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Lampetia, Lampetie

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Lampetie is the personification of light in Greek folklore...

 

Lampetia (meaning shining) and (Phaethousa) were two nymph siblings who pastured the sacred herds of Helios the sun on the legendary island of Thrinakie.

 

Lampetia shepherded seven flocks of fifty sheep with a silver crock...

 

According to Aeschylus and later Ovid Lampetia is one of the two Heliades, daughters of the sun who were transformed into poplar trees after the death of their brother Phaethon...

 

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