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Everyone be talkin’ about the ancient Greeks. Have you seen their sculpture work? Examined their beautiful columns? Explored the philosophy of Socrates?
Have you heard about their inter-species erotica?
Oh yeahhhh.
Leda and the Swan tells the story tells of a beautiful young woman named Leda who catches the lustful eye of the mighty Zeus. To hide his actions from his vengeful wife, Hera, Zeus takes on the form of a swan and flies to earth. He flees from a pursuing bird of prey and lands in the arms of the lovely Leda who finds herself drawn to the bird. The two lay together (aka – get it on) on the same day that Leda makes love to her own husband, Tyndaerus. Their copulation results in Leda giving birth to two eggs that, when hatched, contain her semi divine children, one of which grows up to be the famous Helen of Troy. The story tends to get a little muddled at this point. Because Leda was with both Zeus and Tyndaerus on the same day, the children are often seen to be a mixture of both divine and human blood. Helen is always shown as being the blood of Zeus, the result of Leda’s love with the swan, but the other offspring are not as clear.
Strangely enough, Greek mythology is full of this kind of zaniness. Inter-species lovemaking is something that occurs several times throughout the more well known parts of Greek myth and often leads to some of mythology’s most intriguing or terrifying figures. The strangest part of all this is that the animal-human sexy time is always divinely inspired, either as a curse (as in the case of Pasiphae) or thanks to Zeus trying to hide his sexual activities from his wife.
Any mind, on hearing this sort of thing, begins to question just how exactly this all would work. I mean, you don’t have to be aroused by it to wonder just how a human being would even make love to a swan, much less give birth to a clutch of eggs. Luckily for us, the 16th Century was full of European painters so enamored with this idea that nearly every conceivable way of depicting this coupling has been imaginatively laid out for us. Why, exactly, were 16th century painters so excited by Leda and the Swan? Thanks to the Church, which frowned on people depicting human relations, people had to look elsewhere for romantic inspiration.
Enter the swan.
Nowadays this whole story is probably considered inappropriate, most cultures today frown on the idea of having sex with the local wildlife. I’m fairly sure this has been the case for most cultures around the world throughout most of history. Perhaps that’s why people like Leda had to have a cover story for their strange predilections.
“Honey why are you doing it with a large water-fowl?”
‘Oh, don’t worry dear, it’s just Zeus.’
“Seems legit. Carry on.”
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Discussion (18) ¬
“You didn’t keep them next to the alligator eggs, did you?”
“No, of course not, that would be silly.”
What’s with that lady’s shoulders, knees and elbows! Kinky!
The only myth in this strip is the husband actually made his own breakfast. XD
Hey I have a request for you..
Would you mind drawing Lil’ K in tne bathroom playing a game boy color???(not a fetish)
Probably you shouldn’t because accepting weird requests could atract other request but I don’t know …. this just reminds me my childhood and since your art is AMAZING MEGA-HYPER-ULTRA i think it would be awsome
Hahaha. I enjoy the clarification: “not a fetish.”
It’s probably best that he ate those eggs, then….
For some reason Hera is out to get every illegitimate spawn of Zeus. She’s successfully turned Heracles into some kind of emotional wreck.
I always ask people where they think the Minotaur came from. That’s a Story I really love, it’s just so very out there. But the swan is also…weird.
You might say those eggs he’s eating are… Divine?
Hi, I’m new to the comics and IN LOVE! But when I tried to subscribe to the RSS it gave me some kind of tree error. How do I fix it? I would love to have this comic in my reader!
Man that story just never dies.
K, you owe me a new keyboard and monitor. I spat out my drink when I saw and read the webcomic. The last panel was simply glorious, that I laughed a good minute or two.
It’s still a better outcome than (to quote Yeats) “The broken wall, the burning roof and tower /And Agamemnon dead…”
K, I’d love to see a video game done with your art direction. It’s just so…I don’t know. Relatable. It’s like Zelda: Wind Waker but even better. I could imagine an adventure RPG with this art, ahhhh…
The -kiss- part was a sublime touch! Made me laugh for quite a while :]
I’ve commented on one of your strips before, fangirling over the fact that you are part Romanian. Well, I live in Romania, so I’m more in contact with our traditions than you, but I’ve been wondering for a while if you’ve also tried to find out more about your heritage and if you have ever considered incorporating elements of it in your comics. As you know, Romanians = Romans + Dacians + other influences. So, if no Romanian quirk particularly intrigues you, you could always go even further back in history and try to find out more about what the Dacians believed in.
Ok, those were my two cents. Even if you disregard this comment, I’ll still fangirl over your comics!
One of my favourites is Danae, who was impregnated by Zeus in the form of a shower of golden coins (in some versions) that ran between her legs.
It just goes to show that if you live right, you don’t have to worry about providing devotional cookbooks over the phone the next day.