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 the "erotic harmonic vocabulary" of "Tristan und Isolde" in the third section and the "motive of the forbidden question" from "Lohengrin" in the funereal march from the finale. In light of Sibelius's "Nietzschean response" to Wagner's operas (initially enamored, Sibelius by July 1894 had repudiated Wagner's ideas as "calculated" and "manufactured"), such observations are of particular interest in that they illustrate the extent to which Sibelius, at the time of "The Wood Nymph", had not yet succeeded in breaking with the German master. A few musicologists have speculated that "The Wood Nymph" is potentially autobiographical. Murtomäki, most notably, has argued