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Large Cold Cast Marble Finished Resin Statue
Apollo, the god of the sun and music, was cursed when he insulted young
Cupid/Eros for playing with bow and arrows, accusing him of playing with
Apollo's weapons.
The petulant Cupid/Eros took two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. To incite
hatred, he aimed the leaden shaft at the nymph Daphne, and with the golden one
he shot Apollo through the heart to incite love. Seized with love for the
maiden, who abhorred him, Apollo continually followed her.
A self-sufficient maiden, Daphne spurned her many would-be lovers preferring
instead woodland sports and exploring the forests and fields. Her father
demanded that she get married to give him and she begged him to let her remain
single.
Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued
her flight. They were evenly matched in a race until Eros intervened and helped
him gain upon Daphne.
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 used his powers of eternal youth to render her ever
green. Since then the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay.*
*Some information in this story comes from Wikipedia
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