Monday, February 14, 2011

Pyramus and Thisbe

The girls of ancient myth are tough girls: forget the Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel and forget the other princesses. The girls "mythical" are in name and fact: If you are in danger make do on their own and take off the hook. If you fall in love with someone, usually help him defeat the enemies, exterminate monsters, go home.

Do not hesitate, literally, at nothing, ready to get their hands dirty but also to show its solidarity with the beloved. However, males are not so bad: kill giants with the sheer force of arms, solve puzzles, duel for hours, days, without ever tiring. They are heroes in short, though, to want to just be honest, if you do not get what they want they start to cry ...

and usually give up the love to some deserted island to take home another younger and happier than she . The real good news, though, is that there are great stories of love paid, intense, passionate ... the bad news is that, unfortunately, almost always end badly. One of the most beautiful is that, almost unknown, of Pyramus and Thisbe.

These two guys unpronounceable names living in Babylon, of course, are beautiful, rich and fascinosissimi. They are also neighbors fall in love and talking through the dense thick crack of a wall. The crack is thin, does not even offer the possibility of a kiss, but they love each other madly.

The respective fathers do not allow this love, have banned them to meet. They then decided to flee. Come together to dusk near a mulberry tree, which drops its berries, white on the surface of an ancient spring. Thisbe arrived first and sat quietly waiting for the beloved, but the approach of a lioness who has just finished eating, he does escape.

In flight the veil falls from the head and the ferocious beast shreds. Pyramus arrives, a bit 'late, and sees the bloody veil: suspected, feared the worst and decided, in desperation, to put an end to his life. Pulls the dagger from his side and pierced his chest. TISP and comes in an instant, the event includes: hugs Pyramus, he invokes his name is totally unnecessary: the young man dies and his beloved, destroyed by grief, commits suicide at his side.

From the bodies of two lovers entwined cola black blood that tinged the ground, the tree dyes, dyes berries. The gods, pity, let the berries of the mulberry tree is to always color the deep red at the time of maximum ripeness, in memory of this great love. (In photo Thisbe by John William Waterhouse)

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