BEB ~ Jupiter in Wax

Not much in the way of inspiration today, so you've got my layered bulbous candle cropped. Looks a wee bit like Jupiter. I think. kinda. well, maybe a wee bit orange, but it's got layers...

On the plus side, I did manage to post my Christmas cards today, all 19 of them. Yep, it's a pathetically small pretty exclusive list! No need to rip down a forest to tend to my needs each year!!! :- ))

Some Jupiter mythology (facts are so boring), courtesy of Wikipedia.

The planet Jupiter has been known since ancient times. It is visible to the naked eye in the night sky and can occasionally be seen in the daytime when the sun is low. To the Babylonians, this object represented their god Marduk. They used the roughly 12-year orbit of this planet along the ecliptic to define the constellations of their zodiac.

The Romans named it after Jupiter (also called Jove), the principal god of Roman mythology, whose name comes from the Proto-Indo-European vocative compound Dy?u-p?ter meaning "O Father Sky-God" or "O Father Day-God".

The astronomical symbol for the planet is a stylized representation of the god's lightning bolt. The original Greek deity, Zeus, adopted by Romans, supplies the root zeno-, used to form some Jupiter-related words, such as zenographic.

Jovian is the adjectival form of Jupiter. The older adjectival form jovial, employed by astrologers in the Middle Ages, has come to mean "happy" or "merry," moods ascribed to Jupiter's astrological influence.

The Chinese, Korean and Japanese referred to the planet as the wood star, Chinese: ??; pinyin: mùx?ng, based on the Chinese Five Elements. The Greeks called it ??????, Phaethon, "blazing." In Vedic Astrology, Hindu astrologers named the planet after Brihaspati, the religious teacher of the gods, and often called it "Guru", which literally means the "Heavy One." In the English language, Thursday is derived from "Thor's day", with Thor associated with the planet Jupiter in Germanic mythology.