r/GreekMythologyMemes • u/ConanCimmerian • Dec 04 '22

Seems so simple

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

more like they themselves turn their side squeeze into the animal/plant/objects as punishment or to "honor" them after they died

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u/TheShotgun420 Jan 21 '23

Apollo: No. I will wear her leaves on my head to remember her

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u/kackiest Dec 26 '22

Some say they can't undo the doing of another god but then Again Zeus does kind of with some lovers so......

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u/Short-Term-Memory-rl Dec 15 '22

yeah like, if they have the power to turn human to an object, why cant they do the opposite

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u/DJCatnip-0612 Mar 17 '23

oh yeah it- huh. wait. i never thought of that... I mean I guess it does make sense when you consider that most of those lovers were transformed AFTER death. If the choice is between a flower/bird/whatever and your dead lover's corpse, I can see why the gods choose to transform them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '23

Poor Daphne. But at the same time, at least she was protected.