Caitlyn's+Story


 * __Why is sorrow in the world?__**


 * Once there was a mighty god named Zeus and he made the earth and all that lives on it. He created all the things on earth from the low lying worm to the high flying hawk. He looked upon everything with care. He had ten children, six girls and four boys. The girls’ names were Illthia, Hebe, Artemis, Dionysus, Athena, and Aphrodite. The boys were Hephaestus, Ares, Apollo, and Hermes. He loved his kids unlike his father loving him, but that’s beside the point.**


 * One day about two million years ago the god Zeus was pondering about the world and what he should do about the evilness his brother Hades had put on to it. So he decided to dress up as a mortal and visit the world of** **Greece****. He saw the poverty, hunger, and wounds. He wanted to put a stop to this, so he went to his brother Hades.

“Hades,” Zeus began, “I want you to put a stop to this nonsense that you put on the mortals!”

“But I am not the one who can do this” Hades muttered under his breath “only the most loyal, conning, and ambushes //woman// may do it.”

“A girl,” laughed Zeus “only a girl would collapse under such great of task.”

“Oh, but this no ordinary girl” Hades said more boldly, “She has been trained by the ways of the gods. She can navigate by the stars.

“Oh and by the way,” Hades said in a whisper Zeus could hardly hear, “she knows all the weaknesses of the gods, whether or not it’s mentally or physically noticed.”

“Well in that case she may be of service to me tell me were I can find her?” commanded Zeus.

"She goes to the great** **temple of Athena** **in** **Athens** **every day at dawn. He lives in an old farm house outside the city with her husband and two little boys”

“I’ll be on my way, thank you brother.” When he got to their house Zeus appeared at the doorway of the little farm house beckoning the wife to him.

The farmer stood up out of his chair and roared “How are you to try and steal my wife?!”

“I’m the great god Zeus and I have a quest for your wife.”

“Why would you need my wife for any quest of yours?” asked the farmer in great confusion.

“She has been trained in the ways of the gods and knows much about them. May I use her for the quest?”

“Yes if you must,” replied the farmer.

“Many thanks.” And with that Zeus swept her away and took her away to Hades.

“Hades, I have her to you what must I do now?” Asked Zeus.

“Now she must go and make a pot. But not just any pot, it must be painted with warriors and their wives. And also there must be a cougar.”

“Well you heard him, off you go now.” Zeus insisted.

She walked away in misery and sat down at a bench and set to work at molding the clay. After she was done with that she began to paint. She made strokes of brilliance. The brightly colored paintings began to come to life with a lively look upon them. When she was done she took it straight to Zeus.

“I’ve finished the pot with everything you asked.” She said, her clothes were splashed with clay and paint. Her hair was mangy and knotted.

“Well done,” said Hades, “now Zeus you must collect all the sorrow in the world in the pot. Then you must give it to the woman and she must keep in her house.

“But I warn you,” he said turning to the girl, “if it falls it will release all the sorrow back in the world.”

“Okay I will do my best.” Then with that Zeus took her and the sorrow back to her house. The Farmer was happy to see his wife again. They put the vase carefully on the table and there it staid for now.

Two years later the farmer’s sons were rough housing in the kitchen and knocked the vase over. The vase fell to the ground and the only the lid fell of and all the sorrow was back to stay forever. But there was unusual curse but upon their family. Every sickness ever discovered will inhabit their family first.**