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I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO LOVE GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Oct 8 2010, 5:23 PM EDT
SO WE ARE DOIN THIS PROJECT IN SCHOOL.. AND OUT OF ALL THINGS I TURNED OUT TO BE A NYMPH.. SO DOES ANYONE WANT TO HELP ME DIG UP SOME FACT ABOUT THESE MIRACULOUS CREATURES?! I SURE COULD USE YOU BECAUSE I NEE TO ACE THIS PROJECTS!* I AM A NYMPH NAMED ECHO. IM GOING TO GUESS THAT THAT IS WHERE WE GET THE TERM ECHOE FROM. BECAUSE SHE WAS PUNISHED BY HERA AND THE ONLY THING THAT SHE WAS ALLOWED TO DO WAS REPEAT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE SHOUTED.. WELL GUESS I BETTER GET READING. BYE!*
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1. RE: I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO LOVE GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Oct 17 2010, 4:31 PM EDT
HEY! I HAVE A PROJECT TO. AND I AM A NYMPH TO. PLESE REPLIE
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2. RE: I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO LOVE GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Oct 18 2010, 2:53 PM EDT
i don't know if I'm too late, but i just got on. A nymph is a minor nature goddess typically associated with a particular location or landforms, other nymphs were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally Artemis, the nymphs of this always in the shape of young nubile maidens. Echo was a mountain nymph, an Oread, who loved her own voice. Zeus, the king of Olympians, loved to consort with nymphs, visiting Earth to pursue them sometimes (Zeus had many love affairs if you check.) Of course Zeus's jealous wife Hera, who-like any woman- got suspicious, she left Mt. Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus with the nymphs. And sometimes the beautiful young Echo would tell Hera long and interesting stories, distracting Hera while Zeus took advantage of the moments to ravish the other mountain nymphs. Ah. The trickery, and when Hera discovered this, she punished the talkative Echo by taking her voice, except in the foolish repetition of anothers shouted words. so Echo could only repeat the voice of another... Tragic. Eventually Echo fell in love with Narcissus, she followed him one day while he was hunting stags, longing to address him, but couldn't speak herself. When Narcissus heard footsteps he shouted, "who's there?" Echo responded, repeating his words, And so it went until Echo finally showed herself and rushed to embrace him. He pulled away from the nymph and vainly told her to leave him alone-what a jerk, right? He left Echo heartbroken and alone. She spent the rest of her life in lonely glens pining away for the love she never knew, crying until all that was left was her voice. In another version Echo cries until she is stone and an invisible echo. A ghost, a spirit that haunts the Earth.
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