Lansingburgh High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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THE ODYSSEY The stoly of Arachne and Mmerva shows the results of mortal boastmg Mmexva was the pres1d1ng goddess of defensne war peace and needlevsolk Arachne was a pletty ma1den hung 1n Greece vxho was very sk1lled ln needlework She boasted far and wlde that she had no fear to match hex sk1ll wlth that of Mme sa The goddess became annoyed and appeared to the gul as an old woman A con velsatlon began and the glrl commenced to talk of her sklll The vroman adv1sed her to be more modest but her admon1t1on was un heeded Arachne scolned the vsolds and declared she vushed the goddess would propose a contest Immedxately Mlnerva accepted the challenge Arachne knevs of her fallure after the contest and bltterly repented he1 folly The goddess changed the glrl lnto a splder and condemned her to spln vuthout ceaslng a warnlng to all concelted persons Many storles are assoclated wlth Apollo the Sun god One of the most allu11ng IS the adventure of Phaeton the son of Apollo as he drove the sun charlot across the sky Phaeton boasted of h1s father s beauty and power untll h1s playmates taunted hlm and compelled h1m to show some proof of h1s fathel s dlxlne 0I'1gll'1 Phaeton journeyed dnectly eastward unt1l he came to h1s fathers abode Wlth golden 1eweled turrets and pmnacles Phaeton fancled he knew better than h1s palents and set out Wlth the sun charlot Because he dlsregarded Apollo s 1nst1 uctlons h1s horses vsandered from the beaten path H became reckless and drove too close to the earth Fountalns were ened earth In the low er contment the people were burned black as Phaeton passed over and the descendants of these people vshom we call AfTlC3HS 1eta1n that hue to th1s day Anothel stolv of Apollo tells of Clytle a fan young malden who watched w1th lov1ng ey es Apollo s dally Journeys from the moment he left h1s home 1n the east untll he descended into the far western sea 'xt mght She nevel won fax O1 1n Apollo s ey es ln splte of her longlng md she became heartbloken The god ln plty changed her 1nt0 a sunflower and now she st1ll watches the course of the sun across the sky The North Ame lcan Indlans had an equal number of myths re latmg to the creat1on of the earth and the lntroductlon of the blessmgs of whlch we now thlnk llttle One myth tells of Raven who l1ved at the head of the Nass Rner When Raven was a baby he asked fol the moon When It was handed to hlm he let lt go lnto the sky He had the sun moon the stars and daylxght ln hlS house On one of h1s vxandeungs he took vxlth h1m a box contalmng dayllght When he heald the H0159 of the people hshmg 1n the darkness he freed dayllght The people telufied by such an mtense llght iled mto the forest and 1umped 1nto the watel Those who fled 1nto the forest were called vvolx es and those who Jumped 1nto the seas were named seals Thls 18 -2' 'C' A -2- 'I' I 9 7 . , . . - - 1 ' A 1' 7 . N . Y . V. . - l . . 1 I . . . , - K 1. . , 1 . I . , 7 . 1, . 7. . . D I . .4 . . , . , . Q . . 7 ' . e dried up, plants shriveled and smoke rose from the parched and black- , . T ! . . 7 , . . I - i Y 4 n , V o o K Q I 1 , z ' . , , ' .r , . I' t - 7 Y K Y ' 'Y , . . . . . , v , uv v 5 , ' . D YI J l V V , K 1 l . 1 I - .ki

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T THE ODYSSEY the people or trrbes to account for exrstrng condrtrons such as Dre Loreler explarnrng the peculrar echo to be heard at 'r rocky pornt on the banks of the Rhrne rn Germany Such underocean car es rs those of Neptune s seas are reported to be found not far from Alaska too Endymron sleeps rn the moonlrght of the Mrddle W est rs surely 'rs on 'Vlount Latmos the Srrens srng rn the Ionran Seas and rmong the C rs cades ot Yosemrte Edens and Mount Ar rrats rre found rn both hem spheres Jove hurls hrs thunderbolts on the Upper Hudson and Vulc rn has forges rn Hawarr as well as rn Italy Personal characterrstrcs can be rllustr ated by myths and plots for novels can be obtarned rn legends Where can r pleas rnter and more excrtrng romance be found than rn the story of Cuprd and Py sche or ot Orpheus and Eurydrce Nothrng but loye could make Cuprd drsobey hrs beloved parent Venus All of the elements of a romantrc novel are present even to the separatron of loy ers because of one s doubt ot the others farthfulness and reunron after unhapprness rnd drscontent Orpheus braved the perrlous trrp to Hades after the death of Eurydrce to garn Pluto s consent to allow hrs wrfe to return to earth The etern rl marrtal trrangle rs represented rn Juno and Juprter s unron Seyer rl trmes Juno surprrsed the krng of the gods rn the mrdst of a lore affarr Because she was realous of Juprter s love for her rry al Alceme mother of Hercules Juno sent two huge snakes to attack the bfrby rn hrs cr rdle trny hands Agarn Juno changed Callrsto the obrcct of Iuprter s rffectrons rnto a huge bear Juprter rtter seekrng rn v rrn for her drs covered the transtormatron and pl rced Crllrsto rn the sky where shr rs strll recognrzed rs the constell rtron the Great Pear Juno on such occasrons gaye way to her yrolent temper and reproachcd Juprter brt terly Reproaches had no effect as he merely contrnued hrs rntrrgues wrth renewed zest The orrgrn of many of our fund rmental rdeas such rs hope asprratron prrde and ambrtron c rn be tr rced to storres ol the rncrerrt Greeks and Romans At the command of Juprter a curse rn the form ot r wom rn w rs sent to Prometheus as a punrshment for stealrng the grft of fire from the heavens She was made bewrtchrng and perfect eyery god or goddess contrrbutrng somethrng to her charm Thrs grtt Pandora w as sent to a world unyrsrted by crrme sorrow or errl The gods grve her a small carefully bound box whrch they forbade her to open Crafty Iuprter had planned wrsely and well for the punrshment of man 'lhe exqursrte and delrcate box tempted Pandora Frn rlly she yrelded and opened the lrd A cloud of plagues and t oubles burst forth rnd the dark creatures filled the homes er erywhere Hope rlone was left rn tht box and pleaded for release Its beautrtul yoree soothed Pandor r and w hen Hope was released she sO rred forth the r rrest grtt to mortrls 17 77 l lg l71ffl 'L . L lla 1 Tl, .. f...' ,, - - IL .lil iv Y ii!-ff , ' Tf:f' I T, Y . . ' Y' ' ' . '1 1 1 . 1 v ' , c . ' . v a I 1 Y Lv 2 A1 1 , I N - ' ' s 'V I . . r 3 ' ' ' 1 ' 2 1 z :- . . 'z ' z 'r r- w v ' 7 .. C ' I 'l ' l ' u 1 2 I E 'I 9 u x u n I ' ' I vu 1 X v . ' 1 1 ' v - , 1 ' m , . , . . . I .Q , , s C L 1 I ' h 1 f 1 . l . - 1 L . 'S ' . . . . , , . 2 ' ' ' , 1 1 ' ' J ' v -1 1 C ' - ,H Y 1. Y I 1 7 9 , Y .' c c ' . '.' 'Z l. The young Hercules succeeded rn stranglrng the huge serpents wrth hrs ' ' 1 ' , 1 1 'Lv , , I' , 1 ' ' ' A .351 i , , . ' . Z . , 2 . ,., K, 1 v s ' 1 ' , Z 2 'l. ' , A1 v , 1? L. , -K1 A1 l 1 z . 2 L A K 3 . , X I 1 , xr 1' E , Av 1 kv' 1 1 v 1 Y' . 1 1 . , ' , s ' - 1 1 , 1 1 . ' 1 ' 1 ' 1' 1 1 2 L c , .' 2 1' X1 . y . .. 2 -2 A S .A F2 . . . .. ' , y - x ' ' . ' 2 1 2 12 I. v 1 y' ' 1 7 1 . - 1 . , , . v. ' . 1 v u V' r w , , . r c Q V y ' y ' 1 v ' . v 7 ' u ' 1 I. 1 1 ' 1 Z X 1 1 L 1 . A, . ' , 2 , v1 bv , ' ' r 1 1 1 L s 1 ' ' 1 ' , K. X 1 12 , . , L. . 2 . . , .2 . . 2

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THE ODYSSEY being Raven established lakes and rivers He taught the people to trap fish to construct storehouses to build canoes and to weave blankets He restored the sun and the moon when the light had been stolen from the sky As he flew back Wlth the ball of fire he broke off DIECSS of light thereby creating nlght and day The mrracle of the c eatron of the mountain krndles imagination and from the oldest times men have associated the mountalns with wlsrtatlons of gods Magnitude and grandeur suggest the power of Drety God s majesty and mystery By the stairway of the mountain slope the Great Splrlt first descended from the sky upon the California mountalns From there he established all the earth The Catskills and the Adirondacks we e the abodes of powerful beings and rebelllous spirits The White Mountams were homes of blessed and great spirits with Mount Washington as O15 mpus and Ararat in one for God stood upon its crest Who can say he does not enjoy mythology? Let him seek the legends of the northern Hudson those of hrs own region the t adltronal storles of the Scandrnavlans or the Indians Let hrm delve lnto myths for pleasure forgetting the educational value Mythology will then be as fascinating to h1m as an any modern novel or history LENA M HANSEN In 'Defense of eibffodern cyflrrw A gg.. HAT rs Art? Some have defined rt as a medium of communi ki catlon a unrversal language by which the artrst may tell 9 ,A .m hrs thoughts to his fellowmen and by which men may under stand each other It rs an abstract idea put into a decora the concrete form rn the simple wet comprehensrxe words of the child First I think and then I dravw a llne around my think Some anclent races have left no lrterature in the wrltten sense of the word but their art has told us more about the trmes than any story could It has been an rndrcatron of the climate In southern Europe where nature prowlded comforts for dally hung the people had lersure for developlng beauty for its own sake They delighted rn frescoes and statuary but were indifferent to the coarse workmanship shown rn their fu nrture and utensils In Italv clumsy rll made carriages have been found profusely cox ered vsrth artistic designs In the North hovx exer the sexere weather made necessity the first consideration so comfort and utility were cultnated to a high degree with art of sec ondary rmportance 19 A, I , IF A III l:I 1 y - J s V . ' Q ' 9 , . I' ' v uv ' ' '- , . v. . . . 1 1 . , . Y . . , . x . . . 1 . . A I' - s . . ' . , L 9 y r . . V. . . . , . . . . i . 0 24? - fps: I I . I I- x 'xr AVA x ,-A , . . . 1 . N yQ .n Z ,Y L I 3 'J V . . . 5 L. 72- . .- . f f ' v 6 li I . . Q J .D . . . - . Y ' . . . Y ' . Y Q r 1 . 9 ' ' as ' ' , , , ' , Y ' rv 1 , . . I . Y v - v v. . . Y. . v . . . . ' . ' I v I 1 . v ' ' ' 1' f ' - 1 f ' - rx r x q U i , 5 . v - v' 1 ' ' ,U . ,- - 9 v 1 V V 1. 1 l ul ' V r - v ' - ' v Y 1 ' 1 . Q 7. 1 I - v