Orion, Aurora and Tithonus, and Acis and Galatea

Love is Blind…

Greek goddesses and gods fell in love easily, usually with the strongest immortal. So deep was their love, they usually forgot some details that would affect their supposed relationship easily. They’re mortal, the humans. The gods couldn’t expect them to live forever, like themselves would. They lived in Earth, gods don’t. But some, Hercules in the Disney Movie, did surrendered to the heavens and immortality—for love.
Say, Orion, as well. So convinced and keen he was to marry Enopion, that he tried a little to hard to get her, therefore making Enopion’s father gat mad at him, blinding him and throwing him out to the seashore.

In most cases, the person that the gods are in love with is not in love back. So, if they were to try too hard, and gain misery for trying to be with them, their supposed love will not help them back. What did Enopion do when her father blinded Orion?

Then, the Goddess Dawn fell in love with the mortal Tithonus, son of the king of Troy. What the Goddess most wanted in this world was to be with this prince, and therefore she immediately took him to the heavens, and told Jupiter to gift him with immortality. So in love she was, she forgets to tell Jupiter that she’d like for Tithonus to remain youthful as well. As she forgets, Tihonus, grows old, no matter if he is immortal. As old and uglier he gets, Dawn loves him less…where did all the intense love go?

If we got to be these people, so adored by Gods, would we be happy? What did the gods look exactly when they were in love? If we are based on Dawn, well we can say she was only interested in Tithonus beauty, as she started rejecting him the older he got.

If the relationship is not truly, yet shallow, then it shall be intense. As with the Goddess Galatea and Acis. It was true, they loved each other fairly and truly, but if no hatred within them then there must be someone against them. Some Cyclops was the one who defeated Acis and broke Galatea’s heart.

All of the characters mentioned, ended mostly in misfortune for ignorance and non-thinking. They should have thought about what they wanted to do, or what they should, and who were they seeking to be with, and how would their live be affected.