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Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Muses

How often are we questioned in our social media as to who we are, which of the muses?
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/mgodsandgoddesses/tp/Muses.htm

MuseDomainEmblem
CalliopeEpic poetryWriting tablet
ClioHistoryScrolls
EuterpeSong and Elegiac poetryAulos (an ancient Greek musical instrument like a flute)
EratoLyric PoetryCithara (an ancient Greek musical instrument in the lyre family)
MelpomeneTragedyTragic mask
PolyhymniaHymnsVeil
TerpsichoreDanceLyre
ThaliaComedyComic mask
UraniaAstronomyGlobe and compass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse
But we are not one, but instead we are all the muses, at most at one time or another we carry the emblem of one or the other in the front, the others held behind the emblem of Polyhymnia ready to come forth when the situation calls for it.

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