Khroma, The Goddess Of Color

One early spring morning Khroma the goddess of color set out to the city of Athens to trade colors with the artists in the city. Khroma was the goddess of colors, she controls and changes the colors of anything she wishes. Anytime an Athenian artist needed a new or different color for their creations, Khroma would supply them. The artist often traded a color for a more beautiful color, Khroma thought that was silly because in her eyes all colors are equally beautiful. Khroma descended from Olympus in her golden chariot pulled by two sets of white horses with colorful manes. She strolled into the small market filled with pottery, large oil paintings, and even statues of the goddess herself. The artists of Athens favored Khroma over the other …show more content…
Khorma knew that must mean that she’ll die soon. Khroma had an idea, she would try to cheat fate. She traveled to Olympus to find Zeus sitting on his throne. She explained to Zeus that she needed him to heal Vaskas of her illness and that she would make her her queen. Zeus and Khorma made a deal. Zeus has been cheating on his wife, Hera again with a lovely river Nymph. Hera caught them near the river and she was furious. Jealous Hera locked the Nymph in a enchanted golden cage on the tops of the highest clouds. The curse set upon the golden cage was unbreakable, the nymph will stay trapped in the cage for all eternity. The Nymph would weep and cry for Zeus, her tears poured down onto earth making it rain. The weeping continued and the rain was too excessive causing crops to wash away with the floods. The floods made the goddess of harvest, Demeter upset. Zeus heard her complaints and found a possible solution. Zeus wanted Khroma to put colors in the sky when the Nymph cried to help cheer her up. These colors in the sky are called rainbows, they were beautiful. The Nymph’s crying stopped after the rainbow