Myth query

[mrissa]

Who is the most interestingly unfortunate female figure in any mythology for a big, burly, somewhat hapless hockey player guy (defenseman) to make a pass at?

I don't mean the instantly unfortunate mythological figures, the "you want to date me? gobble chomp you're dead" kind. I mean the "complicates his life in an interesting way" kind.

Carter (yes, for those of you who have been following along, it's one of those stories) has already had run-ins of various sorts with the Queen of Air and Darkness, the Puck, and Baba Yaga. In case that helps.

Comments

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

How about Helen of Troy?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

She air deed by the time hockey is invented, I'm afraid.

But the general impulse towards Homer's Idiot might not be bad: any of the squabbling trio might do. Or, God help him, more than one of them.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

It has to be a *contemporary* mythological figure? Oh, dear. Your description made me think of Grendel's mother . . . she only killed (or attempted to kill) in revenge and self-defense . . .

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It has to be a mythological figure who could plausibly hang around into the present. Which means that most mortals are out unless we're going to posit a cyclical system. There can be a Tam Lin more or less every seven years, for example, so sometimes it's some Minnesota college kid and sometimes a hockey player and sometimes a Scottish guy. But I can't see how to get Helen of Troy into a cycle like that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Unless the goddesses start squabbling again and in goes the apple and we're off to the races.

We may, in fact, be off to the races.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

According to the myths, Helen, being a daughter of Zeus, through his coupling with Leda in the form of a swan, was immortal. So she might still be around today, in a story...