Amalthaea

Amalthaea
/am'euhl thee"euh/, n. Class. Myth.
a nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on the milk of a goat: in some versions she is the goat rather than a nymph.
Also, Amalthea.

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▪ Greek nymph
      in Greek (originally Cretan) mythology, the foster mother of Zeus, king of the gods. She is sometimes represented as the goat that suckled the infant god in a cave in Crete, sometimes as a nymph who fed him the milk of a goat. This goat having broken off one of its horns (horn), Amalthaea filled the horn with flowers and fruits and presented it to Zeus, who, according to one version, placed it, together with the goat, among the stars. In general, the horn was regarded as the symbol of inexhaustible riches and plenty and became the attribute of various divinities and of rivers as fertilizers of the land.

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