The Three Myths 15

Cadmus

This myth was about Cadmus, a prince of Phoenicia, sent by his father to look for his sister Europa who had been taken away by jupiter. Unable to find her, he consults an oracle which tells him to build the city of Thebes. When he reaches the land, his men go out in search for water, unfortunately they find a cave guarded by a ferocious snake and they all get killed. Cadmus goes to avenge their death a kills the snake. He goes back and builds the city, but the gods curse him though, for having killed their serpent, and all of Cadmus´s decendents perished unhappily. So he left Thebes with his wife and said said that if the snake meant so much to the gods, then to turn him into one. So they transformed Cadmus and his wife into serpents. The myth has a very awkward development. Cadmus sets out to find his sister but ends up killing a snake, building Thebes, and being turned into a serpent. There is a quote that I believe fits this situation, ¨Life is what happens while you´re busy making plans for something else.¨. All this time, Cadmus thought that his main goalm in life was to go out on a search for his sister, but while that was happening, a whole bunch of new, unexpected things occured. Those events were the ones which eventually made up his entire life. This surprisingly happens to many people, other than cadmus. They spend most of their life´s looking, or waiting for something, when really, what they were looking for was what they living the entire time.