# Telethusa

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**Telethusa** or **Telethousa** (Ancient Greek: Τελέθουσα) was the [Cretan](/source/Crete) mother of [Iphis](/source/Iphis) by [Ligdus](/source/Ligdus_(mythology)) in [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology).

## Mythology

Telethusa was told by her husband Ligdus that if she gave birth to a girl, the child would be put to death. But when the child was about to be born Telethusa had a vision in her dreams in which [Isis](/source/Isis), in the company of other [Egyptian](/source/Ancient_Egypt) gods ([Anubis](/source/Anubis), [Bubastis](/source/Bubastis), [Apis](/source/Apis_(deity)), [Harpocrates](/source/Harpocrates) and [Osiris](/source/Osiris)), told her not to obey her husband's orders. Doing as the vision said, Telethusa then raised her daughter Iphis as a boy to spare her from Ligdus's wrath. Iphis was later transformed into a man by the Egyptian goddess Isis in order to marry her true love, the maiden [Ianthe](/source/Ianthe_(mythology)).[1]

## Notes

1. [Ovid](/source/Ovid), *[Metamorphoses](/source/Metamorphoses_(poem))* [9.789–937](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+9.764&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:book=9:chapter=764&highlight=Telethusa)

## References

- [Publius Ovidius Naso](/source/Ovid), *Metamorphoses* translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028)
- Publius Ovidius Naso, *Metamorphoses.* Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029).

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