Introduction: Greek mythology is full of beautiful, Greek mythology has many myths about music, which is really very fantastic.
Apollo was the god of music, and one of his symbols was the lirad , "The lira and the curved bow are my most cherished possessions" and Zeus combined with Titanmus Mossene (the goddess of memory) to give birth to nine muses.
Their position was that of Apollo's retinue. Each of the nine muses corresponds to a specific field of art. Apollo took his status as the patron saint of his art very seriously.
He became the protector of the muses, and even today many cities have the temple of Apollo, the Odeons, where the earliest music and drama were celebrated.
[i] Hermes and the lira
Hermes was very precocious when he was a child. He had just been born and stole the holy cow from his half-brother Apollo.
After sacrificing two of the herd's cattle, he used their tendons as strings to pass through the shell of a turtle he met on the way. He said to the turtle, "Although you are going to die, your shell can be used to play beautiful music." ”
In this way, he made the first lira. He took the piano as a gift, dispelling the anger of Apollo, who was tracking him. (It's not easy to hide from the gods of prophecy and divination.) ）
Hermes insincerely argued that his young body needed milk, so he stole Apollo's cattle. This is obviously not true, but the creator of the lira is a brilliant liar.
Apollo, still the god of music, was mesmerized by the sound of the lira and easily accepted Hermes's sophistry. Hermes persuaded him to accept the instrument, forgetting the unhappiness of the cattle being stolen.
Mocking the weakness of Eros's paired bow and arrow, Apollo was pierced through the heart by Aeros with a golden arrow. After being shot, Apollo fell madly in love with Nyyenfdaphne (Laurier).
However, Eros had already shot Daphne with a lead arrow, so that Daphne could only constantly evade Apollo's pursuits, and she eventually fell into a situation where she had nowhere to escape, and had to turn herself into a laurel tree, which was later named after her (bay laurel).
Even so, Apollo wanted to possess her, and he used the trunk of the laurel tree to make the liqueur and strings, and used the leaves to weave the laurels worn by the winners of the competition.
[ii] Athena's flute
Athena tried playing the flute, but it didn't work out, because playing the flute would make her cheeks bulge and look very unsightly.
The discarded instrument was picked up by a Sathi named Marthias and soon learned to play it skillfully. So he arrogantly challenged Apollo, the god of music, with a competition.
Although God and Sati played equally well, in the end Apollo was ruled the winner because he could play the same and sing along with him even if he turned the instrument upside down.
However, because some of the referees were Apollo's muses, there was clearly a certain degree of favoritism. The remaining referee, King Midas, cast the only dissenting vote in favor of Marthias.
In order to "reward" him, Apollo received a pair of donkey ears on his skull. And Marthath's fate was even worse, because of his arrogance, Apollo peeled off his skin alive.
Orpheus was the son of Caliope of the Muses, the chief epic. He studied the lira with Apollo, and it is said that when he played the lira, even the trees and rocks listened to his sacred sound.
He was passionately in love with his wife Eurydice, and after Eurydice's death Orpheus was so grief-stricken that he decided to go to the Underworld to save his beloved wife.
The sound of his piano even touched Charon and Kerberos on the road, and finally through a lament he expressed his wishes to Hades and Persephone.
The terrible ruler of the Underworld eventually agreed to let Eurydice follow him out of the Underworld, but he demanded that Orpheus not look back at Eurydice even once in the process.
But just as Orpheus was about to leave the underworld, he suddenly felt that this request might be just to trick him into leaving silently. So he glanced back to see if Eurydice had indeed been following him.
Eurydice did follow him, but the moment he caught a glimpse of it, his pact with Hades ceased to exist, and the jealous Hades immediately recaptured Eurydice. Orpheus never saw her again.
[3] The god of fertility
As a fertility god, Pan also pursues the Ningfu indomitably, and one of them, Ningfu, named Xurenke, even turns himself into a field of reeds in order to avoid him.
Pan shen used this reed to make a row of pipes, and even today people mention his name will associate it with the pipe, and later Pan God challenged Apollo with the pipe, but he eventually lost to Apollo in this music competition.
Iasson gathered a group of adventurers in search of the Golden Fleece, including the musician Orpheus, hermes's two sons, Perias' son, Diosculi, and the great hero Hercules Orpheus's music allowed the group to pass unscathed through the terrifying seas of the Siren.
The Sirens were originally maidens who failed to protect Persephone, so they were transformed into bird-like creatures. Inhabiting mainly the islands of southern Italy, they lured passing sailors to their deaths with their beautiful songs.
But if the Sirens fail to seduce their targets, they themselves will die. So when the Sirens failed in a musical competition with Orpheus, the Argo heroes eliminated almost all the Sirens who inhabited it.
Later, Odysseus also withstood their charm, and more Sirens died as a result. Siren's voice is much louder today than it used to be.
After all, 19th-century steamships used devices of the same name (siren also means whistles); "Siren's Ballad" now refers to the temptation-filled but best rejected offer.
Odysseus was confronted by Siren on his way home after the Trojan War. The Sirens would confuse him with their clear singing, and they would sit in the shade of green, next to numerous corpses and many bones, and the skins of many corpses.
Odysseus sealed their ears with wax and then ordered the crew to tie themselves to the mast so that the Siren's song could be heard safely.
Linus: He was a music teacher at Hercules, and because of corporal punishment of his own students, he was shot in the head by Hercules with a lira violin and died.
The tithes were known as the musically savvy Andros, who were known as drummers and whose proficiency in drumming made him a friend of the muses.
【Conclusion】
In short, is it absurd to play the harp on a cow? In Greek mythology, this man played the piano on trees and rocks, and they could understand it
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