In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, this deity aids Leto in finding a location for the birth, but prevents Leto from delivering on an island in the Callimachean hymn.
In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, this deity aids Leto in finding a location for the birth, but prevents Leto from delivering on an island in the Callimachean hymn. In keeping with a theme involving satyrs, Peisitaerus threatens her with rape in a play by Aristophanes. When the Olympians make binding oaths on the Styx, this goddess is responsible for bringing the holy water by which they swear. According to Hesiod, she is the daughter of Thaumas and the nymph Electra, and her sisters included the Harpies and her twin Arkhe, whose iridescent wings contrasted with her own golden pair. Often serving Hera and depicted with a caduceus, this is, FTP, what divine messenger and wife of Zephirus, the deification of the rainbow?
In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, this deity aids Leto in finding a location for the birth, but prevents Leto from delivering on an island in the Callimachean hymn.
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