Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 28 - Hippocampus

Mar 2, 201021 min read

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Published: Mar 2, 2010

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Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 28 - Hippocampus

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This week's creature feature is: Hippocampus

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocam… :

The hippocamp or hippocampus, often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology, though the name by which it is recognized is purely Greek. It has typically been depicted as a horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fishlike hindquarter.
Homer described Poseidon, who was god of horses as well as of the sea, drawn by "brazen-hoofed" horses over the sea's surface. In Hellenistic and Roman imagery, Poseidon (or Roman Neptune) often drives a sea-chariot drawn by hippocampi.
The hippocamp was considered an appropriate decoration for mosaics in Roman thermae or public baths, as at Aquae Sulis modern day Bath in Britannia.  Poseidon's horses, which were included in the elaborate sculptural program of gilt-bronze and ivory, added by a Roman client to the temple of Poseidon at Corinth, are likely to have been hippocampi.

Now, for the features!  Works are featured from various categories, in no particular order:

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Breyer-Whiteside Hippocampus by tyreenya

Fontana di Trevi hippocamp 2 by motor-stock

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Hippocampus and the Flame by sighthoundlady

Hippocampus Beaded Tapestry by Featherthorn

Nishikigoi Kir'rin Koi Hippocampus Stallion Red Tn by StephanieSmall

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Mechanical Hippocampus by howling00greywolf

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Golden Hippocampus by Michelle-JA-McIntyre

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I've been having some health issues, and I haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on these articles. So here's the deal: I'm planning on doing a "Reader's Pick" article, with a bunch of fantasy or mythical creatures combined into one feature. The only rules are these: No nudity (just no naughty bits showing), no excessive blood or gore, and they MUST COME FROM A CATEGORY I'VE ALREADY DONE. These should be the ones I've "missed", if you will. All visual media. Just leave a comment on this article with a link to your favorite deviation or deviant, and I'll pick out the ones that really stand out to me to feature! Of course, if I don't have enough, I'll wait until I do.
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