14 Io
Io was the daughter of a rivergod.She was loved,run after and won by Zeus. —
Hera became so greeneyed that she flew down from Olympus one day to pay her rival back . —
Zeus,however,had foreseen her arrival and changed Io into abeautiful white little cow. —
Seeing through the trick,Hera asked for the cow as a present and Zeus had to give in to her wish .Then she left the cow to the care of a hundredeyed monster,Argus. —
Argus’ eyes were ever open and no escape was possible. —
Unable to bear to see her so unhappy,Zeus sent Hermes down todestroy the monster. —
Dressed up as a shepherd,Hermes lulled Argus to sleep with his sweet songs and long stories,then killed him and set Io free. —
But Hera’s anger was not to be calmed downyet. —
She sent a gadfly to attack the cow and drive her from land to land. —
In her misery the cow passed over the strait which divides Europe and Asia. —
In this way the strip of water got itsname Bosporus ,the way of the cow. —
She wandered over thesea,which by chance got from her its name the Ionian Sea . —
In the end she arrived in Egypt where she was turned back into hernatural form . —
She settled down and gave birth to a son,Some of her children remained in Egypt and ruled as kings for a longtime.
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