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The Myth of Fogo
(According to me)
Underneath Fogo, and under the islands of Cape Verde,
lives a monster that keeps all of his emotions bottled
up inside, because there are no other monsters (or
psychiatrists) for him to express his grievances to.
So, eventually, something will set him off and all of
the rage and emotion that he has been living with will
show itself and he will have a huge temper tantrum.
At first, the monster just becomes red and uncomfortable
as he puts in a final effort to maintain some control
over his raging emotions. Eventually though, he
cracks and he begins to cry tears of streaming lava and
blows ash and rocks into the air as he yells about everything that
he is angry about. The monster then throws up both
fists in rage and punches repeatedly which forces more and more lava out of the
volcano from a bunch of vents. At the same time,
Mother Earth attempts to keep the monsters emotions
below the earth, and gradually builds a cone around the
areas that the monster is breaking out, as a last
attempt to keep the humans safe. This works for a
little while, and the monster calms down for brief
periods, but eventually realizes that he is being
manipulated by Mother Earth and has one final fit of
rage before calming down gradually and eventually going
back to leading a life of loneliness and bottled up
emotions. The monster will remain quiet until his
emotions reach their breaking point, and he will once
again make his rage known to the outside world.
The monster himself (note the obvious anger and negative
energy in this picture).¹
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