Speaker 1: Hello, this is let's talk about myths baby. I'm back
Speaker 1: yeah again with another mini myth. This is a timely episode.
Speaker 1: I've introduced this guy last week. He's super famous and
Speaker 1: he also fits into my spooky, scary October plan as
Speaker 1: we are about to take a trip into the underworld
Speaker 1: mini man Orpheus Euridice and the importance of following underworld instructions.
Speaker 1: Today's story revolves around a young man by the name
Speaker 1: of Orpheus. Now, there are a number of options as
Speaker 1: to who to credit as his parents. I'm going to
Speaker 1: choose the most exciting and not bother you with the rest.
Speaker 1: Orpheus his parents were the god Apollo, god of music
Speaker 1: and medicine, and twin to the goddess artem Us, and
Speaker 1: his mother was the Muse Calliope, muse of epic poetry
Speaker 1: and probably the most famous and important of all the muses.
Speaker 1: Plus a character in Gray's Anatomy, a character whose middle
Speaker 1: name is also from Greek mythology, which always makes me happy,
Speaker 1: even though I never liked to character all that much. Anyway,
Speaker 1: those are Orpheus his parents, which makes him an important
Speaker 1: young man when it comes to music and eloquence and
Speaker 1: epic poetry. Paulo taught him to play the liar, and
Speaker 1: he became known for his voice and his musical talents.
Speaker 1: Were told that his playing was so beautiful that the
Speaker 1: breezes stopped to listen, which is just fucking lovely. Orpheus
Speaker 1: grew up in the town of Pimpleya, which isn't really
Speaker 1: important in the greater scheme of things, but is a
Speaker 1: name that I didn't think should be left out of
Speaker 1: anyone's vocabulary. Pimpleya. Imagine being a pre pubescent teenager living
Speaker 1: in Pimpleya. I love it now. Of course, Orpheus was
Speaker 1: also involved in the adventure and Journey of the Argonauts,
Speaker 1: but it's not his most well known story. No, his
Speaker 1: story involves the death of his wife, an oak nymph
Speaker 1: named Euridacy. On their wedding day. Euratacy was walking through
Speaker 1: a field of tall grass when she was attacked by
Speaker 1: a satyr. Now, a satyr is a creature that hangs
Speaker 1: around Dionysius, which means that drunkenness is typically involved. They
Speaker 1: have some horse qualities, ears and a tail and sometimes
Speaker 1: horse legs, and a Wikipedia tells it they have permanent
Speaker 1: exaggerated erections And let me just tell you there is
Speaker 1: a plate from around five b C. That pictures a
Speaker 1: satyr and that say is dancing around holding a pipe
Speaker 1: with a fully erect penis. But that's not all. He
Speaker 1: also has a pipe ace hanging from said penis. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's what satyrs are all about. So when
Speaker 1: a story says that a woman was attacked by a satyr,
Speaker 1: I think we can all understand that this was attempted rape,
Speaker 1: because seriously, just google this plate or satyrs in general.
Speaker 1: You're just he was attacked by this rapist satyr and
Speaker 1: in her attempt to get away from him, she fell
Speaker 1: into a pit of vipers and was bit and died.
Speaker 1: And if that isn't a dark and disturbing way to go,
Speaker 1: I don't know what is the I have a thing
Speaker 1: about snakes and basically Indiana Orpheus was so overcome with
Speaker 1: grief over the death of his wife and all their
Speaker 1: goddamn wedding day no less, that his mournful music was
Speaker 1: so emotional that all the nymphs and gods wept at
Speaker 1: the sound. They all felt for him and advised him
Speaker 1: to travel to the underworld and speak with Hades and
Speaker 1: for Sephanie directly. He's sang to the King and Queen
Speaker 1: of the underworld about his grief and his love for Euridescy.
Speaker 1: And seriously, Orpheus was a singer like no other. He's
Speaker 1: sang so beautifully and so emotionally that Cerberus, the three
Speaker 1: headed dog of the underworld, cousin of Fluffy, picked up
Speaker 1: his ears to listen. Granted he had six ears to
Speaker 1: pick up, so that's important. It was all so beautiful
Speaker 1: and touching that Hades and Persephone agreed to let your
Speaker 1: Adyacy leave. Now this is basically unheard of. I mean,
Speaker 1: she died, they're letting her come back to life just
Speaker 1: because they felt so much pity for Orpheus. It's a
Speaker 1: big fucking deal. So they told him. Eurdacy can leave
Speaker 1: the underworld, but there's one condition. Orpheus must walk in
Speaker 1: front of her, guiding her but not looking back, until
Speaker 1: they're both free of the underworld and they're safely on
Speaker 1: land of the living. They leave immediately, with Eurydacy following
Speaker 1: Orpheus as they walk the endless roads of the underworld. Finally,
Speaker 1: after a long journey, with Orpheus looking ahead holding the
Speaker 1: hand of his wife that had been dead the last
Speaker 1: time he'd seen her, his wife that he'd missed so
Speaker 1: much that he had moved everyone to tears, and they
Speaker 1: reached the threshold to the underworld, and Orpheus was so excited,
Speaker 1: so anxious to see his wife alive, that as soon
Speaker 1: as he passes the threshold and he's on the other
Speaker 1: side in the land of the living, he turns around
Speaker 1: to see his wife for the first time. But of
Speaker 1: course the condition had been that they both must have
Speaker 1: reached the other side. They both must have been in
Speaker 1: the land of the living before Orpheus looked at her,
Speaker 1: and so the minute he turns around and looks, she
Speaker 1: becomes ghost like. She loses her substance, and she falls
Speaker 1: back into the underworld. On the banks of the River Sticks,
Speaker 1: Orpheus pleads endlessly with the ferryman shower On, but he
Speaker 1: won't bring him back to the underworld, so he can't
Speaker 1: ask for the favor a second time. Finally, he gives
Speaker 1: up and just wanders the wilderness. He doesn't go back
Speaker 1: to civilization because he knows that people would actually die
Speaker 1: if they heard his music. It was so sad, But
Speaker 1: the wilderness he wandered was also frequented by main ads.
Speaker 1: You remember main ads, those frenzied followers of Dionysis. A
Speaker 1: group of main Ads found Orpheus, and in their frenzy
Speaker 1: they thought he was an enemy. They tore him to pieces,
Speaker 1: and his severed head and his lyre still lamented the
Speaker 1: loss of your Agyacy even as they floated down a
Speaker 1: river to the sea. But you know, upside he ended
Speaker 1: up in the underworld, and so Orpheus and your Adyacy
Speaker 1: were never separated again. And I guess we just hope
Speaker 1: that if you're torn to pieces when you die, you're
Speaker 1: put together whole again when you end up in the underworld.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you're Adacy sped eternity with the singing severed head.
Speaker 1: Thank you all so much for listening. This episode was
Speaker 1: recorded in the early morning hours because I frankly forgot
Speaker 1: to do it, but had this one planned and really
Speaker 1: had to go along with it. So it's early morning
Speaker 1: voice with a cup of coffee in hand, spilling said
Speaker 1: coffee on the papers in front of me. Thank you
Speaker 1: all for listening. I'll be back with funny episodes in
Speaker 1: the future, I promise. I'm live. I love this ship.