CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Odysseus, Scheria, Eileithyia
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Artemis is pissed that a mortal man has seen her naked that she punishes him, because he was hunting when he did this she turns him into a deer and his hunting dogs tear him to pieces. Leto gets pregnant with twins, cant give birth to baby because of hera, has nowhere to go, she goes to island of delos, which used to be an island that floated around wasn"t fixed to one place. Held on to palm tree while giving birth, first god apollo, then the island no longer moved and then she goes to another island and gives birth to his sister artemis. Zeus appears to her as a cloud of mist, cuz he doesn"t want hera to see, hera sees this only spot of mist and goes down to investigate, zeus decides to turn io into a cow. Hera knows what"s going on so she asks for the cow as a present.
