Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
In honor of that holiday…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s turn to classical mythology for this week’s honoree, the river god Achelous, sometimes depicted as a sort of snake or fish monster, as in this pottery…
…or in Francois Joseph Bosio’s sculpture in the Louvre…
…and sometimes depicted as a giant bull, as in this mural by Thomas Hart Benton…
But what does Achelous have to do with Turkey Day, you may ask? Well, while scrapping with Hercules, Achelous got one of his horns ripped off, and, according to Ovid at least, said appendage became the Cornucopia, or Horn of Plenty. May it shower bounty upon us all.
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