Having to unfortunately access our dear Blört by proxy (get me to a hotspot, anon, and wishing a belated, incredible twenty-fourth blogoversary), courtesy Web Curios we are directed towards another veteran website (established in 1999), the portal (please mention it by name when praying) not only offers a daily deity, information for various and obscure panthea, a running tally of the most popular divinities but also extensive mythological resources and research material. 
We enjoyed very much learning of the Greek mountain nymph Chelônê (Χελώνη) who is considered the personification of lateness, for failing to show up at the wedding of Zeus and Hera, an occasion for which the groom dispatched his messenger to summon all animals, men and gods to the event. Secretly disdaining their matrimony and mocked Zeus for his sister-wife, Chelônê chose to sit it out and fearful of attracting the ire of the couple, Chelônê said she never received an invitation. Clearly on the guest list but not bothering to RSVP much less to show up, Hermes took this accusation as personal affront and transformed this attested home-body into the creature that would forever bear her name, tortoise (via the Latin testudo)—an condemned to carry her house on her back since she liked it so, and would never have to leave home again. A variant on the curse—or blessing—comes from a later fable in which Momus, satirist of the gods, questioned the wisdom of giving man the gift of architecture for building shelters for their otherwise vulnerable bodies since they were fixed and had no wheels for escaping troublesome neighbours, and praised the snail’s petition to carry her home—when Zeus was doling out gifts at the dawn of creation—which proved to be no burden at all.
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Sycamore Gap tree chopped down (with synchronoptica)
seven years ago: the anniversary of the premier of Star Trek: TNG, more custom cars from George Barris plus rice paddy landscape art
eight years ago: the Voice of America radio service
nine years ago: passports for the stateless, a Blood Super Moon plus mushroom season
twelve years ago: illustrating the international date line
