Vintage Belt Buckle Figural Leda and the Swan. Mythology 3D Mythical Greek Myth

Vintage Siskiyou Buckle Co. Belt Buckle 3D Figural Leda and the Swan.



Please refer to all pictures for a good description. This is a heavy piece and approximately 4"x2"1/2



Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces  Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched.[1] In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.