Winged Singers 13

Introduction to our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.ucm.es/23744/) dealing with the mythical bearers of the music of the spheres, according to ancient Greek and Latin literary and iconographic sources (the Sirens of Plato's myth of Er, the Muses, Pleiads, and angelic hierarchies).

Second section of the first chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.ucm.es/23744/), dealing with the Sirens of Plato's myth of Er as embodiments of the sounds of cosmic music.

Beginning of the first section of the first chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.ucm.es/23744/), dealing with the Sirens of Plato's myth of Er. Overview of the textual and iconographic evidence of the Sirens being linked to celestial bodies.

Continuation of the first section of the first chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.ucm.es/23744/), dealing with the Sirens of Plato's myth of Er. Here we conclude our overview of the literary and iconographic evidence for the Sirens being linked to heavenly bodies.

First chapter of the second part of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the connection between the Pleiads and doves.

Second chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the Moirai of Plato's myth of Er.

Third chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the Muses as mythical bearers of the music of the spheres.

Fourth chapter of the second part of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the "keledónes" and with the "íynges" mentioned by Philostratus. We also explore their affinities with the Sirens as mythical bearers of cosmic music, on the basis of what the "Oracula chaldaica" and the Neoplatonists say about those mythical beings.

Fifth section of the first chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the hypothetical connections of the myth of Er with a Pythagorean exegesis of the "Odyssey" as an allegory of the heavenly journey of souls.

Fourth section of the first chapter of our online book "Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music" (http://eprints.sim.ucm.es/23744/), where we deal with the Sirens of Plato's myth of Er as psychopomps.