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Plan is to provide fill-in-the-blank themes from a work and a series of images that give one or more hints to the answer.

Beware: There will sometimes be red herring in the batch.


Verbal hint for this first submission: David Talbot's starting investigation subject:

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(Princess and dragon were once --- --- --- ----...)



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Answer to the above is "one and the same".

David Talbott is an historian and researcher who works with engineers, astronomers, plasma physicists, and other scientists on a work titled The Thunderbolts Project. One of his former areas of research was, and probably still is, the relation of the planets Venus, Mars, and Saturn to World Mythology.

One of his surprising discoveries was that the planet Venus doubled as the Doomsday Comet in the lore of many ancient civilizations. The long "tail" that characterizes some comets was considered the long flowing hair of the goddess (Venus, if you'll now recall, is both the name of the planet we used to call "Morning Star" and the name of a Roman deity).

During the period when the planet, as "comet" was thought to be responsible for calamity, the appearance of this "hair" transformed into something far more monstrous in the eyes of the people, eventually giving rise to the myths of the Hydra, the Wyvern, the Dragon, the Hecatoncheires, Medusa, and many others.

Originally posted by bluewaterrider


David Talbott's starting investigation subject:

The Great Comet Venus.

(Princess and dragon were once one and the same ...)



The above is the "filled-in" version of the first post.
Talbott's documentary film "Remembering the End of the World" unifies everything that has been submitted marvelously.

It might be worthwhile to point out that, even now, in our modern times, the planet Venus sometimes assumes an ethereal "tail" that vaguely resembles a woman's hair:


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