Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Adonis

Nobody agrees who begat who to beget Adonis, only that he was born from a tree. Midwife Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, took one look and hid him in a box, he was that beautiful. Figured she'd go fetch a talent agent, so left him in the care of Nanny Goddess of Death, Persephone, who was instructed not to look in the box. But Persephone had a Pandora complex, so looked, fell for him and wanted him for her own.

A nasty custody battle ensued granting them both joint mentorship. In this manner Adonis learned of the give and the take, which would come in handy when given his charge, to oversee green growth. His first assignment was to enshrine his mother, the tree.

The shrine building got out of hand as he put to work every woman who fell in love with him, which it couldn't be helped was every woman who looked at him. And after Artemis had him gored by a boar, thus doing him in, the shrine construction boom really took off. Not to mention the sale of those crappy plants they sell in the big box stores that die two months after they're planted.

Statues built to him had to be disfigured in order to dissuade the recruitment of ever more she-cultists. Adonis himself went back in the box and was planted by Persephone in the rich soil of The Underworld.

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