The Goddess Echo’s Secret Love
In Greek mythology, Echo is a poor girl. How should we view what happened to her? Read this post and feeling her last echo.
Echo, whom the goddess Venus admires for her magnificent voice and song. When Echo tricks Juno into believing that her husband, Jupiter, was in the city, Juno curses Echo by making her unable to initiate a spoken sentence on her own, and instead able only to, in speech, finish a sentence started by someone else. “Yet a chatterbox, had no other use of speech than she has now, that she could repeat only the last words out of many.” This is the explanation of the aural effect which was named after her.
Sometime after being cursed, Echo spied a young man, Narcissus, while he was out hunting deer with his companions. She immediately fell in love with him and, infatuated, followed quietly. The more she looked at the young man, the more she longed for him. But unfortunately, this man, called “Narcissus”, the one who love only himself.
If you keep something in mind, there will be an echo. 念念不忘，必有回响。
In her delight, Echo rushed to Narcissus ready to throw her arms around her beloved. Narcissus, however, was appalled and, spurning her, exclaimed, ‘Hands off! May I die before you enjoy my body.’ All Echo could whisper in reply was, ‘enjoy my body’ and having done so she fled, scorned, humiliated, and shamed.
After Narcissus’ death, Echo, too, began to waste away. Though she was immortal, her body faded and her bones turned to stone until all that remained of Echo was the sound of her voice.
Echo is undoubtedly unfortunate. She falls in love with someone unworthy, but she still suffers because of the death of Narcissus. If we stand in her shoes, is secret love a painful thing or a pleasant thing? And for you who are reading, what is it like?
After being deprived of her own expressive voice, Echo seems to have transformed from an extrovert to an introvert. Did she gain her own unique happiness in the process of chasing Narcissus?
When we have a crush on someone, we will unconsciously follow in the other person’s footsteps, pay attention to things that interest him/her, and even demand our own progress to be worthy of the other person. The person we have a crush on may not be what we see. That is usually just an illusion. As the saying goes, if you keep something in mind, there will be an echo. And that echo is more likely to come from ourselves, the self who is striving to pursue the other person.
This necklace is inspired by this story. A pure and ethereal rose quartz matches with a unique hand-woven string. It is sweet, delicate, and reveals a sense of self. May Echo’s last echo ring out, help her find herself, heal the wearer’s pain, bravely pursue oneself, and meet the right lover at the right time.
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