This is the story of Ceyx and Alcyone In partial fulfillment of the University of Rizal System- Rodriguez Campus EL 111 MF Mythology and Folklore Doc. Steven Soliguen (Dean of College of Education)

1. THE STORY OF
CEYX
AND
ALCYONE
BALCE, SHERYL (reporter)
GAVION, MARYBEN (pictures)
LEONA, SHEMAR (power point)
VILLAMOR, ABIGAIL (research)

2. CEYX AND ALCYONE
The story of Alcyone and Ceyx is very
touching and portrays the love that triumphs
over tragedy. This young couple was so
much in love that neither the gods nor death
could set them apart. Alcyone followed her
husband to the other life and did so with her
free will. From this myth also derives a well-
known phrase, the Halcyon Days.

3. Characters
The king of Thessaly.
Husband of Alcyone
ALCYONE
Daugther of the keeper of the
winds, Aelous:; wife of Ceyx
CEYX

4. They were so happy in their marriage
that they used to often playfully call
one another Zeus and Hera. This
infuriated the chief of the gods who
regarded it an audacity. Zeus waited
for the proper time to punish the
arrogant couple who dared to make
themselves comparable to gods.
http://brieftaleoflovers.weebly.com/ceyx-and-alcyone.html

5. Ceyx was still in mourning over his brother's death and deeply
troubled over some ominous signs that had observed. So, he
decided to consult the oracle of Apollo at Carlos in Ionia (Western
Anatolia). Alcyone, however, tried to dissuade her husband from his
decision to travel through the dangerous seas to consult the oracle.
She reminded him of the danger from the fury of the winds which
even her father, the god of the winds, often found difficult to control:
she put pressure over her husband to take her along with him. But
Ceyx wouldn't put his beloved wife through unnecessary danger.
Alcyone watched with a bad feeling as the ship carrying her
husband was getting away from the harbor.

6. Zeus, the chief god, decided this
was an opportune time to punish
the couple for their sacrilege. He
launched a thunderbolt that
raised a furious hurricane
engulfing the ship which began to
sink.
https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/alcyone-and-ceyx.html

7. Ceyx, realized that the end had
come for him and, before he got
drowned, he prayed to the gods
to allow his body be washed
ashore so as to enable his
beloved Alcyone to perform the
funeral rites. As Ceyx gasped his
last breath, his father Esophorous,
the morning star, watched
helplessly, shrouding his face with
clouds, unable to leave the
heavens and rescue his son.
https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/alcyone-and-ceyx.html

8. The lovely Alcyone waited for her husband for
a long time, praying continually to the gods,
especially Hera, queen of the gods, for the safe
return of Ceyx. Hera felt profound sorrow for
the tragic fate of Ceyx. She sent her messenger
Iris, goddess of the rainbow, to look for
Hypnos, the god of Sleep and comforter of the
afflicted, to whom was assigned the mission of
gently informing Alcyone about the death of
her husband. Hypnos, in his turn, entrusted the
mission to his son Morpheus, an expert in
forming apparitions.

9. Morpheus created a life-like specter of
Ceyx which revealed to Alcyone the
tragic circumstances concerning the
shipwreck and death of her husband. In
profound grief, Alcyone ran to the
seashore beating her breasts and tearing
her garments. She suddenly beheld the
body of a man that had been washed
ashore. Coming closer, she realized it was
the body of her beloved Ceyx. After
performing the last rites and unable to
continue living without her husband,
Alcyone threw herself into the sea and
got drowned, determined to join her
husband in the land of the dead.
https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/alcyone-and-ceyx.html

10. The gods on Olympus were profoundly
affected by the tragic fate of Alcyone and
Ceyx, as well as their wonderful love for one
other which not even the frosty hands of
death could extinguish. In order to atone for
his rash action that was responsible for this
tragedy, Zeus transformed the couple into
the Halcyon birds (kingfisher).

11. Halcyon birds
(kingfisher).

12. ● The phrase halcyon days owes it’s origin
to this beautiful myth of Alcyone and
Ceyx. According to the legend, for tow
weeks every January, Aeolus, father of
Alcyone, calms down the winds and the
waves so that Alcyone, in the form of a
kingfisher bird, can safely make her nest
on the beach and lay her eggs. Hence,
the term "halcyon days" comes to signify
a period of great peace and calm.
The myth lives till today
through a phrase

14. “Love always
triumphs over what
we call death.”
-Paolo Coelho, Aleph

15. http://brieftaleoflovers.weebly.com/ceyx-and-alcyone.html
https://greekerthanthegreeks.com/2015/01/halcyon-days-love-story.html
https://www.greeka.com/greece-myths/alcyone-ceyx/
http://richkosh.blogspot.com/2018/03/halcyon-story-of-ceyx-and-alycone.html
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