LA DESCENTE d'ORPHEE aux ENFERS by claude19

Fractal • Abstract • posted on Aug 11, 2007

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DESCENT Of ORPHEE to the HELLS Apophysis, PSP, and PhotoFiltre The legend of Orphée, one of most obscure of Greek mythology, is related to the religion of the mysteries like to a crowned literature going until the origins of Christianity. Mythical Aède of Thrace, wire of the king?agre and the MUSE Calliope, it could by the accents of its quadrant charm the savage animals and managed to move the inanimate beings. It was filled multiple gifts by Apollon, and one tells that it added two cords with the traditional quadrant with seven cords which the god gave him, in homage to the nine Muses, protective of arts and the letters, to which his/her mother belonged. Hero traveller, it took part in the forwarding of Argonautes during which it triumphed over the sirens and went until to Egypt, then returned to Greece founded the mysteries orphic of Éleusis. At the end of its tour, it returned to Thrace, in the kingdom of his father. His wife, Eurydice (a dryade), refused the advances of the Aristée shepherd, and, fleeing, was bitten with the calf by a snake. She died and went down to the kingdom from the Hells. Orphée could, after having deadened its music enchanter cerberus, the monstrous dog with three heads which kept the entry of it, to approach the Hadès god. It arrived, thanks to its music, to make it bend, and this one let it set out again with its beloved in the condition that she would follow it and that it would not be turned over as much as they would not have returned both in the world of the alive ones. But at the time to leave the Hells, Orphée, anxious, could not prevent oneself from being turned over towards Eurydice and this one was charmed to him definitively. Orphée was not shown thereafter inconsolable, founded a community from which the women were excluded, decided not to love any more but boys. Bacchantes or Ménades tested of it a sharp spite and shredded it. Its head, thrown in the Hébros river, settled on the shores of the island of Lesbos, ground of Poetry. The Muses, éplorées, collected the members to bury them with the foot of the Olympe mount, in Leibèthres. texte issu de WIKIPEDIA