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Echo
Echo is a mountain nymph whose myth explains a voice that survives as repetition. She is tied to Hera's anger, Narcissus, and the ache of being heard only in fragments.
Story shape
Voice after the body fades
In the best-known version, Echo is punished so that she can only repeat the words of others. Her love for Narcissus fails, and she wastes away until only her voice remains. The story makes a natural acoustic phenomenon feel intimate and wounded.
Echo shows how nymph myths turn landscape effects into emotional presences.
Tradition boundary
Greek nymphs are minor divinities tied to animate landscape: groves, springs, caves, mountains, and sea foam.