Sitting between darkness and light, Eos is the Greek goddess of dawn who rises at the start of each day and chases away the darkness. What’s a better symbol for new beginnings? You can’t have a beginning without an ending, so often they’re bitter-sweet, somewhere between happy and sad, the old and the new, the dark and the light.
Pasiphae and the White Bull Myth
In the beginning of Ariadne’s Crown, Ariadne is walking through the market and people are gossiping about her mom and the white bull. People have asked me what’s up with Pasiphae and the white bull. It’s one of those bizarre Greek myths that make you wonder where in the heck it came from.