Metamorphoses

[Anonymous No.17434425]

Currently reading this. Post Meta related discussion and art here

[Anonymous No.17434440]

I was surprised to learn that greek-roman mythology also has a myth about a great flood viping away most of mankind by orders of the Sky God. Is this myth related to the one of Noah's arc?

also was Lycaon the first werewolf?

[Anonymous No.17434801]

>>17434425
who is your meta waifu? For me, its Galatea

[Anonymous No.17434826]

>>17434440
Isn't The Great Flood something that pops up in quite alot of mythologies? I think there was one in the mesopotamien too. I don't know about the greek one though, where is that written?

[Anonymous No.17434838]

>>17434440
>Is this myth related to the one of Noah's arc?
According to some classicists, the Greeks took that story from the Jews since they had it written down hundreds of years before Hesiod wrote about it. Also, the Greeks are notorious for stealing near eastern myths, for example with the myth of Io who is known as Iris to the Ancient Egyptians.

[Anonymous No.17434852]

why are women so ethereal and perfect bros

[Anonymous No.17434857]

>>17434852
that's a man

[Anonymous No.17434866]

>>17434857
no shot, really? Good thing im bi

[Anonymous No.17434870]

>>17434425
>tfw I just read it last night

[Anonymous No.17434874]

>>17434866
Its hermaphrodite - female ass, breasts and nice pair of balls'n'dick.

[Anonymous No.17434894]

>>17434874
Did anyone tell xer YWNBARW?

[Anonymous No.17435026]

>>17434874
based

[Anonymous No.17435205]

>>17434826
>>17434838
Still, its kind of weird that a myth about a great flood to wipe out humanity exists as far away as east asia. Where did it come from?

>>17434894
fuck off incel, Hermaphrodite was literally raped by an ara ara nymph who asked the gods to never seperate them, and the first trap was the result. Poor Hermaphroditus did nothing wrong

[Anonymous No.17435254]

>>17435205
You're doing that thing where you confuse fiction for reality again, autist.

[Anonymous No.17435273]

>>17435254
Are you referring to the flood myth thing? I'm not saying it happened I'm just wondering where it came from, chill

[Anonymous No.17435299]

>>17435205
Are you dumb?
Think about it, human civilisations all flourished near rivers and bodies of water and used the water for agriculture. What do you think happens every now and then to rivers and bodies of water? Of course they get bad floods every so often.

[Anonymous No.17435353]

>>17435254
There is geological evidence of a great flood happening brainlet

[Anonymous No.17435405]

>>17434425
What's everyone's preferred translation? Currently reading the Mandelbaum, although I also downloaded the Lombardo one. It doesn't have any notes which would be nice for some of the references but it's good to be able to just read and feel the flow of the poetry.

[Anonymous No.17435511]

Holy shit the story of Io was depressing
Did she ever see her dad again...? ;-;

[Anonymous No.17435614]

>>17435353
>There is geological evidence of a great flood happening brainlet
Fun fact, his post had another statement unrelated to the flood myth brainlet.

[Anonymous No.17435689]

A Dafne ya los brazos le crecían,
y en luengos ramos vueltos se mostraba;
en verdes hojas vi que se tornaban
los cabellos que el oro escurecían.

De áspera corteza se cubrían
los tiernos miembros, que aún bullendo estaban:
los blancos pies en tierra se hincaban,
y en torcidas raíces se volvían.

Aquel que fue la causa de tal daño,
a fuerza de llorar, crecer hacía
este árbol que con lágrimas regaba.

¡Oh miserable estado! ¡oh mal tamaño!
¡Que con llorarla crezca cada día
la causa y la razón porque lloraba!


Strange icy throes the arms of Daphne bind,
Which shoot, and spread, and lengthen into boughs;
And into green leaves metamorphosed shows
The head whose locks, wooed by the summer wind,

Made the fine gold seem dim; the rigorous rind
Clothes the soft members that still pant; her feet,
Snowy as swift, in earth fast rooted meet,
By thousand tortuous fibres intertwined.

The author of an injury so great,
With virtue of his tears this laurel fed,
Which flourished thus, perpetual greenness keeping;

Oh fatal growth! oh miserable estate !
That from his weeping each fresh day should spread
The very cause and reason of his weeping.

https://youtu.be/xF0Ad810gMI

[Anonymous No.17436047]

>>17435689
I think I would rather be raped than turned into a tree for all eternity, greek deities has some strange ideas on the whole rescuing thing

[Anonymous No.17436223]

>>17435511
>hereafter, Io, I swear, I will never cause you anguish”

I love these glimses of kindness and compassion from the otherwise asshole Gods

[Anonymous No.17436426]

he didn't fly so good

[Anonymous No.17437288]

bump you plebians

[Anonymous No.17437370]

>>17434440
flood myths are ubiquitous