I personally loved the story of Pomona and Vertumnus. I found it to be really cute for Vertumnus to do all that disguising to get Pomona´s love. He changed many times unto many things, he pretended to be a fisher man, a fruit collector and many other things but Pomona did not pay attention to him. Finally he decided to tell the story of Myrrha, a girl who does not find a suitor. The goddess Aphrodite is over with it and tells her she will fall in love no matter what. Surprisingly she chose her father, for, he seemed to be the only one suit for her. I don´t understand how someone´s mind have to be so twisted and sick to want to lay with her own father but anyway; the nurse maid set up a plan for Cinyas the king and father of Myrrha to sleep with his daughter. She tempts him by saying that a young woman wants to be with him but with the condition of being blind folded. When he discovers the truth and faces the shocking and quite disgusting reality he intends to drown her. This quite unique story Vertumnus told Pomona reminds me of a book we read for Spanish class, "Edipo Rey", where Edipo and his mom fall in love and get married and have kids without knowing that they are other and son. When they finally discover who they really are, one commits suicide and the other one takes his eyes out.
After hearing the story, Pomona tells Vertumnus to take of his disguise and as soon as she sees the god of spring she falls in love.
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