Leda in Ecstasy

Since I can identify more with tropical birds, Leda's swan has been transformed into a heron, which is a bird whose neck has similar characteristics as that of the swan. The heron is at the riverside eating a fish that it has just caught. Leda is in total rapture as her curled fingers and electrified hair attest. Her firefly nipples and navel add heat and light to the eroticism of the scene. The intensity of her ecstasy discloses her identity as one of Zeus' concubines. © David G. Wilson