In Greek mythology, the Sirens are creatures with the head of a female and the body of a bird. They lived on an island (Sirenum scopuli; three small rocky islands) and with the irresistible charm of their song they lured mariners to their destruction on the rocks surrounding their island (Virgil V, 846; Ovid XIV, 88).
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Beware of the beautiful and alluring Sirens
who sit upon the rocks and byways of life
evil enchantresses and black magic women
who lure unsuspecting wayfarers to an unsuspecting death
with their irresistable charms and delights
and beguiling and enticing songs to net and entrap
promising knowledge to every man who comes to them,
ripe wisdom and a quickening of the spirit
the Greek Goddess Demeter had cursed them
for allowing Persophone her daughter to be kidnapped
and carried off to the pits of Hades
so she turned them into birds with female faces
and condemned them to a life of guile and dread
they claimed the lives of numerous sailors
and anyone who listened to their words of deceit
until they met their match in Odyssey and the Argonauts
who were schooled and trained by the God Orpheus
Greece's greatest musician and poet
who taught them how to avoid the peril
of listening to those Seductive Sirens from Hell
sealing the Argonauts ears with bee's wax
and tying Odyssey to the mast
they were able to safely pass the demons trap
and the moral of the story
is to always be aware
that not everything that beckons
like burnished gold in the dark
is good and wholesome for your heart
Copyright by Peter Paton 2006
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