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  Story Some 3000 years ago, when people still believed in myths, there lived a girl named Kassandra (Greek: Kassandra, Latin: Cassandra or Alexandra). This Kassandra was a daughter of Priam, the king of Troy, and she was so beautiful, that the god Apollo wanted to be her lover. Kassandra liked Apollo's advances, but she wanted a compensation in the form of her becoming a priestess. Apollo gave her the gift of foresight and truth and Kassandra became the priestess of goddess Athena. But she got so obsessed with it, she refused to become Apollo's lover! Apollo got furious over this and wanted to punish Kassandra, but he couldn't undo his gift. Instead, he cursed her: nobody would believe the girl anymore, when she spoke the truth. Some years later, Helen of Troy, Menelaos' wife, got seduced by the Trojan prince Paris and the Greeks started the epic 10-year-long Trojan War, as described by Homer. Kassandra foresaw the Trojan Horse and the following destruction of Troy way before the war and she warned her dad Priam. Even the like-minded priest Laocoon couldn't convince the Trojans of the looming danger: snakes strangled him and his sons and the inhabitants of Troy saw this as a divine punishment for his lies. Nobody believed Kassandra and Laocoon: Troy was too proud a city to do so. As Kassandra predicted, Troy fell because of the Wooden Horse. The city burned and the Greek fighter and hero Ajax (Greek: Aias) fled with Kassandra from Athena's sanctuary. Kassandra now became a slave of the Greek commander Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Back in Mycenae, she foresaw her own death and that of Agamemnon: his wife Klytaimnestra killed him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigeneia to get a favourable wind on Agamemnon's journey to Troy. After this, Kassandra was sentenced to death by means of burning at the stake. Just before her execution, she uttered a last curse, knows as Kassandra's Curse: "My curse will haunt the guilty: eternal restlessness shall be their part!" Luckily, Kassandra's soul was caught and locked in an amphora to prevent the curse from becoming real and haunting all the guilty. Ages passed, the curse sunk into oblivion and the amphora got lost. But then, an old sealed amphora was found at the restoration site of the temple of Mykonos (the Greek village in Europa-Park). Although writings on the amphora said never to open it again, the workers were too eager: they broke the old seal in the chapel of the temple. And out came Kassandra's soul, after centuries of imprisonment. The curse of Kassandra haunts the chapel ever since. This curse is a power that turns the dimensions of time and space head over heels, a power to turn all upside down and a power to haunt everyone: eternal restlessness will be their part. So be warned: this curse of eternal restlessness could fall to your share as well! |
   
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