New Header

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, what do you think of the sparkly new header? 

Comments

[kellysaysrawrrx.livejournal.com]

ahaha awesome

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g* thank you.

[jo02]

It made me laugh so I think it's a winner!

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g* glad it gave you a giggle.

[ldycat1170.livejournal.com]

Love it. A Harpy indeed

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g* thank you.

[thi13enthghost.livejournal.com]

Lol, someone get her a mirror.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g*

[haces222.livejournal.com]

Absolutely love it *g*

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g* thank you muchly.

[holdingoff.livejournal.com]

i think its an insult... to harpies.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

lol.

[lilianblake.livejournal.com]

Perfect.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

*g* thank you.

Harpy

[jennelldhalrbj.livejournal.com]

I would like this a great deal more if I knew what a Harpy was. It isn't in my German-English dictionary and my Husband doesn't know either {his first language was Polish}. I haven't time to do a search--Help---

Re: Harpy

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

For other uses, see Harpy (disambiguation).
Harpy


Creature

Name: Harpy
AKA: Snatcher
Classification
Grouping: Legendary creature
Sub grouping: Chimera
Similar creatures: Siren, sphinx, centaur
Data
Mythology: Greek
Habitat: Air
In Greek mythology, the Harpies ("snatchers",[1] from Latin: Harpyia, Greek: Ἅρπυια, Harpuia, pl. Ἅρπυιαι, Harpuiai) were mainly winged death-spirits (Harrison 1903, p 176ff), best known for constantly stealing all food from Phineas. The literal meaning of the word seems to be "that which grabs" as it comes from the ancient Greek word αρπάξ which means to grab.

The Harpy could also bring life. A Harpy was the mother by the West Wind Zephyros of the horses of Achilles (Iliad xvi. 150). In this context Jane Harrison adduced the notion in Virgil's Georgics that mares became gravid by the wind alone, marvelous to say (iii.274).

Though Hesiod (Theogony) calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures, Harpies as beautiful winged bird-women are a late development, in parallel with the transformation of the "Siren, a creature malign though seductive in Homer, but gradually softened by the Athenian imagination into a sorrowful death angel" (Harrison p 177). On a vase in the Berlin Museum (Harrison, fig 19), a harpy has a small figure of a hero in each claw, but her head is recognizably a Gorgon, with goggling eyes, protruding tongue and fangs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy

*g* there you go.

Re: Harpy

[jennelldhalrbj.livejournal.com]

Found it and read the German version. Which is here

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpyie

I should have realized that a Harpy was a Harpyie but I was tired and BJ was yelling and well----

Anyhow thanks a lot for your speedy and informative reply. I particularly like the last sentence!

Re: Harpy

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thought the last sentence was kind of apt myself, lol.