myths 11th entry

Midas

Its funny, to find this store in the bible too. This makes you think about the origin of the Christian religion, which contains many elements and stories from previous ones. I think that this story represents the greed that we all have but shouldn’t. Humans, represented with Midas want to have it all without thinking on how that will affect everything and everyone around him. When you’ve done everything wrong, its too late to fix the problems you’ve caused. I am seeing this book of myths as one of those books that teaches kids how to behave. I think it worked pretty well, to combine values with religion.


Venus and Adonis

This story once again explains that death cant be avoided nor predicted. As much as we want to live for ever, we have to die. In this story Adonis is honoured after death by the flower called the Anemone and this shows that its worth living and its worth dying and being remembered. This shows that human’s life is too short to misuse it and that we have to take advantage of everything possible to enjoy it and do what we have to do because one day we’ll be all gone and hopefully, we’ve done enough on earth to be remembered for the rest of the eternity.


Minerva

As with Midas, greed and ambition were the plot of this story. Arachne thought that she was the best but I think that she deeply knew that Athena was superior. She got into the problem and ended up becoming a spider. The word in Spanish for spider is “Arnaña” which comes directly form the word of the woman called Arachne. I like the explanation for the creation of the spider and I must say that my favourite myths are those that explain how things came out to be that way (like Ishamel).