Arachne EC

otalgia From Ovoids Metamorphoses, Earache runs a relevant storey in all its forms. The fable of Earache provides both a spiritual almost spiritual chaste baseline as well as an origin for a habitual household creature. In the myth, Earache- a intelligent weaver, challenges the weaving skills of Palls (also known as Athena). Intrigued, Athena weaves her tapestry and Earache weaves hers in reply. (Book VI 103-128, http// Ovid. Lib. Virginia. Due/trans/Metamorphose. HTML). in time Athena has to admit that Earache is the greatest weaver and in arouse ruins her tapestry.Earache in shame kills resell, and is resurrected by Athena to live her life as a spider so that she can continue to weave. (Book VI 129-145) This myth serves several purposes specifically to Greek culture. Firstly, it reminds those who revere the Greek Gods that they ar non only all powerful merely that they have the same reputation as humans do. Athena is human in the sense that she is wishful of the wor k of Earache. She then returns from Jealousy to show Earache compassion and heat by resurrecting her to weave forever. In a religious modal value is an casing of the condemnation of suicide within organized religion.All religions address suicide differently, but neertheless it is addressed. The other common theme being that those within religious stories that choose to challenge a God/ Goddess in any way, never come out triumphant. It reminds those reading that the Gods are all powerful and incessantly will be. This myth also creates an origin story for the word arachnid for spiders, a household creature. This helps the myth survive and makes it relevant to cultures across the valet de chambre including my own, linking aboutthing that anyone knows, and everyone has deciden to an origin and a person.Suddenly, those scary eight-legged little monsters are a ensnare of a womans soul. They weave for the woman that bore them. When a small sister is about to squash the spider and their loved one stops them and tells them the story of Earache. The creature that Earache is glum into, directly reflects her as a woman. Firstly, the talented weaver is resurrected as a creature that weaves to survive. Secondly, after she has hung herself to end her life, she is turned into a creature that hangs onto the material that extends her life. She must now live from the ruse that caused her to take her own life.Besides teaching readers an example of hubris, the story teaches the importance of non boasting. When Athena is warned of the young womans challenge, she gives her a last chance to learn some humility. The woman continues to boast and ignores the ominous warning. The practical piece of this myth is that it would be, could be told to children because it teaches so many warnings. It is fairly easy to imagine the matriarch or patriarch of the family sitting down the small proud child and recounting them the story of Earache, and letting their eyes brighten as they relate and conceive the story in all its power and meaning.The causal agency most myths and stories preserve in a culture is usually centric to religion. Nearly every culture on the planet has some form of organized religion. The tenableness that stories linked to religion carry on, opposed to others is that they draw people together. These ideologies are passed among family members, on through generations and create links between families. This is part of the reason that other stories, not religiously based do not survive. They remain in families, changing oer time, never chronicled and decomposing slowly over time.Build a big enough religious following and your stories will live forever. I find many of these stories including Earaches fascinating but slightly dramatic. Killing yourself over a ripped tapestry is a bit over the top. The phrase cry over spilt milk comes to mind. I understand the stories purpose as a lesson but wonder whether there wasnt a less severe way to get the point across. This specific story will live on because its namesake creatures are a household critter. I wonder if people see spiders and think if only Earache wouldnt have challenged Athena.