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The nymphs were the first beings to have dealings with the gods––and the trees were the first gods.
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"The Muses were wild young girls from Helicon. It was Apollo made them move over to mountain opposite, Parnassus; it was he trained them in gifts that made that band of wild girls the muses, and hence those women who took possession of the mind, but each imposing the laws of an art."

-Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, p. 148