Monday, September 8, 2008

I started reading Chapter 22, as I read, I started not knowing what was happening. As I kept on reading, I was confused with what was occurring, even though it helped me a lot to be able to see who each character was. Pan a known god, many people believe he's a very important character and they are very fond of him, "Pan came to be considered a symbol of the universe and personification of Nature". Another character is Erisichthon; he starts the whole drama of the Dryads. As the second section of this chapter tells, the tree is falling down, and the Dryads complain about it. This tree was a symbol of life for the nymphs, and as it's falling down, they feel they are gone too. The Dryads were conscious of what was happening and as soon as the tree fell, they would also perish, but Rhœcus saved their lives. There are people who know how and when to help others, and in this case he helped the Dryads.

The Dryads as there life goes disappearing, they also start changing, as this is a myth, they change into fountains. As most myths everyone knows each other, and in this specific one the winds are having affairs with Dryads, this is something you would usually never imagine, but anything can actually happen, at least in myths.

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