Telethusa

Telethusa (Τελέθουσα) is the mother of Iphis in Greek Mythology. She raised her daughter as a boy to spare her husband Ligdus's wrath, and Iphis was later transformed into a man by the Egyptian goddess Isis in order to marry her true love, the maiden Ianthe. Ovid, Metamorphoses, IX, 789-937.

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