According to the ancient Greeks dolphins were originally
pirates that mistakenly kidnapped Dionysus, the god of wine. To punish
the kidnappers for their deed the god of wine turned their ship sails
into grape vines, and when the pirates leaped into the water the turned
into dolphins.┵ Pliny the Elder wrote about a dolphin that fell in love
with a boy. The boy used to call for the dolphin on his way to school in
Pozzouli near Naples and feed his friend fish from his hand. The
dolphin used to let the boy ride on his back across the bay. One day the
boy died and after coming day after day to the meeting place on the bay
and not finding the boy there the dolphin passed away" undoubtably from
longing. [Source: Robert Leslie Conly, National Geographic, September
1966] cybershamans (karmapolice) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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