3. Capture the Ceryneian Hind
6. Slay the Stymphalean birds
7. Capture the Cretan bull
8. Steal the Mares of Diomedes
9. Obtain the girdle of Hippolyta
10. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon
11. Steal the Apples of Hesperides
12. Capture and bring back Cerberus
Labor 3: Capture the Ceryneian Hind
For the third labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Hind of Ceryneia. Ceryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurystheus' palace in Mycenae. You'd think it would have been easy for a hero like Hercules to go shoot a deer and bring it back to Eurystheus, but a few problems made things complicated. This was a special deer, because it had golden horns and hoofs of bronze. Not only that, the deer was sacred to the goddess of hunting and the moon, Diana; she was Diana's special pet. That meant that Hercules could neither kill the deer nor hurt her. He couldn't risk getting Diana angry at him; he was already in enough trouble with Hera.
Hercules set out on this adventure, and he hunted the deer for a whole year. At last, when the deer had become weary with the chase, she looked for a place to rest on a mountain called Artemisius, and then made her way to the river Ladon. Realizing that the deer was about to get away, Hercules shot her just as she was about to cross the stream. He caught the deer, put her on his shoulders and turned back to Mycenae. As Hercules hurried on his way, he was met by Diana and Apollo.
Diana was very angry because Hercules tried to kill her sacred animal. She was about to take the deer away from Hercules, and surely she would have punished him, but Hercules told her the truth. He said that he had to obey the oracle and do the labors Eurystheus had given him. Diana let go of her anger and healed the deer's wound. Hercules carried it alive to Mycenae.
The theme in this labor is to chase something or to make a run for it...
My labour:
This was a very tough labor for me. I decided my labor would be running as far as I could from home. And the moment I felt I could not run any longer I would turn home with the caught hind. Well, I ran 20km from home in a straight line (not completely straight ofcourse but you get my point), took 5 minutes of rest and returned home. I was able to run/walk 10km in return and did the last km's just walking and was very happy to have made it home.
#challengesucceeded
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