2/20/2023 0 Comments Greek mythology chimera![]() “He ate the last almond cookie after I’d called dibs.” Tears streamed down her face. “It’s that horrible Bellerophon,” Queen Stheneboea said sniffling. King Proetus asked, “Indigestion again, babe?” His face wrinkled with worry lines. She burst into her bed chamber, sobbing and wailing. No one rejected her pastries and lived to tell. Bellerophon was on a gluten free diet so he declined. Later that night, Queen Stheneboea asked Bellerophon if he’d like a taste of her syrupy Tulumba. There, King Proetus absolved him and held a feast, as one does for pardoned murderers. A strangled cry burst from his lips.Īfter killing his brother, Bellerophon fled Corinth to the kingdom of Argos. They leapt from the grass and galloped at top speed. The muscles in her face tensed as the farmer neared the door. The farmer scratched his armpit and yawned. She whipped her gaze from the farmer to Mimi. The lonely sound traveled down the valley. Muscular arms and a plump tummy filled his white tunic. The farmer ambled out of the house, waving the light over the field. Her fidgety energy zipped like lightening over their body. ![]() Lantern light outlined a man in the doorway. “SHUT UP!” Mimi and Kai shouted in unison. “Starve us all then.” She glowered at the little farm house in the distance. “Ras and I can catch breakfast by ourselves.” She licked her lips, losing herself in fantasy. Onions cooked slowly with minced garlic, lentils, maybe even some cabbage. She’d give anything to taste an onion right now. “Well, I’m not helping then.” Mimi lifted her chin. “We’re not rabbits and we’re not eating like one.” “It’s always what you want, you, you, you!” “Why can’t we eat something different for a change?” Mimi whined. “Keep still,” Kai said in a harsh whisper. Ripe red grapes coating her tongue with sugary juice as she ground them in her teeth. ![]() Images of hot green beans spread on a bed of crisp cucumbers floated into her mind. The sun peeked above the mountainous horizon, coloring the sky a bright orange. Tall green stems rustled in the morning breeze. Her sisters were a bulwark against an unfriendly world as well as an oppressive presence in every facet of her life. Mimi bit her lip to not say anything nasty to escalate the situation. What’s worse than being conjoined to your fraternal twin sister? Being conjoined triplets. Tension between them thickened like bean stew. ![]() Pain bounced back, vibrating down her neck. “Yes,” Kai replied, “a little part of me would die screaming.” This is yet another example where art and literature precede scientific research and development.“It won’t kill us to eat a vegetable every once in a while,” Mimi snapped. Chimeric technology is recently developed however, the concept of chimerism has existed in literary and artistic form in ancient mythology. Late in the 1990s, legal, political, ethical, and moral fights loomed over a patent bid on human/animal chimeras. Early in the 1980s, experimental sheep/goat chimeras were produced removing the reproductive barrier between these two animal species. and thereafter, to rationalize their mythical appearance were in vain their chimeric nature retained its fascinating and archetypal form over the centuries. The bullheaded-man Minotaur, who is not certainly attested in the literary evidence until circa 500 B.C., first appears in art about 650 B.C. The Centaurs, as horse/men, first appear in Geometric and early Archaic art, but in the literature not until early in the fifth century B.C. In addition to this interspecies animal chimera, human/animal chimeras are referred to in Greek mythology, preeminent among them the Centaurs and the Minotaur. "The Chimaera" in Homer's Iliad, "was of divine stock, not of men, in the forepart a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, ellipsis Bellerophon slew her, trusting in the signs of the gods." In Hesiod's Theogony it is emphasized that "Chimaera ellipsis had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion, another of a goat, and another of a snakeellipsis". ![]()
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