#ceberus

Hilde Brandt for @ashentyne

Cebrerus Transformation (Com)

Orpheus and Eurydice were a perfect match, Eurydice was full of beauty and grace - Orpheus taught by Apollo himself, molding songs of beauty and grace with lyre.

When Hymen (also, Hymenaios or Hymenaeus) blessed the marriage of Orpheus and Eurydice, He predicted that they were not meant to last.

Of course this is, as we know, true.

It depends on the tale, but on their wedding day, Eurydice danced with nymphs in a forest; unbeknownst to her a snake was lurking in the grass beneath her. The snake bit her and she dies instantly (ON HER WEDDING DAY) (imagine getting married, dancing with your girlies then boom. your dead. gone. tragic)

Orpheus was rightfully devastated by this, he decided that he simply cannot anymore and was determined to bring her back. Now orpheus' music truly was etheral, it made even inanimate objects such as stones weep; knowing this he made sure to sing a song so full of hearth and sorrow it would move the chthonic gods Hades and Persephone to tears. So he set out on a mission to the underworld. With his songs he recieved the viewing and enjoyment of Cerberus, the guard of the gates to the underworld. After making if through he reached his target audience, the ones who could fulfil his one wish - to hold his wife in his arms again, to watch her dance, to hear her laugh and to see her smile.

Orpheus' lyre strummed so heartbreakingly that the king of the dead and the bringer of death themselves were filled with compassion and care for the young lovers. So much so that they agreed to let Eurydice go, let Eurydice experience the light of the sun and her husband again.

But not without a catch.

They only way the lovers could walk out of the underworld alive was if Eurydice walked behind Orpheus, and if Orpheus turned to look at her during their walk up the aisle? She'd go right back to her prior state. Dead, again. In a trial of faith and trust. a CRUEL game of marco polo.

Orpheus was delighted, and eagerly accepted condition, thinking it was merely but a simple task.

The more they walked, the more Orpheus doubted the words of Hades. He was unable to hear the footsteps of his wife behind him, due to her being a shade/soul; not yet a physical person until she bathes in the light of Helios/the sun. Wondering if he was tricked, and this was all but a play - a trick.

When the cave began to illuminate with imagery of the upper world, the earth, Orpheus felt nothing but doubt and fear. And so, with the end in sight,

He turned.

He turned to see the face of his wife, for one last time. He watched as she faded, getting dragged back to the land of Hades.

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the story of orpheus and eurydice is a characterisation of grief, Orpheus' determination to get her back being denial. orpheus singing a song so beautiful in order to move the rulers of the underworld to reviving her, bargaining. doubt preccurred the phase of depression. and then, acceptance.

in some re-tellings Orpheus never accepted the 2nd death of Eurydice and so he begged and begged, for his own death via a song of mourning. For one cannot enter the underworld twice while one is alive. His wish came true, getting attacked by a beast or frenzied Maenads. Somehow his head was still intact, singing his song of mourning as it refused to drown; ending upon the shores of Lesbos.

The head of Orpheus sung his grief for eternity.

As mentioned before, Orpheus begged for death, he begged and mourned for Eurydice until he couldn't bare it anymore.

As severance pay he got his lyre cast to the sky to become a constellation. Rememberance of the plight they took for love.

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