Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Old Greek Stories - The Flood

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Starting point is 00:04:03 Ducalion and he was the son of Prometheus. He was a very early times. He was a very early times. He was only a common man and not a titan like his great father. And yet he was known far and wide for his good deeds and the uprightness of his life. His wife's name was Pira, and she was one of the fairest daughters of men. After Jupiter had bound Prometheus on Mount Caucasus and had sent diseases and cares into the world, men became very, very wicked. They no longer built houses and tended their flocks and lived together in peace, but every man was at war with his neighbour, and there was no law nor safety in all the land. Things were in much worse case now than they had been before Prometheus had come among men. And that was just a very much worse case.

Starting point is 00:05:07 what Jupiter wanted. But as the world became wickeder and wickeder every day, he began to grow weary of seeing so much bloodshed and of hearing the cries of the oppressed and the poor. These men, he said to his mighty company, are nothing but a source of trouble. When they were good and happy, we felt afraid less they should become great. greater than ourselves. And now they are so terribly wicked that we are in worse danger than before. There is only one thing to be done with them, and that is to destroy them, every one. He sent a great rainstorm upon the earth, and it rained day and night for a long time, and the sea was filled to the brim, and the water ran over the land, and covered first the planes,

Starting point is 00:06:07 and then the forests, and then the hills. But men kept on fighting and robbing, even while the rain was pouring down and the sea was coming up over the land. No one but Ducadian, the son of Prometheus, was ready for such a storm. You'd never joined in any of the wrongdoings of those around him and had often told them that unless they left off,

Starting point is 00:06:37 their evil ways, they would be a day of reckoning in the end. Once every year he'd gone to the land of the Caucasus to talk with his father, who was hanging chained to the mountain peak. The day is coming, said Prometheus, when Jupiter will send a flood to destroy mankind from the earth, be sure that you are ready for it, my son. Rain began to fall. Ducanian drawings drew from its shelter a boat which he had built for such a time. He called Fair Pira his wife

Starting point is 00:07:18 and the two sat on the boat and were floated safely on the rising waters. Day and night, day and night I cannot tell how long the boat drifted hither and thither.

Starting point is 00:07:34 The tops of the trees were hidden by the flood and then the hills and then the mountains and Ducalion and Pira could see nothing anywhere but water. Water, water, and they knew that all the people in the land had been drowned. After a while the rain stopped falling and the clouds cleared away and the blue sky in the golden sun came out overhead. Then the water began to sink very fast and to run off the,

Starting point is 00:08:11 the land towards the sea. And early the very next day, the boat was drifted high upon a mountain called panarsus, and Eucalion and Pira stepped out upon the dry land. After that, it was only a short time until the whole country was laid bare, and the trees shook their leafy branches in the wind, and the fields were carpeted, with grass and flowers more beautiful than in the days before the flood. But Eucalion and Pira were very sad, for they knew they were the only persons who were left alive in all the land.

Starting point is 00:08:59 At last they started to walk down the mountainside, towards the plain, wondering what would become of them now, all alone as they were in the world, white world. While they were talking and trying to think what they should do, they heard a voice behind them. They turned and saw a noble young prince standing on one of the rocks above them. He was very tall, with blue eyes and yellow hair. There were wings on his shoes and on his cap and in his hands he bore a staff with golden serpents twined around it, that knew at once he was Mercury, the swift messenger of the mighty ones,

Starting point is 00:09:52 and they waited to hear what he would say. Is that anything that you wish? He asked, and you shall have whatever you desire. We should like above all things, said Eucalion, to see this land full of people once more, for without neighbours and friends the world is such a very lonely place indeed. Go down the mountain, said Mercury, and as you go cast the bones of your mother over your shoulders behind you.

Starting point is 00:10:29 And with these words he leaped into the air and was seen no more. What did he mean? asked Pira. Surely I do not know, said Ducadian, but let us think for a moment, who is our mother, if it is not the earth, from whom all living things have sprung? And yet, what could he mean by the bones of our mother?

Starting point is 00:10:57 Perhaps he meant the stones of the earth, said Pira. Let us go down the mountain, and as we go, let us pick up the stones in our path. and throw them over our shoulders behind us. It is rather a silly thing to do, said Eucalion, and yet there can be no harm in it, and we shall see what will happen. And as they walked on, down the steep slope of Mount Panarsus,

Starting point is 00:11:27 and as they walked they picked up the loose stones on their way, and cast them over their shoulders, and strange to say, the stones which dukechus, Ducalion threw sprang up as full-grown men, strong and handsome and brave, and the stones which Pira threw sprang up as full-grown women. Lovely and fair. When at last they reached the plane, they found themselves at the head of a noble company of human beings, all eager to serve them. So Ducadian became their king, and he sent them in homes and taught them them how to till the ground and how to do many useful things, and the land was filled with people

Starting point is 00:12:17 who were happier and far better than those who had dwelt there before the flood. And they name the country Halas, after Helen, the son of Ducalion and Pira, and the people are to this day called Helens, but we call the country. Greece.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Old Greek Stories - The Flood

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