MYOPIA implies 
"to be NEAR" ... 
ALCYONE or HALCYONE 
stands for profound
LOVE and DEVOTION 
immortalized by OVID  (Metamorphoses XI 410)

Ceyx drowned ...
ALCYONE mourned her mate piteously ..... 
both became immortal through 
METAMORPHOSIS into BIRDS
" ALCYON or HALCYON DAYS " denote the 
SEVEN DAYS when ALCYONE broods ... 

Regarding 
CATA from Greek KATA ... it has to do with 
DOWN AWAY or AGAINST
The story of 
HALCYON and Ceyx is a 
CATAlog of love and of 
CATAbolic 
CATAstrophic events that some would call
CATAclysmic but which did not end in a 
CATAcomb nor in 
CATAlepsy but became a 
CATAlyst toward immortality  as if to note that 
LYEIN means to loose or dissolve sentiments 
HALCYON had such strong feelings that 
the Gods and death relented and let feelings
CATApult ALCYON and Ceyx toward immortality in a 
CATHARSIS of good feelings which made many cry 
and blow their noses as if a
CATARRH or coryza made their "noses run away".

For more about ideas, roots, mythology  ... please explore
Myopia
Alcyone Halcyone
Catalyst

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