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he daughter of king Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea, but sometimes it was whispered that Dionysus was her real father. Deianeira had many sisters and brothers: Toxeus, Agelaus, Thyreus, Clymenus (or Periphas), Meleager, Gorge, Eurymede and Melanippe.
Althaea died of grief when Meleager died, still a young boy, and his sisters turned into guinea hens out of sorrow. Dionysus then intervened and spared Deianeira and Gorge.
Deianeira was very beautiful, and both Heracles and the river god Achelous wanted to marry her. A fight broke out between the two, and Achelous transformed himself into a snake and then a bull. Heracles managed to break off one of the bull’s horn, and so won the battle.
The couple lived in Calydon for a few years, but when Heracles killed a local boy by mistake, they were forced to leave. When they reached the Euenus river they met the Centaur Nessus. When he saw the beautiful Deianeiera he tried to rape her after he had carried her across the river, but Heracles killed him with an arrow, its tip had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra. The dying Centaur gave Deianeira a piece of cloth soaked with his blood, and told her to keep it. With it, he said, she would have Heracles’ love if she ever came near to losing it.
Heracles and Deianeira settled in Trachis where they had several children: Hyllus, Ctesippus, Glenus, Hodites and Macaria. Heracles often went away on various adventures, but he always came back.
After many years, Deianeira was horrified to hear that her husband had taken a young wife, and that he was coming back with her. The young bride, Iole, was also rumoured to be very beautiful, and Deianeira was at her wits end. When she had made sure her husband was really coming with Iole through a servant, she put the Centaurs cloth in a barrel of water, and then put a shirt in it that she sent to Heracles.
When Heracles put the shirt on it stuck on his skin and caused him great pain. When he tried to take it off, pieces of his own flesh came with it. He made it to Trachis, only to find that Deianeira had hung herself when she had realised what she had done.
Heracles made a funeral pyre for himself by Mt. Oeta, and then ascended it.

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Hades and Persephone
In Greek mythology Persephone is the only child of Demeter, Goddess of nature and earth. Hades is the god of the underworld and the dead.While Demeter was looking for her daughter one day, she learned that Hades had kidnapped her while she was picking flowers. He had kidnapped her because she was so beautiful that even Hades, the god of death who hardly glanced up at the living world for more then a few seconds, was struck by her, and fell in love with her. Demeter, with her only child kidnapped and forcefully married, fell into depression, and all fertility on earth stopped. Hades began to notice that his once glowing bride had now become depressed and dark; she only wandered around his gardens without saying a word, looking up at the living world, sighing and sobbing. He attempted to make her happy by lavishing her with thousands of gifts, but Persephone was still unhappy.Zeus sent Hermes down to to the underworld to demand that Hades release Persephone back to her mother. Hades was truly in love with Persephone and began to panic at the thought of losing her. With a last attempt he resorted to trickery. Before Persephone went back to her mother, Hades approached her with a pomegranate fruit, and began to sob over the fact that she was leaving him forever. He offered the pomegranate as a final present before she left, as it had been grown in Hades’ private garden.Persephone took the pomegranate from Hades out of pity and compassion, but only ate six seeds from it before throwing it away. When Hermes arrived he saw the pomegranate fall to the ground and questioned Persephone. She admitted to eating it and was told by Hermes that because she had eaten from the garden of death she was forever connected to the underworld and could not leave.Demeter became outraged that Hades had tricked her daughter into staying and went to the underworld to take Persephone back home herself, but only ended up starting a fight with Hades. To make them both happy, Zeus decided that Persephone would stay with Hades, one month for every seed she had eaten.Thus every year Persephone would live with her solemn and dark husband for six months and then return to her mother in the world of the living for the other six.When Persephone is with her her mother, Demeter, Demeter is happy and the world goes lush and green, and crops begin to grow. But when Demeter is separated from her daughter, she becomes depressed, and everything on earth dies, animals sleep, and the world freezes in ice and snow.

I remember reading this story while researching Myths. I love it. It’s poetic in a way. :)

You don’t understand

-Cutting unless you’re a cutter.

-Drugs unless you’ve done them.

-Suicide unless you’ve attempted it.

-Depression unless you’ve felt it.

-Eating disorders unless you’ve had one.

-Me unless you’ve been through what I’ve been through.

So don’t pretend like you fucking understand.

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i fell again… you turned around and stabbed me told me i wasn’t good enough that i was just a peace of meet when i had real feelings i guess i was wrong maybe next time i won’t fall?

Well.. You got what you wanted are you satisfied? I can’t believe I actually thought you were serious when you said you missed me and my smile? Maybe Deep Down I knew.. I just wanted to have you hold me again and tell me you loved me. I wanna feel you against my lips. Watch you stick out you’re tongue out at me when say something smart assy. Those were the good times.. With you’re arm around me even thought it was 40 degrees C out, It didn’t matter I was where i wanted to be right beside you. Now when i wake up I don’t remember the good times. All that comes back is all the bad things.. If I could sleep forever i would as long as i get to stay in you’re arms in my dreams! </3 :’(