Wilderventures: louvre

I stopped at stories. The first was a collossal bronze depicting the four countries France had conquered. Rome, Dutch, Spain and Brandenburg. Just last week, I got to know of a place of that name. The person next to me on a flight was from there!

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The seasoned philosopher Diogenes, the cynic, who has given up the luxuries of life tells (off) the conqueror Alexander the great..." You're blocking my sun". Alexander is known to have said, "If I weren't Alexander, I would have liked to be Diogenes".

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Amohitrite calms the seas. She rides a sea lion, holds a conch shell (perhaps to check for water quakes, decibel of sound...who knows). The chubby child cupid ( why are they all boys?) holds a coral. She's the wife of Neptune who lords over the stormy seas, taming with his trident, the unpredictable wild horse which I assume depicts the weather.

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Baby Oedipus is hung on a tree and left to die because of a phopheay that said, he would kill his father one day. A hunter saves him and brings him up as his own.

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Raherka ( Ra - sun god) and Merseankh (she loves life). This couple show up from time to time. Who were they? Some things don't change

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This ancient urn with antelopes and flamingos brought flashes of flamingos from back home :)

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This is a book mark, studded with rubies and turquoise and pearl, for the book of Paris. What was the book for?

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The woman is valued. What makes anything or anyone valued? Is it finesse or fate? Is it by chance or design?

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Hercules saves the mistress of Zeus from the monster Argon. The knife on his heel signifies he has beheaded the monster. Hercules then clips on his wings and flies to the heavens.