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Circe

"The Wine and the Cup"

She never turned a man into anything. She just poured the drink.

Song 7 of Gods of the Dial

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Figures in this songCirceOdysseus

The myth, as it's usually told

Circe

Circe was a sorceress living alone on the island of Aiaia. When Odysseus's crew arrived, she welcomed them with food and wine laced with a potion, and turned them into pigs. Odysseus, protected by an herb Hermes gave him, resisted her magic; she restored his men, and they stayed with her for a year.

What the song hears

The reframe

She does not change men. The cup only shows what they already were.

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