Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The myth of Circe: the goddess-witch daughter of Helios who turned men into beasts on her island of Aeaea, transformed Odysseus's crew into swine, then
The myth of Nereus: the gentle, truthful "Old Man of the Sea," older than Poseidon and father of the Nereids, a prophetic shape-shifter who revealed his
The myth of Triton: the great merman son of Poseidon and Amphitrite who calmed and raised the seas with his conch-shell trumpet — the prototype of the
The myth of Phorcys: the primordial sea-god of the deep's dangers who, with Ceto, fathered the Gorgons, the Graeae, Ladon and Echidna — the dark,
The myth of Iris: goddess of the rainbow and swift messenger of the gods, the shimmering bridge between heaven and earth who carried divine commands and
The myth of Hypnos: the gentle god of sleep, son of Night and twin of Death, who from his silent cave by the river of forgetting sent slumber across the
The myth of Pan: the goat-legged god of the wild, shepherds and rustic music, inventor of the panpipes from the nymph Syrinx, and the source of "panic" —
The myth of Nemesis: the goddess of divine retribution who punished hubris and restored balance, the enforcer of "nothing in excess" and the origin of
The myth of Eris: the goddess of strife and discord whose golden "apple of discord" sparked the Judgement of Paris and the Trojan War — proof that the
The myth of the Moirai: the three Fates Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos who spin, measure and cut the thread of every life — the powers whose decrees bound
