Amalthea (mythology) - Amalthea and The Aegis

Amalthea and The Aegis

Amalthea's skin, or that of her goat, killed and skinned by the grown Zeus, became the protective Aegis in some traditions, a vivid enough metaphor for the transfer of power to this Olympian god from that of the goddess who preceded his cult.

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