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| - In form of Leukothoe's mother, Helios asks maids to leave the chamber as she waited to speak with her daughter in privacy. When the room was left without a witness. Helios took her in his arms and kissed her. Fear gripped Leukothoe heart, she known something is wrong. Helios resume his own true shape and seduce her. As a result she would bare Thersanon. Klytie, an Oceanid nymph loved by Helios, abandoned her for Leukothoe, was jealous and in anger spread the tale of Leukothoe shame. Klytie make sure that Leucothoe's father, Orchamus, knew the tale of Leukothoe shame. Orchamus came to know about it, even Leukothoe told that Helios ravished her against her will, in anger he ordered to buried her alive deep in the earth. Helios tried to save her, but he was late, she was crushed by the weight of earth. Helios changed Leukothoe lifeless body into a incense plant (shrub of frankinese).
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