Michael Scott - Jupiter and His Mighty Company (Greek Myths) | Текст песни

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• Jupiter and His Mighty Company (Greek Myths)

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
king of the sky and the earth; and they said that he sat most of the time
amid the 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 rocks; and he was so very, very mighty
that when he nodded, the earth quaked, the mountains trembled 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 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 over the land; and men called him the Shaker of the
Earth.
The other 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 the time. His
name was Pluto, or Aidoneus, and his country was called the Lower
World, or the Land of Shadows, or Hades. Men said that whenever any
one 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 lived with Jupiter amid the
clouds on the mountain top,–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 very many useful things. 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. There was Mercury, the swift messenger, who had
GREEK STORIES
Page 1 of 19wings on his cap and shoes, and who 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 will
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. But they could
look down and see what men were doing, and oftentimes they were said
to leave their lofty homes and wander unknown across the land or over
the sea.
And of all these Mighty Folk, Jupiter was by far the mightiest.