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Art Show: Lessons, Icons, & Figures: Elements of World Mythology

"FAIRY OF ARDOR"-LEUCOSIA- A modern day Siren

by Erin Kristi'e Mincks

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Art: FAIRY OF ARDOR-LEUCOSIA- A modern day Siren by Artist Erin Kristi'e Mincks
"FAIRY OF ARDOR" -LEUCOSIA- A Modern day siren. .....Beautiful half-woman, half-birdlike creatures who sang such sweet songs that listeners forgot everything and died of hunger. The Sirens are sisters who lure sailors to their death. The song of the Sirens is irrestable but, the they reside beyound unpassable reefs which destroy the sailors boat when they try to reach the Sirens. Among those tempted were Jason on the Argo and Odysseus. Odysseus escaped from them by filling his crew's ears with wax while he tied himself to the ship's mast. The Argonauts were saved by Orpheus' music. Aglaope (beautiful face), Aglaophonos (beautiful voice), Himeropa, Leucosia (white being), Ligeia (shrill), Molpe (music), Parthenope (maiden face), Peisinoë? (persuading mind), Raidne (improvement), Teles (perfect), Thelchtereia, Thelxepeia (soothing words), Thelxiope (persuasive face) are their names. The three most famous were Parthenope, Ligea, and Leucosia.

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