Greek Goddess Circe-2015

Greek Goddess Circe~

Good afternoon my dear Friends and Followers I thought I would continue my quest to go thru the

Circe creating potions

different Gods & Goddesses of the Greeks of Olympians Titans. So for today I found the Goddess Circe which I haven't heard of before. So we will be learning together. It starts on the Island of Aeaea which was known to the ancient Greek as the Island of the Dawn. This is where the bewitching Goddess Circe lived. She was a very beautiful Goddess and daughter of Helios and Perse which was quite the powerful sorceress who loved using her magic to transform both men and women into different kinda creature beasts. It seems that Circe would take great pleasure in changing the physical bodies of humans victims while leaving them in a complete charge of their mental senses. So image this; Circe would take her human victims without them knowing what was going to happen, change them into whatever type

Greek Goddess Circe
Changing human victims into wolfs 

of animal she chose but she would keep their minds still human, not the mind of whatever animal she changed them too. Now that is cruel. It seems that the Goddess Circe is briefly mentioned in the tale of Medea. Yet she is best known for her journey in the Odysseus travels coming home from the Trojan War to Aeaea her home. As far as the Goddess Medea she was a devotee of the goddess Hecate and one of the greatest sorceresses of the ancient world. [At a later time I do plan to do a post on the Goddess too!] As to the tales of Odysseus coming to her island after the Trojan war - well it would seem that after the Odysseus lost all but one of his ships and the majority of his crew due to the Titans in the Trojan War, Odysseus, and his surviving mates found themselves landing upon the shores of the Goddess Circe home Aeaea. The tale goes; that upon arrival on the shores of the island there was much debate on who would stay aboard the ship and who would go off and explore the island. In the end, it would be Eurylochus and 22 of his mates.  

Goddess Circe And her Wild Animals
that were once Sailors of the Sea

So while investigating the tiny island, the men discovered it to be a thick forest with very large Oak trees. It was quite a long time for the men to get thru the thick Oak woods until they came upon an amazing clearing with a fabulous palace. It was a bit nervous for the men for there was lions, wolves, leopards, Black panthers and huge tigers prowling around the grounds. At first the men were quite fearful to be dinner, but instead the wild animals stood upright and warmly embraced each and every one of the men with a welcoming hug! Later though Eurylochus would indeed find out that the secrets of the Goddess Circe magic with her passion of changing humans into animals forms and that all the animals on the island were once men. So the men were very much on their guard or at least they thought they were.

Circe looking at the men and
probably deciding what animals
she would change them into

They had no idea they were in the company of a great powerful sorceress who loved using her magic & potions to transform both men and women into different kinda creature beasts. It seems that Circe would take great pleasure in changing the physical bodies of humans victims while leaving them in a complete charge of their mental senses. This is what exactly happen to the 22 men of the ship. As the men entered the halls of the palace there was beauty & seducing Circe weaving a tapestry upon her loom.

The Goddess Circe surrounded by wild
human animals after she worked on her
Tapestry on her large loom.

Surrounding her was many tame wild animals sitting and laying by her. Probably planning the faith for the 22 men. So she graciously invited all the men to join her for dinner. It was quite an enormous feast of food. She knew they hadn't eaten in quite a while. The men were all quite famished from their long days on the seas without food or drink until they drifted on the seashore of the island so they were very eager to accept her feast. However, their leader Eurylochus who was very suspicious of the goddess chose to remain outside. So while safely hidden by the very tall ferns & the luring eyes of 

Using either wine or
a potion in the food
to drug the men

Circe, Eurylochus was able to peek through a small window and see what was happening to his hungry sailors as they ate & ate. At first they seemed fine but after just a few more moments he knew that his mates food and wine was drugged by the Goddess Circe because she wasn't in the room. When he did see her enter the room, she had a sinister smile & was happy to find the entire men fast asleep at different area's of the room. So at that moment Circe drew her wand and touch each one of the men lightly about his shoulders & they instantly turn into an entire lot of swine hogs. Feeling quite amused, she hurried the now once sailors to swine hogs into a sty, where she left them to wallow in the mud. Well, Circe hadn't known that Eurylochus hadn't been in the room and was watching from outside. He was shocked and saddened for what had happened to the mates. So he hurried back to the ship to report to Odysseus and told him everything he saw. So the

Goddess Circe and all the
sailors mates turned into
swing hogs

Captain listened intently to what had happened to his crew when the story was over he picked up his own sword and ran off to rescue his crew- even if they were all a bunch of hogs. So as he made his way back to the palace of the Goddess Circe, he was met by the God Hermes who had in his possession a magical white flower with a black root. The White Flower is a special plant that only the gods themselves can grow. It contains very special properties that can repel the Goddess Circe Dark Magic. The God Hermes happened to be at her palace to help Odysseus & he readily accepted the flower from the God Hermes to help his men. So he hid it among his clothing before continuing on with his journey. After getting thru the thick Oak woods & the clearing, he found himself standing in front of the gates of the palace of Circe. The great

The Meeting of the Goddess
Circe and Odysseus

sorceress Circe once again welcomed her new guest happily into her palace set a place for him at the table. As always, the sorceress Circe encourage him to eat - eat - eat his fill. When she felt Odysseus was fast asleep, she placed her wand atop his shoulder and said to him softly ' Off to the stables with you too' she sneered but to her surprise, he had been protected by the magic talisman white flower jumped up with sword in hand. Of course, this took the Goddess/Sorceress Circe by surprise and she begged for her life promising Odysseus that in return she would share her bed with him and proclaim him co-ruler of the island Aeaea. Since he knew that he was truly dealing with a witch, so he refused to hear of her plan until Circe swore a solemn oath to the gods not to cause him any further mischief. The Goddess Circe agreed to the terms & afterwards drew her guest a warm

The luring Circe 

bath which he enjoyed while drinking wine from a golden cup. After the bath and drinking of wine, Circe led Odysseus to her bed in hope of seducing the handsome Captain, however, Odysseus refused all her seducing and luring advances until his mates were restored back to their rightful shape. He also got her to remove her curse from all those who she had bewitched in the past that landed on her island. Once all this was done Odysseus agreed to stay on the Island of Aeaea, where he went on to father three sons with Circe. When the time came for Odysseus to leave, Circe roused a breeze so that they all could make a smooth departure from the departure. On the day, they left Circe prepared them for some of the perils awaiting for them on their voyage home. But even though she said she helped their voyage home wasn't an easy one. There was another story to the Goddess, Sorceress, and Witch Circe it about Glaucus & Scylla.

Glaucus the God of the Sea
And the beautiful Sea Nymph
Scylla 

In this Tale of Glaucus & Scylla, it tells about how Circe has always lived up to her reputation of being an amorous woman. She often used her Sorceress and magick to rid herself of those who would rivaled her in love. There was one tale with the sea God Glaucus.  The Sea God Glaucus was a fisherman of the Gods who had a particularly large catch one day. However, as soon as the fish touched the green grass they began to wiggle as if they had been returned to the water. The Sea God Glaucus was shocked and watched as they made their way towards the sea and swam away. He wondered if the grass held a strange  power, so he decided to pluck a handful and tasted it to see. Once the Sea God Glaucus had put the hand full of grass herb in his mouth, he had an uncontrollable desire to be part of the sea. So it was true that the grass did have magical powers you could say! within seconds Glaucus had been heading for the water without thinking what he was doing. Afloat in the water he was very eagerly welcomed by the gods of the depths of the oceans. As he descended to the depths of the seas, the sea deities called upon the Oceanus & Tethy to wash away all traces of his mortality, making it possible for Glaucus to live among them forever. In order for this to happen the Oceanus Nymphs, 1000+ of them caused one hundred rivers to run over him, from this each drop of the hundred rivers that ran over him rendered Glaucus unconscious.

Glaucus trying to profess
his love to the beautiful
Nymph Scylla

After some time he awoke, found himself in a totally different form. His hair was sea green with long tresses that flowed behind him while he rested softly upon the water. There more changes too, his lower body was no longer human legs but, now bore only a giant fish tale. After years of swimming the ocean seas Glaucus now more like a merman caught a glimpse of a beautiful nymph called Scylla. The Nymph had showed no interest in Glaucus, but instead she was content to spend the day playing with her sister sea nymphs. Whenever Glaucus would try to approach the nymph Scylla she would take just one look and swim away in fear. Poor Glaucus so much in love with the nymph Scylla would still follow her calling out to  her that he wasn't a monster, but a good God of the sea who had come to profess his love to her. However, no

Glaucus trying to show his love to
the beautiful Nymph Scylla

matter how much the God Glaucus of the Sea tried to show her his true love for her, it was all in vain because every time he tried she would disappear. So he went to the only one he knew that could help him, he turned to the enchantress Circe.

 Glaucus went to the Enchantress Circe seeking for a love potion so it would successfully melt the Nymph's very cold heart. After Circe listened to Glaucus heartwarming story of his love for the nymph Scylla, she even

The beauty
Nymph Scylla
Before Circe turned
her evil magic on
Her!

found herself falling in love with Glaucus. So Circe work on a love potion the very best one she knew of to help the Sea God and worked her own luring advances of romance on the Sea God herself. Hoping that he would forget all about the Nymph Scylla. But it didn't work Glaucus would have not part of Circe advances. He did sincerely express to Circe that it was very kind of her to show such affection toward him, but it was impossible for him to love any other but Scylla. For he has loved her for a very long time.  Well, you can only image how the goddess responded to that! She doesn't take well to being shunned for another. Sadly the help that the Sea God Glaucus had asked Circe to help him win over the beautiful Nymph Scylla over backfired and Circe turned her anger to the innocent young nymph that Glaucus had loved for so long. So what Circe

Scylla in her bathe starting to
change into the monster
with Glaucus watching & not a thing
can he do sadly

Sorceress did, was place an evil potion where Scylla would regularly bathe. She poured the entire potion into the water. As soon as Scylla entered her bathe she began to change into a horrible monster. Out of her body grew serpents & in the place of her legs were now growing the bodies of six ferocious dogs. Scylla didn't realize that the beasts were attached to her, so she tried so hard to run away from the horrible beasts.Sadly, the more she ran and swam the more the serpents & ferocious dogs grew larger & larger. It was only a matter of time that the lovely Nymph discover she couldn't escape her fate. She would forever be rooted like a stone in the Strait of Messina, as a monster of the sea where

Now the Nymph Scylla forever rooted
to her fate as a monster 

she would forever snatch up unsuspecting sailors from their ships. So basically if the nymph would only given in to Glaucus the Sea God that loved her so much and would do anything to be with her. He loved her so and probably would have given her a lovely live in the sea, but she was so vain she ended up a monster of the sea and was eventually turned into a giant stone. So you must be very careful not to cross the Goddess Circe she is a powerful goddess and not very nice in my option.

I thought I would put some images of the tale of

Glaucus

Scylla 

Greek Goddess Circe

 Greek Goddess Circe

Greek Goddess Circe

Poisoning Scylla Bathe

 Circe Poisoning Scylla Bathe

Circe Goddess

Greek Goddess Circe

The Goddess and her Animals

CIRCE

THE GODDESS & HER ANIMALS HUMANS

 Circe the Sorceresses

Circe the Goddess, Sorceresses, & Witch

Circe goddess, Glaucus God of the Sea, and the 

Nymph Scylla

I hope that you all enjoyed the post on the 

Goddess Circe I hope to do more on the Greek Goddess & Gods

I love you all very much my dear Friends & Followers 

YOUR WENDY

Mint Lemonade

Mint Lemonade~

Mint Lemonade

Hello, my dears and I hope you all had a lovely 4th of July. My lovely small but very special family did, we stayed inside and watched movies listening to the outside of the fireworks/very loud firecrackers till 12:30 am. It was very hot last night so we all didn't get to bed till close to 2am. And, of course, I always get up at 8am to take my morning meds. However this time I didn't go back to bed like I always do. It seems that I get my headaches that way.  I thought you might like this other Lemonade I found Mint Lemonade I have heard that it is very tasty. 
Ingredients:
3 cups fresh lemon juice 
1 1/2 sugar
4 cups water divided
1 cup fresh mint
Ice cubes
Procedure into making Mint Lemonade:
1-First combine 2 cups of water, sugar, and fresh [cleaned mint]into a 
medium pot. After putting the combined ingredients on the top stove, bring the heat to a medium and being to stir until sugar has completely dissolved. Let simmer for at least one minute, then take off heat, let cool completely.
2-Secondly fill a large pitcher with lots of ice, add the lemon juice, mint syrup and 1 cup of water. Stir to combine the ingredients. 

So there you have Mint Lemonade I hope that you will

give it a try and will enjoy it for many years to come.

I love you all very much and If there is a drink that you 

are looking for just let me know I will try to find it 

as always you are welcome to my humble blog to have 

a quite time from your day, to listen to the music which

I hope you like and have a good read of the stories.

and the few movies too.

YOUR WENDY  

Summer Drinks For July-2015

Summer Drinks for July-2015

Up in Flames - Summer Drink

Good afternoon my dearest friends & followers, gosh its so hot here in 
Washington State almost 90' degree's and climbing. They say that it will get to the mid 90's today. So I thought I would give you all a great summer drinks, I myself can't drink them but they're fun to look for all of You! I have to drink non-alcoholic so that's pretty much non-alcoholic beer/wine. 
I hope you like the fun drink I found for you all. It is a layed drink so it is a bit more difficult to make but very cool looking and it sounds very good too. Once you get the layering technique down [a baster works perfectly], you'll be hooked on these kinda layering drinks and the gorgeous flavors and stunning colors. Of course, you can always try these without the alcoholic so that you can make fun drinks for your kids or for folks like me that can't drink... Heheheh. 
The drink will make a 1 2.25 oz shot. 
So it's a quick cool drink I will be adding another drink that is a bit bigger too.
What you will need;
1/2-ounce ginger liqueur
3/4-ounce fresh orange juice strained to remove the pulp.
1/2-ounce pomegranate liqueur
1/2-ounce vodka [80 or 100 proof based on preference]
[Additional 100 proof vodka or other high proof clear liquor for 
the fire part of the drink]
Now to put the drink together-
1-Pour ginger liqueur into the 2.5 oz tall & skinny shot-type glass.
2-Rest spoon inside glass with convex surface up and tip resting on inner side of glass.
3- Now very carefully & slowly pour the orange juice onto the spoon so that it runs down the inner side of the glass in a gentle stream.
4- The slower this happens the better the separation of the color layers in the glass. 
5-Mix pomegranate liqueur and vodka together and pour into the glass 
carefully using the same process as the orange juice.  
6-Pour a thin layer of the high proof vodka onto the surface of the pomegranate layer slowly. Then dim the lights & light up your shot. If not brave enough to drink it on fire just blow out the flame before drinking it!
With this drink, you can either sip it or drink it like a shot.
[Notes; The best separation of the layers is by using a 30ml syringe to drizzle the liquids down the inside of the glass[or you can use the syringe of the cough syrup of a small child that will work very will too. It is recommended using this method for crisp layers/ To find the syringe you can typically find them at medical supply stores]

Singapore Sling-

As promised another cool drink for the hot summer. The Singapore Sling was looking very good and refreshing. So the Singapore Sling was a kinda prototype to the Tiki drink and much like its offspring it has a lengthy list of ingredients too. But if you take the time to assemble what you need in the drink, you'll be very happy rewarded with an herbal, sweet-tart and refreshing cooler drink that has a seductive reddish color too. This is one drink to truly enjoy in, the hot sultry summer days and nights. If it's the humid heat or dry heat it's a great reliever for those hot summer months.
Serves 1
Ingredients;
2-ounce of London Dry Gin
2-ounce unsweetened pineapple juice
3/4-ounce fresh lime juice
3/4-ounce Cherry Heering 
2 teaspoon [ 1/3ounce] Cointreau
2 teaspoon [ 1/3-ounce] Benedictine
1/4 ounce of grenadine
2 to 4 dashes of bitters to taste 
Soda water
As far as getting it together I couldn't find that I hope with the 
ingredients that you are able to find how to put it together. It has been
a very hot day with a headache all day with the heat.

I love you all very much my dear friends & Followers 

I wish you all well 

YOUR WENDY 

SHANGO OF FIRE THUNDER AND LIGHTING

Shango African God of- 
Fire,Thunder & Lighting...

Shango is the orisha of fire, thunder and lightning, and he can be invoked to bring revenge upon enemies. He is an arrogant, violent and risk-taking Orisha. Those who cross him risk death by fire or electrocution. He can be a source of both vengeance and justice, of representing both raw rage and channeled strength. It is said that he was a passionate womanizer & thus is also associated with male sexuality, fertility and virility too. Shango had a long-standing feud with the African God Oggun his brother Ogun the African God of War & Iron of the Yoruba people of West Africa. It seems that Ogun and the other Gods had climbed down to earth on a spiderweb. This is at least what I discover about Sango brother. When creation was completed the gods realized that the people needed to clear more land in the forest where they lived. Unfortunately, the only tools

Ogun African god & brother
to Shango of Fire, Thunder
and Lighting...
These two brothers didn't
get along 

available were made of soft metal, which wasn't suitable to cut down trees. However, The god Ogun had been given the secret of Iron by Orunmila a son of the supreme God Olorun. So he was able to use an Iron ax to clear the forest for the people. Ogun later shared the secret to iron with the other Gods and the humans too. He showed them how to shape them into weapons to defend themselves. In short it seems to me he was a kind and helpful God. He also cared about the humans and his own people the Gods. Though he is a very fierce god he was not evil & would help those who would pray to him. So I could see why the two brother don't get along and that is why they have had a long-standing feud with each other. Mostly Shango with his brother Ogun. So as in the World of the God Shango nothing is every made of iron or can be associated with it. This could be one of the problems between the brothers in my opinion. As for his brother God Ogun who rules with metal, in particular, this may have caused the conflict between the brothers.

Statue of Shango 

Shango history dates back many centuries ago. He was the fourth king of the ancient Oyo Empire of the West African culture & politics for the Yoruba people. The Oyo Empire thrived from the 15th century until 1835. Today there are only about 30 million of the Yoruba decedents of his people in the Western Africa, mostly in Nigeria. I discovered that Shango beside a powerful god was also a powerful king, but some of the people in Oyo Empire thought he was an unfair King. It seems when two of his ministers challenged him for the throne, Shango fled into the forest. The King Shango wandered in the forest for quite a long time they say! In time, they have said he hung himself from a tree. [note I am getting this from history that I found on the great king and I don't know if it is actually true, I am just writing down what I find...Wendy]  I guess after the great King Shango died his enemies houses were set on fire, it was said it was by Shango's friends and loyal severities. However, there is another tale of this story, some believed that the King Shango had gone into the heavens & was sending fire down upon the Earth. This is how he became the God Shango of thunder, lighting, and fire. The God Shango of thunder, lightning, and fire slowly increases his powerful energy of these elements within the heavens and becomes a very powerful African God. In later years in Africa, there are folks that often depict him in artwork with a double ax on his head as a symbol of the Thunderbolt. Shango's thunderous energy became a symbol of the resistance of the Yoruba people during the 19th century when many of the Yoruba people were taken from their home Africa to America to be slaves. So Many of these African  Gods bring hope to the people of Africa and strength. I hope that you all enjoyed the history or the African God

 Shango of Fire, Thunder, and Lighting I know that I 

did and I hope to do more of the African Gods/Goddess

I love you all my dear friends & followers 

Happy July 1, 2015 

YOURWENDY