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 Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:20 pm
Hi everyone. I'm a new member to this guild and so I thought I'd introduce myself before showing you all my story. Please call me Eli and feel free to criticize all you want. Criticism is always good. Anyways I've been doing a lot of research on Greek mythology because I truly do love it and so that my story is as close to accurate as it can get.
The story revolves around the Island of Delos and Asteria, the Goddess Titan who is sister to Leto and was perused by both Zeus and Poseidon. When researching Asteria I found that she fled from both brothers and turned herself into a floating island to escape. But when her sister Leto needed a place to give birth she anchored herself down and allowed her sister to give birth to Artemis and Apollo. While I was reading I wondered what if she had not fled Poseidon at all, for as I read other versions he wasn't even mentioned. And so I came up with the story "Island Of Delos." Which takes place in modern day Greece and talks about a new goddess who is unaware until recently that her life isn't really who she is. Please let me know what you think. I will post the prologue in the next post and will added more as I finish each chapter.
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:22 pm
Prologue
A cry echoed through the ruins of Delos. For the first time since the birth of the great twins Apollo and Artemis a child was born on the earth of this magical island. The mother held the child with all the love and worry of a god. A single tear slipped from the woman's eyes as she carried her only child to the shoreline. There waited a small boat shaped as a cradle of sorts. From the surrounding seas came a man with stormy eyes. His heart was heavy as he took sight of the woman and the child. At the sight of the man the woman grasped the child tighter to her breasts.
"For the child I take her from you, this you know." The man spoke with sharp but oddly gentle tone. "With you almost forgotten among the people and my brother wanting to keep it as is she is in great danger on Delos."
A cry broke out again, so loud that all but one set of eyes turned to the direction of the lonely Island. The mother coed her child to silence and kissed the babe's forehead.
A storm had begun to churn the seas and the man became restless as he watched the last born god leave the arms of the last free titan. The babe now lie in the boat watching the man with stormy grey eyes, the eyes of his own seas. "Asteria, she will be great."
"Leave me Poseidon. I wish to be in my ruin." With that the woman's form dispersed and became no more than air around the island. Poseidon took hold of the front of the boat and pulled the child into his waters, bringing her to her new life.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:57 pm
The concept is intriguing,and of course everybody loves a good drama!
I'm confused because Asteria is supposed to be the actual island of Delos.
If this is an alternate universe of sorts,
you'd want to make a different explanation of how the island came about.
More later. c:
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:00 pm
GreenInkling
The concept is intriguing,and of course everybody loves a good drama!
I'm confused because Asteria is supposed to be the actual island of Delos.
If this is an alternate universe of sorts,
you'd want to make a different explanation of how the island came about.
More later. c:
I thought of that as well, but I found a way to explain it that will be in another chapter.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:30 am
I like the concept, it's rather intriguing. I like even more that it concerns some of the lesser known figures of Classical mythology, which is a preference of mine over the mainstream stuff that leaks into pop-culture.
With regard to your concept of Asteria, I don't see how it's unreasonable. The primordial goddess Gaia is the earth itself, and yet she often appears in personified form as a chthonic woman made of earth, rising up from the ground. It isn't altogether strange to have Asteria being a goddess and an Island at the same time.
I might also point out that Asteria is already married to the titan Perses, and with him conceived the powerful goddess Hekate, queen of witches and ghosts. You may wish to include this in your plotting, as this new daughter of yours would technically be Hekate's half sister.
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