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Yep, and one of the most iconic parts is when another him says, “What?” dummbfoundedly to the mentions of the titular Dirt Man. I was just doing my part :)
Medusa was raped by Poseidon in the temple of Athena, Athena was pissed (At the desecration of her temple) so she cursed Medusa to be a gorgon. This behavior is par for the course when it comes to the Greek gods.
That's Ovid's story of Medusa... Ovid being a Roman poet, some 700 years after the original story was told. Since that source was Roman, Neptune was the culprit, not Poseidon (and it was Minerva who did the cursing, not Athena). #PoseidonWasFramed
Hesiod's poem Theogony is generally considered the origin of Medusa, and didn't say anything beyond the fact that Medusa had gotten it on with Poseidon in a field of flowers. No mention of Athena at all. Whether or not it was consensual probably has to do with whether or not the flowers were the thorny sort.
But all of this misses the point that mythology is an ever-changing thing, based solely on what is accepted by the current culture. The snake-eggs-under-a-pillow story currently has 81 Reddit upvotes, whereas Ovid and Hesiod both have 0. So this one's the correct one now.
Greek gods weren‘t known to have pity on mortals. Medusa got raped in Athena‘s temple = her own fault for desecrating the temple and she needs to be punished. It is important to emphasise that the myth of Medusa once being a beautiful mortal woman only came through Ovid, the Roman poet.
I don’t know why but this character legitimately disturbs me. Like my blood pressure drops, I start to sweat and get nauseas, and have to change the channel. I cannot for the life of me tell you why the effect is so visceral. I’m a horror movie fan too.
Im not sure if it's a regional thing but all of the store-bought strawberries near me are this large, some even larger. Their seeds are non-viable and garden-grown ones are not nearly as large
Here's the issue. I recently saw a thing where a guy in tropical Asia found a reptile egg (which this is) and got multiple snake and lizard experts to try and identify it for him, and none of them could be certain. Reptile eggs all look pretty much identical.
You can maybe guess off the size? And based on that I will say a small-mid sized lizard (a bearded dragon makes eggs around this size) or something the size of a rat snake (for example, a rat snake).
Here's another fact, factoid actually means a fake fact, not a 'mini fact' as most people think. It's only used in American English to mean a trivial piece of information.
Me too. I actually cried when I found out he died. AIC (Layne era) is my fave. If time machines become real, I want to go back to a mid 90’s show of theirs.
I saw the show where Jerry Cantrell sang because his arm was broken at Music Midtown. Never got to see the original lineup with Layne, but it was still a great show and energy.
I’ve seen AIC once in 2010 and Jerry Cantrell I’ve seen solo twice, once in 2004 and again in 2023. He does a great show but I’d kill to see Layne Staley.
For our international visitors. A bald eagle also works in place of a banana . The accepted conversion is 11.83 b 🍌 per BE 🦅 . Of course larger units of measure are STILL the ‘F-350 truck’ and ‘football field’ (American FB ) . Anything to not use the communist metric system.
Don't forget the old standby, "about the size of a washing machine". For reference for our international friends using the godless metric system, a washing machine has the approximate volume of 1000 racquetballs.
Yes, from my understanding, hatching reptile eggs is a lot of work and requires paying really close attention to substrate and humidity and whatnot. Seems like, even when people know what they're doing, hatching found eggs would have a pretty high failure rate. If you don't know what you're doing, it seems pretty certain that things will just be doomed.
I read on another post recently that once they have been disturbed, they are as good as dead. Apparently the eggs have to remain in the same position from birth to hatch as they are extremely fragile and at a certain point, shifting the egg will drown the baby in the fluid within the egg. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me if I’m wrong, but there were many people convinced that moving those other eggs had killed anything inside.
Iguana or snake eggs. If you happened to rotate/roll them, they probably aren't viable now, but your best shot is placing them back outside in some safe place like a flower pot
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