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Cephaeus Cephal Cephalad Cephale Cephalea Cephalic Cephalitis Cephalo Cephalon Cephalus
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CEPHAEUS    see> CEPHEUS
~ CEPHAL~     or CEPHALE~
              prefix for HEAD  MIND  WIT
              BRAIN  CEREBRUM
              gr KEPHALE   = HEAD or SKULL or BRAIN
                   PHALOS    ROUND
              med> OMPHALOS  PHALLUS        sug> PENIS
~ CEPHALAD    biol> TOWARD THE HEAD or TOP  sug> CAPITATE
~ CEPHALE~    same as CEPHAL~               sug> CAPITAL
~ CEPHALEA    med> HEADACHE                 sug> CAPACITY
~ CEPHALIC    med> PERTAINING TO THE HEAD
                   as in MICROCEPHALIC
              HOLOCEPHALIC = ENTIRE CEPHALON or ENCEPHALON
              HYDROCEPHALUS  WATER ON THE BRAIN
~ CEPHALITIS  INFLAMMATION  sug> ENCEPHALITIS
~ CEPHALO~    same as CEPHAL~ it denotes HEAD
~ CEPHALON    id+ | HEAD | but mostly focused on
              see> ENCEPHALON or
              id+ | HEAD CONTENTS or CEREBRUM |
              or CRANIUM  SKULL  CALVARIUM
              med> MACROCEPHALY   LARGE
                   MEGALOCEPHALY  ENLARGED
                   MICROCEPHALY   SMALL
                   NONOCEPHALY    DWARFED
                   MESOCEPHALY    BETWEEN
                   MEROCEPHALY    MISSING
                   OXYCEPHALY     POINTED  SHART
                   OCCIPUT        POSTERIOR SKULL
                                  POINTED BONE
~ CEPHALUS    id+ | LOVE and ABDUCTION |
              id+ | SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE |
              myth> CEPHALUS WAS THE SON OF
                    HERMES & HERSE or
  alt CREUSA or PANDION
  CEPHALUS WAS ABDUCTED BY EOS or DAWN
  SHE CONCEIVED TITHONUS
  note several alt versions
  DIANA or ARTEMIS THE HUNTRESS
  HELPED PROCRIS REGAIN THE LOVE OF
  HER HUSBAND CEPHALUS
  BY GIVING PROCRIS or PROCNE AND
  AN INFALLIBLE DOG PLUS
  A HUNTING SPEAR FOR CEPHALUS TO HUNT WITH
  WITH THIS SPEAR CEPHALUS
  ACCIDENTALLY KILLED HIS WIFE PROCRIS AND
  TO ATONE THIS DISASTER
  CEPHALUS KILLED HIMSELF
  alt CEPHALUS WAS THE SON OF DEION
      HE MARRIED PROCRIS or PROCNE
  THEY HAD ARCHIUS WHO IN TURN BECAME
  THE FATHER OF LAERTES
  biol> term PROCRIS denotes GREAT HUNTER
  art> MANY PAINTINGS SHOW CEPHALUS AND AURORA
       SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH CEPHALUS AND
  ATTEMPTED TO SEDUCE HIM
  NICOLAS or NICHOLAS POUSSIN
  RUBENS  and others CREATED NICE COMPOSITIONS
  BASED ON POETIC INTERPRETATIONS BY OVID [#]
  
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