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  "thread": {
    "id": 1178,
    "subject": "Scylla entries in Encyclopedia Mythica",
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    "first": "2001-02-17T14:54:14+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-17T14:54:14+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0265@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Endymion9",
        "address": "endymion9 at mindspring.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-17T14:54:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Scylla entries in Encyclopedia Mythica",
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          "text": "I was searching for any entries on Cilinia and came up nil, but found these\ntwo for Scylla that I found interesting.\n\nEncyclopedia Mythica  http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/\n\n\"1.  In Greek legend, Scylla is the name of a daughter of King Nisus of\nMegara. She promised her lover Minos to deliver Megara into his hands and,\nto effect this, cut off a golden hair on her father's head when he was\nasleep. Minos, however, despised her for this treachery, and Scylla threw\nherself from a rock into the sea. Other accounts say that she was changed\ninto a lark by the gods and her father into a hawk.\n\n\n\n2.  Scylla was a nymph, daughter of Phorcys. The fisherman-turned-sea-god\nGlaucus fell madly in love with her, but she fled from him onto the land\nwhere he could not follow. Disappear filled his heart. He went to the\nsorceress Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla's heart. As he told\nhis tale of love to Circe, she herself fell in love with him. She wooed him\nwith her sweetest words and looks, but the sea-god would have none of her.\nCirce was furiously angry, but with Scylla and not with Glaucus. She\nprepared a vial of very powerful poison and poured it in the pool where\nScylla bathed. As soon as the nymph entered the water she was transformed\ninto a frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three\nrows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters,\nlike dogs, which backed unceasingly. She stood there in utter misery, unable\nto move, loathing and destroying everything that came into her reach, a\nperil to all sailors who passed near her. Whenever a ship passed, each of\nher heads would seize one of the crew.\"\n\n\n\n\nDennis/Endy\nhttp://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
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