Desperate and hopeless, the queen turned to an oracle, which advised the only way to placate the furious god and save the country was sacrificing her daughter to Cetus. Her vanity and arrogance were so great they woke the wrath of the Olympic god Poseidon, who then sent a giant flood (and/or the sea monster Cetus). Guest singer Utopyk Jones repeats “Artemisa viene a cazar” (Artemis is coming to hunt), an expression of joy for what’s supposed to be a fun afternoon that ultimately ends in disaster (or justice, as some versions of the story claim the giant was doomed by the goddess as a punishment for sexual abuse).Ĭassiopeia was a legendary Queen of Aethiopia, mother of Andromeda and wife of King Cepheus. Both had arranged to meet and hunt together, but it all ends up with Artemis shooting an arrow in his eye, turning him into a cyclops (or killing him, depending on the tradition). The first 2 tracks are about Orion and the goddess Artemis. And you know Greek mythology, as many other forms of religion, deals profusely with the arts of Offense, Guilt and Punishment. Thematically, the songs take two constellations and interpret them from a mythological perspective. During this process, the two alternative versions “Disaster” and “Vanity” came up, giving form to this maxi-single that’s anticipating the release of the album “Galaxias” this year on our house. After keeping this work unreleased for 13 years, El Fulminador finally resumed production in 2019, keeping the original sound and also adding new basslines, additional drums and vocal melodies. The composition of the two original pieces took place in 2005-2006, as part of the production work for the album “Galaxias”. Because the constellation is in a circumpolar position (meaning that it seems to revolve centered around the pole star, Polaris), Cassiopeia is at times suspended upside down in the sky in a very undignified position.El Fulminador releases his first solo EP on Fulmen Records with the maxi-single Orión y Casiopea, a Techno-Pop interpretation of the outer space and Greek mythological drama. As a punishment for her treachery, her constellation (a zig-zag shape like an "M" or "W") is supposed to represent Cassiopeia either chained to her throne (in an ironic reference to her daughter's ordeal) or stuffed into a basket. Poseidon is supposed to have set images of Cepheus and Cassiopeia in the sky. He picked up Medusa's head (which he was bringing back as proof that he killed her) and when his attackers looked at it, they turned to stone. Perseus fought off a number of them but was greatly outnumbered. In some versions of the myth, Cassiopeia summoned Agenor, who rushed into the wedding party with armed men.
Johannes Hevelius' Cassiopeia from Uranographia (1690)Īndromeda wanted to keep their promise and insisted that the wedding be held immediately. They had already agreed to marry her to Cephus's uncle (his father's twin brother Agenor), and once she had been rescued, they tried to break their promise to Perseus. Cepheus and Cassiopeia agreed reluctantly. Perseus offered to kill the sea monster and rescue Andromeda in return for her hand in marriage. Perseus was returning from carrying out his oath to kill the Gorgon, Medusa. She was rescued by the hero Perseus who had seen her chained to the cliff and had fallen instantly in love with her. Andromeda was chained to a sea cliff to be eaten by the monster. Cassiopeia's husband, King Cepheus consulted an oracle, who told him that the only way to appease Poseidon and stop the monster was to sacrifice Andromeda. Poseidon sent a flood carrying a sea monster to destroy the kingdom. The Nereids begged Poseidon to punish Cassiopeia. Thetis, and Poseidon's wife Amphitrite (an alternate sea goddess), were also Nereids, so Cassiopeia's boast was an insult to the gods. She boasted that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than the Nereids, the 50 sea nymph attendants of Thetis, the sea goddess, and Poseidon, the sea god. The story behind the name: Cassiopeia is named after the queen of a country on the northern coast of Africa, Aethiopia (not modern Ethiopia).
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