INCIDENT 12: The Twins-- Apollo and Artemis

Zeus and the goddess Leto, daughter of Titans Coeus and Phoebe, bore two children who would rise up to take a place in the Olympic pantheon. The twins were named Apollo and Artemis, and their arrival in the world was not so simple.

Hera, wife of Zeus, was insanely jealous of Leto and sought to prevent the birth of Leto's two children. She antagonized Leto and sent a serpent to terrorize the goddess and stop her from finding a place to bear her children. It was the goddess Asteria who offered refuge to her sister on the island of Ortygia and there that Leto bore Artemis and Apollo.

Artermis was born first and immediately set about assisting her mother through the nine days of labor she endured to deliver her son Apollo. Leto's aunt, Themis, acted as caretaker to the twins, feeding them ambrosia and nectar, the food of the gods.

Apollo and Artemis loved their mother deeply and protected the safety and honor of their mother. On tale of Greek mythology tells how Artemis and Apollo prevented Leto from being raped by Titus in the grove of Delphi. Called by their mother, they attached the giant Titus with their arrows which rained down upon him and killed him in an instant. Zeus was outraged by Titus' actions and consigned him to Hades.

Another myth tells the story of how Artemis and Apollo killed all of the goddess Niobe's children when she boasted of her own children's superior beauty, insulting Leto. Though it's unclear if this was a defense of their mother or motivated by their own outrage.

At a young age, Artemis was told by Zeus to name the gifts that she desired. Artemis chose a bow and arrow, free reign of the mountains, a city to dwell in and eternal virginity. Zeus granted all these wishes. Artemis would come to be viewed as the virgin goddess of the hunt and wildlife. She was also seen as a protector figure of women in childbirth.

Apollo would become the god of archery, healing, music and youth. Greek mythology tells how Apollo took up the bow created for him by Hephaestus and pursued the serpent into Delphi where he killed it. Gaia was incensed at having her shrine, where the Oracle of Delphi resided, desecrated. Apollo was not punished for his crime and in time became the god of Prophecy, and the Oracle of Delphi became the Oracle of Apollo.

He would also become an influential god of music whose musicianship was unparalleled. Many challenged Apollo to contests of musical prowess, but all failed to best the god.

Apollo never married though he was definitely not an immortal virgin. He fathered more than a dozen children with many women both goddesses and mortals alike.

The twin god and goddess, Apollo and Artemis, were forever connected in Greek mythology. They are both expert archers and hunters who often enjoyed hunting together. They shared the capability of subjecting mortals to plague and pestilence as well.

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INCIDENT 11: Hades, the God of underworld

HAIDES (Aides, Aidoneus, or Hades) was the King of the Underworld, the god of death and the dead. He presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. Haides was also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, from the fertile soil with nourished the seed-grain, to the mined wealth of gold, silver and other metals.
Hades was devoured by Kronos as soon as he was born, along with four of his siblings. Zeus later caused the Titan to disgorge them, and together they drove the Titan gods from heaven and locked them away in the pit of Tartaros. When the three victorious brothers then drew lots for the division of the cosmos, Hades received the third portion, the dark dismal realm of the underworld, as his domain.
Hades desired a bride and petitioned his brother Zeus to grant him one of his daughters. The god offered him Persephone, the daughter of Demeter. However, knowing that the goddess would resist the marriage, he assented to the forceful abduction of the girl. When Demeter learned of this, she was furious and caused a great dearth to fall upon the earth until her daughter was returned. Zeus was forced to concede lest mankind perish, and the girl was fetched forth from the underworld. However, since she had tasted of the pomegranate seed, she was forced to return to him for a portion of each year.

INCIDENT 10: The Cronus and Rhea Story

According to Greek mythology, in the beginning there was nothing. This was called Chaos. From this nothingness came light, Mother Earth (Gaia) and Sky (Uranus) were formed. From Gaia and Uranus came six twins known as the Titans. The six twin Titans were named Oceanus and Thethys, Coeos and Phoebe, Hyperion and Thea, Creos and Themis, Iapetos and Clymene, and finally Cronos and Rhea.
Gaia and Uranus also gave birth to three Cyclopes, three giants, each with fifty heads and one-hundred arms. Uranus disliked his offspring, so he forced them to return to their mother’s womb. The pain of carrying the numerous children angered Gaia, and she made a plan for revenge against Uranus. She called upon the Titans to help her. The youngest, Cronos (master of time), came to her aid. Cronos, with his mother’s help, created a sickle and cut off his father’s genitals when his father came to be with his mother.
Cronos cast the cut off genitals into the sea. According to some versions of the myth, the goddess Aphrodite was created from the blood that dropped into the sea. In addition some of the blood dropped on to the earth creating all types of scary offspring.
After defeating his father, Cronos married his sister Rhea. The two had six children: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Cronos, after each birth, swallowed the first five children because of a prophecy that climed one of his children would overthrow him. Rhea tricked Cronos with the sixth child. Zeus, instead of handing Cronos the child, she gave him a rock in a blanket. Cronos swallowed it believing it was the baby. Rhea then smuggled the baby Zeus to the island of Crete to be raised by nymphs. Later Zeus would return to defeat his father in the battle between the Olympians and the Titans.


source: http://historylink102.com/greece2/creation.htm

INCIDENT 9: Zeus and Hera

Armed with his lightning bolts, Zeus was the strongest and often the bravest of the gods.  However, his leading role came simply from drawing straws with his brothers, Hades and Poseidon.  Zeus drew the longest straw and thus became the ruler of the heavens and earth.  We will speak of his brothers a bit later.  You will notice that many of the gods are interconnected within one another’s stories and play important roles in the activities of the other.  

On his second marriage, Zeus married Hera.  Hera was the supreme goddess, goddess of marriage and childbirth and took special care of married women.  

Hera did not desire to be married to Zeus, who was also her brother, as she did not see him fit for marriage.  After all, he did swallow his first wife, Titaness Metis.  Because of this and Zeus's known attractiveness to women other than his wife, Hera refused to marry Zeus for three hundred years.

One spring, Zeus caused a terrible thunderstorm and turned himself into a disheveled cuckoo.  He flew in through Hera’s window, all wet and ruffled, causing Hera to feel sorry for the small bird.  She held the bird against her chest and hugged it tenderly.  Zeus took this opportunity to immediately turn back into himself and wooed her with such passion that she finally decided, after three hundred years, to marry him. 

As a wedding gift, Gaia, the earth-mother, gave Zeus and Hera golden apples.  Hera took the wedding gifts and planted them in her garden, close to Mount Atlas.  She sent the immortal monster with a 100 heads, Ladon, to guard the tree along with the Hesperides.  We will come back to golden apples, just wait and see what they can stir up in another famous wedding!

The wedding of Zeus and Hera was a grand event and everyone was expected to join them in their ceremony of matrimony in a showing of their respect for the couple.  I sure bet Chelone lived to regret not attending the wedding!  Chelone was a nymph who decided against attending the wedding of Zeus and Hera and was in turn punished.  Chelone was turned into a turtle for ridiculing and or refusing to attend the wedding.  For her insulting words, the gods condemned to her to eternal silence. For choosing to stay home, instead of attending the ceremony, she was forced to carry her home with her for eternity.  Talk about an event you wished you hadn't missed!  

After their marriage, Zeus continued with his wooing, but it was not Hera he was wooing.  Instead Zeus was marrying young attractive women, mostly mortals.  Zeus, being the gentleman that he was known for being, told Hera that he was doing these chores for the sake of humankind.  The sons, that these mortals were blessed to have by him, would be great heroes but the mortals did not mean anything to him because they would grow old and die.  In his attempt to woo Hera as before, he maintained that she would be his young, beautiful queen forever and that their marriage was the real thing.

Now surely, you don't believe that Hera would fall for that line!  She felt very insulted and was unhappy with the marriage, but was unable to pay Zeus back for these other marriages because his powerful lightning bolts could dispose of her at any time.  However, she could surely take her anger out on his wives!  Just wait and see what she does!

source: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/Erika.D.Mitchell-Deluca-1/ZeusandHera1.html

INCIDENT 8: Ares, Aphrodite and Hephaestus Love Triangle

Aphrodite:

APHRODITE was the great Olympian goddess of pleasure, joy, beauty, love and procreation.

This page describes the goddess' sexual liaisons with various gods. Although she was paired with half of the Olympians by poets through centuries, only the story of her marriage to Hephaistos and adulterous affair with the god Ares is elaborated upon in any detail. The rest were mostly genealogical pairings. In classical art and literature she was almost always paired with Ares.

Ares:

ARES was the great Olympian god of war, battlelust and manliness.

He had a number of lovers in mythology, although most of these appear only in the ancient genealogies with no accompanying story.

The most significant of his love stories is the famous tale of his affair with the goddess Aphrodite, first described by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey, and expanded upon by later writers. The couple were also frequently paired together in ancient art: from archaic paintings and reliefs of the gods of Olympos to Roman mosaic scenes.

Hephaestus:

HEPHAISTOS was the great Olympian god of fire, metalworking, building and the fine arts.

He had a short list of lovers in myth, although most of these appear only in the ancient genealogies with no accompanying story

The two most famous of the Hephaistos "love" stories were the winning of Aphrodite and her subsequent adulterous affair, and his attempted rape of the goddess Athene, which seeded the earth and produced a boy named Erikhthonios.

INCIDENT 7: His Simple letter

given by Jeremeh Mangallay.

How i wish Russell can do this, someday :)

INCIDENT 6: Our Day

(not yet ready)

INCIDENT 5: A Present For Myself

I told him that if he will make me cry again...

I will let him go..

But as much as you could, please don't make me cry again.

because I still want this...

This is my gift for myself:

letting him go if I cannot take it.

I love myself

INCIDENT 4: Must Read Conversation

MUST READ: An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the problem Science has with God. He asked one of his new Christian students to stand.

Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son? 

Student: Yes, sir. 

Professor: So, you believe in God? 

Student: Absolutely, sir. 

Professor: Is God good? 

Student: Sure. 

Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm? 

(Student was silent) 

Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good? 

Student: Yes. 

Professor: Is Satan good? 

Student: No. 

Professor: Where does Satan come from? 

Student: From.. God. 

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? 

Student: Yes. 

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct? 

Student: Yes. 

Professor: So who created evil? 

(Student didn’t answer) 

Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they? 

Student: Yes, sir. 

Professor: So, who created them? 

(Student had no answer) 

Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God? 

Student: No, sir. 

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God. 

Student: No, sir. 

Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter? 

Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t. 

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him? 

Student: Yes. 

Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son? 

Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith. 

Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has. 

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat? 

Professor: Yes. 

Student: And is there such a thing as Cold? 

Professor: Yes. 

Student: No, sir, there isn’t. 

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events) 

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it. 

(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre) 

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness? 

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness? 

Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you? 

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man? 

Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed. 

Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how? 

Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey? 

Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do. 

Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir? 

(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going) 

Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher? 

(The class was in uproar) 

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain? 

(The class broke out into laughter) 

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures? 

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable) 

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son. 

Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving! 

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That student was Albert Einstein. 

Brilliant. 

Beautifully done.

INCIDENT 3: Without My Braces

UGLY!

now, WHAT?!

INCIDENT 2: My Mistake

Jeremeh Mangallay,

He is my very devoted suitor, but I do not like him. He is good, caring, sweet and maybe a boyfriend material. It is not hard to fall in love with him. He is one of the best guys I know but I already have my guy. And I love him so much.

*SMA NITE again

Jeremeh wanted to talk to me. I do not mind it. Unexpectedly, they go near me. I am not angry, but I am happy. He did it for me. He does what Russell cant. It was also that night when I cried so much because of Russell. 

He became mad when I compared him to Jeremeh. Jeremeh is acting like I am a very special girl. It is all I want, and he cannot even does it for me. Another bad night!

It is my mistake when I compared the two of them.

but if he don't want to be compared, he should avoid making things that pushes me to do such thing.

now, is it my mistake?

I hate you James Russell

INCIDENT 1: I cry

The school were busy for the approaching SMA Nite. All were busy, the teachers, faculty and the students especially the studs who will be joining the dances.

While sitting in the lobby, I, Richiemyr and Alvin were talking about the sophomores that were practicing in the quadrangle. 

Richiemyr: Trish, pares si Angeline ug Russell.

Me: I do not care.

Well, I really don't care. I know Russell will not fall for her-- he loves me.

Me: Shit. Mubalik nako sa room. (I really can't take the happenings)

Alvin: Nganung magselos man ka?

Me: *silence

One night, the incident I am afraid to happen... happened. He said he is starting to love Angeline. I cannot help myself but to cry. It was the worst night of my life. I cried the whole night and I cannot sleep. (oh man, here I am again, I am crying while typing). At morning, I felt better. I open the laptop and do what I want to do in order to prevent myself from remembering what happen last night. It was also that day that I fainted maybe because of depression. 

*SMA NITE

They danced. I saw everything.

It was a picture of a perfect combination, they both love dancing, they are both good, skinny and intelligent in Math. Wish I am Angeline.

 The girl every boy loves and admires. 

I am so dumb. I am nothing compare to her.

And look at him, he is happy

because they danced together. I cannot even make him happy. I am so useless and worthless. 

SHIT, I HATE MYSELF!

I only want this...

ME AND HIM..

NOW..

and FOREVER...

I Love You James Russell