Monday, November 14, 2005

Leaf Update

I got a TRILLION leaves raked this past weekend only to find that at Midnight when I left Bristol headed back to DC it had been raining since I'd been in bed and all the leaves I'd raked was in vane.  The rain had caused just as many to drop again.  :-(

My friend Jaime, says I'm Sisyphus?  What would you think?  The part in RED only applies to me!  LOL

Sisyphus

Sisyphus is the son of Aeolus (the king of Thessaly) and Enarete, and founder of Corinth. He instituted, among others, the Isthmian Games. According to tradition he was sly and evil and used to way-lay travelers and murder them. He betrayed the secrets of the gods and chained the god of death, Thanatos, so the deceased could not reach the underworld. Hades himself intervened and Sisyphus was severely punished.

In the realm of the dead, he is forced to roll a block of stone against a steep hill, which tumbles back down when he reaches the top. Then the whole process starts again, lasting all eternity. His punishment was depicted on many Greek vases. He is represented as a naked man, or wearing a fur over his shoulders, pushing a boulder.

According to some sources, Sisyphus was the father of Odysseus by Anticlea, before she married Laertus. They also mention Theseus as the hero who freed the country of Sisyphus.

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