"Thus to students of the past the life of the old kings and priests teems with instruction." John Frazier, the Golden Bough, page 250
Anyone else find it vaguely annoying? To me, it seems silly that they thought remembering why something happened works as medicine. If you went to your medicine hut or whatever with your foot chopped off, screaming, you would hear a story about why you can get your foot chopped off and thats your cure. Rather than, oh i don't know, medicine from herbs. I'm stupid though but thats what I get out of what I'm reading.
Now for metamorphosis. Everyone remember Perseus? Yea that one. He is still a badass. He rescues a princess from a sea dragon to make her his wife. He then has to fight off hundreds of warriors because the princess's uncle, who was mad because he was supposed to marry her, kills a man behind a couch and everyone blames Perseus, Phoebus only knows why. Today we have grenades and missiles and tanks. Well those ain't got nothin on Medusa's face staring at you. In fact, I would not want to be the guy who was getting ready to throw a grenade when he gets turned into stone.
I have discovered a frustrating fact in the metamorphosis, the Goddess's are freaking crazy in the head, Juno being one of the best examples. She goes berserk everytime her husband rapes a nymph. Sounds reasonable, until you realize she doesn't punish him, she punishes the rape victims. By far one of the mot frustrating and stupid situations though is what happened involving Diana. So a random dude, could have been me, wanders into a cave and sees Diana naked except she is shielded by the nymphs. Before he can blink, Diana has turned him into a deer to be eaten by his own hunting dogs. Honestly, what the hell. Accidents happen right? Well I guess god's or at least goddess's don't believe in accidents.
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