Leto

Leto is a daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. Zeus made her pregnant, and Hera, jealous, forbade every land to give her a place to give birth. In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, only the small, poor floating island of Delos agreed, on condition that Apollo build a temple there.

Hera also held back Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, and Leto laboured for nine days until the other goddesses sent Iris to fetch Eileithyia with a necklace. Artemis was born first and helped to deliver her twin Apollo.

A story told by Ovid says that when Leto stopped to drink at a pool in Lycia, peasants kept her away and muddied the water, and she turned them into frogs. The Lycians also revered her.