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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: to Hermeias, and Aharyu to Achilleus. Muller has plausibly
suggested that Paris similarly answers to the Panis.
These night-demons, the Panis, though not apparently regarded
with any strong feeling of moral condemnation, are
nevertheless hated and dreaded as the authors of calamity.
They not only steal the daylight, but they parch the earth and
wither the fruits, and they slay vegetation during the winter
months. As Caecius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed
into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the
"concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually
generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English
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