Bullfinch's Mythology

I really think that people fall in love and love is one of the greatest feelings one can have. Love sometimes triumphs over everything in life. We have seen stories were love triumphs over family power like in Romeo and Juliet, or where love overpowers distance, or maybe sometimes love overpowers the coldest heart and softens people. “She envied the weapon that he grasped, the reins that he held.” This time love overpowers family trust. Scylla likes so much Minos that she is willing to open up the gates of the city in the middle of a war just to get to him. I think there can be two cases over here, one that she loves him very much or she doesn’t care about what happens to her family and city.Nisus and Scylla

I enjoyed reading this myth because it really proposes a new way of understanding how things came to be. The normal explanation that some one will give you of how a sunflower came to be is that god made it but here in mythology they show it to you in a way that is very different which makes it interesting and fun. “Nine days she sat and tasted neither food nor drink, her own tears and the chilly dew her only food. She gazed on the sun when he rose, and as he passed through his daily course to his setting; she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on him. At last, they say, her limbs rooted in the ground, her face became a flower which turns on its stem so as always to face the sun throughout its daily course; for it retains to that extent the feeling of the nymph from whom it sprang.”
Clytie