Week 03
Story Summaries
The Fall of Icarus:
"The Fall of Icarus" is the story of a man named Daedalus and his son, Icarus. The father invents a flying machine and makes one for his son as well and warns him not to fly too high for fear of burning his wings nor too low for fear of getting them wet. Icarus, mid-flight, gets a bit too confident and soars up into the sky but he flies too close to the sun and his wings burn and he falls into the ocean.
My first image while reading this was of a scruffy haired teenager with flaming wings. The image of Icarus is usually of him falling but I would want to capture him soaring up with burning wings, right before they lose their structure and send him to his death.
The Minotaur:
The Minotaur's story is told in the background of "The Fall of Icarus". His mum, Pasiphae, was made to fall deeply in love with a bull by a god, in her lust she tasked Daedalus, Icarus's father, to build her a wooden cow of which she climbed into and made love to the bull, thus The Minotaur was conceived.
"Hunger":
Achelous at the beginning of a story, enjoys the company of a few fine warriors as they wait out a flood which I can assume Achelous, the river god, has caused. So Achelous hosts the warriors in a cave to shelter them and they tell stories.
The story in this that I have chosen is to do with "Hunger" who is portrayed as a person of higher being. There was a man named Erysichthon who scorned the gods and never left any offerings to them. The goddess, Ceres, had a sacred forest and there was a tree bigger than all the rest. One day Erysichthon ordered his servants to chop down the tree but they hesitated, he grabbed an axe from one of them and proceeded to chop down the tree himself. The tree cursed him and Ceres sent one of her servants to get "Hunger" to curse the man and consume him so he would be stalked by hunger for the rest of his life. This meant that no matter how much he ate he was still hungry.
The reason I have chosen "Hunger" is because there is an eerie, beautiful description of her that really captures the imagination and I love how "Hunger" has been personified.
Kitta Grau :
The base folklore of Kitta Grau is that she is a woman whom even the devil is a bit scared of. She can also recognise the devil in his human form revealing her to be clever.
The premise of the story is that the devil confides in her that he cannot separate a newly wedded couple who are madly in love with one another, no matter what methods he adopts. Kitta Grau then boasts that she could split them on her first time going there, and so she does at the end of the first part of the story. the second part of the story involves Kitta Grau out smarting the devil.
Kitta Grau is an evil woman who incites fear in the devil himself but she also has the mean streak in her to attempt to even interfere with his dealings with other humans. My initial vision for her is an old hunched over woman who is quite rotund (but even as I type this I could imagine her being frail and skinny) with many spots and pimples giving her a repulsive look.
The Arch Rogue:
The story of The Arch Rogue is about a man who is a sort of conjurer and sorcerer who enjoys playing upon mankind and stealing/tricking people of their property. A king sends troops after him as he sees the people being robbed but, none of his dispatched soldiers find any trace of him. The King changes his tactic and invites someone of his calibre to join his court and not too long after, The Arch Rogue appears in the Kings courtroom unannounced. After that, the Kings plan is to set him three impossible challenges to which he could not possibly complete but The Arch Rogue manages to accomplish them all with great trickery and cunning and in the end is on the court of the King and the King forgives him for his previous crimes.
My first image of The Arch Rogue was of a tall hooded man with a lot of mysterious to him.
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