Heracles when driven mad by the goddess Hera
Murdered
his three children and his wife Megara
The
Delphic oracle punished him for the murders
By ordering him to perform the Twelve Labors
The labors were set by king Eurystheus his cousin
The
sixth Labor sent him to arcadia once again
Killing
the Stymphalian birds he was requested
The
shores of Lake Stymphalus the birds infested
He
could not approach the man killers directly
To
fight them as the ground was far too marshy
And
the birds used as arrows metallic feathers
To
rain them upon any approaching aggressors
He
sought the assistance of the goddess Athena
And
she gave him castanets to help with his labor
He
used the castanets to make the birds take flight
Then shots them by the dozen both left and right
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