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A
challenge was held in CGsociety and I chose a story of Greek mythology .It
is called Daphne& Apollo.
I became the 3rd runner up and I won a prize .That was cool .You can see the
links and the story here below.
Daphne
was the daughter of the river god Peneius . She was similar in many ways to
the goddess Artemis, in that she was also
a virgin huntress who happily roamed the wilderness. One day, the love god
Eros shot a flurry of arrows to taunts from Apollo, the god of prophecy.
The first of Eros' arrows was a gold tipped shaft and when it struck
Apollo it made him fall immediately in love with Daphne. The second one,
however, had a lead tip and caused Daphne to become even more indifferent
that she already had been to any lover. Apollo, however, pursued Daphne
relentlessly .As she’s about to be caught Daphne called out to her father
to save her. Her father a river god unable to oppose Apollo
directly ,transformed Daphne into a laurel tree. Thus she could escape
Apollo; however the price was being forever imprisoned . Apollo however
continued to show his adoration ever after by claiming the Laurel as his
tree ,and forever after wearing a crown of Laurel leaves, as he is usually
depicted. The story conveys that a man/god dominating or just generally
trying to force himself on a woman. Thus Apollo ;a servant of his desires;
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