Reading A:
Deucalion and Pyrrha - Jupiter has ordered all rivers and streams to overflow. Eventually the water swept away all life including animals and human until the world had no land and was only sea. The whole world drowned swallowing towns and countries. Animals had no use to try to survive because their adaptation could not help them. Those who did survive had no food and were defeated by slow starvation. There was however, land that rose above the clouds that is where Deucalion and his wife survived. They prayed to the gods. When jupiter saw that only one man and one women was left and that they were good and worshipped he calmed the sea and allowed for their survival. Deucalion pleads for the human race to be “repaired” to a temple goddess. She take pity on them and tells him how the human race could continue. Oh this part is weird... The two surviving people are told by the temple goddess to cover their faces and throw stones behind them. When they threw the stones onto the ground the stones began to soften and start to take human form! Thus new humans were made... That is a really weird way to make new humans.
Io - Okay, so right off the bat we learn the Jupiter (Zeus) sees a pretty lady and deems her worthy of being with him. So he rapes her as she tries to run off. Yay gods?! Oh, BTW Jupiter is married to the Queen of Gods (I wouldn’t want to mess with her). This part was confusing, but it seems like Juno, Jupiter’s wife, was looking for Jupiter. He did not want her to see him raping another women so he transformed into Io into a Heifer. Juno then claimed this women as a gift...? Whatever that may mean. Io could not speak now and so she could not tell her story. Okay, these stories are ending weird, but I like them. So Juno is pissssssed at this women that Zeus raped. Juno calls this girl a slut... which is obviously no true in todays understanding of the word. Jupiter calms Juno and Lo begins to take back her natural human form from the Heifer. The End?
Phaethon and the Sun - So, Lo had a child from Jupiter and her child was friends with this guy named Phaethon. Phaethon is trying to prove he is the son of the Sun god. People do not belied him so he decides to ask his mother for proof. She send him to meet the sun god himself, and so he does. When Phaethon meets his father in his temple he ask his father to give him proof that he is his offspring. The sun god confirms that Phaethon os his offspring and lets him ask something of him to prove he is his child. Phaethon ask for the ability to control the Sun god chariot for the day. The Sun god regrets his decision to let Phaethon ask whatever he likes. He tell Phaethon that controlling the chariot is difficult for even Jupiter and Phaethon is only mortal. He warns him many times about the consequences. Cool story, again they leave it without a ending. It was left off with a warning from the Sun god about what might happen.
Phaethon’s Ride - In this part of the story Phaethon has decided that he realllllllyyyy wants to ride in the chariot... in fact, he is determined. His father tried and tried to warn him not to ride in the chariot. The sun god pleaded and said he could have anything, but this is an exception! “Please make a wiser choice”. Phaethon is still insistent so his father directs him on how to use the Chariot. Now Phaethon takes off and is soon finding himself in a pickle when he cannot control the Chariot. Now Phaethon is regretting his decision. He is facing horrible mythical creatures that are trying to kill him. Phaethon lost control of the chariot and crashed sending the earth into flames!
Callisto - Callisto is a virgin women who is devoted to serving Diana, the virgin goddess of the hunt. Jupiter set his sights on Callisto and decides he want to “get with her”. He transforms into the goddess Diana and meets with Callisto. Jupiter then rapes Callisto. After the rape, Diana, the real one, and Callisto met again and it turns out that Callisto was impregnated by Jupiter. Because Diana is the virgin goddess Callisto was expelled as a follower of Diana for no longer being a virgin. Callistos son is born. Juno, Jupiter's Jealous wife, transforms Callisto into a bear! Years later Callisto’s son, a hunter, meets his mother in the woods and is about to kill her when Jupiter tosses them both into the air. They then became the Great bear and Little Bear!
Reading B:
Narcissus - As Narcissus becomes tired he rest in a very beautiful spot covered by tress and untouched by others. Since he is tired he goes to take a drink of water from the pond, but as he leans over the water to take a drink he find another beauty. Himself... He tries to catch his reflection in the pool, but he cannot. He is so fixated on his own reflection that he does not eat or sleep. He finds himself so attractive that he can only look at himself. Narcissus is confused by the reflection. He seems to think his reflection is for some reason evading him. Eventually Narcissus dies from I believe starvation. Sad.
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| Narcissus Looking at His Reflection |
Pyramus and Thisbe - This is a very cute story about a boy and a girl who could not be together because of their families. They decided to run off in the night together. The girl, Thisbe, gets out first and goes to their meeting location, but she leaves because she sees a lioness that has just killed a cow coming toward the meeting place. While running away Thisbe drops a piece of her clothing. When Pyramus gets to the meeting location he sees the piece of clothing stained in blood and he notices the tracks of the lioness. he assumes the lioness has killed Thisbe. Upset of the thought of losing his lover, Pyramus kills himself with his sword. Thisbe returns to the meeting place to see her dead lover. Now a distraught Thisbe picks up Pyramus’s sword and kills herself out of love!
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