shakh your bootie

Anorak moment:

In Greek mythology, Alcyone (Greek: Ἁλκυόνη) was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale. She married Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star.

They were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's account, often sacrilegiously called each other "Zeus" and "Hera."[1] This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea (going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's account), the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship. Ceyx appeared to Alcyone as an apparition to tell her of his fate, and she threw herself into the sea in her grief. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into halcyon birds, named after her.

Ovid[2] and Hyginus [3] both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera- and Zeus's resulting anger - as a reason for it. Ovid also adds the detail of her seeing his body washed up on the shore before her attempted suicide.

Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for "halcyon days", the seven days in winter when storms never occur. They state that these were originally the seven days each year (either side of the shortest day of the year) during which Alcyone (as a kingfisher) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety. The phrase has since become a term used to describe a peaceful time generally.

lionheart

You are so funny

MacScot

Halcyon = best DAYS of your life - so hopefully many more to come !

MataHari

I like it when you are being sarcastic....

MataHari

it's all too complicated for me, these big foreign words...

lionheart

Memo to self...no more sarcastic remarks

shakh your bootie

You'll be claiming to be blonde next.....

MacScot

Nah ! You're too young yet.

MataHari

I am no traitor...

MataHari

that was easy...

shakh your bootie

Baiting LH is no sport.... it's just lemming hunting.

MataHari

I know....and I have been real good lately...sorry

lionheart

You presumably didn't appreciate the meaning of the my friend.

MacScot

Bryan Adam's song sums up halcyon days:

shakh your bootie

That was a wink??? Thought you had a nervous twitch...... one of the sideaffects of the blue pills....