Orpheus and Eurydice

I was reading about Persephone and it had included Orpheus and Eurydice's myth. That is one of my favorites. That one and Narciso's (I don't know how to write it in English).

But Orpheus!!! Oh, Orpheus going to his beloved. Finding her in the underworld. The Godess giving him the chance of taking Eurydice out. The only condition: she is leaving right behind him and he must not look back. Being so worried about her... the creatures of the underworld making him believe she is in danger. Perhaps falling, perhaps she is not behind him. So he turns. So he looks at her vanishing. Well not vanishing, being taken to the Underworld again.

Such a sad myth. It reminds me Sodoma and Gomorra (again, I don't know how to write the names in English) in The Bible -yes, yes, The Bible-. The angel tells the family they are leaving the city before God burns it. But warns them. He tells them they must not look back. They have to look to the front. Just to the front.

And then, as they are leaving, the wife feels so curioused about what's happening in Sodoma that she turns back. And she is converted in a salt statue.

Both of the stories have the same meaning: do not disobey your God/ gods.

God can be such a nice guy if you do what He claims. But if you don't, his anger is relentless. At least it was in the Old Testament (I don't know if it is the translation for the books in The Bible writen before Christ). In the New Testament He is all love. He is no longer vengful, as He was in the Old one. He is willing to forget, He even sends his son to sacrifice for humanity. Even if He knows human beings will not be grateful.

I don't know what took me to these thoughts. I have a strange way of thinking.