 There were different traditions regarding Amaltheia.Amaltheia is sometimes represented as the goat who nurtured the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion ("Goat Mountain"), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage (the daughter of Oceanus, Helios, Haemonius, or—according to Lactantius—Melisseus).The possession of multiple and uncertain mythological parents indicates wide worship of a deity in many cultures having varying local traditions.