Comparing Archanne, Phaethon, Icarus And Daedalus

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The three myths,Archanne, Phaethon, Icarus and Daedalus are all stories about supernatural powers on humans.At the end of each story, the reader learns a lesson and notices at least one unexplainable thing.

In the first myth called Archanne, there was a girl who had continually lied about herself to others throughout the village. All of a sudden, a god named Archanne came down and warned the girl to stop lying or else she would regret it. Sadly, Archanne did not listen and kept lying so one day, when the girl didn’t notice, the god came down again and had turned her into a spider! The girl had lived the rest of her life out as a spider and learned to never lie again. The lesson taught in this myth was that a person should never lie because

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