Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Greek Mythology Bedtime Story - The Story of IO
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Have you ever gazed in wonder at the Great Pyramid?
Have you marvelled at the golden face of Tudankhamun?
Or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti?
If you have, you'll probably like The History of Egypt podcast.
Every week, we explore tales of this ancient culture.
The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix.
Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt.
To Sleep Cove with Christopher Fitton, that place to come for a great night's sleep.
Please listen to this recording in a place where you can safely go to sleep.
In tonight's recording, I'll be reading a continuation of old Greek men.
I'll be reading The Story of Io.
I really hope you enjoy it.
Let's begin.
The story of Iyo.
There lived a maiden named Iyo.
She was so fair and good that all who knew her loved her
and said that there was no one like her in the whole world.
When Jupiter in his home, in the clouds, heard of her, he came down to Argos to see her.
She pleased him so much and was so kind and wise that he came back the next day and the next and the next he stayed in Argos all the time so that he might be near her.
She did not know who he was, but thought he was a prince from some far-off land,
for he came in the guise of a young man, the great king of earth and sky that he was.
But Juno, the queen who lived with Jupiter, shared his throne in the midst of the clouds, did not love Ayur at all.
When she heard why Jupiter stayed from home so long, she made of her mind to do the fair girl all the harm that she could.
And one day she went down to Argos to try what could be done.
Jupiter saw her while she was yet a great way off, and he knew why she had come.
so to save Io from her
he changed the maiden to a white cow
he thought that when Juno had come back home
it would not be hard to give Iyo her own form again
but when the queen saw the cow
she knew that it was Iyo
oh what a fine cow you have here
she said give her to me good Jupiter
give her to me.
Jupiter did not like to do this,
but she coaxed so hard
that at last he gave up
and let her have the cow
for her own.
He thought that it would not be long
till he could get her away from the queen
and change her to a girl once more.
But Juno was too wise to trust him.
She took the cow by the cow by
her horns and let her out of the town.
Now my sweet maid, she said, I will see that you stay in this shape as long as you live.
Then she gave the cow to a strange watchman named Argus, who had not two eyes only as you and I,
but ten times ten.
And Argus led the cow to a grove and tied her by a long rope to a tree, where she had to stand and eat grass and cry, moo-moo, from morn till night, and when the sun had sat and it was dark, she lay down on the cold ground and wet, and cried moo-moo,
asleep. But no kind friend heard her, and no one came to help her, for none but Jupiter and Juno knew that the white cow, who stood in the grove, as Io loved.
Day in and day out, August, who was all eyes, sat on a hill close by, and kept watch.
And you could not say that he went to sleep at all, for while half his eyes were shut, the other half were wide awake, and thus they slept and watched by turns.
Jupiter was grieved when he saw to what a hard life Iyo had been doomed, and he tried to think of some plan to set her free.
One day he called Sly Mercury, who had wings on his shoes, and made him go and lead the cow away from the grove where she was kept.
Mercury went down and stood near the foot of the hill where Auger sat and began to play sweet tunes on his flute.
This was just what the strange watchman liked to hear, and so he could.
called to Mercury and asked him to come up and sit by his side and play still other tunes.
Mercury did as he wished and played such strains of sweet music as no one in all the world had heard
from that day to this. As he played queer old Argus lay down upon the grass and listened
and thought he had not had so great a treat in all his life.
But by and by, those sweet sounds wrapped him up in so strange a spell that his eyes closed all at once,
and he fell into a deep sleep.
This was just what Mercury wished.
It was not a brave thing to do, and yet he drew a lot of love.
drew a long, sharp knife from his belt, cut off old poor August's head while he slept.
Then he ran down the hill to loose the cow and lead her to the town.
But Juno had seen him kill her watchman and she met him on the road.
She cried out to him and told him to let the cow go.
And her face was so full of wrath that his son.
Soon as he saw her, he turned and fled and left poor Io to her fate.
Juno was so much grieved when she saw August stretched, passed away in the grass on the hilltop
that she took his hundred eyes and set them in the tail of a peacock.
I'd see them to this day.
Then she found a great gadfly, as big as a bat, and sent it to buzz in the white cow's ears,
and to bite her and sting her so that she could have no rest all day long.
Poor Io ran from place to place to get out of its way, but it buzzed and buzzed and stung and stow.
She was wild with frightened pain and wished that she were dead.
Day after day she ran, now through the thick woods,
now in the long grass that grew on the treeless plains,
and now by the shore of the sea.
By and by she came to a narrow neck of the sea,
and since the land on the other side looked,
As though she might find rest, she leaped into the waves and swam across.
That place has been called Bosphorus, a word which means the sea of the cow, from the time till now,
and you will find it so marked on the mat which you use at school.
Then she went on through a strange land on the other side.
But let her do what she would.
She could still not get rid of the gladfly.
After a time, she came to a place where there were high mountains,
with snow-capped peaks which seemed to touch the sky.
There she stopped to rest a while,
and she looked up at cliffs above her,
and wished that she might die were so grand.
and still. But as she looked, she saw a giant form stretched upon the rocks midway between
earth and sky. She knew at once that it was Prometheus, the young Titan, who
Jupiter had chained there because he had given fire to men. My sufferings are not so great
as his, she thought. Her eyes were filled with tears. Then Prometheus looked down and spoke to her,
and his voice was very mild, he said, and then he told her not to lose home, but to go south and then
west, and she would by and by find a place in which to rest. She would have thanked him,
if she could, but when she tried to speak, all she could say was moo-moo.
Then Prometheus went on and told her the time would come when she should be given her own form again,
and that she should live to be the mother of a race of heroes.
As for me, said he, I bide the time in patience.
for I know that one of those heroes will break my chains and set me free.
Farewell, who with a brave heart, left the great titan and journeyed, as he had told her,
first south and then west, the glad fly was worse now than before,
but she did not fear it half so much.
for her heart was full of hope.
For a whole year she wandered,
and at last she came to the land of Egypt in Africa.
She felt so tired now that she could go no farther.
She lay down near the bank of the Great River Nile.
To rest this time, Jupiter might have helped her,
had he not been so much afraid.
of Juno. But now it is so chanced that when the poor cow lay down by the bank of the Nile,
Queen Juno in her high house in the clouds also lay down to take a nap as soon as she was sound asleep.
Jupiter like a flash of light from the sea to Egypt.
He dismissed the cruel catfly and threw it into the river.
Then he stroked the cow's head with his hand and the cow was seen no more.
But in her place stood the young girl Ayo and frail,
but fair and good as she had been in her old home in the town of Argus.
Jupiter said not a word,
nor even showed himself to the tired, trembling maiden.
He hurried back with all speed to his high home in the clouds,
for he feared that Juno might waken and find out what had been done.
The people of Egypt were kind to Iyo
and gave her a home in their study then.
And by and by, the king of Egypt asked her to be his wife and made her his queen,
and she lived a long happy life in his marble palace on the banks of the Nile.
Ages afterward, the great-grandson of the great-grandson of Ios,
great-grandson broke the chains of Prometheus
and set the mighty friend of mankind free.
the name of the hero, Hercules.