Mythology and Folklore

The Great Flood by Bonaventura Peeters ( Wikimedia ) The Great Flood Jupiter’s lashed out, unsatisfied. He had drawn the winds and aerial waters to his side. Storms encompassing nations spread across the sky, a never ending sea of tumultuous darkness, split only by the bright flashes of Jupiter’s strikes. Water came torrentially, but not even this satisfied his anger. He called out to Neptune who joined in his cause. Neptune struck his great trident into the sands of the beach and at once the oceans came to life consuming all before them. The rivers rushed unrelenting, overflowing, and grabbing anything they could grasp as they raced to the oceans. Buildings, orchards, flocks, people, and temples, no one was spared as every body of water became one. The world is drowned None escaped save for Deucalion and Pyrrah. Able to salvage themselves on a small skiff, they moored near the top of Mount Parnassus, whose peaks rest among the stars. Here in this strange limbo...

                                            Week 4 Part B:  Ovid’s Metamorphoses: (Books 1-4) Echo: This is a wild start to the story with 3 different episodes in the first few paragraphs  Might be more difficult to replicate, this plot is very complex The plot got even more complex in the strangest love story I’ve read This story had significantly more detail and description than the last one I read from this book Mars and Venus: Interesting difference in narrator where it is a separate character telling the story Another unique version of a love story Shorter but still descriptive More straightforward plot but told well, driven right into the story right after some brief exposition Perseus and Andromeda: In this story and others from this unit there are many myths within the one larger story. For example, as Perseus is flying Medusas blood dro...

Mount Parnassus in 1821 by Edward Dodwell ( Wikimedia ) Week 4 Part A: Ovid’s Metamorphoses: (Books 1-4) Deucalion and Pyrrha :  Jupiter = Greek Zues; Neptune = Poseidon; Early flood myth. D and P only survivors. Themis = God of Law and order. D son of Titan god Prometheus, Pyrrha daughter of Titan god Epimetheus and wife Pandora. Interesting paragraphs. Action packed, seems to come from verbs, and does not feel passive. “The world is drowned.” All animals die except for ocean dwellers. Possible use for trickster animal experiencing flood. Transfer to passive voice now as focus settles on story. D and P come to rest on a mountain, Mount Parnassus that peaks above clouds in completely flooded world, really cool opportunity for descriptive imagery – link to limbo type world Jupiter clears clouds and Neptune calms the sea/Triton arises from ocean and blows conch returning rivers and streams to return – cool imagery  Probably want to retell this one with the additio...