Artemis

Artemis: Greek Goddess of the Hunt

            Imagine that you’re on a hunt in a sacred grove of the gods. Trees, animals, and hundreds of plants surround you. You see a deer and you go for the kill, one shot, it’s dead. You think to yourself that absolutely no one could have had a better shot than you. You challenge Artemis, Goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and much more. This was the position that Agamemnon found himself in after he challenged Artemis. Greek gods and goddesses have human emotions too; which is why Agamemnon’s challenge to Artemis caused such a big issue.

            Artemis was offended by Agamemnon and his outright pride in his one kill. She wanted to prove him wrong. She was so angry and embarrassed that someone would challenge her that she changed the direction of the wind. Agamemnon’s ships needed this wind as they were preparing to go to war in Troy and had planned to set sail from Aulis after all preparations were complete. They were off to start the Trojan War. This shows that the gods and goddesses too embody human emotions. They express themselves too.

            Agamemnon needed to get those winds going in the right direction, but how? The seer, Calchas, advised Agamemnon that the only way to make Artemis forgive him for his wrong doing, or to make her forget about it, was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis. Agamemnon did it without a second thought; that was his greed speaking. He wanted so badly to go to this war that he sacrificed his daughter to fix his wrong doing. Artemis made him pay alright. That is another common theme that Artemis shares with Greek mythology. The common theme or motif that Greek gods and goddesses punish pride, arrogance, and disobedience in mortals is one presented here. Artemis was so angry that she showed her jealousy, anger, and stubbornness to be right. These are her human flaws, which is another common theme in Greek mythology.

            In another Greek Myth that Artemis plays a part in there is a princess named Chione. Chione boasts to Artemis that she is prettier than Artemis because she can get Apollo and Hermes to fall in love with her at the same time. This again makes Artemis very angry, jealous, and stubborn. She is so upset that once again her human flaws and emotions show through. With all of the emotions she kills Chione in order to punish her for her boasting and her pride.

            Artemis loves to show her emotions and human flaws. Often she gets so angry that she hurts, or changes someone into an animal or something of the sort. Artemis has human emotion, human flaws, and she punishes mortals for their pride, arrogance, and disobedience. She likes to punish these mortals that do her wrong by doing something to them because they have done something to her. Whatever it is, it probably relates to one of the many common themes and motifs in Greek mythology.

             

Crazy Right?

So yeah..... I know that I am late with this weeks/last weeks blog but I have had just so much going on that I didn't have time to. Anyways... I will write it now (obviously I already did if you are reading this). Today was the second day that my stepsister had been out here, and we had big plans today. We were going to go snow tubing in park city at Soldiers Hollow. Well, after like the hour drive there we found of that they were sold out of tickets. So then we went to this store called Days Market that supposedly had tickets, that was about a ten minute drive in the other direction. Well...... when we got there we found out that their only tickets were ones that didn't start til five. It was two thirty. So we abandoned that thought and decided just to drive home. Well my sister decided that she was so hungry and needed to eat now (because she didn't think to eat before we left)...... (her boyfriend was there earlier). So she made us stop at McDonald's (What is even the point of that place, their food goes right through you and is so gross!! So we went home, another hour on the way back. When we got home we decided that we wanted to go do something fun since we couldn't go tubing. So we decided on bowling but....... everywhere was packed. So then we thought trampoline park but....... not everyone wanted to. Then we thought I fly but......... not everyone wanted to. So we had one final idea. Go see a movie at Station Park. Finally! Everyone agreed. I didn't even know what the movie was about until it had started because whenever I would ask my parents "What is it about?" they said, "Oh, about one and a half hours." GAHHH! It was really fun though. The movie however, that is another story. That movie was soooooooo creepy, and weird, and just strange. The movie was called Chronicle. It is like about this boy who decides to film his whole life so he buys a video camera and then his cousin convinces him to go to a party and he refuses to leave his camera behind. Then they end up finding this weird hole, and they climb into it. Suddenly they have these powers and they can levitate things and do other stuff connected to telekinesis. Eventually the kid with the camera starts to go crazy with power (he is the strongest out of the three). His mom is sick and he can't afford to pay for her medication so he starts killing people. He robbed a store and the owner had a gun and the kid threw it to the side and it exploded. He ended up in the hospital. From there he just went crazy and started killing people like non stop. Eventually his friend had to kill him because he wouldn't stop hurting people. It was strange. I think it was a good movie but I probably wouldn't see it again. It was really gross at the end.

Daughter of Smoke and Bones

I know, I know, I blogged about a book last week. Well I just can't help it. I've got to tell you about this book too. I just finished this the other night and was devastated when it ended, seeing as the sequel doesn't come out until this fall. This book is a little different that usual, but this is a lot more like all of the books that I have been reading recently. Once again I have to warn you. So here it goes...... SPOILER ALERT!!!

This book has a lot of interesting characters. Even better a lot of new interesting species. There are the chimaera and there are the seraphim. They are locked in a never ending war against one another. They even have their own world. The seraphim have been working on a way to finally destroy the chimaera for ever, and it might just work. Some how in this whole mess they have gotten into the human world and there is one girl that has gotten mixed up in it all, Karou. Karou is a seventeen year old girl that goes to an art school. She doesn't have many friends, and for an understandable reason. Karou is very different. She has blue hair and is covered in tattoos! She is an amazing artist and every one is always interested to see the latest work of her sketch books. In them she has created her own world, or so all the humans think. What they don't know is that Karou has a secret life. One that she always has to make time for. Karou doesn't really know much about her past and she is always forced to lie to her only friend about it. Zuzana never asks where Karou goes when she has to mysteriously go run an errand, and she never will. These errands are actually related to the chimaera and the seraphim. Only Karou doesn't know that. She does know that Brimstone is always in need of teeth, and she is the one that gets to retrieve them for him. Brimstone never leaves his shop and Karou can't get into it without someone from the inside. Brimstone's shop is in another world. One day Brimstone is really out of teeth and sends her to Izil to get some (the gravedigger). She gathers the teeth to find that there are baby teeth mixed in. Izil tells her that once upon a time he wanted them. She doesn't know what that means but Brimstone has never accepted baby teeth so she doesn't take them. Little does she know that she is being watched. By a Seraphim. Before she knows it he is attacking her, and he is winning too. She is an inch away from dying and yet he doesn't kill her. Now is her chance, she thrusts her hands against him and runs. Little does she know that that push held more power than normal. DUN DUN DUN!!!! If you want to read more of it then go buy the book! Muahahahaha! And if you read it you will have to wait just like I do for the sequel :)

Angel Burn

WARNING! SPOILER ALERT!!
Recently I read a book titled Angel Burn, and I just have to say it is one of my favorite books ever! It starts out with this girl named Willow fixing her friends car. Turns out that Willow can see people’s futures. This girl that she goes to school with comes up to her while she is fixing her friends car. Beth wants a reading, and Willow agrees, she tells Beth to meet her at her house later that night. Willow gives her a reading and what she sees shocks her. She has never seen anything like this before. Any future that she sees for Beth shows her sick, and dying. She might be really happy, but she is really sick. Then Willow sees an angel in Beth's future. This is the reason that her life is being destroyed; only Beth doesn't know it. Beth thinks that the angel is good, that the angel saved her life. In fact, she came to Willow to see if she should join their church. Willow tries to tell her not to that this angel is killing her. Beth won't listen, she storms out anyway. Little does Willow know that this is only the beginning.

This is one of my favorite books ever. I can't wait to buy the second one. I honestly recommend this book to any one and every one. Although I didn't give the full description of the book (only the beginning) it still is very interesting. I love this book because it has an amazing plot. It has the fighting, and the drama, and the romance. Later in the book Willow meets Alex, he is trying to stop the angels. Willow decides to go to the church to try one last time to talk Beth out of this. The night before she goes to save Beth a strange man comes to her door. He wants a reading, but Willow has a very bad feeling about this man. She refuses. The man grabs her hand anyway. All of a sudden images are flying past Willow's eyes so fast that she can't see them all. The man finally lets go; too scared to hold on any longer. As he stands there in her door dazed she says something to him. Something strange. "What are you?"

I'm not going to say any more about the book for fear of ruining this for any of you who haven't read it and are reading my post. But, if you haven't read the book, and are reading my post, and still want to read the book, why didn't you look at the warning at the top of this post? :P Well if you want to read it you can get it pretty much at any book store. I know you can get it at Barnes and Noble for sure. That is where we got our copy of the book. So if you want a good read that has all of the drama, fighting, and the romance; then read Angel Burn.