{Title} Dangerous Devotion
{Author} Sweet Charisma
{Chapter} Prologue
{Story Summary} {none}
{Notes} This is a myth I made up for the purpose of this story. =) Enjoy.
Stanton's past may be AU so anything you see here, just kind of work with it. I mean everything I write. That's why they call it fan fiction after all.
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In ancient times; Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.
In The Odyssey of Homer (8.266), a singer tells the tale of how Aphrodite and Ares secretly laid together in the bed of her husband, Lord Hephaestus. Helios, the sun, secretly observed the lovers and told Hephaestus. The smith went to his work and devised clever fastenings that would ensnare and hold the lovers in an unbreakable trap. The careless lovers fell into the trap and Hephaestus stood before the other Olympians and demanded his gifts of courtship be returned. Only after Poseidon offered to pay the adulterer's damages if Ares defaulted would Hephaestus loose the bonds. After being freed, Aphrodite went to her sacred precinct on Cyprus where she was bathed by the Graces and Ares went Thraceward. Seeing the two lovers in the indignity of the snare, Apollo asked Hermes how he would feel in such a situation. Hermes answered that he would suffer thrice the number of bonds if only he could share the bed of Aphrodite the Golden.
Aphrodite's son emerged, created by Aphrodite and Ares' love, from the very sea Aphrodite was born from. Aphrodite loved her son, watching her immortal child blossom into a beautiful young man. However, Hephaestus was furious. He dealt with the Atrox, devising a plan for the deadly Atrox to steal him from their grasp. They did so, bringing him to earth to live in a castle with another family. With fix, the Atrox got ahold of him. Aphrodite's son now belonged to evil and remembered nothing of his past, leaving Aphrodite to grieve.
{Author} Sweet Charisma
{Chapter} Prologue
{Story Summary} {none}
{Notes} This is a myth I made up for the purpose of this story. =) Enjoy.
Stanton's past may be AU so anything you see here, just kind of work with it. I mean everything I write. That's why they call it fan fiction after all.
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In ancient times; Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.
In The Odyssey of Homer (8.266), a singer tells the tale of how Aphrodite and Ares secretly laid together in the bed of her husband, Lord Hephaestus. Helios, the sun, secretly observed the lovers and told Hephaestus. The smith went to his work and devised clever fastenings that would ensnare and hold the lovers in an unbreakable trap. The careless lovers fell into the trap and Hephaestus stood before the other Olympians and demanded his gifts of courtship be returned. Only after Poseidon offered to pay the adulterer's damages if Ares defaulted would Hephaestus loose the bonds. After being freed, Aphrodite went to her sacred precinct on Cyprus where she was bathed by the Graces and Ares went Thraceward. Seeing the two lovers in the indignity of the snare, Apollo asked Hermes how he would feel in such a situation. Hermes answered that he would suffer thrice the number of bonds if only he could share the bed of Aphrodite the Golden.
Aphrodite's son emerged, created by Aphrodite and Ares' love, from the very sea Aphrodite was born from. Aphrodite loved her son, watching her immortal child blossom into a beautiful young man. However, Hephaestus was furious. He dealt with the Atrox, devising a plan for the deadly Atrox to steal him from their grasp. They did so, bringing him to earth to live in a castle with another family. With fix, the Atrox got ahold of him. Aphrodite's son now belonged to evil and remembered nothing of his past, leaving Aphrodite to grieve.