Pythagoras Fair Cup Hand painted with Hecate Greek Goddess of Magic Witchcraft

Description: PYTHAGOREAN FAIR CUP This cup is hand made and hand painted on the outside surface with Hecate the Greek Goddess of Magic and Witchcraft. Hecate or Hekate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches or a key and in later periods depicted in triple form. She was variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, ghosts, necromancy, and sorcery. She appears in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and in Hesiod's Theogony, where she is promoted strongly as a great goddess. Hecate was one of the main deities worshiped in Athenian households as a protective goddess and one who bestowed prosperity and daily blessings on the family. The Pythagorean cup is a form of drinking cup which is a deep sense of control measures of a drink. Creating a bowl ranked among the discoveries of Pythagoras of Samos. The uniqueness of the bowl of Pythagoras in a fairly simple principle that works as a mechanism of the valve filling the cup up to a certain level you can drink its contents as a regular cup but that’s as soon as we overfill the liquid over the mark level of the cup all of its contents follows through a hole located at bottom of the bowl. "Tradition says Pythagoras, during water supply works in Samos around 530 BC moderated the workers' wine drinking by inventing the 'fair cup'. When the wine surpasses the line, the cup totally empties, so the greedy one is punished." It was made in Greece, stands 4.7 inches high and weighs approximately 300 g. Cup Details: Condition: New, Copy, Handmade in GreeceCup Height: 12cm(4.7")Weight: 300 gHand Painted With Goddess Hecate********

Price: 47.2 USD

Location: Athens, Greece

End Time: 2024-09-04T20:06:32.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9 USD