Re: SFnal trees

William December Starr wrote:
> 
> In article <MPG.2259992aaec22078989dd4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Larry Caldwell <firstnamelastinitial@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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> > That's a re-telling of the Apollo-Daphne myth.  Daphne was
> > unwilling to marry Apollo and prayed to Zeus to be saved.
> > He turned her into a laurel tree, which
> 
> demonstrates that either (a) Zeus really didn't like to be bothered
> with stuff like that or (b) whoever made up that story got the old
> squid-in-the-mouth look a lot.

Zeus is the guy who's constantly impregnating mortals, usually while
in a non-human form (swan, bull, golden rain).

Apollo is the guy who keeps falling in love with mortals, most of 
whom demand some divine gift (which he grants) before rejecting him.

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