March 1, 2022 The Prophetic Daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba by Jude Cowell As Putin's war against Ukraine rages on, I want to publish something with a mythological theme here on Secret Moon Art . So here are a few words concerning Kassandra ( aka , Cassandra ), a prophetess in Greek Mythology, plus, my drawing Kassandra's Blessings because everyone across the globe could use a few of those just now, even non-believers. How about you? \ Well, perhaps it isn't the best idea to imply by my drawing that the 'blessings' of Kassandra are a good thing even though it was drawn years ago (pencil on paper). For she is often considered in Greek Mythology to be a tragic figure whose gift of prophecy came from sun god Apollo yet he cursed her so that no one believed her prophecies . That she rebuffed the advances of Apollo is one explanation of Apollo's turn against her but there are other possibilities. Anyway, Cassandra prophesied that her brother Paris...
