now they both are gods.
And Alkmena was joined in love with Zeus who drives the clouds and bare mighty Herakles."
LOCALE: Mount Olympos (Home of the Gods)
Hesiod, Theogony 886 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treachery and by slippery speeches, put her away inside his own belly. This was by the advices of Gaia and starry Ouranos, for so they counselled, in order that no other everlasting god, beside Zeus, should ever be given kingly position. For it had been arranged that, from her, children surpassing in wisdom should be born, first the gray-eyed girl, the Tritogeneia Athene . . . but then a son to be king over gods and mortals was to be born to her and his heart would be overmastering; but before this, Zeus put her away inside his own belly so that this goddess should think for him, for good and for evil."
Hesiod, Theogony 924 ff :
"[Zeus], apart from Hera, had lain in love with a fair-faced daughter of Okeanos and lovley-haired Tethys, Metis, whom he deceived, for all she was so resourceful, for he snatched her up in his hands and put her inside his belly for fear that she might bring forth a thunderbolt stronger than his own; therefore the son of Kronos . . . swallowed her down of a sudden, but she then conceived Pallas Athene, but the father of gods and men gave birth to her near the summit of Triton beside the banks of the river. But Metis herself, hidden away under the vitals of Zeus, stayed there; she was Athene's mother; worker of right actions, beyond all the gods and beyond all mortal people in knowledge; and there Athene had given to her hands what made her supreme over all other immortals who have their homes on Olympos; for Metis made that armor of Athene, terror of armies, in which Athene was born."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 20 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Zeus slept with Metis, although she turned herself into many forms in order to avoid having sex with him. When she was pregnant, Zeus took the precaution of swallowing her, because she had said that, after giving birth to the daughter presently in her womb [Athena], she would bear a son who would gain the lordship of the sky."
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see METIS
Hesiod, Theogony 901 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Next [after Metis] he [Zeus] married bright Themis who bare the Horai (Seasons), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Eirene (Peace), who mind the works of mortal men, and the Moirai (Fates) to whom wise Zeus gave the greatest honour, Klotho, and Lakhesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 13 str1 - ant1 (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"Eunomia and that unsullied fountain Dike (Justice), her sister, sure support of cities; and Eirene (Peace) of the same kin, who are the stewards of wealth for mankind - three glorious daughters of wise-counselled Themis."
Pindar, Fragment 30 (trans. Sandys) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"First did the Moirai (Fates) in their golden chariot bring heavenly Themis, wise in counsel, by a gleaming pathway from the springs of Okeanos to the sacred stair of Olympos, there to be the primal bride of the Saviour Zeus. And she bare him the Horai (Seasons) with golden fillet and gleaming fruit,--the Horai that are ever true."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 13 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"With Themis, the daughter of Ouranos (Heaven), he [Zeus] fathered his daughters the Horai (Seasons), by name Eirene, Eunomia, and Dike; also the Moirai (Fates), called Klotho, Lakhesis, and Atropos."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 114 :
"Herakles continued by foot through the Illyrians' land and hurried on to the Eridanos river where he found the Nymphai who were daughters of Zeus and Themis."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 17. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"[Beside images of Zeus and Hera in the temple of Hera at Olympia:] The figures of Horai (Seasons) next to them, seated upon thrones, were made by the Aiginetan Smilis. Beside them stands an image of Themis, as being mother of the Horai."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Jove [Zeus] and Themis [were born]: Horae."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 183 :
"The names of the Horae, daughters of Jove [Zeus], son of Saturn [Kronos], and Themis, daughter Titanidis, are these: Auxo, Eunomia (Order), Pherusa, Carpo (Fruit), Dice (Justice), Euporia, Irene (Peace), Orthosie, Thallo."
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see THEMIS
LOCALE: Perhaps Olympos (Home of the Gods)
Hesiod, Theogony 907 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"And [after Zeus consorted with Themis] Eurynome, the daughter of Okeanos, beautiful in form, bare him [Zeus] three fair-cheeked Kharites (Graces), Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 13 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"And by Okeanos' daughter Eurynome he [Zeus] had the Kharites (Graces), named Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thaleia."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 156 :
"The Asopos river was born of Okeanos and Tethys . . . [but] others say of Zeus and Eurynome."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragmetn 6 (trans. Trypanis) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"Others said that the Titenia (Titaness) Eurynome gave birth to the Kharites (Graces)."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Jove [Zeus] and Eurynome [were born]: Gratiae (Graces)."
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see EURYNOME
LOCALE: Non-specific
Hesiod, Theogony 912 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Also he [Zeus] came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him."
Homer, Iliad 14. 326 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"[Zeus naming his dearest loves:] 'I loved the queen Demeter of the lovely tresses.'"
In the Orphic myths Demeter and Zeus were mated in the form of serpents.
For MORE information on this Olympian goddess see DEMETER
LOCALE: Eleuther, Pieria (Northern Greece)
Hesiod, Theogony 53 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"Them [the Mousai, Muses] in Pieria did Mnemosyne, who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the father, the son of Kronos [Zeus], a forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. For nine nights did wise Zeus lie with her, entering her holy bed remote from the immortals. And when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters, all of one mind, whose hearts are set upon song and their spirit free from care, a little way from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus."
Hesiod, Theogony 915 ff :
"And again, he [Zeus, after lying with Demeter.] loved Mnemosyne with the beautiful hair: and of her the nine gold-crowned Moisai (Muses) were born."
Pindar, Isthmian Ode 6 ep3 (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"The deep-bosomed daughters [the Mousai, Muses] of golden-robed Mnamosyne."
Alcman, Fragment 8 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (C7th B.C.) :
"Blessed Mosai (Muses), whom Mnamosyna (Memory) bore to Zeus having lain with him."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 13 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"[By] Mnemosyne [Zeus fathered] the Mousai (Muses), the eldest of whom was Kalliope, followed by Kleio, Melpomene, Euterpe, Erato, Terpsikhore, Ourania, Thaleia, and Polymnia."
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 9 (trans. Celoria) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Zeus made love to Mnemosyne in Pieria and became father of the Mousai (Muses)."
Orphic Hymn 77 to Mnemosyne (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"To Mnemosyne (Memory) . . . The consort I invoke of Zeus divine; source of the holy, sweetly speaking Mousai (Muses) nine."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Jove [Zeus] and Moneta [Mnemosyne] [were born]: Musae."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 114 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"As a shepherd [Zeus] snared Mnemosyne."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31. 168 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Mnemosyne in the old time before us; how he [Zeus] lay by her side for nine whole nights, with eyes ever wakeful, full of passion for many children in that unresting bridal. Another allvanquishing god, winged like Hypnos (Sleep), little Eros (Love), conquered Kronides with a tiny dart."
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see MNEMOSYNE
LOCALE: Non-specific
Hesiod, Theogony 918 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) :
"And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bare Apollon and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven."
Homer, Iliad 14. 327 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"[Zeus recounts his favorite loves:] 'I loved . . . glorious Leto.'"
Homer, Odyssey 11. 318 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
"The god [Apollon] that Zeus begot and lovely-haired Leto bore."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 21 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Leto had relations with Zeus, for which she was hounded by Hera all over the earth. She finally reached Delos and gave birth to Artemis, who thereupon helped her deliver Apollon."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 140 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Jove [Zeus] lay with Latona, daughter of Polus [Koios]. When Juno [Hera] found this out, she decreed that Latona should give birth at a place where the sun did not shine. When Python knew that Latona was pregnant by Jove, he followed her to kill her. But by order of Jove the wind Aquilo [Boreas the North Wind] carried Latona away."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4. 166 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Even Hera, goddess though she is and queen of the heavens, grudges Zeus his bastard wives on earth . . . she spared not even goddesses; because his mother was anry, Ares persecuted Leto with child in her birthpangs."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 27. 259 ff :
"[Zeus to Apollon:] 'She [Hera] always cherishes jealousy and resentment for my loves, and attacks my children. I will not remind you of your mother's tribulation in childbirth, when Leto carried her twin burden and had to wander over the world.'"
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see LETO
LOCALE: The Heavens
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 21 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Of the daughters of [the Titan] Koios, Asteria in the form of a quail threw herself into the sea while fleeing a sexual union with Zeus. A polis was originally named Asteria after her: later on it became Delos. The other daughter Leto had relations with Zeus, for which she was hounded by Hera all over the earth. She finally reached Delos and gave birth to Artemis, who thereupon helped her deliver Apollon."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 53 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Though Jove [Zeus] loved Asterie, daughter of Titan [Koios], she scorned him. Therefore she was transformed in to the bird ortyks, which we call a quail, and he cast her into the sea. From her an island sprang up, which was named Ortygia. This was floating. Later Latona [Leto] was borne there at Jove's command by the wind Aquilo [Boreas], at the time when the Python was pursuing her, and there, clinging to an olive, she gave birth to Apollo and Diana [Artemis]. This island later was called Delos."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 108 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Asterie in the struggling eagle's clutch [Zeus' animal disguise]."
For MORE information on this Titan goddess see ASTERIA
LOCALE: Kypros (Eastern Meditteranean) AND Lampsakos, Mysia (Anatolia)
Zeus once tried to rape Aphrodite on the island of Kypros but the goddess managed to escape his pursuit.
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 611 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Wild his [Zeus'] desire had been for Kypris [Aphrodite, after her birth from the sea], when craving but not attaining he scattered his seed on the ground, and shot out the hot foam of love self-sown, where in the fruitful land horned Kypros flourished the two-coloured generation of wild creatures with horns (Pheres)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 193 ff :
"Once when Kypris [Aphrodite] fled like the wind from the pursuit of her lascivious father [Zeus], that she might not see an unhallowed bedfellow in her own begetter, Zeus the Father gave up the chase and left the union unattempted, because unwilling Aphrodite was too fast and he could not catch her: instead of Kypris' bed, he dropt on the ground the love-shower of seed from the generative plow. Gaia (Earth) received Kronion's fruitful dew, and shot up a strange-looking horned generation [the Kentauroi, Centaurs, of the island of Kypros]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 32. 65 ff :
"I [Zeus] desired Paphia [Aphrodite], for whose sake I dropt seed in the furrow of the plowland and begat the Kentauroi (Centaurs)."
Aphrodite later and of her own volition had an affair with Zeus, but his jealous wife Hera laid her hands upon the belly of the goddess and cursed their offspring with malformity. Their child was the ugly god Priapos.
Suidas s.v. Priapos (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) :
"Priapos: was conceived from Zeus and Aphrodite; but Hera in a jealous rage laid hands by a certain trickery on the belly of Aphrodite and readied a shapeless and ugly and over-meaty babe to be born. His mother flung it onto a mountain; a shepherd raised it up. He had genitals [rising up] above his butt."
For MORE information on this Olympian goddess see APHRODITE
LOCALE: Henna, Sicily (Southern Italy) OR River Kokytos, The Underworld
In the Orphic myths, the maiden goddess Persephone was seduced by Zeus in the guise of a serpent. She bore him a son, the godling Zagreus, who, when Zeus placed him upon the throne of heaven, was attacked and dismembered by the Titanes. His heart was recovered and he was reborn through Semele as the god Dionysos. An infernal goddess named Melinoe (perhaps Hekate) was also said to have been born of their union.
Orphic Hymn 30 to Dionysos (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"Thrice begotten (trigonon), Bakkheion king [Dionysos] . . . Eubouleos [Dionysos-Zagreos], whom the leaves of vines adorn, of Zeus and Persephoneia occultly born in beds ineffable."
Orphic Hymn 46 to Licnitus :
"[Dionysos-Zagreos] from Zeus' high counsels nursed by Persephoneia, and born the dread of all the powers divine."
Orphic Hymn 71 to Melinoe:
"Melinoe (the Black), saffron-veiled, terrene, who from Phersephone dread venerable queen, mixt with Zeus Kronion, arose, near where Kokytos' mournful river flows; when, under Plouton's [Haides'] semblance, Zeus divine deceived with guileful arts dark Phersephone. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Plouton dark, from Zeus ethereal bright."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 4. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"Some writers of myth, however, relate that there was a second Dionysos [Zagreos] who was much earlier in time than the one we have just mentioned. For according to them there was born of Zeus and Persephone a Dionysos who is called by some Sabazios and whose birth and sacrifices and honours are celebrated at night and in secret."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 75. 4 :
"This god [Dionysos-Zagreus] was born in Krete, men say, of Zeus and Persephone, and Orpheus has handed down the tradition in the initiatory rites that he was torn in pieces by the Titanes."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 155 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Sons of Jove [Zeus]. Liber [Dionysos-Zagreos] by Proserpina [Persephone], whom the Titanes dismembered."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167 :
"Liber [Zagreos-Dionysos], son of Jove [Zeus] and Proserpina [Persephone], was dismembered by the Titanes, and Jove gave his heart, torn to bits, to Semele in a drink. When she was made pregnant by this [with the god Dionysos] . . . For this reason he is called Dionysus, and also 'the one with two mothers.'"
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 114 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"As a spotted serpent [Zeus seduced] Deois [Persephone]."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5. 562 - 6. 168 (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Semele was kept for a more brilliant union, for already Zeus ruling on high intended to make a new Dionysos grow up, a bullshaped copy of the older Dionysos [Zagreus]; since he thought with regret of the illfated Zagreus. This was a son born to Zeus in dragonbed by Persephoneia, the consort of the blackrobed king of the underworld [Haides]; when Zeus put on a deceiving shape of many coils, as a gentle drakon twining around her in lovely curves, and ravished the maidenhood of unwedded Persephoneia; though she was hidden when all that dwelt in Olympos were bewitched by this one girl, rivals in love for the marriageable maid, and offered their dowers for an unsmirched bridal. Hermes had not yet gone to the bed of Peitho, and he offered his rod as gift to adorn her chamber. Apollon produced his melodious harp as a marriage-gift. Ares brought spear and cuirass for the wedding, and shield as bride-gift. Lemnian Hephaistos held out a curious necklace of many colours, new made and breathing still of the furnace, poor hobbler! For he had already, though unwilling, rejected his former bride Aphrodite, when he spied her rioting with Ares . . .
And father Zeus was much more bewitched by Persephoneia. When Zeus spied the virgin beauty of her shape, his eye ran ahead of him to guide all the Erotes (Loves), and could not have enough of Persephone; in his heart storms of unsleeping passion raged without ceasing, and gradually a greater furnace of the Paphian [Aphrodite] was kindled from a small spark; the gaze of lovemaddened Zeus was enslaved by the lovely breast of the goddess. Once she was amusing herself with a resplendent bronze plate, which reflected her face like a judge of beauty; and she confirmed the image of her shape by this free voiceless herald, testing the unreal form in the shadow of the mirror, and smiling at the mimic likeness. Thus Persephone gazed in the selfgraved portrait of her face, and beheld the self-impressed aspect of a false Persephoneia. Once in the scorching steam of thirsty heat, the girl would cease the loomtoilling labours of her shuttle at midday to shun the tread of the parching season, and wipe the running sweat from her face; she loosed the modest bodice which held her breast so tight, and moistened her skin with a refreshing bath, floating in the cool running stream, and left behind her threads fixt on the loom of Pallas. But she could not escape the allseeing eye of Zeus. He gazed at the whole body of Persephoneia, uncovered in her bath . . .
He - so mighty! The ruler of the universe, the charioteer of heaven, bowed his neck to desire - for all his greatness no thunderbolts, no lightnings helped him against Aphrodite in arms: he left the house of Hera, he refused the bed of Dione, he threw away the love of Deo, he fled from Themis, he deserted Leto - no charm was left for him but only union with Persephoneia.
Not the Father alone felt desire; but all that dwelt in Olympos had the same, struck by one bolt, and wooed for a union with Deo's divine daughter. Then Deo lost the brightness of her rosy face, her swelling heart was lashed by sorrows. She untied the fruitful frontlet [a wreath of corn-ears] from her head, and shook loose the long locks of hair over her neck, trembling for her girl; the cheeks of the goddess were moistened with self-running tears, in her sorrow that so many wooers had been stung with one fiery shot for a struggle of rival wooing, by maddening Eros, all contending together for their loves. From all the bounteous mother shrank, but specially she feared Hephaistos to be her daughter's lame bedfellow . . .
All that dwelt in Olympos had the same, struck by one bolt [of desire], and wooed for a union with Deo's divine daughter [Persephone] . . . Then Deo [Demeter] lost the brightness of her rosy face, her swelling heart was lashed by sorrows . . . She hastened with quick foot to the house of Astraios the god of prophecy [or more specifically astrology] . . . She laid her left hand on the knees of the kindly ancient, and with her right touched his deepflowing beard in supplication. She recounted all her daughter's wooers and craved a comfortable oracle; for divinations can steal away anxieties by means of hopes to come.
Nor did old Astraios refuse. He learnt the details of the day when her only child was new born, and the exact time and veritable course of the season which gave her birth; then he bent the turning fingers of his hands and measured the moving circle of the ever-recurring number counting from hand to hand in double exchange [reckoning the number of days in the years of her life on his fingers]. He called to a servant, and Asterion lifted a round revolving sphere, the shape of the sky, the image of the universe, and laid it upon the lid of a chest. Here the ancient got to work. He turned it upon its pivot, and directed this gaze round the circle of the Zodiac, scanning in this place and that the planets and fixt stars . . .
When he had noticed everything and reckoned the circuit of the stars, he put away the ever-revolving sphere in its roomy box, the sphere with its curious surface; and in answer to the goddess he mouthed out a triple oracle of prophetic sound:
'Fond mother Demeter, when the rays of the Moon are stolen under a shady cone and her light is gone, guard against a robber-bridegroom for Perephoneia, a secret ravisher of your unsmirched girl, if the threads of the Moirai (Fates) can be persuaded. You will see before marriage a false and secret bedfellow come unforeseen, a half-monster cunning-minded: since I perceive the western point Ares the wife-stealer [the planet Mars] walking with the Paphian [the planet Venus], and I notice the Drakon is rising beside them both . . .'
This said, he let the oracular voice sleep in his mouth. But when Demeter Sicklebearer heard the hope of coming fruits, and how one uninvited and unbetrothed was to ravish her beloved maiden girl, she groaned and smiled at once, and hastening by the paths of high heaven with despondent step. Then beside the drakon-manger she balanced the curved yoke over the two necks of the monsters, and fastened the untamed crawlers with the yokestrap, pressing their jaws about the crooktooth bit. So goldenbrown Deo in that grim car conveyed her girl hidden in a black veil of cloud. Boreas roared like thunder against the passage of the wagon, but she whistled him down with her monster-driving whip, guiding the light wings of the quick drakons as they sped horselike along the course of the wind, through the sky and round the back-reaching cape of the Libyan Ocean . . .
Looking for a stony harbourage, she alighted among the Pelorian cliffs of Threepeak Sikelia (Sicily) near the Adriatic shores, where the restless briny flood is driven towards the west and bends round like a sickle, bringing the current in a curve to southwest from the north. And in the place where that River [Anapos] had often bathed the maiden Kyane . . . she saw a neighbouring grotto like a lofty hall crowned and concealed by a roof of stone, which nature had completed with a rocky gateway and a loom of stone [stalactites] tended by the neighbouring Nymphai.
The goddess passed through the dark hall, and concealed her daughter well-secured in this hollow rock. Then she loosed the drakons from the winged car; one she placed by the jutting rock on the right of the door, one on the left beside the stone-pointed barrier of the entry, to protect Persephoneia unseen. There also she left Kalligeneia, her own fond nurse, with her baskets, and all that cleverhand Pallas [Athena] gives to make womankind sweat over their wool-spinning. Then she left her rounded chariot for the Nymphai to watch, in their lonely home among the rocks, and cut the air with her feet.
The girl busied herself in carding fleeces of wool under the sharp teeth of the iron comb. She packed the wool on the distaff, and twirling spindle with many a twist and jerk ran round and around in dancing step, as the threads were spun and drawn through the fingers. She fixed the first threads of the warp which begins the cloth, and gave them a turn round the beam, moving from end to end to and fro with unresting feet. She wove away, plying the rod and pulling the bobbin along through the threads, while she sang over the cloth to her cousin Athena the clever webster.
Ah, maiden Persephoneia! You could not find how to escape your mating! No, a drakon was your mate, when Zeus changed his face and came, rolling in many a loving coil through the dark to the corner of the maiden's chamber, and shaking his hairy chaps: he lulled to sleep as he crept the eyes of those creatures of his own shape who guarded the door. He licked the girl's form gently with wooing lips. By this marriage with the heavenly drakon, the womb of Persephone swelled with living fruit, and she bore Zagreus the horned baby, who by himself climbed upon the heavenly throne of Zeus and brandished lightning in his little hand, and newly born, lifted and carried thunderbolts in his tender fingers."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 31. 28 ff :
"[Hera persuades Persephone with her wiles:] 'He [Zeus] rescued Semele's son [Dionysos] from the flaming fire, he saved Bakkhos from the thunderbolt, while still a baby brat . . . But Zagreus the heavenly Dionysos [Persephone's son] he would not defend, when he was cut up with knives! What made me angrier still, was that Kronides gave the starry heaven to Semele for a bridegift, - and Tartaros to Persephoneia! Heaven is reserved for Apollon, Hermes lives in heaven - and you have this abode full of gloom! What good was it that he put on the deceiving shape of a serpent, and ravished the girdle of your inviolate maidenhood, if after bed he was to destroy your babe?'"
Suidas s.v. Zagreus (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) :
"Zagreus: Dionysos in poets. For Zeus, it seems, had intercourse with Persephone, and she gave birth to Dionysos Khthonios (chthonic)."
For MORE information on this chthonian goddess see PERSEPHONE


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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (WOAI) - Soon after city council voted to rezone a South Side mobile home park, some of the affected residents decided to form a political action committee to recall District 3 Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran.
By a vote of six to four Thursday, the city agreed to rezone the Mission Trails Mobile Home Park to allow development of a new development on the property. The decision to clear out the mobile home park would effectively displace about 300 people.
Many residents then contacted local media outlets, stating their plans to file paperwork to begin a recall petition against Viagran. She represents District 3, where the mobile home park is located.
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When will Dealers' info for 2013 be available?
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