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…y be considered in the context of the thunder god myth. The mother of the first twin heroes, progenitress of the heroes’ race is called Covinar, which means ‘lightning’ in dialects. In folklore texts, Covinar appears as a thunder goddess—a woman with fiery eyes sometimes disguise…

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…m safely different— except that Ovid quietly compares Daphne to Diana, Apollo’s twin sister.44 Like so many objects of desire in Ovid, Daphne is transformed into a tree, and it is not hard to see such trees as figures for writing, either because of their leaves, or because of thei…