Melusine

A medieval version of the fish-tailed Aphrodite, Melusine consented to marry a mortal on the condition that on each Saturday she must remain in seclusion in her castle. There, she became a fish-tailed mermaid and spent the day reclining in her bath. According to classical myths, it is fatally dangerous for a man to disturb the Goddess in her bath; therefore, the mermaid was often seen as a portent of death for unwary sailors who ventured too close to rocky outcroppings where mermaids were seen.

Through dreams, a door is opened to mythology. Since myths are of the nature of dream, and as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths; so, indeed, does life.

-- Joseph Campbell

And so it began with a dream I had one summer of myself as Poseidon, Lord of the Deep, stirring up tempests with my mighty trident; and the idea blossomed into the images that you will see on this website. Click below to enter the Mythic Images Gallery.