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When Narcissus was a sixteen years old deer-hunter, the nymph Echo (another reflection) fell in love with him. But her love was not returned, and she disappeared from woods and mountains, fading away. It is told that not even her bones remained, having been turned into stone, but that her voice---made utterly brief by the anger of Hera---still lives in her. Besides Echo, many other nymphs and youths sought Narcissus' love, but were ignored by him. Finally one of them prayed to heaven:

"So may he himself love, and not gain the thing he loves!" (Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.405).

That prayer was heard by Nemesis. And so Narcissus, having come to a pool to quench his thirst, saw his reflection in its smooth surface, and fell in love with it. And since he could not obtain the object of his love, he died of sorrow by the same pool. The NYMPHS grieved him, including Echo. But when they prepared his funeral pyre, they could not find his body. Instead they found the flower that today bears his name. It is told that Narcissus still keeps gazing on his image in the waters of the river Styx, in the Underworld.

Nemesis was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. For more info on Nemesis go to http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Nemesis.html

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