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Greek Gods and Heroes
101 trykte sider
- Oprindeligt udgivet
- 2014
- Udgivelsesår
- 2014
- Forlag
- RosettaBooks
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- Marko P.har citeretfor 3 år siden
Pan was so ugly at birth that his mother, one of these nymphs, ran away from him in terror—he had little horns, a little beard, the legs, hooves, and tail of a goat. Hermes, his father, took him up to Olympus for Zeus and the other gods to laugh at. - Malthe Ibsen Sørensenhar citeretfor 5 år siden
Much the same thing happened when he fell in love with the nymph Syrinx: she escaped from him by changing into a reed. Unable to tell which she was among all the thousands of other reeds growing beside the river, he took a stick and angrily hit at them. Then, feeling ashamed of himself, he collected the broken reeds, cut them in different lengths with a flint knife, bored holes in their sides, and tied them in a neat row—to form a new musical instrument, called the Pan Pipe. - Malthe Ibsen Sørensenhar citeretfor 5 år sidenPan loved to sleep every afternoon in a cave or forest grove and, if a passing stranger woke him by mistake, let out such a horrible yell that the stranger’s hair bristled, like a hedgehog, in what is still called ‘Panic’ fear
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