I was sitting done thinking about mythology & fairy tales cause I'm a nerd like that and I noticed that two fairy tales are similar to some Greek myths.

I was thinking of Rapunzel and how she was in a tower and tossed her hair out the window and I stopped and thought to myself "I heard this somewhere else before." Then it hit me. It's the myth with golden shower (not what you think it is.)

In Greek myth the king of Argos is worried about having a heir that would over throne him so he went to an oracle to asked his fate. He was told that his daughter, Danae, will have a son that will kill him and take his crown. Well of course the king didn't like that so he took Danae and locked her up in a tower.

He doesn't want to get blood on his hands so he is hoping she will just die from starvation or lack of air. He orders that no servant goes up to feed her. The only time they can go up to see her is to check to see if she is dead yet. The king waits patiently till he is given word. Time goes by and he finally goes sees himself.

When he opens the door of the tower he is bot just shock to fine Danae still alive but she is also now a mother. No man could climb the walls of the tower o get in to impregnate her. It wasn't a man, it was a god, Zeus.

Zeus is known in Greek myth for having sex with every woman, goddess, and Titian. he sees Danae and makes a move on her. Zeus comes into the tower through the window as a shower of gold and impregnates her.

Now the king is stuck with a living daughter that knows he is trying to kill her and a baby that is destine to kill him one day. The king orders his servants to take her out the tower and put her and the baby Perseus in a trunk and through it out to sea. Now he is hoping the storm will kill them both.

Do you guys notice what fairy tale this is similar to? Rapunzel! In the fairy tale Rapunzel is a woman that's trapped in a tower and whenever the witch wants to come see her she will throw her "golden" hair out the window. And we know the prince comes into the tower by climbing her "golden stair". Rapunzel and the prince have sex and she becomes pregnant. When the witch fines out she is pregnant she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and kicks her out the tower maybe hoping the world will end her.

Yeah so two stories about a woman trapped in a tower with gold pouring through a window and her getting pregnant.

There also is another fairy tale that is similar to another myth. The story of Persephone and Hades. Hades is the god of the underworld. Humans don't worship him as much because he death. In Greek myth there is no heaven or peace resting place. There is only one place underworld, hell. Hades is scary and intimidating but also a romantic.

One day he sees Persephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, and his niece. he falls in love with her. One day when she is picking flowers the ground opens up and Hades' hand swipes her down into the darkness. no one is there to see. Persephone, the innocent goddess of vegetation, is now asked to be Hades' queen.

When Demeter fines out she is angry. she doesn't see Hades fit to marry her daughter and she doesn't like the idea of a flower goddess being in the dark forever. Flowers need sunlight. Demeter thinks Persephone should stay on earth.

Persephone eats seeds and leaves the underworld during the summer and spring and goes back to her husband during the winter and fall.

This is very much like Beauty and the Beast. Beast is a monster but he doesn't want to be a monster. He asks Beauty (or Belle) to marry him every night and she refuses. She leaves for a while though to be with her father but she must come back. She does and Beast is ill but she admits she does love him and he turns back into human. And this all started with picking a flower. Much like the myth.

Beast needs Beauty to love him and give him back his humanity. Hades was a god that tricked into ruling the undesirable gloomy underworld. He found happiness in Persephone, who is life. She makes the flowers grow and that contrast to the sadness and death that Hades has to be around all day.

So yeah, fairy tales totally go back to Greek mythology.