I opened a page at random in my Dictionary of Classical Mythology
to find The Bad Witch's God of the Week. But instead of turning to a god, I found Sisyphus, mythical King of Corinth, the archetypal greedy trickster.According to the book:
"He promoted navigation and commerce but was fraudulent and avaricious. For his wickedness, he was severely punished in the lower world, being obliged to roll a heavy stone to the top of a hill, on reaching which it would roll back down again, thus rendering his punishment eternal."
In a week of news that Wall Street and Square Mile bankers and traders bailed out by Governments have been awarded huge bonuses, that is perhaps a story worth telling.
I do hope the banks have learnt their lesson but, just in case they haven't, perhaps we should get some huge stones ready so next time the punishment for greed can be a little bit more eternal.
Links
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/02/spells-to-find-new-job.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/03/spell-to-make-money.html
http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/that-devil-money.html
Dictionary of Classical Mythology (Brockhampton Reference Series (Art & Science))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/21006
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/05/money-was-the-be-all-and-end-all-it-was-pretty-sick-115875-21572020/
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