Eurydice and Orpheus





Ezra Azra









 
© Copyright 2024 by Ezra Azra

Painting by Edward Poynter  (1836–1919) at Wikimedia Commons.
Painting by Edward Poynter  (1836–1919) at Wikimedia Commons.

Orpheus fell in love with Eurydice, and she with him. They decided to get married. They were in their twenties.

Eurydice was an orphan. Nobody knew anything about her parents or other family, or where she had come from.

Orpheus first saw Eurydice at a concert. She was among the cheering fans of his singing, and playing the Kithara and the Lyre.

Orpheus’s Mother, Princess Calliope, was not happy her son wanted to marry someone who had no traceable family heritage. After all, Calliope could trace her own ancestry countless generations back all the way to Zeus, almighty god democratically elected by the countless other almighty gods to be king of gods, forever.

Calliope tried to reason with Orpheus to have nothing to do with rootless Eurydice. However, Orpheus was in love and he was an adult, and so he made it clear to his Mom that he was determined to marry Eurydice, his first and only true love.

Princess Calliope appealed to almighty Apollo, god of instrumental music, to help stop the love between Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus was the out-of-wedlock child of Calliope and Apollo, and so Calliope believed, and rightly so, she had the right to ask Apollo for help, even had Apollo not been an almighty god.

Apollo agreed to help Calliope, although for four reasons his heart was not in the agreement.

The first reason his heart was not in the agreement was because almighty god Apollo was, by DNA, a deadbeat Dad, and, in general, a decadent and scurrilous form of life. He was continually out-of-wedlock fathering children all over the world. In this cowardly crime he took after his Dad, Zeus, the king of gods. There was never an instance when Apollo and Zeus gave any of their illegitimate offspring a present on a birthday!

The second reason Apollo’s heart was not in his agreement with Calliope to help her against their out-of-wedlock son, Orpheus, was that Orpheus had inherited from his Dad, Apollo, talent in playing musical instruments.

By the end of his teenage years, Orpheus was as skilled in playing the kithara and the lyre as his Dad, Apollo. Apollo was not happy that his illegitimate child was well on the way to becoming a far more skilled musical instrument player than he, Apollo, an almighty god.

Apollo took particular satisfaction in noticing that the exquisite beauty of Eurydice was causing Orpheus to neglect developing his playing, which neglect would guarantee that Orpheus would never excel Apollo in instrumental playing.

Apollo took particular pleasure in casting a spell on Eurydice to heighten the attraction of her beauty on Orpheus. Apollo’s spell to heighten Eurydice’s already divine-intensity beauty was totally unnecessary.

Helen of Troy has been proclaimed the most beautiful woman ever. Alongside Eurydice, Helen of Troy was as repulsive as an alligator in defecation mode.

Indeed, even Hera, wife of Zeus, was so jealous of Eurydice’s beauty, that she kept a close watch on Eurydice for an excuse to blight the girl’s perfectly beautiful face.

Apollo’s spell to heighten Eurydice’s already divine-intensity beauty was totally unnecessary because long before Apollo’s spell, Eurydice’s beauty had a hold on Orpheus stronger than any almighty god’s spell.

The third reason Apollo’s heart was not in his agreement with Calliope to help her against their out-of-wedlock son, Orpheus, was Apollo’s memory of a mortal musician man named Marsyas.

Marsyas had been a self-taught musician. Marsyas had prayed to Apollo to be taught to play musical instruments. Apollo had refused to waste his time trying to teach a mere mortal. In time, Marsyas became a self-taught musician so skilled that some of the almighty Gods voted him a better musician than Apollo, the hitherto alleged god of instrumental music.

Apollo became so enraged in jealousy of Marsyas that he tied the mortal musician to a tree, and whipped him to death. Apollo skinned the corpse and made a wine flask of the skin of Marsyas.

Apollo, being an immortal god, easily avoided feeling any remorse at the evil he had unjustly inflicted on mortal Marsyas. Nonetheless, Apollo accepted that what he had done to Marsyas had been an egregious crime against the Art of Music, a crime he would not trust himself to never commit again. Apollo’s jealousy of Orpheus could be restrained from being a repeat of Apollo’s jealousy of Marsyas because Apollo and Orpheus were family sharing the same DNA.

Nonetheless, Apollo would have found a way to not get involved in the Calliope-Orpheus confrontation had it not been for the involvement of the Princess Cyrene of North Africa. This was the fourth reason Apollo’s heart was not in his agreement with Calliope to help her against their out-of-wedlock son, Orpheus,

Princess Cyrene already had an illegitimate son with Apollo. His name was Aristaeus. He was the same age as Orpheus, and as intensely black complexioned as his Royal negro African Mother. She was Apollo’s first black complexioned virgin princess he seduced into Motherhood. Her black complexion at certain angles had erotically thrilled him so hypnotically, he was desperate and determined to repeat Princess Cyrene’s seduction-into-Motherhood.

Princess Cyrene was not as narrow-minded a prejudiced Royal slut as Princess Calliope. Cyrene was thrilled when her son said he was in love with Eurydice, a Caucasian White-complexioned girl. If Eurydice married Aristaeus, that would join White and Black ethnicities, a union that would tremendously boost the prestige of Cyrene’s Royal Black bloodline throughout the world, although there were times when she hoped their children would not be colored-complexioned.

Princess Cyrene believed, and rightly so, she had the right to ask Apollo for help to make Eurydice fall in love with Aristaeus. She believed she had that right even had Apollo not been an almighty god.
Apollo was in a bind. On the one hand, he could easily please both his princess royal sluts by causing Eurydice to reject Orpheus and to fall madly in love with Aristaeus.

That remedy, however, would mean Orpheus would be grief-stricken, and could be driven to seek comfort in his music, a seeking that could lead to Orpheus improving his instrumental playing far beyond the excellence of Apollo’s himself.

That probability seriously irked Apollo. Apollo knew firsthand of the power of grief to heighten the excellence in a musician’s instrumental music.

After all, when virgin truly-Royal Princess Daphne had rejected Apollo’s romantic overtures, Apollo’s seeking refuge and comfort from his grief in his total immersion in his music resulted in him inventing a whole new music instrument!

Virgin truly-Royal Princess Daphne had chosen to be transformed into a tree by a different and righteous god rather than to submit to Apollo’s almighty evil lasciviousness criminal barbaric pornographic lust.

Truly-Royal Princess Daphne remains a virgin throughout eternity, much to almighty god Apollo’s eternal chagrin that often reaches suicidal intensity.

After days and nights of agonizing about a remedy to his Calliope-Cyrene dilemma, an honorable solution came to Apollo out of a painful incident in his past.

A few days after his birth he was obliged to kill a magnificent beast, a serpent. Neither that majestic serpent nor Apollo had a choice but to fight each other to the death because of the evils deliberately practised by other almighty gods.

Here, centuries later, it occurred to Apollo that he had a chance to atone for both of them forever for that evil that had been forced upon them by evil almighty gods.

He would create a poisonous snake in the very image of the serpent he had been constrained to kill. His created snake would painlessly love-bite Eurydice and Orpheus ‘one dark and stormy night.’

Nobody would suspect snakebite; everybody would be inclined to blame lightning. The snake itself he would create to be a two-bite-only beastie. In the same second it finished its fatal love-bites on Eurydice and Orpheus it would disintegrate into blessed nothingness eternally for having willingly compassionately performed a noble and righteous deed.

Neither Calliope nor Cyrene would suspect Apollo’s involvement.

And so, Apollo created the ethereal magical snake by playing the same algorithmic melody on two instruments, the Lyre and the Kithara, simultaneously; in opposite sequences, each with either hand.

On that ‘dark and stormy night’ the magical snake was in a place in ambush mode and listening to the magical romantic music being played by Orpheus to Eurydice.

When the lightning bolt detonated on the three of them, its heavenly might intermeshed with the Apollo-divinity in the snake’s DNA, transmuting the beastie’s divinity-origin-two-bite power into a holy generated one-wish-granted- miraculously power.

Almighty Apollo himself had not foreseen this DNA intermingling inside his created magical snake. Had he foreseen it, he would have approved and endorsed it wholeheartedly.

The romantic music being played by Orpheus to Eurydice on that blessed occasion caused Apollo’s magical snake to instantly and totally and tyrannically fall in love with Eurydice, causing the beastie to wish Eurydice and Orpheus into being joined forever into being a heavenly phenomenon which would become known as The Northern Lights.

Because the magical snake instantaneously disintegrated and disappeared forever, nobody, not even Apollo, ever discovered what had happened to Eurydice and Orpheus. Everyone believed that Eurydice and Orpheus were among the countless lost victims of that catastrophically divine, cataclysmic electrical storm that ‘dark and stormy night.’



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