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The Story of Lady Cyana
Back around 500 B.C., the Greeks
and Persians spent most of their time annoying each other. If it wasn't
one thing, it was another.
Turns out, these two groups
couldn't just get along, so they started (as they say) hostilities among
them; a rather nasty series of on-water skirmishes.
Well, the Persian King Xerxes had
a flotilla of ships at anchor, ready to put a major hurt on the Greek
fleet. But much to his dismay, a sculptor named Scyllias happened to be
in the neighborhood.
When Scyllias wasn't chipping
away at the ol' alabaster, he was diving. Turns out too, that he managed
to teach his daughter, Cyana, how to dive.
Anyway, back to the fleet...
Scyllias wasn't too thrilled with the Persian plan (he being of Greek
persuasion) so he and Cyana got the deep diving reeds (the first air
hoses) and dove through the Persian anchorage and cut all of King
Xerxes's ships' mooring lines.
So to make a long myth short, the
Persians came in first runner up, the Greek fleet was saved, Scyllias
was given riches and Cyana was rewarded with a white Mustang (things
never change).
Not much for saving an entire
fleet. Which is why we honored Lady Cyana's courage and toughness by
naming our shop after her. |
