- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
the 9 muses - Urania, Erato, Terpsichore, and the rest - met to sing and dance on the slopes of mount olympus, surrounded by the honey bees which atended them. One day, a goat-herd named comatas glimpsed their dancing, and caught up in a wave of awe, sacrificed one of his goats in their honor. When his master discoveed what he had done, he ordered the boy be sealed in a chest to die. The Muses took pity on Comatas, and sent their bees to carry honey to him through a crack in the chest. When the chest was finally opened, he emerged in perfect health.