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Look what I found!


MYTHOLOGIES:

- 18 people of 45 have a mother.

- more people have seen planet of the apes than would admit had mothers

- 3 people of 45 know that women give birth in pain.

- 10 people out of 45 know the Biblical creation story (from the word)

- 19 out of 45 people have met an old person

- 2 pepople out of 45 have ever been weak in the knees

- 8 people have seen a cartoon

- 4 people have heard of the Virgin Mary

- 12 people still have grandparents

- More people have seen Aladdin than have seen a cartoon

- 12 people have read hamlet

- 8 people have felt enthusiasm

- 5 people have grown up on farms

- 9 know what a farm is

- 9 people have either been married, seen a marriage or know someone who’s married

- 36 of 37 people have had a deja vous experience

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Mythopoly Game!

Ovid Book III Margin Notes

Cadmus: Cadmus, banished for his failure to find Europa, asks Apollo's Oracle where he should fo to make his home. He is sent to follow a cow which leads him to ford the Cephisus River, cross the fields of Panope to a beautiful land. Here, setting up camp, he sends his servants to find water. They are all killed and he ends up going in search of them. He finds a huge snake has killed them all and he kills it, pinning it to a tree. Minerva tells him he will die similarly and to plant the serpent's teeth. When he does this warriors grow from the teeth and fight him. He kills all of them but five and lives, though it seems like he may have died the way Minerva said, the way it reads initially. The five, warned by Athena, cast down their weapons and, at Cadmus' side, found Thebes.


Actaeon: Out hunting, Actaeon goes to find a place to set up camp or return home and runs into Diana's personal woods where she is bathing in her pool. She splashes him with water and the water turns him into a stag. His own hunting dogs see him, chase him and rip him to shreds. All have an opinion of Diana's harsh punishment but Juno who is simply glad to see tragedy strike Europa's bloodline.


Semele: Juno discovers that Semele is preggers with Jove's child and she goes and, under the disguise of Semele's old nurse, convinces her to ask to see Jove in all his godliness. She does so and when he reveals himself she is reduced to ash. Before incineration, Jove pulls his fetus son from Semele's womb and sews him up in his thigh for the rest of his gestation. Once born Ino cares for the boy for a while before he is handed off to the Nysan nymphs.


Tiresias: Tiresias is chosen by Juno and Jove in secret to settle the argument of who has the greater pleasure from sex. Tiresias lives seven years as a man and seven as a woman having sex and then , when summoned, he chooses the female. Juno is grieved by this and strips Tiresias of his sight but Jove, seeing the unfairness of this, grants him the sight of prophets.

Okay, so this might be a stretch but it's what I could come up with...

Pentheus: Liriope the nymph is had by the river god Cephisus. Their child is Narcissus. Narcissus is beauty and everyone tries to be with him but he scorns all and when Echo, damned for impeding Jove's pursuit of the nymphs to only repeat what others have said, displays her love for him he scorns her and she flees and wastes away to nothing but a voice. Narcissus is then damned by a scorned suitor and he falls in love with his own reflection in a pond. He refuses food for he would have to leave his reflection and drink for it would disturb his image so he wastes away. No body is found, in the place where he died they find a flower.


Pentheus: Pentheus, a seer himself, feels Tiresias is stepping on his prophetic turf and confronts him. Tiresias tells him his future and is ignored. Pentheus then hears Bacchus has arrived with his procession and believes Bacchus to be a false god so he has his servants capture one of his followers who tells of how he came to follow Bacchus. He then has his servants chain Bacchus' follower up to torture him but they, after prepping their tools, come back to find him gone. Pentheus goes to find him at Bacchus' mountain and hears the chants of his followers which enrages him. He heads closer and his mother rips him apart, thinking he is a boar, for disturbing their rites and proceedings.

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Ovid Book II Margin Notes

Phaethon: Phaethon finds Phoebus and is granted a gift, he chooses to try to drive daddies car and crashes and burns the world up after Zeus strikes him down for torching the heavens and to stop the chaos. His mother lays on his grave and tears her clothes.


The Heliades: Phaethon's sisters the Heliades lament for four nights with their mother Clymene and then become poplar trees.


Cycnus: Phaethon's relative King Cycnus goes to weep with the Heliades and turns into a swan.


Phoebus: Phaethon's father, Phoebus, the sun, stops driving the chariot and tells Zeus to do it and see that killing Phaethon was not a just act by making the king of gods realize that he, the same as Phaethon, could not handle the horses any better.


Callisto: Lycaon's daughter Callisto is raped by Jove disguised as Diana, then Diana, not knowing the story, simply that Callisto had gotten pregnant, casts her out and Juno grabs her by the hair and turns her into a bear.


Arcas: Callisto's son Arcas is goes out hunting the "likeliest of liars" and happens upon his mother, turned into a bear. He raises his spear to kill the bear and Jove stops this potential tragedy by whisking them both into the sky to become Ursa Major and Minor. This enrages Juno who goes and bitches to the Ocean and Tethys.


The Raven:  Juno returns to the sky on her chariot drawn by Argus-eyed peacocks. The raven, Phoebus' bird, was changed from white to black because his tongue was too loose.


Coronis, The Raven, The Crow, Nyctimene: Coronis was unfaithful to Apollo, the Raven saw this and rushed to tell Apollo, the Crow attempted to stop the Raven by telling its' story and how its' loyalty was its' downfall. The Crow had seen Aglauros peek at Minerva's Ward and told and was then "fired" and Owl took Crow's place. The story told of how Crow was a beautiful woman and the sea god wanted her virginity but she tan, the virgin goddess made her a Crow, and Minerva took her in.; How Nyctimene was made an Owl because she defiled her fathers bed and now, banished from the sky, hides in shadow from guilt. But the Raven doesn't listen and tells Apollo and he shoots Coronis and kills her. Though he repents he cannot save her so he takes his unborn child from Coronis' womb to Chronis' cave and strikes the Raven black for giving him the news that let him to killing Coronis.


Ocyrhoe: Ocyrhoe is transformed into a mare called Hippe for prophesying that her foster-brother Aesculapius would be able to reincarnate and that Zeus would kill him for it; That he would be saved from death and turn into a god, and then that her father Chiron would loose his godly immortality and die after being poisoned by a snake bite.


Battus: Battus sees Mercury steal Phoebus' cattle, is paid off to keep silent and then tested on his loyalty to his bribe. He fails and Mercury turns his chest to stone.


Mercury, Herse, Aglauros: Mercury sees Herse leaving the feast of Minerva and goes to find her having fallen in love. He goes to her home and meets Herse's sister Aglauros whom he convinces to help him get Herse. Minerva sees this and decides to intervene. She goes to Envy and tells her to work her magic on Aglauros. When this happens, Aglauros is unable to stop herself from preventing Mercury his trophy because of how jealous she is of the life Herse would gain from it. Mercury, betrayed, turns Aglauros into a statue and leaves.


Europa and Jove: Jove/Zeus decides he wants Europa so he sends Mercury down to Earth to herd some cattle down to the beach where Europa is. Jove turns himself into a bull and joins the herd. Europa finds him so striking that she begins to pet him and he slowly gets her to climb on top of him and then leads her out to sea. Eventually they are so far out that she becomes frightened. We are to assume that she is ravaged on the sea, which at the beginning of Book III we find to be the case. Meanwhile Cadmus, Europa's brother, is sent to find her by their father Agenor and told not to come back without her.