Serpent Visions

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set in pre-literate Bronze Age Greece </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Serpent Visions</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> reimagines the myth of the gender-switching seer Teiresias. Walking in the deep woods he strikes apart two coupling serpents and transforms into a woman. Seven years later she now called Teira encounters mating serpents strikes between them and becomes male again. When summoned by Zeus and Hera to answer who enjoys sex more man or woman Teiresias replies </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>woman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Enraged Hera blinds him. In compensation Zeus grants him second sight and he becomes the soothsayer entwined in the tragedies of Oedipus and his descendants. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sources: Ovid's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Metamorphosis</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for the gender changes and the Theban plays of Sophocles as well as tragedies by Euripides and Aeschylus for the stories of Teiresias as the blind seer.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>During thes fading days of Mother Goddess religions he relates his long-secret history to his daughter Manto telling her a story that she and Webber's readers will never forget.</span></p><p></p>