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Plus, Regina loved her father dearly. She may have killed him, but he was “the thing she love most”.
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I call that someone will remember his FTL life in the 19th (The Return) epsiode!!
In the Pilot Regina tells Emma that she’s been taking care of the tree since she was a little girl. Regina’s lost love could’ve been magically “inserted” into the tree, though. I searched for a story in Greek mythology where someone is turned into a tree and found this one:
Apollo and Daphne
The curse of Apollo, the god of the sun and music, was brought onto him when he insulted the young Eros (a.k.a. Cupid) for playing with bow and arrows.
Apollo was a great warrior and said to him, “What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons.”
The petulant Eros took two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. The gold one was supposed to incite love, while the lead one was supposed to incite hatred. With the leaden shaft, Eros shot the nymph Daphne and with the golden one, he shot Apollo through the heart. Apollo was seized with love for the maiden, Daphne, and she in turn abhorred him. In fact, she spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the woods. Her father, Peneus, demanded that she get married so that she may give him grandchildren. However, she begged her father to let her remain unmarried, like Apollo’s twin sister, Artemis.
He warned her saying, “Your own face will forbid it.” By saying this he meant that she was too beautiful to keep all her potential lovers away forever.
Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued her flight. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened and helped Apollo gain upon Daphne.
Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her, she called upon her father, “Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!”
Suddenly, her skin turned into bark, her hair became leaves, and her arms were transformed into branches. She stopped running as her feet became rooted to the ground. Apollo embraced the branches, but even the branches shrank away from him. Since Apollo could no longer take her as his wife, he vowed to tend her as his tree, and promised that her leaves would decorate the heads of leaders as crowns, and that her leaves were also to be depicted on weapons. Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render her ever green. Since then, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay.
It wasn’t the story I thought I knew, gotta continue searching, but it’s interesting. The idea exists.
Added the song.
Hmmmm … If anyone remembers in which episode that is, please tell me. Otherwise I’ll have to rewatch them (yet again). lol
Also added the bar The Rabbit Hole. Home come nobody realised that it was missing? I sure don’t know how I overlooked in adding it here.
I wonder how Snow did know she’d have daughter. Just a feeling? The Blue Fairy telling her? There’s just no way she could’ve found out herself. At least as far as my medical knowledge goes.
The problem with August not being Pinocchio is that there’s just no one else who could be him! We’ve not seen any Pinocchio-looking doll and there’s no other male character that could be him. Dr. Whale doesn’t count. Besides, he’s blond. I don’t think they’ll bring another character in to play Pinocchio in SB. As much as I dislike the idea, there’s just no clue that Pinocchio could be someone else. 😐 Well, one month, then we’ll finally know (maybe).
Haha, right, forgot those trolls. They did look weird. I liked how Charming stepped on one of the bugs, though. 🙂 Oh yes, Snow trying on the ring was also a sweet scene.
Looking at the photos below, I believe it isn’t lake Gnostos, but the same shore as the Genie washed up at (that would be King Leopold’s kingdom). Maybe also the shore in front of Charming’s castle.
http://storybrooke.net/photos/displayimage.php?album=178&pid=20968#top_display_media
http://storybrooke.net/photos/displayimage.php?album=178&pid=20970#top_display_media
