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What would Pygmalion be in this context?
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:28 am
by Boogahz
It's possible you could meet someone today, who will act as a kind of Pygmalion for you.
Yeah, it's from a cheesy horoscope, but I don't remember enough about Pygmalion to understand it in this context.
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:30 am
by Shaerra
auto mechanic
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:38 am
by Boogahz
That's odd, because in Greek Mythology he was a king of Cyprus who carved and then fell in love with a statue of a woman, which Aphrodite brought to life as Galatea.
I am assuming that it does not mean some dude is going to make a sculpture of me and then fall in love with it...causing Aphrodite to make the sculpture of me real...then there would be two of me, and the world would be doomed!
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:39 am
by Ennia
my memory failed me so I looked up Pygmalion
Pygmalion slew his brother-in-law, the priest, upon the high altar before all the people; or, again, he murdered him secretly while hunting, and the ghost of the slain man appeared to Elissa to accuse the king. Pygmalion plotted to get the vast wealth of his widowed sister; and she, pretending to believe his assurances of affection, asked him for ships to transport her treasure to his palace. He sent the ships in charge of men ordered to make sure of the treasure; but Elissa deceived them by suddenly throwing from the ships various bags of sand.
interesting horoscope heh
edit: damn Booghaz at first I thought that was the guy who fell for his statue, maybe there were two Pygmalions
I got my quote from
History of Ancient Carthage
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:44 am
by Sylvus
Pygmalion is the myth that such classics as
My Fair Lady and
She's All That were based on. In the myth, Pygmalion brings a statue that he made to life. In My Fair Lady the "Pygmalion" character transforms the not classy chick into a "lady". Similar happenings for Freddy Prinze, Jr.'s character in She's All That.
Apparently someone's going to transform you into a lady and make you very classy. Grats!
Posted: May 6, 2003, 11:51 am
by Boogahz
EEEEK, no! I am happy with my manhood!
Posted: May 6, 2003, 12:41 pm
by Shaerra
Sylvus wrote:Pygmalion is the myth that such classics as
My Fair Lady and
She's All That were based on. In the myth, Pygmalion brings a statue that he made to life. In My Fair Lady the "Pygmalion" character transforms the not classy chick into a "lady". Similar happenings for Freddy Prinze, Jr.'s character in She's All That.
Same thing happened in "Mannequin", kinda.
Posted: May 6, 2003, 12:50 pm
by Winnow
Sylvus wrote:
Apparently someone's going to transform you into a lady and make you very classy. Grats!
I would like to unPygmalion a woman for the night.