Motif
deceptive speech delaying divine detection
deceptive_speech_delaying_divine_detection
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Deceptive Speech, Voices, and False Claims. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5137-5218 confidence: medium
Echo, formerly a bodily Nymph, can only repeat others’ final words because Juno punished her for delaying the goddess while Jupiter’s mountain Nymphs escaped.
Echo intentionally detains Juno with long stories so that the Nymphs can escape.
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