martes, 11 de septiembre de 2007

Latona & the Rustics

थे हवे अ वे तो राइट इन हिंदु!!! हाउ अवेसोमे इस ठाट???

Translation: They have a way to write in Hindu!!! How awesome is that???

Anyway, the latest myth is not very long. I think it might have something to do with how Io was chased around by Juno, because they mention "she whom royal Juno in her jealousy drove from land to land, denying her any spot whereon to rear her twins," which sounds a great deal like Io, except the name is now Latona.

One day, Latona sees a pond full of fresh water and is delighted, since she's very thirsty. Unfortunately, a bunch of rednecks are hanging around it and refuse to let her drink. In fact, to make sure she doesn't steal a single drop, they stir up the bottom so that the mud makes the water undrinkable, all the while laughing and jeering at her.

Io is furious, she calls out to heaven and tells it to make the men stay in the water forever. The gods listen, and turn the rustics into frogs.

This is very useful knowledge, since now whenever anyone makes a dim-witted joke about me being a frog since I'm French, I can tell them that they're idiots, and that everyone knows perfectly well that the Greeks are the frogs.

I just realized that Hindu thing probably doesn't work. In each language the words are set differently, and they didn't do anything about that when I typed them in. Still, it's pretty cool. Why Hindu, though? That's such a random language.

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