Died child. Maternal mountain is inevitable. Tears bring some relief, but the memory of the loss exudes them again and again. This fate has not passed and the immortal goddess of Aurora. What happened to her, told Ovid in the thirteenth book "Metamorphosis".
Aurora - Sister Jupiter. She had a lover - Typhon, son of the Trojan king, Aurora stole him and moved him to Ethiopia, where he became a king.
From their connection the son was born - Memnon. And when the Trojan War began, Memnon went to defend the kingdom of his grandfather. He died in a fight with the Greeks.
Homemade grief goddess is tormented by memnonov death. Mother saw in the Frygian field, which struck his spear Golden Achilla.Mother saw in the Freigian field - the Frigian field, obviously, the place of the battle of the defenders of the Troy and the precipitated Greeks.
It is torture fear that the Son will remain in the field for the existence of the beasts and birds that he will not be represented by the honors (according to some sources, Memnon led his numerous army in Troy to resist the Greeks). Aurora appeals to Jupiter with the lowest request:
Konyu was, blossoming the hair in the mountain, digest on the knees of Jupiter with a request did not imagine ...Aurora seems to understand that Jupiter is much higher than the provision among the Gods of Olympus,
I, the root of everyone, at the Christian Sky, - For only rare churches on the world, is still a goddess ...But the pain of loss makesone to ask for a thoroughness about mercy:
Honor, begging, to help him in the consolation of death, the highest ruler of the gods, maternally the mother wound!
Jupiter did not refuse the unfortunate mother (for what reason Aurora did not ask about the resurrection and immortality of Memnon - it is unknown), and something unexpected happened on the burial fire:
Almost only the fire was destroyed by Memnon's proud bonfire, and the clusters of black smoke were blocked the day, ... Black soot, sneezing, flew, gets into the body, acquires a face, the warmth takes warmth, also his soul, and from his own ease - wings. With a poultry, it was imperative, - and truly bird fluttered with a wing ...A flock of birds formed from the ashes rose in the air. First one, it is divided into two parts, one fights against the other, and those who died in this fight fall to the ground.
The name of the creator gave them suddenly to the birds: their "Memnonids" is called ...Every year this fight is repeated in honor of the deceased memnon:
Only the sun will fulfill twelve months, fighting again to be able to remember in the war.Memnon received posthumous honors: he was burned on a fire, the poultry had become a memorable sacrifice, which fell to Earth after a brutal battle in the air.
And mother's experiences do not end:
Hard Aurora is busy, sheds and now tears about her son, and everywhere in the world he is heard.Every morning dew drops with dawn - these are the tears of the Aurora, tears of the inconsolable mother ...
Author - Boris Roklenko
Source - Springzhizni.ru.