What might be termed the 'disease of language' applies to when in ancient worlds - words lost their original meaning as usage changed, and the old words became gods - “nomina (names) became numina (spirits)
An evocative, even exotic example was the tale of Daphne dying in the arms of Apollo. Apollo loved Daphne who fled and died becoming a laurel tree. Apollo was once a word for the sun and Daphne for the dawn, and the myth is simply a description of the dawn. The name of the laurel tree is also dawn so the myth is that the dawn fled from the rising sun, died and transformed into the bush called by the same name.
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An evocative, even exotic example was the tale of Daphne dying in the arms of Apollo. Apollo loved Daphne who fled and died becoming a laurel tree. Apollo was once a word for the sun and Daphne for the dawn, and the myth is simply a description of the dawn. The name of the laurel tree is also dawn so the myth is that the dawn fled from the rising sun, died and transformed into the bush called by the same name.
English lessons on Skype at:
http://tutoringexcellence.blogspot.co.uk/.
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