Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Old Greek Stories - Jupiter and His Mighty Company

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Starting point is 00:01:58 Good evening everyone. And I hope everyone's ready for a good night's sleep. In today's reading, I'll be reading. I'll be reading two stories from a collection of old Greek tales. The first is called Jupiter and His Mighty Company and the second is called The Golden Age. I really hope you enjoy it. These stories are available, add an intro free

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Starting point is 00:03:54 and let's begin Jupiter and his mighty company A long time ago when the world was much younger than it is now. People told and believed a great many wonderful stories about wonderful things which neither you nor I have ever seen. They often talked about a certain mighty being called Jupiter or Zeus, who was the king of the sky and the earth.

Starting point is 00:04:29 And they said that he sat most of the time amid the claspers. clouds on the top of a very high mountain where he could look down and see everything that was going on in the earth beneath. He liked to ride on the storm clouds and hurl burning thunderbolts right and left among the trees and rock. And he was so very, very mighty that when he nodded, the earth quaked, the mountains trimmed. and smoked. The sky grew black and the sun hid his face. Jupiter had two brothers, both of them terrible fellows, but not nearly so great as himself. The name of one of them was Neptune or Poseidon, and he was the king of the sea. He had a glittering golden palace

Starting point is 00:05:33 Far down in the deep sea caves Where the fishes live And the red coral grows And whenever he was angry The waves would rise mountain high And the storm winds Would howl fearfully And the sea would try to break

Starting point is 00:05:54 Over the land And men called him the shaker of the earth. The older brother of Jupiter was a sad, pale-faced being, whose kingdom was underneath the earth, where the sun never shone, and where there was darkness and weeping and sorrow all of the time. His name was Pluto or Adonius,

Starting point is 00:06:24 and his country was called the lower world or the land of shadow, or Hades. Men said that whenever anyone died, Pluto would send his messenger or shadow leader to carry that one down into his cheerless kingdom. And for that reason, they never spoke well of him, but thought of him only as the enemy of life. A great number of other mighty beings

Starting point is 00:06:59 lived with Jupiter amid the clouds on the mountaintop. So many that I can name a very few only. There was Venus, the Queen of Love and Beauty, who was fairer by far than any woman that you or I have ever seen. There was Athena or Minerva, the Queen of the Air, who gave people wisdom and taught them how to do a very useful thing. There was Juno, the queen of earth and sky, who sat at the right hand of Jupiter and gave him all kinds of advice. There was Mars, the great warrior, whose delight was in the din of battle.

Starting point is 00:07:50 There was Mercury, the swift messenger, who had wings on his cap and shoes, and he flew from place to place. like the summer clouds when they are driven before the wind. There was Vulcan, a skillful blacksmith, who had his forge in a burning mountain and wrought many wonderful things of iron and copper and gold. And besides these, there were many others about whom you'll learn by and by, and about whom men told strange and beautiful stories. They lived in glittering golden mansions, high up among the clouds, so high indeed that the eyes of men could never see them,

Starting point is 00:08:48 but they could look down and see what men were doing, and oftentimes they were said to leave their lofty homes and wonder unknown across the land all over the sea. And of all these mighty folk, Jupiter was by far the mightiest, the golden age. Jupiter and his mighty folk had not always dwelt amid the clouds on the mountaintop. In times long past, a wonderful family called Titus had lived there. and had ruled all over the world. There were twelve of them, six brothers and six sisters,

Starting point is 00:09:40 and they said that their father was the sky and their mother the earth. They had the form and the looks of men and women, but they were much larger and far more beautiful. The name of the youngest of these titans, was Saturn, and yet he was so very old that men often called him far the time. He was the king of the Titans, and so of course was the king of all the earth besides. Men were never so happy as they were during Saturn's reign. It was the true golden age then.

Starting point is 00:10:27 The springtime lasted all the year. The woods and meadows were always full of blossoms and the music of singing birds was heard every day and every hour. It was summer and autumn, two at the same time. Apples and figs and oranges always hung right from the trees. And there were purple grapes on the vines and melons and berries of furs. Every kind, which the people had but to pick and n't. Of course nobody had to do any kind of work in that happy time. There was no such thing as sickness or sorrow or old age.

Starting point is 00:11:18 Men and women lived for hundreds and hundreds of years and never became grey or wrinkled or lame. but there were always handsome and young. They had no need of houses, for there were no cold days, nor storms nor anything to make them afraid. Nobody was poor, for everybody had the same precious things. The sunlight, the pure air, the wholesome water of the springs, the grass for a carpet, the blue sky for a roof, the fruits and flowers of the woods and... So of course no one was richer than another, and there was no money, nor any locks or bolts,

Starting point is 00:12:11 for everybody was everybody's friend, and no man wanted to get more of anything than his neighbours had. When these happy people had lived long enough, they fell asleep. and their bodies were seen no more. They flitted away through the air and over the mountains and across the sea to a flowery land in the distant west.

Starting point is 00:12:43 And some men say that even to this day they are wondering happily hither and thither about the earth. Causing babies to smile in their cradles, easing the burdens of the toil worn and sick, and blessing mankind everywhere. What a pity it is that this golden age should have come to an end.

Starting point is 00:13:15 But it was Jupiter and his brothers who brought about the sad change. It is hard to believe it. But when men say that Jupiter was the son of the old Titan King Saturn, and that he was hardly a year old when he began to plot how he might wage war against his father. As soon as he was grown up, he persuaded his brothers, Neptune and Pluto, and his sisters, Juno, Ceres and Vesta to join him, and they vow that they would drive the titans from the earth. Then followed a long and terrible war.

Starting point is 00:14:00 But Jupiter had many mighty helpers. A company of one-eyed monsters called Cyclops were kept busy all the time, forging thunderbolts and the fire of burning mountains. Three other monsters, each with a hundred hands, were called in to throw rocks and trees against the stronghold of the Titans. And Jupiter himself hurled his sharp lightning darts, so thick and fast, that the woods were set on fire, and the water in the rivers boiled with the heat.

Starting point is 00:14:45 Of course, good, quiet old Saturn, and his brothers and sisters could not hold out always against such foes as these. At the end of ten years, they had to give up and beg for peace. They were bound in chains of the hardest rock and thrown into a prison in the lower worlds, and the Cyclops and the hundred-handed monsters were sent to be their jailers and to keep guard over them forever. Then men began to grow dissatisfied with their lot, some wanting to be rich and own all the good things in the world. Some wanted to be kings and rule over the others. Some who were strong wanted to make slaves of those who were we.

Starting point is 00:15:44 Some broke down the fruit trees in the wood, lest others should eat of the fruit. Some for mere sport hunted the timid animals which had always been their friends. Some even killed these poor creatures and ate their flesh for food. At last, instead of everybody being everybody's friend, everybody was everybody's foe. So in all the world, instead of peace there was war, instead of plenty, there was starvation. Instead of innocence, there was crime, and instead of happiness there was misery, which Jupiter made himself so mighty.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Old Greek Stories - Jupiter and His Mighty Company

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