Wednesday, July 7, 2010

CANTHARIDIAN ARTIST STAMPS/ Aphrodite's Emergence/ Two stamps and selvage design from a sheet of six faux postage Goddess stamps from the micronation of Cantharidia/ CYBERSTAMPS




Aphrodite's Emergence
Cantharidian Postal Service
2010
by Eric Whollem
Copyright by the artist

Two Cantharidian Stamps With Selvage Art by the Artist

These stamps are complemented by a line drawing showing a
mermaid resting in a great clam shell. This issue from the post
offices of the micronation of Cantharidia is dedicated to the Goddess
Aphrodite, who is famously associated with the clam by Botticelli.
She is described as 'born of the shell' in mythology and poetry, being
a Goddess of the Sea.


The Mythology of Aphrodite

Aphrodite is here shown in her first aspect as Pandemos, the virgin.
In her second aspect she is the Marina, the matron. Her third aspect
is the crone, Aphrodite Urania, the Goddess of Universal Love.

Her three aspects correspond to the colors white, red, and black, the
three colors traditonally ascribed to the Triple Goddess.

As the three Horae she was Tyche, Dike, and Nemesis and as the
Three Fates she was Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

Her designation of Marina relates to the Fates, Moira and Moera.
A 'fate' or 'fay' or 'fey' originally was an oracular priestess.

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CANTHARIDIAN ARTIST STAMPS/ Aphrodite's Emergence/ A strip of three stamps from a sheet of six faux postage Goddess stamps/ CYBERSTAMPS




Aphrodite's Emergence
Cantharidian Postal Service
2010
by Eric Whollem
Copyright by the artist

Serial Images of Aphrodesian Faux Postage

This strip of three stamps is from as sheet of six cinderella
stamps created for the postal services of the micronation of
Cantharidia.

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