The laurel was dedicated to him. […] He flayed him alive for his presumption, and afterwards metamorphosed him into a river in Phrygia, called, after him, Marsyas. […] A shepherd discovering him, surrounded by rays of light, carried him home, and committed him to the care of his wife. […] She was the wife of Odin, accompanied him in battle, on horseback, and shared the dead with him. […] Before him was a veil, or curtain.