
Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book X
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Blood of Suckling Calves and Sheep
Kind hearted Venus was outraged by such deeds of sacrifice. Pigmaelians saw these women waste their lives in wretched shame, and critical of faults which nature had so deeply planted through their female hearts. But even after that the obscene propitities dared to deny divinity of Venus, for which fault, and it is common fame, they were the first to creminate their bodies. White blood in their bad faces grew so fast, so hard it was no wonder they were turned with small change into hard and lifeless stones.
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