Andrea

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The myth of Andrea`s first love is a story of the things anger causes a person to do and the power it gives someone. As one of many of the daughters of Zeus and Hera, Andrea was young, beautiful and wealthy. She lived on Mount Olympus with her maid in a beautiful palace made of gold and exquisite carvings which was given as a gift from Hestia. There was never anything that made her special from her many other brothers and sisters. She didn’t have a hundred hands, powers or talents. Zeus thought she may be mortal like his other 32 children who became leaders of different states of Greece. But, he felt it was impossible because he knew the mother was Hera, queen of the gods and immortal.

When Andrea was two years old, she crawled to the garden and noticed a beautiful purple and pink flower. She wanted it, so she tried tugging at the flower`s roots, but it wouldn’t come out from the ground. Her little hands couldn’t exert enough force to pull the flower, so she started to cry. Her tears came running down her face and soon they turned into anger at the flowers for not coming out of the ground. Her face turned pale, her eyes were red and with one look at the flower, she made each petal fall and turn into pure ash. Gaea, goddess of earth, was shocked at Andrea because she had never seen a child like Andrea before. She felt a little upset with the child for killing her plants, but she didn’t do anything knowing she was so young. Since that day, Zeus realized the power Andrea possessed and made sure she grew up with no feelings of pain or sadness. She was given everything she wanted and never questioned until the day she experienced her first love.

Andrea had long, beautiful light red hair and never wore it without a purple and pink ...

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...to her lover`s eyes and the maid who she was so jealous of with anger and turned them to ash. She could never forgive them nor could she forgive herself for committing such a sin. Since that day, she sat in her room of her palace all alone and never came out, while she kept replaying the events that happened to her in her mind. Even the god Apollo, the god of prophecy, music and healing, could not heal her pain with his bow and arch. Anger never left her and she could never forget what happened to her. Andrea was banned from Mount Olympia and sent to the underworld where she became the goddess of anger.

She brought anger to the world and her story teaches that too much anger is bad and if you can’t face it then you will be trapped in it forever. A red eye filled with anger and pain is usually used to symbolize her and in many pictures she has a scar on her forehead.

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