lunes, 22 de septiembre de 2008

Is our will truthful?

Glaucus fell inlove with Scylla but she is ungratefull and scolds him. He asks Circe for help but she just scold him for being inlove with such a shameful maiden, he cannot resist his love and refuses to apply Circe's advice, “Sooner shall trees grow at the bottom of the ocean, and sea-weed on the top of the mountains, than I will cease to love Scylla, and her alone.”Meanwhile Scylla is punished by the goddess and becomes horrible. What is the myth describing? What can I interpret from the tale? Scylla is ungrateful for all the promises that Glaucus gives her and is indignant. I think that is a common situation, sometimes you are simply not interested in the other person while he is dying for you. There is no need to be punished for that, probably the goddess Circe was jealous, she wanted Glaucus to look at her and not to look at Scylla.

Pygmalion hated women. he sculpured a beautiful one in ivory and ended up inlove with it. Prayed to Venus for the ivory to become his wife, and so it did. He fell inlove with his own art and regreted his hatred against women, what does it really mean? That he is selfcentered? COuld it be that we just love our creations and not the others? Pygmalion obsessed with the ivory and treated beautifully, because she could not reply to him. He needed just some kind of a company, until he felt alone because he had no love back. He looked for the perfect women, which doesn't exist, neither does the perfect man exists.

Wow, fatal ending for no fatal action. Dryope did nothing wrong, she was naiive and ripped some floers with no intention to hurt anybody, but was harshly condemned to be a tree and give up her sister, father, baby, and husband! Life is unfair, absolutly unfair. We get punished for being innocent and the guilty are not punished at all. That is the way it works and there nothing to do about it.

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