The cuegle is a monster in Cantabrian mythology Cantabrian folklore . Walking on two legs and roughly humanoid in shape, it has black skin, three arms without hands or fingers, five rows of teeth, a single stubby horn and three eyes in its head one green, one red, and one blue. ref name Mythica cite web url http www.pantheon.org articles c cuegle.html title Cuegle work Encyclopedia Mythica accessdate 2007 04 03 ref Despite its small size, it has great strength. ref name Cantabria cite web url http www.cantabriajoven.com mitologia seres.html title Monsters and Creatures of Cantabria Spanish work Cantabria Joven accessdate 2007 04 03 ref The cuegle attacks people and livestock, and is reputed to steal babies from the cradle . It may be protected against by placing oak or holly leaves, which it Apotrope finds repulsive , in the cradle. ref name Mythica References Reflist Category Cantabrian legendary creatures Category European mythology Cantabria stub legendary creature stub euro myth stub ... more details
Image Aphrodite Kallipygos Hermitage .jpg thumb Copy of a Hellenistic period Hellenistic Aphrodite Kallipygos at Hermitage Museum The Hermitage in St. Petersburg . An syrma plural anas rmata , also called anasyrm s , ref Blackledge, C. 2003 . The Story of V A Natural History of Female Sexuality . New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press. 12. ref is the gesture of lifting up the skirt or kilt . It is used in connection with certain religion religious ritual s, eroticism, and lewd jokes, see e.g. Baubo . The term is used in describing corresponding works of art . Anasyrma differs from flashing, a physically similar gesture as an act of exhibitionism , in that an exhibitionist has an implied purpose of his her own sexual arousal, while anasyrma is only done for the effect on the onlookers. Anasyrma may be a deliberately provocative self exposing of one s naked genitals and or buttocks . The famous example of the latter case is Aphrodite Kallipygos Aphrodite of the beautiful buttocks . In many traditions this gesture also has an apotrope apotropaic character, as a mockery towards a supernatural enemy analogous to mooning . Greek antiquity Ritual jesting and obscenity were common in the cults of Demeter and Dionysus , and figure in the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries associated with these divinities. The mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe s jesting was the reason for the practice of ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria , a festival celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, but in other versions of the myth of Demeter, the goddess is received by a woman named Baubo, who makes her laugh by exposing herself, in a ritual gesture called anasyrma lifting up of skirts . A set of statuettes from Priene , a Greek city on the west coast of Asia Minor, are usually identified as Baubo figurines, representing the female body as the face conflated with the lower part of the abdomen, much like the phallus es decorated with eyes, mouth, and sometimes also legs ... more details
Image Herma Demosthenes Glyptothek Munich 292.jpg thumb right 160px Herma of Demosthenes on the market place of Athens , work by Polyeuktos, ca. 280 BC, Glyptothek . For the piano piece by Iannis Xenakis, see Herma Xenakis . A Herma , Greek language Greek , pl commonly in English herm is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece , and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of Term architecture term figures and Atlas architecture Atlantes . In ancient Greece the statues had an apotropaic function and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection. Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic symbol phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders. His name comes from the word herma plural hermai referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta , or bronze a bust of Hermes head, usually with a beard , ref The image of a youthful, beardless Hermes was a development of the fifth century BCE. ref sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base. The hermai were used as boundary markers on roads and borders. In Athens , they were placed outside houses as apotrope s for good luck. The male genitals would be rubbed or anointed with olive oil to obtain luck . Citation needed date February 2007 This superstition persists, for example in the Porcellino bronze boar of Florence and numerous others like it around the world , where the nose is shiny from being continually touched for good luck or fertility. Especially in Roman and Renaissance versions, the body was often shown from the waist up. The form was also used for portrait busts of famous public figures, especially writers like Socrates and Plato . Sappho appears on Ancient Greek herms, and anonymous female figures were often ... more details
File Nazar boncu u tailfin.jpg thumb The ancient blue and white Nazar boncu u symbol, a stylised eye thought to avert evil, appears on this contemporary airplane Apotropaic magic is a ritual observance that is intended to turn away evil . It can be simple prayer s and offering s or more elaborate Magic paranormal magic al ceremony ceremonies and Spell paranormal spells . The vaguely superstition superstitious might keep a luck good luck charm , perhaps some token on a charm bracelet , or fingers crossed cross their fingers or knock on wood . Apotrope Apotropaic is an adjective that means warding against evil , or deflecting misfortune , and commonly refers to objects such as amulet s or other symbol s. The word is of Greek language Greek origin apotrope literally means turning away or averting, as in averting the evil eye . The Greeks made offerings to the Averting Gods , Apotropaioi Theoi , chthonic chthonic deities and hero s who grant safety and deflect evil. ref cite web url http www.mgilleland.com averters.htm author Gilleland, Michael tr. Jones, W.H.S. title Averters of Evil date 26 June 2008 accessdate 3 July 2010 quote Hippocrates, Regimen 4.89 So with this knowledge about the heavenly bodies, precautions must be taken, with change of regimen and prayers to the gods in the case of good signs, to the Sun, to Heavenly Zeus, to Zeus, Protector of Home, to Athena, Protectress of Home, to Hermes and to Apollo in the case of adverse signs, to the Averters of evil apotropaioi , to Earth and to the Heroes, that all dangers may be averted. Pausanias 2.11.1 Corinth Before the altar a barrow has been raised for Epopeus himself, and near the grave are the gods Averters of evil apotropaioi . Near them the Greeks perform such rites as they are wont to do in order to avert misfortunes. , . ref Apotropaic symbo ... more details
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