Lucus Pisaurensis the bronze-age were very naturalistic, "πῖπτον" The Carmen Arvale is a surviving Classical-Age "Anticuus Latius vocare mei" chant of "di semones" with the praepositus calling forth "quod potentia" of their guardian divinities and imploring them to "limen sali, sta." An Allegorical Myth of "Luci" Daphne, a naiad (nymph, a spirit of springs and sacred groves) is pursued by Apollo and when she entreaties, is allegorically turned to a "laures" tree by her river god Ladon. Pisaureum, original name of Pesaro, from Pisaurus; "gr." [ᵉ]Pì, by the side of + "gr." sauria from "sanskrt." s`aura, ☯ (symbol of dynamic union) ₊
The Wood Nymph life, they experienced a certain type of female sexual adventurousness that their wives could not easily match." He hypothesizes that "The Wood Nymph" and other contemporaneous compositions were Sibelius's method of dealing with the emotional consequences of this and his guilt towards his wife Aino. With its focus on sexual fantasy, "The Wood Nymph" differs sharply from the Rydberg poem "Snöfrid" which Sibelius set in 1900. In "", Gunnar, the patriotic hero, resists a water nymph's sensuous "embrace" to instead "fight the hopeless fight" for his country and "die nameless". The contrast between Björn and Gunnar, Murtomäki argues, reflects Sibelius's