CLST 2090 : Mythology Notes 3 (part Of Exam 3)
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Psalm 58-curse: basically karma and divine justices, family curses, laius-thebes, his father was king of thebes and they were exiled from thebes where his father died. Taken in by a neighboring king laius was unwilling to kill his child who was fated to kill him who he had with jocasta. So they gave the child to a servant and stuck a spike into the baby"s feet so he couldn"t crawl, and they left him in the woods to die. Laius never had children again, and years later he was riding down the road and this man wouldn"t get out of the rode. Laius hit the man in the head which started a fight which ended in laius getting killed. They named him oedipus because of his feet, and brought him up as their child. They never told him that he wasn"t their child.
