I have to admit to you guys the discovery of the book Metamorphoses was only very recent and to be honest I've only skimmed through various parts and haven't actually finished reading the entire book. I ordered some copies of Metamorphoses from Amazon.com (It just happens to be where I typically order books from.) I have one by Charles Martin, one by A.S. Kline, and one by Stanley Lombardo. I think the best one which I recommend which I wanted to make the official Stele 718 version would have to be A.S. Kline's version of Metamorphoses since it's the best version of Metamorphoses I've found so far.
A.S. Kline's and Stanley Lombardo's version just came in the mail yesterday. So I was just reading it from the beginning since last night.
Just to be brief (I'll have to write more on it later, I just got a sign like I should post this as soon as possible as I typically post everything.) I got to a part where Jupiter begins to have sex with a girl named Io.
Jupiter has a wife named Juno. One day when Juno is looking for Jupiter she walks in on Jupiter having sex with Io when Io immediately turns into a heifer. She just magickally morphs into a cow.
This is the excerpt from that part on Metamorphoses:
"Bk I:601-621 Jupiter transforms Io to a heifer
Meanwhile Juno looked down into the heart of Argos, surprised that rapid mists had created night in shining daylight. She knew they were not vapours from the river, or breath from the damp earth. She looked around to see where her husband was, knowing by now the intrigues of a spouse so often caught in the act. When she could not find him in the skies, she said ‘Either I am wrong, or being wronged’ and gliding down from heaven’s peak, she stood on earth ordering the clouds to melt. Jupiter had a presage of his wife’s arrival and had changed Inachus’s daughter into a gleaming heifer. Even in that form she was beautiful. Saturnia approved the animal’s looks, though grudgingly, asking, then, whose she was, where from, what herd, as if she did not know. Jupiter, to stop all inquiry, lied, saying she had been born from the earth. Then Saturnia claimed her as a gift. What could he do? Cruel to sacrifice his love, but suspicious not to. Shame urges him to it, Amor urges not. Amor would have conquered Shame, but if he refused so slight a gift as a heifer to the companion of his race and bed, it might appear no heifer!" - Metamorphoses
This reminded me of the Aeon of Hathor. If it's the Aeon of Hathor I figured this particular part on Metamorphoses should be regarded as probably the most simplified version of things such as what happened to Io happening.
A.S. Kline's and Stanley Lombardo's version just came in the mail yesterday. So I was just reading it from the beginning since last night.
Just to be brief (I'll have to write more on it later, I just got a sign like I should post this as soon as possible as I typically post everything.) I got to a part where Jupiter begins to have sex with a girl named Io.
Jupiter has a wife named Juno. One day when Juno is looking for Jupiter she walks in on Jupiter having sex with Io when Io immediately turns into a heifer. She just magickally morphs into a cow.
This is the excerpt from that part on Metamorphoses:
"Bk I:601-621 Jupiter transforms Io to a heifer
Meanwhile Juno looked down into the heart of Argos, surprised that rapid mists had created night in shining daylight. She knew they were not vapours from the river, or breath from the damp earth. She looked around to see where her husband was, knowing by now the intrigues of a spouse so often caught in the act. When she could not find him in the skies, she said ‘Either I am wrong, or being wronged’ and gliding down from heaven’s peak, she stood on earth ordering the clouds to melt. Jupiter had a presage of his wife’s arrival and had changed Inachus’s daughter into a gleaming heifer. Even in that form she was beautiful. Saturnia approved the animal’s looks, though grudgingly, asking, then, whose she was, where from, what herd, as if she did not know. Jupiter, to stop all inquiry, lied, saying she had been born from the earth. Then Saturnia claimed her as a gift. What could he do? Cruel to sacrifice his love, but suspicious not to. Shame urges him to it, Amor urges not. Amor would have conquered Shame, but if he refused so slight a gift as a heifer to the companion of his race and bed, it might appear no heifer!" - Metamorphoses
This reminded me of the Aeon of Hathor. If it's the Aeon of Hathor I figured this particular part on Metamorphoses should be regarded as probably the most simplified version of things such as what happened to Io happening.
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