THE RURAL DEITIES
Pan, the god of woods and fields, of flocks and shepherds, dwelt in grottos2, wandered on the mountains and in valleys, and amused himself with the chase or in leading the dances of the nymphs. He was fond of music, and as we have seen, the inventor of the syrinx, or shepherd’s pipe, which he himself played in a masterly manner. Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded4 by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods by night, for the gloom and loneliness of such scenes dispose the mind to superstitious5 fears. Hence sudden fright without any visible cause was ascribed to Pan, and called a Panic terror.
As the name of the god signifies all, Pan came to be considered a symbol of the universe and personification of Nature; and later still to be regarded as a representative of all the gods and of heathenism itself.
Sylvanus and Faunus were Latin divinities, whose characteristics are so nearly the same as those of Pan that we may safely consider them as the same personage under different names.
The wood-nymphs, Pan’s partners in the dance, were but one class of nymphs. There were beside them the Naiads, who presided over brooks6 and fountains, the Oreads, nymphs of mountains and grottos, and the Nereids, sea-nymphs. The three last named were immortal7, but the wood-nymphs, called Dryads or Hamadryads, were believed to perish with the trees which had been their abode8 and with which they had come into existence. It was therefore an impious act wantonly to destroy a tree, and in some aggravated9 cases were severely10 punished, as in the instance of Erisichthon, which we are about to record.
Milton in his glowing description of the early creation, thus alludes11 to Pan as the personification of Nature:
“. . . Universal Pan,
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,
Led on the eternal spring.”
And describing Eve’s abode:
“. . . In shadier bower12,
More sacred or sequestered13, though but feigned14,
Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor nymph
Nor Faunus haunted.”
—Paradise Lost, B. IV.
It was a pleasing trait in the old Paganism that it loved to trace in every operation of nature the agency of deity15. The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena16 which our philosophy ascribes to the operation of the laws of nature. Sometimes in our poetical17 moods we feel disposed to regret the change, and to think that the heart has lost as much as the head has gained by the substitution. The poet Wordsworth thus strongly expresses this sentiment:
“. . . Great God, I’d rather be
A Pagan, suckled in a creed18 outworn,
So might I, standing19 on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
And hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
Schiller, in his poem “Die G?tter Griechenlands,” expresses his regret for the overthrow20 of the beautiful mythology21 of ancient times in a way which has called forth22 an answer from a Christian23 poet, Mrs. E. Barrett Browning, in her poem called “The Dead Pan.” The two following verses are a specimen24:
“By your beauty which confesses
Some chief Beauty conquering you,
By our grand heroic guesses
Through your falsehood at the True,
We will weep not! earth shall roll
Heir to each god’s aureole,
And Pan is dead.
“Earth outgrows25 the mythic fancies
Sung beside her in her youth;
And those debonaire romances
Sound but dull beside the truth.
Ph?bus’ chariot course is run!
Look up, poets, to the sun!
Pan, Pan is dead.”
These lines are founded on an early Christian tradition that when the heavenly host told the shepherds at Bethlehem of the birth of Christ, a deep groan26, heard through all the isles27 of Greece, told that the great Pan was dead, and that all the royalty28 of Olympus was dethroned and the several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton in his “Hymn on the Nativity”:
“The lonely mountains o’er,
And the resounding29 shore,
A voice of weeping heard and loud lament30;
From haunted spring and dale,
Edged with poplar pale,
The parting Genius is with sighing sent;
With flower-enwoven tresses torn,
The nymphs in twilight32 shade of tangled33 thickets34 mourn.”
ERISICHTHON
Erisichthon was a profane35 person and a despiser of the gods. On one occasion he presumed to violate with the axe36 a grove37 sacred to Ceres. There stood in this grove a venerable oak so large that it seemed a wood in itself, its ancient trunk towering aloft, whereon votive garlands were often hung and inscriptions38 carved expressing the gratitude39 of suppliants40 to the nymph of the tree. Often had the Dryads danced round it hand in hand. Its trunk measured fifteen cubits round, and it overtopped the other trees as they overtopped the shrubbery. But for all that, Erisichthon saw no reason why he should spare it and he ordered his servants to cut it down. When he saw them hesitate he snatched an axe from one, and thus impiously exclaimed: “I care not whether it be a tree beloved of the goddess or not; were it the goddess herself it should come down if it stood in my way.” So saying, he lifted the axe and the oak seemed to shudder41 and utter a groan. When the first blow fell upon the trunk blood flowed from the wound. All the bystanders were horror-struck, and one of them ventured to remonstrate42 and hold back the fatal axe. Erisichthon, with a scornful look, said to him, “Receive the reward of your piety;” and turned against him the weapon which he had held aside from the tree, gashed43 his body with many wounds, and cut off his head. Then from the midst of the oak came a voice, “I who dwell in this tree am a nymph beloved of Ceres, and dying by your hands forewarn you that punishment awaits you.” He desisted not from his crime, and at last the tree, sundered44 by repeated blows and drawn45 by ropes, fell with a crash and prostrated46 a great part of the grove in its fall.
The Dryads in dismay at the loss of their companion and at seeing the pride of the forest laid low, went in a body to Ceres, all clad in garments of mourning, and invoked47 punishment upon Erisichthon. She nodded her assent48, and as she bowed her head the grain ripe for harvest in the laden49 fields bowed also. She planned a punishment so dire50 that one would pity him, if such a culprit as he could be pitied,—to deliver him over to Famine. As Ceres herself could not approach Famine, for the Fates have ordained51 that these two goddesses shall never come together, she called an Oread from her mountain and spoke52 to her in these words: “There is a place in the farthest part of ice-clad Scythia, a sad and sterile53 region without trees and without crops. Cold dwells there, and Fear and Shuddering54, and Famine. Go and tell the last to take possession of the bowels55 of Erisichthon. Let not abundance subdue56 her, nor the power of my gifts drive her away. Be not alarmed at the distance” (for Famine dwells very far from Ceres), “but take my chariot. The dragons are fleet and obey the rein57, and will take you through the air in a short time.” So she gave her the reins58, and she drove away and soon reached Scythia. On arriving at Mount Caucasus she stopped the dragons and found Famine in a stony59 field, pulling up with teeth and claws the scanty60 herbage. Her hair was rough, her eyes sunk, her face pale, her lips blanched61, her jaws62 covered with dust, and her skin drawn tight, so as to show all her bones. As the Oread saw her afar off (for she did not dare to come near), she delivered the commands of Ceres; and, though she stopped as short a time as possible, and kept her distance as well as she could, yet she began to feel hungry, and turned the dragons’ heads and drove back to Thessaly.
Famine obeyed the commands of Ceres and sped through the air to the dwelling63 of Erisichthon, entered the bedchamber of the guilty man, and found him asleep. She enfolded him with her wings and breathed herself into him, infusing her poison into his veins64. Having discharged her task, she hastened to leave the land of plenty and returned to her accustomed haunts. Erisichthon still slept, and in his dreams craved65 food, and moved his jaws as if eating. When he awoke, his hunger was raging. Without a moment’s delay he would have food set before him, of whatever kind earth, sea, or air produces; and complained of hunger even while he ate. What would have sufficed for a city or a nation, was not enough for him. The more he ate the more he craved. His hunger was like the sea, which receives all the rivers, yet is never filled; or like fire, that burns all the fuel that is heaped upon it, yet is still voracious66 for more.
His property rapidly diminished under the unceasing demands of his appetite, but his hunger continued unabated. At length he had spent all and had only his daughter left, a daughter worthy68 of a better parent. Her too he sold. She scorned to be the slave of a purchaser and as she stood by the seaside raised her hands in prayer to Neptune69. He heard her prayer, and though her new master was not far off and had his eye upon her a moment before, Neptune changed her form and made her assume that of a fisherman busy at his occupation. Her master, looking for her and seeing her in her altered form, addressed her and said, “Good fisherman, whither went the maiden70 whom I saw just now, with hair dishevelled and in humble71 garb72, standing about where you stand? Tell me truly; so may your luck be good and not a fish nibble73 at your hook and get away.” She perceived that her prayer was answered and rejoiced inwardly at hearing herself inquired of about herself. She replied, “Pardon me, stranger, but I have been so intent upon my line that I have seen nothing else; but I wish I may never catch another fish if I believe any woman or other person except myself to have been hereabouts for some time.” He was deceived and went his way, thinking his slave had escaped. Then she resumed her own form. Her father was well pleased to find her still with him, and the money too that he got by the sale of her; so he sold her again. But she was changed by the favor of Neptune as often as she was sold, now into a horse, now a bird, now an ox, and now a stag,—got away from her purchasers and came home. By this base method the starving father procured74 food; but not enough for his wants, and at last hunger compelled him to devour75 his limbs, and he strove to nourish his body by eating his body, till death relieved him from the vengeance76 of Ceres.
RH?CUS
The Hamadryads could appreciate services as well as punish injuries. The story of Rh?cus proves this. Rh?cus, happening to see an oak just ready to fall, ordered his servants to prop67 it up. The nymph, who had been on the point of perishing with the tree, came and expressed her gratitude to him for having saved her life and bade him ask what reward he would. Rh?cus boldly asked her love and the nymph yielded to his desire. She at the same time charged him to be constant and told him that a bee should be her messenger and let him know when she would admit his society. One time the bee came to Rh?cus when he was playing at draughts77 and he carelessly brushed it away. This so incensed78 the nymph that she deprived him of sight.
Our countryman, J. R. Lowell, has taken this story for the subject of one of his shorter poems. He introduces it thus:
“Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece,
As full of freedom, youth and beauty still,
As the immortal freshness of that grace
Carved for all ages on some Attic79 frieze80.”
THE WATER DEITIES
Oceanus and Tethys were the Titans who ruled over the watery81 element. When Jove and his brothers overthrew82 the Titans and assumed their power, Neptune and Amphitrite succeeded to the dominion83 of the waters in place of Oceanus and Tethys.
NEPTUNE
Neptune was the chief of the water deities. The symbol of his power was the trident, or spear with three points, with which he used to shatter rocks, to call forth or subdue storms, to shake the shores and the like. He created the horse and was the patron of horse races. His own horses had brazen84 hoofs85 and golden manes. They drew his chariot over the sea, which became smooth before him, while the monsters of the deep gambolled86 about his path.
AMPHITRITE
Amphitrite was the wife of Neptune. She was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and the mother of Triton. Neptune, to pay his court to Amphitrite, came riding on a dolphin. Having won her he rewarded the dolphin by placing him among the stars.
NEREUS AND DORIS
Nereus and Doris were the parents of the Nereids, the most celebrated87 of whom were Amphitrite, Thetis, the mother of Achilles, and Galatea, who was loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus. Nereus was distinguished88 for his knowledge and his love of truth and justice, whence he was termed an elder; the gift of prophecy was also assigned to him.
TRITON AND PROTEUS
Triton was the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the poets make him his father’s trumpeter. Proteus was also a son of Neptune. He, like Nereus, is styled a sea-elder for his wisdom and knowledge of future events. His peculiar89 power was that of changing his shape at will.
THETIS
Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, was so beautiful that Jupiter himself sought her in marriage; but having learned from Prometheus the Titan that Thetis should bear a son who should grow greater than his father, Jupiter desisted from his suit and decreed that Thetis should be the wife of a mortal. By the aid of Chiron the Centaur90, Peleus succeeded in winning the goddess for his bride and their son was the renowned91 Achilles. In our chapter on the Trojan war it will appear that Thetis was a faithful mother to him, aiding him in all difficulties, and watching over his interests from the first to the last.
LEUCOTHEA AND PAL31?MON
Ino, the daughter of Cadmus and wife of Athamas, flying from her frantic92 husband with her little son Melicertes in her arms, sprang from a cliff into the sea. The gods, out of compassion93, made her a goddess of the sea, under the name of Leucothea, and him a god, under that of Pal?mon. Both were held powerful to save from shipwreck94 and were invoked by sailors. Pal?mon was usually represented riding on a dolphin. The Isthmian games were celebrated in his honor. He was called Portunus by the Romans, and believed to have jurisdiction95 of the ports and shores.
Milton alludes to all these deities in the song at the conclusion of “Comus”:
“. . . Sabrina fair,
Listen and appear to us,
In name of great Oceanus;
By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace96,
And Tethys’ grave, majestic97 pace,
By hoary98 Nereus’ wrinkled look,
And the Carpathian wizard’s hook,[20]
By scaly99 Triton’s winding100 shell,
And old soothsaying Glaucus’ spell,
By Leucothea’s lovely hands,
And her son who rules the strands101.
By Thetis’ tinsel-slippered feet,
And the songs of Sirens sweet;” etc.
Armstrong, the poet of the “Art of preserving Health,” under the inspiration of Hygeia, the goddess of health, thus celebrates the Naiads. P?on is a name both of Apollo and ?sculapius.
“Come, ye Naiads! to the fountains lead!
Propitious102 maids! the task remains103 to sing
Your gifts (so P?on, so the powers of Health
Command), to praise your crystal element.
O comfortable streams! with eager lips
And trembling hands the languid thirsty quaff104
New life in you; fresh vigor105 fills their veins.
No warmer cups the rural ages knew,
None warmer sought the sires of humankind;
Happy in temperate106 peace their equal days
Felt not the alternate fits of feverish107 mirth
And sick dejection; still serene108 and pleased,
Blessed with divine immunity109 from ills,
Long centuries they lived; their only fate
Was ripe old age, and rather sleep than death.”
THE CAMEN?
By this name the Latins designated the Muses110, but included under it also some other deities, principally nymphs of fountains. Egeria was one of them, whose fountain and grotto3 are still shown. It was said that Numa, the second king of Rome, was favored by this nymph with secret interviews, in which she taught him those lessons of wisdom and of law which he imbodied in the institutions of his rising nation. After the death of Numa the nymph pined away and was changed into a fountain.
Byron, in “Childe Harold,” Canto111 IV., thus alludes to Egeria and her grotto:
“Here didst thou dwell, in this enchanted112 cover,
Egeria! all thy heavenly bosom113 beating
For the far footsteps of thy mortal lover;
The purple midnight veiled that mystic meeting
With her most starry114 canopy;” etc.
Tennyson, also, in his “Palace of Art,” gives us a glimpse of the royal lover expecting the interview:
“Holding one hand against his ear,
To list a footfall ere he saw
The wood-nymph, stayed the Tuscan king to hear
Of wisdom and of law.”
THE WINDS
When so many less active agencies were personified, it is not to be supposed that the winds failed to be so. They were Boreas or Aquilo, the north wind; Zephyrus or Favonius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east. The first two have been chiefly celebrated by the poets, the former as the type of rudeness, the latter of gentleness. Boreas loved the nymph Orithyia, and tried to play the lover’s part, but met with poor success. It was hard for him to breathe gently, and sighing was out of the question. Weary at last of fruitless endeavors, he acted out his true character, seized the maiden and carried her off. Their children were Zetes and Calais, winged warriors115, who accompanied the Argonautic expedition, and did good service in an encounter with those monstrous116 birds the Harpies.
Zephyrus was the lover of Flora117. Milton alludes to them in “Paradise Lost,” where he describes Adam waking and contemplating118 Eve still asleep.
“. . . He on his side
Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love,
Hung over her enamored, and beheld119
Beauty which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice,
Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes,
Her hand soft touching120, whispered thus: ‘Awake!
My fairest, my espoused121, my latest found,
Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever-new delight.’?”
Dr. Young, the poet of the “Night Thoughts,” addressing the idle and luxurious122, says:
“Ye delicate! who nothing can support
(Yourselves most insupportable) for whom
The winter rose must blow, . . .
. . . and silky soft
Favonius breathe still softer or be chid123!”
HERCULES IN BATTLE WITH A CENTAUR.
Florence. John of Bologna.
PARTING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
From painting by A. Maignan.
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