Narcissus, and Pan both wasted poor Echo. It seems the alleged glass ceiling in place in past and today’s world was existent in Mythology as well. The poor nymphs were usually portrayed as a plaything for Gods or half-Gods or even mortals ( there are very influential nymphs as well , an example are the Muses, who are the mothers for all art forms). Nymphs are of Nature. There are land, wood, water Nymphs. Nymphs are usually portrayed naked since they are embodiment of nature. They are very beautiful. They are feared by humans in their sexuality and preyed upon by other deities. Contrary to mortals beliefs nymphs are actually very virtuous and think highly of their virtue as to go all the way to accept transforming into trees, springs, flowers to escape unwanted sexual advances.
I want to ponder on Echo, the poor who had no other ambition but to be a chatterbox. She was a mountain nymph. Hera could not keep track of her philandering husband Zeus/’s infidelities and chose to blame it on Echo, for keeping her from keeping an eye on her husband. Hera chose to take away from Echo her talks, Echo could only repeat the last words of an other . So when she fell in love with Narcissus, she could not express her feelings by speech, she had to wait for him to speak and then only to repeat what he said, Narcissus shunned her advances. His rejection left a very heart broken Echo, who withered away with her sorrow, and to this day, in mountains, only her voice remains, only repeating what is said.
In other versions Echo was also the love interest of Pan the God of shepherds ( Pan is apparently, also the teacher of masturbation to shepherds according to Dionysius of Sinope. Again according to Diogenes, Hermes invented masturbation and passed it on to Pan, feeling sorry for his unwanted advances towards Echo ). To flee from his advances she again withers away into only a voice.
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