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included Capricorn legend of Zeus and Amalthea
Pricus, the only one who knows what is to become of the sea-goats tries to warn them, even forbidding them to set foot onto the shore, but no matter what he does, or how many times he reverses time, the sea-goats still eventually find their way onto land. Pricus finally realizes that he cannot control the destiny of his children, and instead unhappily lets his children live out their lives according to their own destiny, and all of them become ordinary goats. In his misery, Pricus begs Chronos to let him die, because he cannot bear to be the only sea-goat left. But because he cannot die, being immortal, Chronos instead takes him off the earth and allows him to live out his immortality in the sky, as the constellation Capricorn.
Pricus, the only one who knows what is to become of the sea-goats tries to warn them, even forbidding them to set foot onto the shore, but no matter what he does, or how many times he reverses time, the sea-goats still eventually find their way onto land. Pricus finally realizes that he cannot control the destiny of his children, and instead unhappily lets his children live out their lives according to their own destiny, and all of them become ordinary goats. In his misery, Pricus begs Chronos to let him die, because he cannot bear to be the only sea-goat left. But because he cannot die, being immortal, Chronos instead takes him off the earth and allows him to live out his immortality in the sky, as the constellation Capricorn.
Greek mythology also identified the constellation of Capricorn as Amalthea or Amalthia, who was either a Mountain Goat or goat-tending nymph. She acted as a foster mother to Zeus as a baby when his mother Rhea stowed him away in the mountains of Crete, saving him from being eaten by his father Cronos, who devoured all his babies after birth by swallowing them whole, when she substituted a blanket-wrapped stone for him to swallow. Amalthea nourished Zeus with her milk, and legend says that as the child Zeus played with Amalthea he accidentally broke off one of her goat's horns, which he then transformed into Cornucopia, the Horn of Plenty, an eternal symbol of abundance, always full of whatever its owner desires. Amalthea raised him until with the help of the Titans and the Cyclopes he defeated and killed Chronos and his forces, and opened Chronos' body, releasing his brothers and sisters, and together they then became the Greek gods of Olympus. In gratitude Zeus made Amalthea immortal and placed her in the sky.
Capricorn may also be part of an imaginative commemoration in the Greek memory of the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]] "the great horned goat" who crossed the Hellespont to defeat Darius III of Persia at the [[Battle of Issus]] 333 B.C.. See Daniel 8:5-8.
Capricorn may also be part of an imaginative commemoration in the Greek memory of the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]] "the great horned goat" who crossed the Hellespont to defeat Darius III of Persia at the [[Battle of Issus]] 333 B.C.. See Daniel 8:5-8.