Badabing badaboom and there is a story behind everything.

To start, I have not received my copy of The Golden Blough in the mail yet so I cannot satisfy you with a beautiful quote to start...my bad.

"When he- whichever god it was- arrayed that swarm, aligned, designed, allotted, made each part into a portion of a whole, then he, that earth mighht be symmetrical, first shaped its sides into a giant ball" (p.4, Metamorphoses of Ovid). This is the thing I like most about Greek/Roman and whatever other mythology is mixed into this book, there god is not the selfish God we so often hear about. Ovid's god creates the earth for the people to enjoy and accepts help creating the world from Jove, Augustus, and the numerous other gods we are introduced to through the first two books. I also enjoyed seeing this is where, Styx (the band) got there name from, on page 10 it reads, "I swear on the infernal streams that glide beneath the woods of Styx..." so they named themselves after a river of death, interesting. 

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is similar to the Bible in numerous ways, after all they are both tall-tales of creation. I enjoy the creation story told by Ovid more than Genesis, as I actually have read part of the Bible due to Dr. Sexson's high demand to attempt to read the entire Bible last fall for his Bible as Literature class. 

The story I enjoyed most was about Phaethon and Phoebus, in the story we learn a lot about how the earth was formed, and how mere-mortals are not capable of flying our god's chariots (especially ones that have gold rims, bling-bling). This story eventually tells us much more about life than creationism, something the Catholic Church could take a lesson in because when read as a guide on how to live, the Bible actually produces some good, strong, moral lessons but when taken word-by-word in context it creates more problems than were once imaginable. 

The story starts by Phoebus telling his son to not allow the wheels to veer too far right or too far to the left, to me it is as if it is a guide for people to not follow the straight and narrow path but to allow ourselves to veer to either side as long as we do not lose site of our original goal, because when the intended goal is lost all ambition is thrown to the wind. But then the four horses, Eous, Aethon, Pyrois, and Phlegon realize their master is not in control of the chariot and Phaethon has lost control of the ship and is at the mercy of the gods...This is because he has strayed from his comfort zone where he has no desire to be  and is the reason the serpent driven to the wild creating a world where, "he can see earth blaze upon all sides" (p.45). Inevitably proving the point of the gods to stay inside the set path and not to stray to far from this path or else our world will go up in a blaze of chaos.