Myrrha

Role: daughter of Cinyras and Cenchris · First appears: Fable 90

Life events

• Myrrha attempts suicide, but Hippolyte discovers and prevents her death.(Fable90)
  • With: Hippolyte
  • “She raises herself upright, and determines to insert her neck[46] in a halter; and tying her girdle to the top of the door-post”
• Myrrha reveals her forbidden passion, and Hippolyte promises to help her.(Fable90)
  • With: Hippolyte
  • “‘Daughter, I understand it; thou art in love, and in this case (lay aside thy fears) my assiduity will be of service to thee; nor shall thy father ever be aware of it.’”
• Hippolyte deceives Cinyras and arranges Myrrha’s secret access to him.(Fable90)
  • With: Hippolyte Cinyras
  • “After she is commanded to bring her, and as soon as she has returned home, she says, ‘Rejoice, my fosterling, we have prevailed.’”
• Myrrha consummates the incestuous union and becomes pregnant by Cinyras.(Fable90)
  • With: Cinyras
  • “Pregnant by her father, she departs from the chamber, and, in her impiety, bears his seed in her incestuous womb”
• Cinyras discovers that his secret paramour is his daughter and draws his sword against her.(Fable90)
  • With: Cinyras
  • “At last, Cinyras, after so many embraces, longing to know who is his paramour, on lights being brought in, discovers both the crime and his own daughter.”
• Myrrha escapes Cinyras and flees his dominions.(Fable90 · 📍 Panchæan fields)
  • With: Cinyras
  • “Myrrha flies, rescued from death by the gloom and the favour of a dark night; and wandering along the wide fields, she leaves the Arabians famed for their palms, and the Panchæan fields.”
• Myrrha is transformed into a myrrh tree after praying to escape life and death.(Fable90 · 📍 Sabæan country)
  • “For the earth closes over her legs as she speaks, and a root shoots forth obliquely through her bursting nails, {as} a firm support to her tall trunk.”
• Adonis is born from the transformed Myrrha with Lucina’s assistance.(Fable90)
  • With: Adonis Lucina
  • “Gentle Lucina stands by the moaning boughs, and applies her hands, and utters words that promote delivery. The tree gapes open, in chinks, and through the cleft bark it discharges the living burden.”

Fable 90

• parent: Cinyras “Myrrha, the daughter of Cinyras and Cenchris, having conceived an incestuous passion for her own father”
• parent: Cenchris “Myrrha, the daughter of Cinyras and Cenchris, having conceived an incestuous passion for her own father”
• with Cinyras (interaction) “Take her, Cinyras, she is thy own,’ and {so} unites their doomed bodies. The father receives his own bowels into the polluted bed”
• child: Adonis “Myrrha flies from her father’s dominions and being delivered of Adonis, is transformed into a tree.”
• with Cupid (interaction) “Cupid himself denies, Myrrha, that it was his arrows that injured thee; and he defends his torches from that imputation”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.