Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, turned Io in a cow with a gladfly stinging her rump while the cow wandered.
Zeus turned the nymph Io into a white cow to hide her from his wife Hera, who was jealous. Hera ended up discovering the deception and had a fly sting Io, causing her to wander the earth in distress.
To hide her from Hera's jealous eyes He failed however, since Hera saw right through his ruse.
1. When the beautiful Io resists Jove, he covers the earth with fog and rapes her. Juno, the jealous queen of the gods, notices the mists and suspects her husband. She clears the fog but not before Jove hides Io in the form of a cow. Juno claims the beautiful cow as her own, giving her for safe-keeping to the watchman, Argus, who has one-hundred eyes and never closes them all at once. Io is able to communicate her fate to her father by drawing in the dirt with her hoof. He mourns for her, but cannot stop Argus from taking her to pasture.
The animal you are referring to is likely a butterfly, specifically the Peacock butterfly (Aglais io). They have long hindwing tails and distinctive eyespots that resemble those of a peacock, serving as a defense mechanism to deter predators.
Argus Hermes recalls his slaying of the hundred eyed giant Argus, who was watching over the heifer-nymph Io in the sanctuary of Queen Hera herself in Argos. Putting Argus to sleep, Hermes used a spell to close all of Argus' eyes and then slew the giant. Argus' eyes were then put into the tail of the peacock, symbol of the goddess Hera.
Zeus turned the nymph Io into a white cow to hide her from his wife Hera, who was jealous. Hera ended up discovering the deception and had a fly sting Io, causing her to wander the earth in distress.
Io was turned into a cow so Hera would not know that she was Zeus's wife
Zeus's "cow-bride" was Io.
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Zeus's "cow-bride" was Io.
Io. Zeus turned her into cow to hide her from Hera.
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To hide her from Hera's jealous eyes He failed however, since Hera saw right through his ruse.
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Io (the cow) transformed back into a nymph and became the goddess Isis.
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