Myths and Monsters Mentioned in the Play
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Cyclops
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Griffin
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Faun
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Charybdis
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Banshee
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Manticore
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Gorgon
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Sphinx
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Chimera
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Fauns are two-footed creatures with the horns, legs, and tail of a goat and the head, torso, and arms of a human; they are often depicted with pointed ears.
In their original Roman mythology, fauns were ghosts represented as naked men, however they later became copies of satyrs of Greek mythology. |
Charybdis is a sea monster in Greek mythology. She, with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas.
The sea monster Charybdis was believed to live under a small rock on one side of a narrow channel. |
A Manticore is known as a legendary animal having the head of a man (often with horns), the body of a lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion.
It is also similar to the Egyptian sphinx that proliferated in western European medieval art. |
The Sphinx is a mythological creature with a lion’s body and a human head, an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend.
Today, the Sphinx is most associated with Egypt, for there stands a giant Sphinx guarding the entrance to the Giza plateau, and at other temple complexes, avenues of the creature lie in waiting. Ancient Greece though also had its Sphinx, a single monstrous creature that terrorized the Greek city of Thebes. |
The Chimera is a mythological creature.
A monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia, Asia Minor, composed of different animal parts. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat protruding from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head. |
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Adam's Mirror World
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Eleanor's Egg Heart
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Sarah's Doll
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Adam's Creation
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“On the other side of the world there’s a monster who looks exactly like you doing exactly what you’re doing wearing the exact same clothes and eating the same food and going to the same job and thinking the same thoughts except the monster is doing it all upside down and backwards and in reverse order. He’s your shadow and your mirror reflection but you’re his too and when the world ends we’ll all have to figure out who’s real and who’s the copy and who’s sincere and who’s joking because one of you is going to heaven and the other is going to Hell.”
A concept similar to stories of doppelgängers, Star Trek's mirror universe, or even the Upside Down from the Netflix show Stranger Things. |
“And so the only way to kill the monster is to find his heart. But his heart is on an island on the other side of the world. And on that island there’s a church and inside that church there’s a well and inside that well there’s a duck and inside that duck there’s an egg and inside that egg is his heart. So if you enter his cave you’re probably not gonna make it out alive.”
Inspired by the Norwegian fairytale titled The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body. |
Sarah's story in the show closely resembles the Russian fairytale known as Vasilisa the Beautiful.
Some similarities are:
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Adam's story focuses on the creation of all life.
The story is a blend of many different mythologies, including Norse, Aztec, Mayan, Hawaiian, Hindu, Judeo-Christian, and Greek stories. The majority of Adam’s story is inspired by Norse and Judeo-Christian mythology, specifically their “creation stories." |