Cytherean Goddess

Role: mother · First appears: Fable 42

Life events

• Hermaphroditus is born to Mercury and the Cytherean Goddess.(Fable42 · 📍 caves of Ida)
  • With: Mercury Hermaphroditus
  • “The Naiads nursed a boy, born to Mercury of the Cytherean Goddess in the caves of Ida”
• Hermaphroditus asks his parents to transform men entering the waters into half-men.(Fable42)
  • With: Hermaphroditus Mercury
  • “grant this favor to your son, who has the name of you both, that whoever enters these streams a man, may go out thence {but} half a man”
• Hermaphroditus’s parents assent, tainting the fountain with drugs that soften those who enter.(Fable42)
  • With: Mercury Hermaphroditus
  • “Both parents, moved, give their assent to the words of their two-shaped son, and taint the fountain with drugs of ambiguous quality.”

Fable 42

• child: Hermaphroditus “The Naiads nursed a boy, born to Mercury of the Cytherean Goddess in the caves of Ida; whose face was such that therein both mother and father could be discerned; he likewise took his name from them.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.