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Love thy mother... (and kill off thy father?)
Bitched on: Saturday, June 06, 2009
Time: 6/06/2009 05:05:00 PM
It all started innocently when I was watching an episode of the Simpsons (wait... Simpsons? innocent?). There was a passing comment about this Greek legend, the story of Oedipus, who according to legend, fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father, who was also the king, and marry his mother. Sounds really incestuous, huh? Not unless you learn of his 'story'.
So anyways, story goes that before he was born, his parents consulted some 'fortune reader' who foretold that their unborn child would kill the king and marry the mother. So they gave him away to a shepherd who gave him away to another king of a distant kingdom. When he grew up, he travelled back to his former kingdom to flee from some conflicts in the kingdom.
At a crossroad, he had a dispute with (unknown to him at that time) his birth father. There, a fight ensured and he ended up killing his father. As he travelled further, he encountered a sphinx, which blocked the road to the kingdom and it would kill anyone who couldn't answer its riddle. Oedipus, being the awesome man that he was, oozing with awesomeness, solved the riddle. The sphinx, in awe of his awesome awesomeness, threw itself off the side of a cliff (gee... allowing him to pass through would have been easier).
So the people of his former kingdom was so thankful that they made him king and married the newly widowed queen (who was unknown to him at that time was his mother). They bore kids and they lived happily ever after.
NOT.
Plagues hit the kingdom, crops failed and women were not bearing children. To cut long story short, the plagues could only end when the killer of the former king was executed, Oedipus who wanted to so desperately be the hero to alleviate his people from their sufferings, went to investigate and he ended up realising that it was he himself. His mother/wife killed herself and he gouged his eyes out with pins found on her dress.
The end.
 
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Love thy mother... (and kill off thy father?)
Bitched on: Saturday, June 06, 2009
Time: 6/06/2009 05:05:00 PM
It all started innocently when I was watching an episode of the Simpsons (wait... Simpsons? innocent?). There was a passing comment about this Greek legend, the story of Oedipus, who according to legend, fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father, who was also the king, and marry his mother. Sounds really incestuous, huh? Not unless you learn of his 'story'.
So anyways, story goes that before he was born, his parents consulted some 'fortune reader' who foretold that their unborn child would kill the king and marry the mother. So they gave him away to a shepherd who gave him away to another king of a distant kingdom. When he grew up, he travelled back to his former kingdom to flee from some conflicts in the kingdom.
At a crossroad, he had a dispute with (unknown to him at that time) his birth father. There, a fight ensured and he ended up killing his father. As he travelled further, he encountered a sphinx, which blocked the road to the kingdom and it would kill anyone who couldn't answer its riddle. Oedipus, being the awesome man that he was, oozing with awesomeness, solved the riddle. The sphinx, in awe of his awesome awesomeness, threw itself off the side of a cliff (gee... allowing him to pass through would have been easier).
So the people of his former kingdom was so thankful that they made him king and married the newly widowed queen (who was unknown to him at that time was his mother). They bore kids and they lived happily ever after.
NOT.
Plagues hit the kingdom, crops failed and women were not bearing children. To cut long story short, the plagues could only end when the killer of the former king was executed, Oedipus who wanted to so desperately be the hero to alleviate his people from their sufferings, went to investigate and he ended up realising that it was he himself. His mother/wife killed herself and he gouged his eyes out with pins found on her dress.
The end.
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Shazi ~ sHa-Z ~ Ezan ~ Izan
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perfectionistic, idealistic, vain, materialistic, elitistic, analytical, skeptical, devoted, loyal, romantic
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