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once upon a time a long time ago there
lived a beautiful maiden named Medusa
Medusa lived in the city of Athens in a
country named Greece and although there
were many pretty girls in the city
Medusa was considered the most lovely
unfortunately Medusa was very proud of
her beauty and thought or spoke of
little else
each day she boasted of how pretty she
was and each day her boasts became more
outrageous
Madusa would gaze lovingly at her
reflection in the mirror she admired
herself in her hand mirror for an hour
each morning and evening she even
stopped to admire herself in the well
each afternoon as she drew water for her
father's horses often forgetting to
fetch the water in her distraction on
and on Medusa went about her beauty to
anyone and everyone who stopped long
enough to hear her until one day when
she made her first visit to the
Parthenon with her friends
the Parthenon was the largest temple to
the goddess Athena in all the land it
was decorated with amazing sculptures
and paintings everyone who entered was
awed by the beauty of the place and
couldn't help but think of how grateful
they were to Athena goddess of wisdom
for inspiring them and watching over
their city of Athens everyone that is
except Medusa
when Medusa saw the sculptures she
whispered that she would have made a
much better subject for the sculpture
than Athena had when Medusa saw the
artwork she commented that the artist
had done a fine job but imagine how much
more wonderful the painting would be if
it was of Medusa and when Medusa reached
the altar
she sighed happily and said my this is a
beautiful temple it is a shame it was
wasted on Athena for I am so much
prettier than she is perhaps someday
people will build an even grander temple
to my beauty Medusa's friends grew pale
whispers ran through all the people in
the temple who quickly began to leave
for everyone knew that Athena enjoyed
watching over the people of Athens and
feared what might happen if the goddess
had overheard before long the temple was
empty of everyone except Medusa who was
so busy gazing proudly at her reflection
in the large bronze doors that she
hadn't noticed the swift departure of
everyone else the image she was gazing
at
evert and suddenly instead of her own
features it was the face of Athena that
Medusa saw reflected back at her vain
and foolish girl Athena said angrily you
think you are prettier than I am
I doubt it to be true but even if it
were there is more to life than beauty
alone while others work and play and
learn you do little but boast and admire
yourself Medusa tried to point out that
her beauty was an inspiration to those
around her and that she made their lives
better by simply looking so lovely
but Athena silenced her with a
frustrated wave nonsense
Athena retorted beauty fades swiftly in
all mortals it does not comfort the sick
teach the unskilled or feed the hungry
and by my powers your loveliness shall
be stripped away completely your fate
shall serve as a reminder to others to
control their pride and with those words
Medusa's face changed to that of a
hideous monster her hair twisted and
thickened into horrible snakes that
hissed and fought each other atop her
head
even you Medusa should you seek your
reflection she'll turn to rock the
instant you see your face
and with that Athena sent Medusa with
her hair of snakes to live with the
blind monsters the Gorgon sisters at the
ends of the earth so that no innocence
would be accidentally turned to stone at
the sight of her
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once upon a time a long long time ago
Zeus Poseidon and Hades were the three
sons of Cronus when Chronos retired the
boys divided the world up between them
Zeus took the sky Poseidon took the sea
and Hades ruled under the earth the home
of the Dead
at first it was great fun but things had
been just a bit slow for Zeus lately he
could turn himself into an octopus and
visit his brother Poseidon under the sea
but he didn't feel much like a swim
he could visit Hades under the earth but
Hades was such a gloomy fellow
he could hurl Thunderbolts but it wasn't
much fun without a target he could call
for his wife Hera but the truth was Zeus
was a little frightened of his wife Hera
he could find a beautiful woman but he
couldn't let Hera catch him his wife
Hera was very very jealous
Zeus flew down to earth and looked
around for something to do a glint on
the river caught his eye it was I Oh a
lovely River nymph what a lovely young
woman
Zeus said he promptly fell in love
hoping to hide himself from the
eagle-eye of his jealous wife zeus
covered the world with some really thick
clouds then he flew down to IO but Hera
was not stupid the thick coats of clouds
made her suspicious immediately
Zeus looked up its Hera he gulped
quickly
Zeus changed IO into a cow when Hera
landed all she found was an
innocent-looking Zeus standing next to a
little white cow
this little cow appeared out of nowhere
he told his wife acting surprised Hara
was not fooled what a beautiful cow she
gushed admiringly may I have it as a
present not knowing what else to do Zeus
had to agree
Hera sent the cow away under guard
Zeus arranged for IO to be rescued and
set free he sent his son Apollo to sing
the guard asleep when the guard closed
his eyes
io ran away
when Hera heard about it she sent a
gadfly after IO a gadfly is a fly that
bites
moo moo io screamed when the gadfly
found her
iö swam across the sea hoping the gadfly
would drown on the trip but she wasn't
lucky as the gadfly still followed her
feeling very sorry for herself a
dispirited IO traveled next to Egypt it
was then that Hera decided that IO had
suffered enough first she made Zeus
promise that he would never see IO again
then she changed I Oh back into human
form and left her in Egypt
back in Greece Zeus gave a big sigh for
having such a narrow escape
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