Week 2 Reading Diary Continued: The Odyssey

"[E]ach of Scylla’s heads dragged a man writhing towards the rock, as a fisherman on a jutting crag casts his bait to lure small fish, lowers an ox-horn on a long pole into the sea, and catching a fish flings it ashore. There at the entrance to her cave she devoured them, as they shrieked and reached out their hands to me in their last dreadful throes. It was the most pitiable sight of all I saw exploring the pathways of the sea."

Scylla, by Johm Flaxman

To transform this section of Homer’s Odyssey into my own story, I thought I would expand on Scylla, and how she came to be. It will be a story of how the gods decided they needed a protector of the sea, in this particular spot. I would like to detail that she is guarding something extremely special and sacred to the gods, so that no human may ever get to it. Scylla is there to defend it at all costs, like fluffy in Harry Potter. Except instead of guarding a trap door, Scylla will be guarding an island where the gods and goddesses leave their young to grow up. No one is to ever find this island because not only does it have a guard, but it is cloaked, so that humans cannot see it unless they were to be shipwrecked on it. Along with this backstory, I would like to tell a story of a young woman who finds her way to this island by accident, cunningly escaping Scylla. She then discovers the island, and ends up living there and marrying one of the young gods that the island is home to.