Chapter 3
The Birth of Love
Orpheus left the slopes of Helicon behind, but he carried with him Apollo’s words, and so he continued to play across the land, to learn more. He observed the world about him, and though he did not know the truest of love, he was not so naive as to think he could go searching for it. If anything, all that the Muses had taught him, the songs they had sung, made him realize that such love was elusive, that it was folly to search for something few mortals were ever granted.
He travelled from the mountains of Epirus, across Thessaly and then over mountainous Macedonia and into Thrace, and all the while he played and sang and brought solace to all living things. He was welcomed for a time among the warrior tribes of the Thracians who allowed him to roam freely fro
