Boreas and Orithyia

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1727 - 1785
Orithyia was the daughter of Erechtheus, an Athenian king. While playing near the Ilisus river, Boreas the North Wind kidnapped her, raped her, and made her his wife. Orithyia becomes deified in later accounts as the goddess of cold mountain winds, an apotheosis already present in Herodotus, who tells us that the Athenian navy offered sacrifices to both Boreas and Orithyia. 
 
 
Poets and painters alike fixate upon the rape of Orithyia. Ovid especially highlights the violence of this nature, writing:


But when he found his soothing flatt’ries fail,
Nor saw his soft addresses cou’d avail;
Blust’ring with ire, he quickly has recourse
To rougher arts, and his own native force.

-Ovid, Metamorphoses , VI.

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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

― Ovid


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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

〜Ovid

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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

〜Carl Gustav Jung

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dolphins have developed a complex language. Studies have confirmed they possess self-awareness, problem-solving abilities, empathy, innovation & teaching skills; they feel grief, joy & playfulness just as we do. Yet, knowing all of this, we still kill them or put them in tanks.

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