Nature's Bizarre Justifications

In my opinion, I believe that most of the myths follow a very similar style. This style not only has themes including love, treason, hatred, curiosity, destiny, ext…, but they also have a connection to nature, or WHY some things happen as they do. For instance, the rise and set of the sun is actually a god who’s job is to ride his chariot of light across the sky every twelve hours. All of the world’s sicknesses are a result of Pandora and her box. Lightning is Zeus’s (or Jupiter’s, based on what mythology you follow) way of saying something’s wrong. These myths are clever justifications for natural phenomenon that couldn’t be explained with ancient Greek science advances. Blueberries are explained by the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe. They are simple occurrences that are mythologically explained through these stories. This tragedy is one that is fairly stupid, for the whole terrible loss was caused by such a simple action. This is something that I dislike about these myths, that they are a bit too simple when it comes to the cause of the tragedy. There are no major character flaws that lead to the loss. For the most part, the character’s traits are its flaws as well, since the traits are commonly exaggerated within the person’s description. Also, most of the tragedies are caused by simple mistakes, like when Cephalus threw his javelin to his wife believing her a beast, or when Pyrammus mistook the lion’s blood for his lover’s. There are all silly assumptions which, in modern day, would never be committed. There is a Murphy’s Law that states, “Assumption is the mother of all mess-ups”, and I think that this rule applies to almost every one of these myths. The eye-like figures on the tail of a peacock are justified in the myth “Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto”, in which Mercury cuts of Argus’s head and Juno places his many eyes in the tail of the peacock.