100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #72: Genesis, The Fountain of Salmacis

A story about an illegitimate child called Hermaphroditus, who is sired by two gods (Aphrodite and Hermes) who are having a clandestine affair, which is raised by the naiad water nymphs.  After 15 years, one of the nymphs (Salmacis) becomes so overwhelmed with lust she rapes Hermaphroditus after he rejects her advances.  She demands from the gods that they should never part, so the gods merge them into one creature.  (Point to note here, chaps: never turn a lady down, *cough*)  As he struggles in vain to avoid his fate, poor Hermaphroditus curses the fountain where he is raped so that all who drink from it will also, like him, be turned into hermaphrodites.  And all that set to eight minutes of fantastic progressive rock – phew!

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