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I'll tell you a story

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from myth time, a legend Greeks believed to be true

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That of Philomela and Procne daughters of the king of Athens

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in the age of myth, we do not know when

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there is an economic crisis and the king is forced to give his daughter

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to Tereo, king of Thrace, as a wife

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a region north of Greece whose inhabitants were considered barbarians

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Tereo takes his wife to his kingdom

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but the woman misses her sister, her father and Athens

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Tereo leaves for Athens to pick up her sister.

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and he is captivated by her as soon as he meets her,

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and on the way back he raped her several times.

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Ovid tells us in the Metamorphosis

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invoking the role of Dionysus in these alterations

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To prevent her from telling her sister what happened

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Tereo cuts her tongue out

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the tongue falls to the ground and keeps moving.

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the poor woman bleeds, but Tereo persists in his violence

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Once in Thrace, the woman is confined to a barn

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she can't talk, she can't tell

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how can she notify the sister?

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she gets a chassis

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where he embroiders his story in pictures

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the two sisters meditate on a common revenge

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and how in the "weaving" they plan their actions

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they decide to kill Tereo's son

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the mother herself kills him

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...cuts to peaces and feeding him to his husband...

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Meanwhile, the two sisters escape, but  god turns them into birds

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Philomelah: she who sings well, is transformed into a nightingale

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they will fly to Athens and find their salvation...