Myths

Today I started by reading a very famous myth, that of King Midas. He wishes to the God Bacchus the gift of turning everything he touched into gold, but soon realized that this was not a gift but rather a punishment. He later meets with the God Apollo, and because he said that the God's lyre playing had been awful, he earns himself a pair of donkey ears. The king tried to conceal it, but his hairdresser found out and told it to a hole in the ground, and now the story is repeated by the wind. It is similar to other myths because often people learn from their mistakes the hard way, such as Narcissus, who turned into a flower. The second myth was that of Bacius and Philemon, a poor couple that once helped Jupiter and Mercury without knowing that it was them. Because of thier hospitality, they were saved from a flood that their town suffered. This story is identical to Noah's Ark and Utanpishtim's discovery of immortality. It would be really interesting if we found more myths that share the same story and read them to compare and contrast. The third and final myth I read was that of Proserpine, which tells of how Pluto fell in love with Ceres's daughter, Proserpine, and took her by force to the Underworld. Ceres was so distressed that she asked Jupiter for help, and he said that she could leave had she not eaten anything from Pluto's kingdom. However, Proserpine had eaten some seeds, reason why she was ordered to stay in the depht for half the year and come out for the other half. This is how the seasons were created. The only relation I see to other myths is that they were an explanation from the creators of why the seasons exited. After all, myths are supposed to answer the unknown.