#daphne daughter of peneus

[marcvscicero]

apollo using the leaves of the laurel tree, of daphne’s tree, daphne who had ran so, so far to get away from him, who had begged her father to do anything to save her, who had even still shrunk away from his embrace after she had turned into the tree, is something so evil + rotten to me.

after her clear “no”, emphasised over and over again, after her desperation to escape him, he then uses her leaves and bark to “honour her” in a way that ensures she can never be free of him, must always be touching him, brought with him wherever he goes, part of his “glory” + “victory”.

even after a kind of “death”, even after trying so hard to outrun him that she gives up her life + dreams + family, by doing the only thing she now can, he doesn’t let her go. and now, not only does he have her, but she can’t refuse:

she can’t say “no”, and she can’t pull away.

she can’t even speak.

[vampire-cenobite]

Metamorphosis - Daphne and Apollo / Armand, Pandora, and Marius

The myth of Daphne and Apollo was an ancient Greek myth retold in Ovid's 'Metamorphosis'. In Ovid's retelling, Apollo is struck by a golden arrow meant to bring love, while Daphne (daughter of Peneus) is struck by an arrow made of lead, meant to make love 'run off'.

Daphne runs away in fear from a lovestruck Apollo, crying to her father for help, and she is transformed into a laurel tree.

Apollo and Daphne in The Vampire Chronicles

In 'Blood and Gold', Marius describes painting Daphne and Apollo, and how he finds that the Daphne he painted greatly resembled Pandora.

In 'The Vampire Armand', the myth of Apollo and Daphne is mentioned twice. First, when Armand first tours the Palazzo he sees a marble statue of Daphne and Apollo.

Then, in the moments before Armand's turning, Marius brings him to his painting of Daphne and Apollo, to witness the metamorphosis, before Armand’s own.

The metamorphosis myth greatly compliments the transformation into a vampire. Armand and Pandora were both transformed by Marius and thereby forever separated from him, he was no longer able to see into their minds.

[woso-dreamzzz]

Little Medics Extras II

What Greek Mythology Character Each Kid Is

Munchkin as Asclepius

God of medicine

Like Asclepius, Munchkin has had a passion for medicine since she was little

Both have a great desire to help people both injured and sick

Duckie as Antigone

Daughter of Oedipus

Both have a great love and draw a lot of strength from their family and loved ones

Willing to circumvent and ignore rules to look after, help and protect those they love

Squish as Daphne

Naiad daughter of either Peneus or Ladon

Ultimately transformed into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo's unwanted advances

As a Naiad, Daphne was associated with bodies of freshwater and as a dryad, she was associated with the laurel tree

Like Daphne, Squish is closely in tune and loves nature

Squish is very much at home in Daphne's domain

[moonlitmyths]

The story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (I.438-567) took place right after Apollo killed the Python, the great snake that terrorized mankind. Apollo, called Phoebus by Ovid, pierced the Python with 1,000 arrows and founded the sacred Pythian Games named after the serpent. The sanctuary of Delphi, home to the famous oracle, called Pythia, was built on top of the Python’s dead body.

After his triumph over such a powerful enemy, Apollo was full of arrogance. Seeing the god of love, Eros, better known as cupid, who was also a famous bowman, Apollo started making fun of him:

“Impudent boy, what are you doing with a man’s weapons?”

Cupid was often depicted as a winged boy which explains Apollo’s comment. Apollo felt that Cupid was stealing his glory by gaining fame as a famous archer. Having defeated the Python, he believed that he and only he was worthy of holding a bow and a quiver:

“I can hit wild beasts of a certainty, and wound my enemies, and not long ago destroyed with countless arrows the swollen Python that covered many acres with its plague-ridden belly. You should be intent on stirring the concealed fires of love with your burning brand, not laying claim to my glories!”

Cupid’s Reaction To Apollo’s Remarks

Apollo and the Python, Cornelis de Vos, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-1638, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Cupid did not take the offense lightheartedly:

“You may hit every other thing Phoebus, but my bow will strike you: to the degree that all living creatures are less than gods, by that degree is your glory less than mine.”

The next thing Cupid did was something Apollo did not see coming. The god of love stroke his wings and flew right next to the god of music. He then shot him on the chest with a “golden arrow with a sharp glistening point”. This arrow did not kill or hurt Apollo. The true injury was not corporeal, it was sentimental, but Apollo would learn that soon.

With a second arrow, a “blunt one with lead beneath its shaft”, Cupid shot Daphne, a nymph who also happened to be a virgin huntress of the goddess Artemis. Daphne was very beautiful and many men came to ask her hand. However, she was devoted to hunting and following the laws of the goddess Artemis, who demanded chastity and virginity. Ovid writes that her father, the river god Peneus, disagreed with her life and asked her to settle down and give him grandchildren:

“It is my due, child of my heart, to be given grandchildren”, said Peneus.

“Dearest father, let me be a virgin forever! Diana’s father granted it to her”, Daphne always replied.

Apollo’s Love Meets Daphne’s Disgust: A Tragic Dead-End

Apollo and Daphne, Francesco Albani, 1615-1620, Louvre, Paris

Coming back to Cupid’s arrows, they both had special abilities. The one that hit Apollo, was an arrow of love and intense passion. The moment he got hit by the arrow, Apollo spotted Daphne hunting in the wild and unable to contain his passion went after her. However, the arrow that hit Daphne, was an arrow that filled the nymph’s heart with disgust for the god who appeared in front of her.

Cupid’s revenge was cruel. Apollo was madly in love with a woman who hated him with every ounce of her being.

Apollo’s love for Daphne was so strong that the god of prophecy was unable to foretell his future but still, his emotions were uncontrollable. He approached the nymph whom he now saw more beautiful and virtuous than she actually was. He started praising her again and again. But Daphne could not even stand his presence. Before Apollo could even get a proper response, Daphne had fled.

Apollo Chases Daphne

Apollo and Daphne, Peter Paul Rubens, Musée Bonnat

“Wait nymph, daughter of Peneus, I beg you!”, screamed Apollo but Daphne did not even look back.

The god kept begging Daphne to stop. He tried to explain that he posed no threat to her and that his intentions were good:

“I who am chasing you am not your enemy. Nymph, Wait! This is the way a sheep runs from the wolf, a deer from the mountain lion, […] but it is love that is driving me to follow you! Pity me!”

The chase went on as Apollo was becoming more and more paranoid. He was afraid that Daphne might fall and get hurt. In a hopeless attempt to make her stop he started explaining to her who he was. Besides, he was the god of beauty, prophecy, medicine, and music, no woman should be able to resist him:

“Rash girl, you do not know, you cannot realize, who you run from, and so you run. Delphi’s lands are mine, Claros and Tenedos, and Patara acknowledges me, king. Jupiter (Zeus) is my father. Through me what was, what is, and what will be, are revealed. Through me, strings sound in harmony, to the song. My aim is certain, but an arrow truer than mine has wounded my free heart! The whole world calls me the bringer of aid; medicine is my invention; my power is in herbs. But love cannot be healed by any herb, nor can the arts that cure others cure their lord!”

Apollo pursuing Daphne, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1755-1760, National Gallery of Art, Washington

“Like a hound of Gaul starting a hare in an empty field, that heads for its prey, she for safety”

With these words Ovid (Metamorphoses 525-550) describes Apollo and Daphne’s chase as the story was nearing its tragic conclusion.

Apollo focused on catching Daphne. He was running and running while the nymph could see that she was getting closer and closer to getting caught. At times Apollo could almost grab her but she escaped him at the last second. However, it was becoming clear that Daphne would be caught sooner or later. As moments passed Daphne was becoming exhausted. And then, finally, Apollo grabbed her:

“So the virgin and the god: he driven by desire, she by fear. He ran faster, Amor giving him wings, and allowed her no rest, hung on her fleeing shoulders, breathed on the hair flying round her neck. Her strength was gone, she grew pale, overcome by the effort of her rapid flight”

Apollo and Daphne, Piero del Pollaiolo, c. 1441, The National Gallery, London

Right at that moment Daphne saw the waters of her father’s river, Peneus and screamed:

“Help me father! If your streams have divine powers change me, destroy this beauty that pleases too well!”

Peneus helped his daughter who was now firmly in the hands of Apollo. Daphne started transforming into a tree. Her hair became leaves, her arms branches, and her legs roots. Before Apollo could have a look at her face, she was gone. The only thing standing where Daphne stood was a beautiful laurel tree (literally a daphne tree in Greek).

Apollo’s Love Never Dies

Apollo and Daphne, John William Waterhouse, 1908, Private Collection

Even after Daphne’s transformation, Apollo’s love did not wither away. The god took the leaves of the tree in his hands and kissed the wood of the tree. He then whispered:

“Since you cannot be my bride, you must be my tree! Laurel, with you my hair will be wreathed, with you my lyre, with you my quiver. You will go with the Roman generals when joyful voices acclaim their triumph, and the Capitol witnesses their long processions. You will stand outside Augustus’s doorposts, a faithful guardian, and keep watch over the crown of oak between them. And just as my head with its uncropped hair is always young, so you also will wear the beauty of undying leaves.”

And truly since then, the laurel became the sacred tree of Apollo. In the Delphi, the oracle would chew laurel leaves before receiving the divine wisdom that she translated into a prophecy. Also, the prize of the Pythian Games, the second most important Games in antiquity after the Olympics was a crown of laurel.

[mythologypaintings]

Daphne and Apollo

Artist: Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

Daphne and Apollo

The story of Daphne and Apollo is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1, ll. 452–567.

Apollo's first love was Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus. It was not blind chance that caused this, but the wicked anger of Cupid.

One day the Delian god, Apollo, flushed with pride at his recent killing of the serpent Python, saw Cupid bending his bow, its string drawn tight.

'Saucy lad!' he scoffed, 'What are you doing with those powerful weapons? That kit is suited to my shoulders – I who can wound both beasts and enemies, I who just now laid low with my arrows that swollen Python who was crushing so many acres with his noxious belly. You should be content to use your torch to provoke those love affairs of yours, whatever they are, and not aspire to honours that are mine.'

The son of Venus said to him, 'Phoebus: your bow may pierce all things, but my bow will pierce you. And just as all animals yield to a god, so is your power inferior to mine.'

Saying this Cupid struck the air with beating wings and swiftly landed on the shadowy top of Mount Parnassus. From his quiver he produced two shafts with contrary functions – one banished love, the other created it. The one that caused love was made out of gold and glowed with a sharp point. The one that banished it was blunt and had lead under its reed stem.

The blunt one Cupid fixed in the nymph Daphne, Peneus' daughter, while the sharp one passed through Apollo's bones and pierced his marrow.

Immediately Apollo was in love while Daphne took flight at the very word, rejoicing instead in woodland dens and the trophies of captured beasts, trying to rival the virgin goddess Diana. A headband held together her unkempt hair. Many men wooed her but she turned them all away. Having no time for men, she roamed the pathless glades. She cared nothing for the god of marriage, or love, or for a wedding.

Often her father said to her, 'My daughter, you owe me a son-in-law,' and as often, 'Child, you owe me grandchildren.' But she rejected marriage torches as if they were a crime. Her beautiful face blushed red and she clung to her father's neck. 'Dearest father', she said, 'allow me to enjoy perpetual virginity. Diana's father allowed her this in the past.'

He let you have your way, Daphne. But your beauty rebelled against your prayer. Phoebus was smitten, and upon setting eyes on Daphne he knew he must marry her. As corn stalks are burned after their ears have been harvested, as hedges catch fire from torches dropped by a careless traveller, so was the god in flames. His whole breast burned. And he nourished this fruitless love with hope.

He looked at the nymph's uncombed hair hanging down her neck and wondered, 'What if she wore it up?' He saw her eyes shining with fire: they were like stars. He saw her lips – but just to see was not enough. He praised her fingers and hands, her shoulders, her arms that were naked past the elbow. Whatever was hidden from view, he thought must be even better.

She fled from him faster than the breeze and did not stop to hear the words that he called out: 'Nymph, I beg you, wait! I am not your enemy, nymph. Wait! This is how lambs run from wolves, and deer from lions. Thus do doves flee with trembling wings from eagles. All things flee from their enemies, but the cause of my pursuit is love.

'Darling, oh! Don't fall and let the brambles scar those undeserving legs. Don't let me be the cause of pain to you … Run slower, I pray. Restrain your flight and I'll follow more slowly. At least ask who it is who so admires you. I am no mountain dwelling bumpkin or shepherd. I'm not one of those yokels who watches herds and flocks. You do not know, rash girl, you do not know who you are running from, and that is why you run. The Delphic land, Claros and Tenedos and the Libyan temple of Patara all serve me! Jupiter is my father! Through me is known what will be, what has been, and what is. Through me, songs harmonise on lyre-strings. My arrow flies straight – but there is one arrow even more sure than mine and it has made a wound in my empty heart. Medicine is my invention and throughout the world I am called Help-Bringer! The powers of herbs are subject to me! But – poor me ! – love cannot be cured by herbs, and the arts which profit the world cannot profit their master!'

He would have said more but Daphne fled from him in a fearful rush. Even then she seemed attractive: the winds laid bare the shape of her body, the breezes she came against met with her clothes and shook them out and a light gust struck her hair and sent it streaming backwards. Her lovely figure was enhanced by running.

But now the youthful god could no longer bear to waste his charming words, and as Love himself urged him, he followed her footsteps with unrestrained strides. It was like when a Gallic hound spots a hare in an empty field: the one uses his feet to seek his prey, the other to seek safety. The hound looks as though he's about to make the grab, and again and again he thinks he has her. He grazes her heels with his outstretched muzzle, while the hare, uncertain whether she is caught or not, tears herself away from the biting jaws, the mouth that's touching her. So it was with the god and the virgin. He was swift with hope, she with fear.

The one who was chasing, however, went faster, assisted by the wings of Love. He gave her no rest, was close on her back, breathing on the hair that was scattered down her neck. Her strength gone, she grew pale. Worn down by the effort of her flight, she spied the waters of Peneus, and said: 'Give me help, father, if your streams possess the power. Change and destroy the beauty for which I was too much admired.'

Her prayer was scarcely finished when a heavy torpor took hold of her limbs. Her soft chest was surrounded by a thin bark. Her hair grew into leaves and her arms into branches. Her foot, that had recently been so swift, was stuck in sluggish roots. A treetop overwhelmed her face. Only her radiant beauty remained.

This tree, too, Phoebus loved. He put his hand on the trunk, and felt the heart still trembling under the new bark. He embraced the branches with his arms as if they were limbs, and planted kisses on the wood. Even the wood tried to escape his kisses.

'Although you cannot be my wife', the god said to her, 'You will certainly be my tree. My hair, my lyre and my quivers shall always wear you, Laurel. You will adorn Latin leaders when a happy voice proclaims a triumph and the Capitol sees long triumphal processions. At Augustus' doorposts you will stand, as faithful guard before his doorway, and see the oak in between. And as my hair is uncut, you too will wear an everlasting crown of leaves.'

Apollo finished. The laurel nodded her new branches.

[greekmythssexywoman]

Daphne: Dryad daughter of Peneus (river god) when Apollo fell in love with her she asked her father to helped her and transformed into a laurel tree

Calypso: She is one of Odysseus' lover. He was on her island for 7 years before she accepted she could not overcome his longing for home

[i-spilled-my-soup]

Hi it's me from the Apollo & Daphne comment about Will and Nico in the Asklepios au, I'm not exactly sure what brought me to the comparison but I guess it's the way you sorta described their relationship in one of your other posts(?)

Assuming this is a finite to be written work, the story starts after will and nico have gotten acquainted. nico does his thing, begins as a weird unfriendly guy but after being acquainted becomes a good friend. they bond over losing their siblings and feeling responsible for their deaths, less of a "you did nothing wrong" and more of a "yeah that sucks balls" kind of empathy. then will learns that nico is a child of hades(the guy) and (after an orphic hymn infertility joke) has to fight the urge to use nico to bring people from hades(the place)/keep them from ever going there

in typical nico fashion he disappears like fully. will is reasonably concerned and tries to look for him whenever he isn't practicing and teaching medicine in case of impending war with a neighboring state? this part is funny and i want to say war is the conflict because battle is the usual conflict in the myth and history i've read and also in riordan's series itself. turns out the guy is dead. yippee! (probably some scene where will sees nico but its actually just the ghost or nico visits in a dream or will actually just finds the body preserved in snow. the last one's a little too intense)

That part just reminded me of D&A, Sorry If I'm not making much sense I just got out of school and I'm about to take a nap

Despite her not yet knowing who pursues her, Apollo seems to know exactly who she is, calling, "Wait nymph, daughter of Peneus, I beg you! I who am chasing you am not your enemy." He comments that she is running from him as prey would from a predator, but tells her that he is spurred on by love and a desire to be with her, not destroy her, so she should have pity on him. He then says that he is worried that she will be injured in the chase and cause him guilt, so if she slows down he will too, but she continues. I just see it ???

ohhh im picking up what youre putting down now yeah. the vibe of chase and intentions vs perceptions. the plot is slightly different now so i didnt see the comparison lol

[princessmeepa]

Can you tell the difference game from mine version or LO/RS version

Note that I do not own the characters from the Greek Myth, I was doing this for fun.

My Daphne: Note this is a old art of her that I drawn her, when I was 16.

Daphne is a beautiful naiad nymph, who is the daughter river god Peneus and the naiad nymph Creusa, she is the sister of Menippe, Stilbe and the king Hypseus. She is a loving wife of Apollo and Hyacinth.

Likes: Reading, playing with flower, dancing, listing to Apollo’s songs, listing to her sister in law Artemis’ stories, sending a loving time with Apollo and Hyacinth, baking or cooking, and sometimes getting drunk and wanted to stared a fight with everyone who makes her mad (mostly her sisters or Theseus) but Apollo most likely stop her.

Dislikes: Hunting (because her father made her), snakes, Artemis doing something stupid (like bring the animals at her home), pranks (from Hermes), people mistaking her for a tree nymph, Artemis making too much mess, and Astraeus telling vaguer jokes about her husband.

Personally: She may have a Tsundere personally type, she maybe harsh and cold on the outside, but she is very kind and loving on the inside, she loves her family and her husbands deeply, and she can be over Protective of them.

Friends/Allies: Apollo(Husband), Hyacinth (Friend or co husband), Hermes (Sometimes), Peitho (They can get along just fine), Dionysus (She likes his funny personally), Psyche (saw her as a fun goddess to hang out), Ariadne (same thing with Peitho), Makaria (best friends), Thanatos, Pan (sometimes), Hypnos, Pasithea, Echo (best friends), Demeter, Hades, Persephone, Artemis (if she did’t do something stupid), Crocus, Hebe (She thinks she is cute and she looks like a doll), Hestia (loves her warm personally), Iasion (He is nice guy to her), Ampelos (sometimes), Ganymede, Hecate, the demigods, Selene, Endymion, and Astraeus.

Enemies: Zeus (because he graped Apollo right in front of her, when he was 13), Eros (because he’s the one who shot her with the hate arrow), Hera, Theseus (She hates him for being an a$$hole),Astraeus (sometimes), Cassandra (She hurts Apollo), and Adonis (for being on Eros’ side).

LO’s Daphne

Personally: She is a Naiad nymph turn into a FLOWER NYMPH??? For some reason and she is another little miss goodie two shoes and is the poor Unfortunate Victim of Apollo the bad guy (even known she is cheating on him on a date, with Thanatos) and she is sweet like honey, which makes her boring, even know making her into a tsundere wound be fun.

[daughter-of-a-river]

Such a stubborn, little nymph…

Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

“I don’t know, can I? Just kidding, sure I can. I’m Daphne, daughter of Peneus, a river god. I’m a nymph and was a hunter of Artemis.”

What about Apollo?

“One thing you’re going to learn if you’re going to be questing me is that to never, ever mention him! Got it? Good.”

W-well what do feel about his… lovers?

“I’m fine with his many lovers as long as he doesn’t hurt them.”

Final question. What do you think about Eros?

“Eros made this whole tree thing happen in the first place. I’m neutral about him but leaning towards hating him.”

“Daphne’s text is like this.”

Mod’s text is like this

Other blogs: @wife-of-eros, @goddess-of-wickedness

[thewastedpotential]

Apollo and Daphne

The myth says that once Apollo, the god of light and poetry, found Eros, dealing with his bows and arrows. Eros was using bows to struck people into love. Apollo had just won Python, a horrible earth-dragon that was living in the area of Delphi, and had got so arrogant from his victory that he abruptly told Eros to leave war-like weapons to mighty gods like him and stick to his own pastimes, devaluing his duty to inflate love and passion to others.

This infuriated the headstrong Eros who decided to take his revenge on the audacious Apollo. Eros climbed on a rock of Mt Parnassus and unleashed two arrows: one sharp and gold-tipped and another blunt and lead-tipped. The sharp, gold-tipped arrow pierced the heart of Apollo inflaming his love for Daphne, a beautiful nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, while the blunt, lead-tipped arrow struck the nymph creating an intense aversion for love in the her heart.

She was constantly rejecting the love of the glorious Apollo, despite his repeated pleadings and cajoleries. She similarly detested all the other men who were trying to get her. It is said that Leucippus, a handsome man, had been so desperate to win Daphne that he disguised himself into a girl and mixed her company. However, the nymphs understood his trickery and killed him.

In the meanwhile, Apollo was persistently pursuing Daphne. The poor girl, in order to escape from him and to protect his virginity, pleaded for help from her father, Peneus (or from Mother Earth, according to another version), who drew back to Daphne's prayers and transformed the nymph into a nice short plant with excellent smell.

This plant was the laurel, which is called "daphne" is Greek, after the nymph's name. Apollo was heart-broken at the loss of Daphne and to remember her for ever, he made the laurel the symbol of tribute to poets. The laurel became therefore the symbol of the god. Note that Pythia, the priestess in the oracle of Delphi, was chewing leaves of laurel to communicate with Apollo and give her prophesies to people.

[yourbuerokrat2]

@cchipollo The fact, that before Q showed up Picard and Beverly were alone in the dark in some warehouse probably having another one of their 'moments' that Q just had to interrupt. And that Q really had to change his entire body type just for that representation. Also Q trying to ignore that Beverly even exists in all of the panels I have seen from that comic just screams petty jealousy.

Also if you did not know the mythological meaning of the laurel wreath (because I think you would like it): Basically Apollo dared to tell Eros that he had a bad aim and you do not insult Eros. So Eros shot two arrows, one of love through Apollos heart and one at the nymph Daphne about the 'aversion of love'. A chase where Apollo tried to reassure her that 'love' for the reason for her pursuit (I beg you, nymph, daughter of Peneus, remain! I pursue not as an enemy;), where he told her to at least flee a bit more carefully (I pray that you run more gently and restrain your escape, I myself will pursue more gently.) and that the reason she is running away is that she seems not to understand that he is Apollo, a god, and not some common hunter or shepherd (You don’t know, o thoughtless one, you don’t know whom you flee, and therefore you flee). This however only makes her continue to flee and she begs her father to help her and as a way to rescue her from Apollos love she is turned into a tree and since Apollo still loves her he kisses her and says:

The god said to her, since you can't be my bride, at least you will certainly be my tree! My hair(s) will always have you, my lyres [will have you], my quivers [will have you], o Laurel;

(the texts from Apollos words are taken from Ovids Metamorphoses: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Metamorphoses/Daphne_and_Apollo)

He goes on further what he intends for laurel to mean.

So, I like to think that Picard is less focused on Qs peacock-like display and more on the laurel branch, thinking how fitting it is. Just that nobody is going to turn him into a tree in order to get Q to leave him alone.

Also, you really gave Q the body of a young greek god, I gotta give you that.

felt really REALLY normal when i saw this comic panel ha ha ha !!!!

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Master of the Die  (1512–1570) - River gods consoling Peneus for the Loss of his Daughter, Daphne. From 'The Story of Apollo and Daphne', 1530–60.

[spoopierpumpkin]

We never actually see Apollo's reaction to Daphne's transformation, but there's a passage about Daphne in Hyginus' Fabulae that would have really hammered home how awful Apollo can be when his pride is damaged.

I'm going to put it under a cut in case anybody would rather avoid it as it involves the mutilation of Daphne's body.

"When Apollo was pursuing the virgin Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, she begged for protection from Earth, who received her, and changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo broke a branch from it and placed it on his head."

(The myths of Hyginus, 1960, translated by Mary Grant)

Not only does Apollo hunt down Daphne against her will, he snaps off parts of her transformed body to wear as a trophy after.

I know Rachel would never do it but there's potential for a whole new level of horror there.

[greekmythssexywoman]

Medusa: in one version of the myth: cursed by Athena to become a gorgon and turn anyone she looked at into stone for sleeping with poseidon in her temple. She ends up killed by Perseus

Daphne: Dryad daughter of Peneus (river god) when Apollo fell in love with her she asked her father to helped her and transformed into a laurel tree

[little-witchys-garden]

The story of Daphne and Apollo

the Greek god of music, poetry, art, the sun, and a great warrior, mocked the god of love, Eros, for his use of bow and arrow, as Apollo is also patron of archery.

“What are you doing with powerful weapons, boy?” He said.

"That equipment of yours is fitting of our shoulders, which are able to give certain wounds to wild animals, and to enemies, I who recently killed the swollen Python, who was pressing down so many acres with his disease-bearing belly, with countless arrows! You will be content to provoke some loves by your fire, not to lay claim to my honors.”

Eros took that insult very personally then prepared two arrows: one of gold and one of lead. He shot Apollo with the gold arrow, instilling in the god a passionate love for the poor and non-consenting river nymph Daphne.

He shot Daphne with the lead arrow, instilling in her a hatred for Apollo. Having taken after Apollo’s sister, Artemis, Daphne had spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the forest.

Due to her identity as an “aemula Phoebes” (female rival or emulator of Artemis),

She had not the need for any man in anyway.

she had dedicated herself to perpetual virginity. Her father, the river god Peneus, demanded that she get married and give him grandchildren. She, however, begged and fought with her father to let her remain unmarried; he eventually complied seeing as such a life would never truly bring his daughter happiness.

Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued to reject him. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened, helping Apollo catch up to Daphne. Seeing that Apollo was bound to reach her, she called upon her father,

"Help me, father! Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, hide me from the man which has brought me into this danger! Let me be free of men from this moment forward!"

And with that, Peneus answered her plea.

She turned into a laurel tree.

In spite of Daphne's terror and fervent insistence that he leaves her alone, Apollo vowed to honor her forever: “Always my hair will have you, my lyres will have you, my quivers will have you, laurel tree. You will be present for the Latin leaders when a happy voice will sing a triumph and the Capitoline Hill will see long processions.”

Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render Daphne evergreen

"You also, wear always the perpetual honors of your foliage!"

For this reason, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree do not decay.

{ I always felt so very sad for Daphne but at least now no man may harm her again }

[rhianna]

Daphne

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A daughter of the River Peneus, or of the Ladon, and the goddess Terra, of whom Apollo became enamored. Daphne fled to avoid the addresses of this god, and was changed into a laurel.