Throughout the stories of the ancient Greeks and there mythology,
the gods have proved themselves to be extremely petty and spiteful, a
prime example of this is the story of Myrrha and Cinyras, Cinyras was a
king with a beautiful daughter Myrrha, the king often boasted that his daughter
was farer than the goddess of beauty herself, this angered Aphrodite, as a
punishment, she gave Myrrha a desire for her father no child should have, she
was cursed to fantasize about him night after night, eventually, through the
help of her servant, she tricked her father into thinking she was her mother,
afterward when he had realised what he had done, he banished her, as she ran
into the forest, she prayed for the gods to punish her. They accepted and
turned her into a tree, she was pregnant with her incestuous baby who grew
inside her and was raised by nymphs, and the child’s name was Adonis.
The myrrh from a
tree is Myrrha’s tears.
I recreated this story with three alternate versions of Myrrha, as a tree, with the image of a myrrh tree branches as a boarder.
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