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Nephele

[ nef-uh-lee ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a woman formed from a cloud by Zeus as a counterfeit of Hera, in order to deceive the lustful Ixion: mother by Ixion of the centaurs.


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It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherecydes say.

Chiron was a temple, probably at Nephele in Thessalia, the most antient seat of the Nephelim.

But the watchful Nephele contrived to circumvent her cruel designs, and succeeded in getting the children out of the palace.

Nephele going mad, he divorced her, and married the princess Ino, and had two children more.

Nephele, apprehending danger to her children from the influence of their stepmother, took measures to put them out of her reach.

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