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rivka-nikola In reply to justFiyen [2012-03-16 20:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Really? All the versions I've read say it was Apollo.

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justFiyen In reply to rivka-nikola [2012-03-16 21:15:30 +0000 UTC]

I have never ever heard it as Apollo changing her. He was trying to marry her. He was distraught when she was turned.

" Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her, she called upon her father, "Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!"
Suddenly, her skin turned into bark, her hair became leaves, and her arms were transformed into branches. She stopped running as her feet became rooted to the ground. Apollo embraced the branches, but even the branches shrank away from him. Since Apollo could no longer take her as his wife, he vowed to tend her as his tree, and promised that her leaves would decorate the heads of leaders as crowns, and that her leaves were also to be depicted on weapons. Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render her ever green. Since then, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay."

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rivka-nikola In reply to GoldenGirl954 [2011-06-17 06:48:42 +0000 UTC]

He is Robert PLANT, after all. XD

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rivka-nikola In reply to rackeen [2011-06-16 04:38:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I haven't done any Greek Myth stuff in awhile, and I knew that had to change.

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