Phrixus FLEW A “TALKING RAM” from Boeotia in Greece to Cholis on the East Black Sea coast.

**Phrixus and the Golden Ram in Flight** In this epic moment from Greek mythology, Phrixus escapes danger with the help of a magical, talking ram sent by the gods. With golden fleece shining in the light of dawn and wings outstretched, the ram soars high above the Aegean and Black Seas. This image captures the drama, wonder, and urgency of their legendary journey to Colchis.

Prince Phrixus FLEW A “TALKING RAM” from Boeotia in Greece to Cholis on the East Black Sea coast.*

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Prince Phrixus FLEW A “TALKING RAM” [Anunnaki Device?] from Boeotia in Greece to Cholis on the East Black Sea coast. By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), co-author of ANUNNAKI, EVOLUTION OF THE GODS

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Backstory: KING ATHAMAS ruled the cities of ORCHOMENUS [38°29′N 22°59′E / 38.483°N 22.983°E /] on the central Greek Peninsula of Boeotia around 507 BCE.

**King Athamas – Ruler of Orchomenus** This is a regal close-up portrait of King Athamas, the legendary ruler of Orchomenus around 507 BCE. His eyes reflect the wisdom and burdens of kingship, framed by a golden diadem and a robe of deep purple embroidered with divine symbols. Behind him, faint Doric columns and sunlight through olive leaves evoke the sacred heart of ancient Boeotia—a king caught between myth and history.

**King Athamas – The Sovereign of Orchomenus** This is a powerful close-up of King Athamas, framed in the golden light of ancient Boeotia. Wearing a regal purple cloak and golden diadem, his sharp gaze and dignified bearing capture the essence of a ruler caught at the crossroads of myth and history.

**Nephele – The Forsaken Cloud Queen** Nephele, goddess of clouds, stands cloaked in shimmering mist, her hair like strands of silver sky. Though serene in her divine beauty, her eyes carry the ache of betrayal, abandoned by King Athamas for another. Caught between heaven and earth, she radiates a quiet power—part goddess, part grieving queen.

King Athamas’ first wife, NEPHELE, a cloud goddess, was the queen he divorced so he could marry INO instead.

INO, his second wife, daughter of Cadmus, hated PHRIXUS and HELLE, the children of the King, with Nephele. Ino feared that Phrixus and Helle would block her children (Learchus and Melicertes) from inheriting the rule of Orchomenus.

**Ino’s Jealous Watch – The Rival Heirs of Orchomenus** Ino, queen and daughter of Cadmus, stands regal and possessive beside her sons, Learchus and Melicertes. Her eyes cast a sharp, resentful gaze toward Phrixus and Helle—innocent children shunned in their father’s court. The palace courtyard looms with shadowed columns, framing a scene thick with ambition, maternal fear, and dynastic rivalry at the heart of ancient Orchomenus.

Ino ruined Orchomenus’ store of wheat seeds, created a food panic, and got Athamas to believe a messenger she bribed to say the Oracle of Delphi augured famine for Orchomenus unless the King sacrificed Phrixus and Helle to appease Zeus [a name Marduk used in Greece].

**Pythia – Face of Prophecy** With eyes half-veiled in divine vision, the Oracle of Delphi communes with the gods. Her laurel crown and illuminated features glow in the sacred haze, embodying wisdom beyond the mortal world. The image channels the power, mystery, and reverence of ancient Greek oracles.

**The Voice of Apollo – Oracle of Delphi** Bathed in golden light and veiled by sacred smoke, the Pythia—the priestess of Apollo—sits in divine trance above the earth’s breath. Her words echo mystery and power as a royal figure listens, seeking fate’s guidance. The Temple of Apollo looms around them, carved with ancient wisdom, capturing the awe, reverence, and sacred tension that shaped the destinies of kings and nations.

Ino lobbied Athamas, who agreed to sacrifice his children rather than suffer irritable wife syndrome and rebellious citizen revolt.

Just as Athamas was about to sacrifice Phrixus and Helle, CHRYSOMALLOS, a winged, golden fleece ram [an Anunnaki flying device] who spoke Greek, rescued them. It told them that Hermes [known in Sumer as Ningishzidda] sent it to save them.

**Chrysomallos Descends – The Divine Rescue of Phrixus and Helle** In a blaze of golden light, Chrysomallos soars from the heavens—his radiant fleece glowing like the sun, wings spread wide with celestial grace. Phrixus and Helle gaze up in awe as the divine ram lands beside them, sent by Hermes to deliver them from peril. The landscape of ancient Orchomenus stretches behind, bathed in the glow of destiny and divine intervention. This moment captures the essence of heroic salvation and mythic wonder.

The kids escaped Greece on the Ram, but Helle fell into the Dardanelles [the strait between Europe and Asia that the Greeks called the Helle-spont] after the drowned child.

**Fall into the Hellespont – Helle’s Final Descent** As the golden ram Chrysomallos soars across the stormy strait between Europe and Asia, Helle slips from its back, her white robes and golden hair flowing as she falls into the sea below. The sky is heavy with twilight and mist, and the waves rise to meet her. The ram, carrying Phrixus onward, turns its gaze back in sorrow. This image captures the emotion, movement, and mythic scale of a tragedy so great it gave a name to the sea: the Hellespont.

THE GOLDEN FLEECE IN COLCHIS

Phrixus, on Chrysomallos’ back, safely reached Colchis, where King Aietes welcomed him, sacrificed the Ram to Hermes, and offered its hide to Aietes.