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The Origins of The Sirens
May. 26th, 2014 01:55 am[This is the origin of sirens as of how Callie remembers it. It's more or less accurate, but timing, number, and names all have a bit of flex to them.]
Zeus was never a faithfully married man, or at least not for long enough to make a difference, and spent nine eventful nights with the titaness Mnemosyne, who never forgot. That being not just because she was memory embodied, but because she gave birth to nine rather impressive daughters who would be named the Muses. Between the nine daughters, they were supposed to encompass all that was knowledge and art. Being more or less successful, they were not unnoticed.
According to family legend, it was Osiris who first took action, and gathered up the sisters, when he traveled the world to teach humanity how to tend the land and build civilizations until Zeus said enough is enough and called his girls home to work and answer to Apollo. Now, whether that's how it really worked or not, there can be no doubt that at least Melpomene spent a little time exploring in Egypt, given the daughter she bought back with her, named Ligeia.
Ligeia, who would become Callie, grew up with the several other daughters of the muses and river gods, raised more or less communally with the detached affection gods are capable of. In their turn, they because the attendants of Persephone while she lived on earth. Things were peaceful and joyous days, and the end was sad but not devastating. Persephone was ready to become something in her own right, and Ligeia, hitting her own adolescence of sorts, understood. When Demeter asked them to search the world for her, gifting them with wings for speed and stronger voices, they promised to search the face of the earth for her, without ever lying.
The fall, though, of these young goddesses, came after those matters were settled. No longer children, not recognized as wholly independent, the sirens grew cocky. Not only did they have the music that was their birthright and more from the harvest goddess. Goaded by Hera, they challenged their mothers and aunts to a singing contest, and failed. The cost for their loss was impossibly high. The siren's were stripped of their wings to make crowns for the wings, and abandoned to the islands that would take on their names as they became the monsters that lured men to their deaths in the effort of sustaining themselves on something more than their divine natures.
Zeus was never a faithfully married man, or at least not for long enough to make a difference, and spent nine eventful nights with the titaness Mnemosyne, who never forgot. That being not just because she was memory embodied, but because she gave birth to nine rather impressive daughters who would be named the Muses. Between the nine daughters, they were supposed to encompass all that was knowledge and art. Being more or less successful, they were not unnoticed.
According to family legend, it was Osiris who first took action, and gathered up the sisters, when he traveled the world to teach humanity how to tend the land and build civilizations until Zeus said enough is enough and called his girls home to work and answer to Apollo. Now, whether that's how it really worked or not, there can be no doubt that at least Melpomene spent a little time exploring in Egypt, given the daughter she bought back with her, named Ligeia.
Ligeia, who would become Callie, grew up with the several other daughters of the muses and river gods, raised more or less communally with the detached affection gods are capable of. In their turn, they because the attendants of Persephone while she lived on earth. Things were peaceful and joyous days, and the end was sad but not devastating. Persephone was ready to become something in her own right, and Ligeia, hitting her own adolescence of sorts, understood. When Demeter asked them to search the world for her, gifting them with wings for speed and stronger voices, they promised to search the face of the earth for her, without ever lying.
The fall, though, of these young goddesses, came after those matters were settled. No longer children, not recognized as wholly independent, the sirens grew cocky. Not only did they have the music that was their birthright and more from the harvest goddess. Goaded by Hera, they challenged their mothers and aunts to a singing contest, and failed. The cost for their loss was impossibly high. The siren's were stripped of their wings to make crowns for the wings, and abandoned to the islands that would take on their names as they became the monsters that lured men to their deaths in the effort of sustaining themselves on something more than their divine natures.
