Cadmus and His New City Thebes
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While Cadmus couldn't discover his sister, he didn't set out to go back home without her, he solicited the oracle at the shrine from Apollo what he ought to do.
The shrine of Apollo was in a cave at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and the oracle was a puzzling voice that appeared to originate from the heart of the mountain.
The voice told Cadmus to take after a white heifer he would see, and thereafter to fabricate a city on the spot where he saw her rests.
Cadmus barely had sufficient energy to scramble down into the street again before he saw a white heifer, which he took after, as the voice had told him to do.
At the point when the heifer went to a specific wonderful valley, she raised her head, as though she were looking up to heaven, and afterward made an awesome lowing, after which she set down, apparently very satisfied with the spot.
Cadmus knew this was where he should assemble his city.
Close to the spot the heifer had picked was a forest of extremely old trees, and among the trees, in a rough place, was a cave.
The mouth of the cave was so stifled with willows that one couldn't perceive what it resembled inside, yet Cadmus figured he could hear water streaming down, and the sound appeared to be so cool and welcoming that he sent one of his slaves into the cave to search for a spring.
The man did not return.
At that point Cadmus sent the other slave to perceive what had happen to the first one. In any case, that one didn't return either.
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So Cadmus tossed a lion's skin around his shoulders, took his spear and his lance, and went into the mouth of the cave himself.
At first, it was so dark inside that he could see nothing. At the point when his eyes had turned out to be acclimated to the change from the bright sunshine he had quite recently left , he saw, in the darkness, two bright spots, and knew that they should be the two eyes of some monster.
As should have been obvious better, he made out the form of a gigantic dragon lying with one of its appalling claws crosswise over something, which he dreaded may be the body of one of his steadfast slaves.
He took up an extensive stone and flung it directly at the animal's head, however the scales of the dragon were so difficult and extreme that the stone moved away without doing it any damage.
At that point he tossed his spear at it, and injured it with that, however not being abundantly incapacitated, the animal left the cave murmuring, and assaulted him wildly.
As it came closer,
he drove his spear straight into its open mouth, and fi nally stuck it to an oak which developed there, thus executed it.
As Cadmus stood looking at the dragon,
he understood that despite the fact that he had executed the beast, he had lost his two slaves, and was alone in a peculiar nation, where he would need to construct the city ordered by the oracle.
Simply then he knew that somebody was standing next to him.
He gazed upward and saw a tall, solid looking woman with clear gray eyes. She had a spear in her grasp and a protective cap on her head.
He knew immediately that it was the warrior-goddess, Minerva, and as he took a gander at her he felt his mettle returning.
Minerva told him to furrow the ground close by and sow the dragon's teeth.
This appeared like unusual seed to plant, however Cadmus did as he was bidden to do, and afterward stood holding up to perceive what might happen.
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A little while later the dirt started to hurl up a little in places, as it does when corn is developing, at that point, rather than edges of corn, sharp steel points started to appear.
As they came up more distant, these looked like spear-points, at that point protective caps seemed up and down the lines, at long last, completely furnished men had grown up out of the earth and stood looking around savagely, prepared to battle.
Cadmus thought he had a more awful foe now than the dragon, and made prepared to protect himself.
In any case, there was no need.
For the outfitted men were not really out of the dirt before they started battling, one with another, and they fell so quick that soon just five were left .
In any case, these last five were more astute than their brothers, for they saw that they don't picked up anything by slaughtering one another.
they tossed their arms on the ground with a crash, and shook hands, to perceive what might originate from helping other people.
It worked much better.
The new city was called Thebes.
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