花的神話~Sunflower 向陽花~

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Sunflower  向陽花~﹝中文版﹞

克莉提亞是個水澤神女，她愛上了阿波羅，可是阿波羅卻對她不理不睬。她憔悴了，終日坐在冰冷的土地上，無心梳洗，聽任滿頭亂髮披散著。九天九夜坐著不吃不喝，只有眼淚和冰涼的露水是她唯一的食糧。她凝視初升的太陽，目不轉睛地追隨他走完每天的行程下山去。她目無他顧，臉總是向著太陽。人們傳說，後來她的手腳扎在地上生了根，臉蛋變成花，會在枝莖上轉動永遠朝著太陽，追隨他走過每天的路程。

Sunflower  向陽花~﹝英文版﹞

Clytie was a water-nymph and in love with Apollo, who made her no return.  So she pined away, sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with her unbound tresses streaming over her shoulders.  Nine days she sat and tasted neither food nor drink, her own tears and the chilly dew her only food.  She gazed on the sun when he rose and as he passed through his daily course to his setting; she saw no other object, her face turned constantly on him.  At last, they say, her limbs rooted in the ground, her face became a flower, which turns on its stem so as always to face the sun throughout its daily course; for it retains to that extent the feeling of the nymph from whom it sprang.

資料來源：http://w3.ly.ks.edu.tw/~atlantia/mythology/myth1.htm