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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2244900, member: 5833&quot;]Ah, that lady in the water.&nbsp; She is the nymph Cyane.&nbsp; She tries to stop the abduction but cannot.&nbsp; Her grief is such that she dissolves &amp; becomes part of the water she inhabits.</p><p><br /></p><p>When Demeter/Ceres realizes her daughter is missing, she searches high &amp; low, plunging the earth into cold &amp; barrenness.&nbsp; She has no hope until she roams into Sicily, where Cyane, unable to speak or communicate in any other way, causes Persephone&#039;s girdle to float to the surface of her little river.&nbsp; Demeter now knows the rape took place there &amp; really blights the island.&nbsp; Eventually she comes to a spring inhabited by the nymph Arethusa, who is able to tell her more specifically about where her daughter was taken.&nbsp; (This is Ovid&#039;s version.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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