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HI guys!
The last days was days of work work work so, little time for anything else :)

PSCS/Graphire2/5 hours + 1 hour of edit/music: Enya - It's in the Rain
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This is a very old draw, 2007 or so, but I retouched and give a new edit. hope you like it. Leda and Zeus... why zeus? I just see a swan there... wanna know?


Lets Wikiattack!

In Greek mythology, Leda (Λήδα) was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus of Sparta.

Leda was admired by Zeus, who seduced her in the guise of a swan. As a swan, Zeus fell into her arms for protection from a pursuing eagle. Their consummation, on the same night as Leda lay with her husband Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs from which hatched Helen — later known as the beautiful "Helen of Troy" — Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux. Which children are the progeny of Tyndareus, the mortal king, and which are of Zeus, and are thus half-immortal, is not consistent among accounts, nor is which child hatched from which egg. The split is almost always half mortal, half divine, although the pairings do not always reflect the children's heritage pairings. Castor and Polydeuces are sometimes both mortal, sometimes both divine. One consistent point is that if only one of them is immortal, it is Polydeuces.

In Homer's Iliad, Helen looks down from the walls of Troy and wonders why she does not see her brothers among the Achaeans. The narrator remarks that they are both already dead and buried back in their homeland of Lacedaemon, thus suggesting that at least in some early traditions, both were mortal.

Another account of the myth states that Nemesis (Νέμεσις) was the mother of Helen, and was also impregnated by Zeus in the guise of a swan. A shepherd found the egg and gave it to Leda, who carefully kept it in a chest until the egg hatched. When the egg hatched, Leda adopted Helen as her daughter. Zeus also commemorated the birth of Helen by creating the constellation Cygnus (Κύκνος), the Swan, in the sky.

Leda and the swan and Leda and the egg were popular subjects in the ancient art. In the postclassical arts, it became a potent source of inspiration
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~oryxace May 11, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
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*Isyll--8 May 3, 2013
gorgeous :)
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~MhicDugall Apr 20, 2013
Whatever it's background it has a positive light about it , I like it .
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~sanie1au Feb 13, 2013
Zeus! encouraging seasonality for all the good boys and girls!
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Mood: Joy ~KittyKattsKorner Jan 8, 2013
Pure Purrrrfection..! =^_^=
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Mood: Love ~archonus1 Nov 21, 2012
A wonderful peace of ART!!!
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~VigilantMeadow Oct 30, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Actually, Pollux was immortal. He and his brother were extremely close and always were together. However, Castor died (it was either in battle or he stepped on a snake--I can't remember). Pollux was extremely sad to lose his dear brother and begged with the gods to allow him to split his immortality with Castor. The gods took pity on him and granted his wish. Thus, Castor and Pollux spend half their time on Olympus and half their time in the Underworld.

I like talking about mythology like it's real. :D

Beautiful picture, too!
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Mood: Wow! *chaosfive55 Oct 24, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Exquisite!!!!
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~MestreAll Oct 17, 2012
I've seen a lot of work of art out there in the internet, but none compared to yours, I wanted to be able to express myself and make a work of art like yours!

Where are you from dude?
And Where you learn to do this work of art?
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Mood: Love ~dav45 Sep 3, 2012
HERMOSO
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