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Atalanta sits on her silver throne upon a barren plain. She holds an upright sword in her left hand while she pours water from a jug onto the ground with her right hand.
Atalanta
The keyword/phrase I came up with in my workbook on 18Aug91 was "idealism".
Rodney
Atalanta
- known as The Huntres because she devoted her time to hunting and became really skilled at it
- she was disappointed in love through having too high ideals
- her name means unswaying
- her father wished for a male heir and he abandoned her on a hill where she was rescued and suckled by a bear sent by Artemis-Hecate
- she grew to womanhood among a clan of hunters
- Meleager, son of Ares, fell in love with her, but she refused to become a housewife
- after winning many contests, her father finally recognized her and promised to find her a noble husband; because she had been told by an oracle that she would be unhappily married, she agreed on the condition that the man must either beat her in a foot race or let her kill him if he lost; as the fastest human on earth, she knew no one could beat her
- with Aphrodite’s assistance, Melanion was able to beat her in the footrace and wed her; Atalanta actually loved him, but they lay together in a grove sacred to Zeus, who turned them both into lions; as the Greeks believed lions only mated with leopards, the two were never able to be together again
- the reflective, stable, contained dimension of the element of Air
- aloofness and the inability to touch the mind, which can hold onto an ideal of perfection to the exclusion or devaluation of sensual concerns
- her identification with the masculine world of the mind and spirit made her fit for friendship, but not for erotic love
- regal and dignified, , she is lonely because her ideal of perfection doesn’t allow anything too human to interfere with it
- the inherent duality in Atalanta’s story is that while her ideal of perfection may drive love out of her life, it also has a creative side, spurring both her and others to become more than they are
- waiting fruitlessly while the water of feeling spills, wasted, on the ground
- has loyalty, integrity and the ability to bear sorrow without breaking, but is also emotionally frustrated and isolated because she’s untouchable
- the need to prove oneself to someone who is ultimately just beyond one’s reach
- expecting perfection because one has been expected to be perfect and failed
- concern with the ideals of justice, truth and equality
- independent and progressive, often known as great reformers
- friendly, tolerant, easygoing and striving towards and ideal of brotherhood yet can also be cold, aloof and with little sympathy
- courageous and enthusiastic ideals can turn to stubborn fanaticism
- pricing oneself out of the market
- rigidity and frigidity
- a tomboy
- to dream the impossible dream
- strong shoulders to lean on
The keyword/phrase I came up with in my workbook on 18Aug91 was "idealism".
Rodney