Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word
Origins three. The word origins today is
a narcissist and echo. Both of these
words actually derive from or come from
Greek mythology and the reason we're
covering them together is because the
stories are actually interconnected. Okay.
So let's take a look at the note here.
The word and name "Echo' comes from a
mythology story. Echo was a nymph. Okay.
Now if you've ever read mythology, 
sometimes you hear about nymphs. A nymph
in Greek and Roman mythology was a
female spirit who lived among nature,
especially in forests,  mountains or
rivers. And of course mountains is very
important here.  because in a modern day
when we hear echoes most of the time
it's in high mountains. Okay. Let's
continue. Echo was an nymph who was given
an assignment by Zeus. All right. So again
if you know Greek mythology,  Zeus was the
god of the gods. He was the number one
god. To talk to Hera.  Hera is his wife
also a goddess and keep her busy while
he went off to fool around with other
women. Yeah. It's kind of funny. if you
ever read Greek mythology,  you find out
that the gods act just like humans. That
they have just as bad qualities as
humans. And,  and Zeus was really bad. He
just liked to fool around with with all
kinds of women,  especially human women. He
would often appear to them and you know,
try to seduce them. So let's continue. 
When the goddess,  Hera figured this out,
she put a curse on Echo and Echo was
only able to repeat what others said. So
again this goes perfectly with the idea
of echo . Like if we're in a mountain
today,  and we scream out some words like
'Hello, hello , hello,   we keep hearing the repeat. So this
is the idea of echo. It comes directly from
this Greek mythology story. All right. Let's
continue. Echo fell in love with Nar,
Narcissus. Okay which of course this is
where we derive 
a narcissist today the name the person
who loves themselves very much or
narcissism. So Echo fell in love with
narcissus who was supposed to be
irresistibly handsome. All the women,  as
soon as they seen him,  they all like fell
in love with him. She tried to get him to
say ' I love you. " So she could say it back
to him because remember she can only
repeat what others said. Unfortunately
narcissus
fell in love with himself. She pined away
for him until there was nothing left,  but
her voice Remember if we say to pine
away it's like to have a great wanting
or longing or desire so I guess you know
she just died of depression that she,  she
couldn't get to have narcissus. Okay so
now you know where ' echo'  comes from very
clearly. Let's continue with narcissus
here. So now narcissisus could not
understand why so many women doted over
him. You know gave him so much attention
and when they seen him. They always like
oh they had all these expressions on
their face and he thought a lot of them
were just kind of silly. Okay. Until one
day,  he noticed his own reflection in the
water and it was love at first sight. He
loved himself so much that he could not
leave the pond. So that that's how he
could see himself he could only see
himself in the water and he didn't want
to leave his own reflection so he just
stayed at the pond and continued to look
at himself because he fell in love with
himself. He eventually died and as the
story goes a beautiful flower appeared
where he died. So this is directly where
we get the word you know narcissism and
narcissists , it comes directly from this
Greek mythology character. There's also a
flower that is named after narcissus,  his
actual Greek name too. So anyway these
are the origins this is where we get the
words both narcissist and echo from. Okay
anyway, I hope  it was clear.  I hope it was
informative , and I hope you enjoyed it. 
Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
