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  • Nine Moons Certain (5.1)

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    K. L. Homme
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    Laius, King of Thebes, went to Delphi seeking counsel about his house. The oracle declared that if he fathered a son, that boy would kill him—and take Jocasta, his wife, as his own. Even so, one evening he lay with her and forged his fate. Nine moons waned, and the news was delivered: Jocasta had…

  • The Dolphin’s Always Right (4.6)

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    K. L. Homme
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    Like Apollo, Dionysus was a child of infidelity. This time, jealous Hera sent the Titans to destroy him. They tore the child to pieces and devoured him—all but his heart. Athena rescued it and returned it to Zeus, who swallowed it. In time, the god was born again.

  • The Oracle at Dolphin (4.4)

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    K. L. Homme
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    A dragoness born of mud—a child of Gaia named Python—guarded this cave from which her mother’s oracle spoke, at Pytho. Legend tells that the dragoness was drawn into the jealousy of Zeus’s sister-wife, Hera. Gentle Leto carried the faithless Zeus’s twins—Artemis and Apollo—in her womb. In her jealousy, Hera set the serpent upon the Titaness.