When the sun sinks down and night rises through the air, the world and its inhabitants belong to Sobek. He is darkness - he can be found in both the shadows of the night-world, and those that cluster at the edges of human consciousness. As a god of darkness, he presides over its influence and the dangers that lurk within it. He is the predator, ( Read more... )

In reading Apostolos N. Athanassakis' translations of (and notes on) The Homeric Hymns, I've found an interesting note on the Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite ( Read more... )