Friday night in our household: kiddo is reading The #Illiad and I am researching #NearEastern #plants. Partay!!!! 😆

The shield of #Achilles, a reconstruction from the #Illiad #epic of #Homer.

It is told by the poet that after the loss of his weapons and armor by the death of #Patroklos by the hand of #Hector, #Achilles received an new armor and new weapons smithed by #Hephaistos himself in his #olympic forge and handed down to him by his mother #Thetis.

#Okeanos embracing the whole world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_of_Achilles

#WalterOtto puts it right that, the conciousness by itself cannot be creative but only in exchange with the universe. So #Homer was right when he says in the #Illiad "Tell me, Muse, of the wrath of #Achilles, son of Peliad."
The inspiration and creativity comes from outside our selves, whispering to us and it is ours to listen.

Name it #Muse, name it perception and cognition, the principle is the same