While the two lovers were together, the sun shone brightly and the soil was kind to the people, flowers bloomed and fruits ripened. The Succession of the SeasonsĪdonis loved Aphrodite almost as much as she loved him unsurprisingly, every year he chose to spend his own four months with her. Wanting Adonis only for himself, Aphrodite was only partially happy with this verdict – as Calliope soon found out namely, in the act of retribution, the goddess of love induced the Thracian women to kill Orpheus, Calliope’s son. Following her advice, Zeus decreed that Adonis should spend four months of the year in the Underworld, and four months with Aphrodite the final four months of the year were left to his own decision. Not wishing to cause himself any problems, Zeus referred the dispute to Calliope, one of the Muses. The two goddesses took their disagreement to Zeus. And when the time came for Persephone to give Adonis back to Aphrodite – who was, by this moment, head over heels infatuated with Adonis – the Queen of the Underworld refused to do that.
Years passed, and Adonis grew into a handsome youth, more beautiful than any mortal ever beheld by human or divine eyes. She secretly hid it in a chest and entrusted the chest to Persephone. Noticing the absence of a mother and the beautiful face of the baby boy, she decided to take it with herself.
The 12 Olympian Gods Aphrodite and Persephone Loved by Two GoddessesĪs irony would have it, Aphrodite happened to walk by this myrrh tree at this exact moment. The Naiads rushed forth to protect it they laid him down on the soft leaves, and they anointed him with the tears of his own mother.
#Hades aphrodite crack#
Miraculously, this caused the tree to crack open, and Myrrha’s unborn baby fell down as a result this baby-boy was none other than Adonis. Just a few days later, a wild boar passed by the myrrh tree and ominously pierced its trunk with one of its tusks. The gods heard Myrrha’s prayers and found a creative way to grant them: they transformed her into a myrrh tree, and her tears momentarily turned into drops of myrrh. It was a strange prayer: “O Gods,” she cried, “if you will listen to my prayer, I do not shun a dreadful punishment deserved but now because my life offends the living, and dying I offend the dead, drive me from both conditions change me, and refuse my flesh both life and death!” The Birth of Adonis So, she started praying to the gods for salvation. To make matters even worse, soon enough, she realized that she was pregnant. She fled the palace and sorrowfully wandered through the world for many months. Horrified by the discovery that she is none other than his daughter, Theias immediately raised his sword and tried to kill Myrrha, but she managed to escape at the last moment. This went on for a couple of nights until Theias finally brought in a lamp to the room so that he might learn the identity of the young girl so desperately in love with him. One day, urged by consuming passion and with the help of her nurse, Myrrha sneaked into her father’s bed and made love to him in the dark. Even though a goddess, Aphrodite couldn’t know back then that this sentence would set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the nastiest of her few heartbreaks. The goddess didn’t like that one bit, so she punished Cenchreis in the most horrible way: she made her daughter fall in love with her husband, the Assyrian king Theias (although, others say that it was Cinyras, the king of Cyprus). Sometime before the birth of Adonis, his grandmother Cenchreis had made the fatal mistake of boasting that her daughter Myrrha was more beautiful than Aphrodite.
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