Looking for Mythlogy on Gray/Silver eyes in myths & Legends?

Question

I have gray/silver eyes and was curious if they we're mentioned in any myths & legends? I know Athena was said to have gray/silver eyes, anything else would be much appreciated! :)

Answer 1

Mythology is a little more serious than what you seem to think. What we call "myth" was science to the people who tried to record it. You don't have to read many pages in history to realize that the sky above the Earth looked very different just a few thousand years ago. You might wonder why the ancients named their god after a planet that most people now can't even point to. Well, they were quite explicit about that: they didn't worship gods named for planets, they worshiped the planets. In ancient days, Jupiter and Saturn dominated the sky, and Venus and Mars put on quite a show for a long time.



Here is a scientific investigation of ancient myths and legends, considering stories in hundreds of languages from all over the world and going back to 10,500 BC. It is very long, and it is still in progress. http://saturniancosmology.org/



And here is a video presentation: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/resources/

Clips: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=symbols+of+an+alien+sky

Answer 2

Blizzard's Warcraft Lore have the Kaldorei or the Night Elves who traditionally have silver eyes.



Among night elves, amber-colored eyes, as opposed to the traditional silver, are a sign of inherent druidic potential and/or a night elf destined for greatness. Among the class-obsessed night elves who lived prior to the War of the Ancients, amber eyes were rare, and thus viewed as a sign of underlying greatness. Queen Azshara and Illidan Stormrage, both extremely powerful sorcerers, had amber eyes. The night elves became vastly more egalitarian since the War's end, abandoning their former obsession with bloodlines, and thus, amber eyes are now far more common. In addition, druidism spread throughout night elven society, and many night elves develop amber eyes after birth if they practice the art.

Though amber eyes are a sign that the individual has a natural ability for druidic magic, it does not mean that all amber-eyed night elves become druids, or that silver-eyed night elves are unable. Malfurion Stormrage himself was born with silver eyes, and developed amber eyes only after studying druid magic. His own brother, though born with amber eyes, lacked the patience to succeed in the art.



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Answer 3

At Boiotia in Greece it was believed that Athena, after her birth, was raised by a Boiotian Autokhthon [Autochthon, a man born from the soil] named Alalkomenes or Alalkomeneus, after whom a place called Alalkomenia in Boiotia was named. Alalkomenes is said to have been the one who introduced the worship of Athena to Boiotia. He was married to a woman named Athenaïs (perhaps a cypher for Athena herself?) and they had a son named Glaükopos, whose name means "Grey-Eyed," so in a way you could say that he was named after Athena (since she had grey eyes).



"A Greek-English Lexicon," by Liddell and Scott, talks about the possible meaning of Kharon, the name of the rugged old boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the rivers of the Underworld to their place of judgement at the house of Haides [Hades]. "The name Charon is most often explained as a proper noun from χάρων (charon), a poetic form of χαρωπός (charopós), “of keen gaze”, referring either to fierce, flashing, or feverish eyes, or to eyes of a bluish-gray color. The word may be a euphemism for death."



There is a syncretistic god or demon of the Mascarene Islands called Kérdik. People claiming to have encountered him describe him as appearing to be a tall skinny humanoid creature with greenish blue skin, “sun-coloured” hair and lizard grey eyes.



In Albanian folklore, there is a dragon-like monster called Bolla or Bullar which has faceted silver eyes, whose description sounds to me like some kind of jewel. The monster sleeps throughout the year except for St George's Day, on which it awakes to use its eyes to peer into the world until it locates a human being who it then devours, after which it closes its eyes and goes back to sleep.



Akash Bhairava, a Hindu god who is also venerated in Buddhism and Jainism, is depicted in Buddhist iconography as a large blue head with a fierce face and huge silver eyes, wearing a crown of skulls and serpents. This head is supposed to belong originally to a king in Hindu mythology called Yalambar, who was beheaded by Kṛṣṇa [Krishna] in the war at Kurukṣetra [Kurukshetra]; afterwards the severed head itself became the god Akash Bhairava. The head's appearance apparently represents the mask which Yalambar wore when he died.