Latona and The Lycian Peasants - Latona gave birth to twins, she had to run from the wrath of Juno across fiercely hot fields, she chanced upon a lake but would not let her touch it, she prayed to the Gods to let her drink, the Gods than said well live in the pool and Latona and her twins were turned into frogs.
Marsyas - A Satyr challenged Apollo to a flute contest, Apollo wins and punishes the Satyr and lets him bleed to death, and from his dead body came a river called Marsyas - Phyrgia's clearest stream.
Boreas and Orithyia - The God of wind Boreas is kept away from Orithyia, but tries to woo her by howling the wind, one day he covers himself in a cloud and takes Orithyia, they soon get married and have two sons, who after puberty sprout wings themselves.
Niobe - Niobe was the queen of Thebes, and one day she bragged about her seven sons and daughters and mocked Leto in a ceremony, soon Leto would send his son Apollo and his daughter Artemis to kill all of Niobe's kin and husband, this is done and when all of them are killed she weeps and weeps and was put on the top of Mount Sipylus, where she still weeps today.
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