Khrysomallos

Khrysomallos is a magical flying golden-fleeced ram in Greek mythology. It was born from the union of Poseidon, God of the sea, and the beautiful mortal woman, Theophane. To protect Theophane from other suitors, Poseidon transformed her into a beautiful ewe and himself into a ram. From their union, Khrymallos was born. When it was grown, Khrysomallos rescued the children Phrixos and Helle as they were about to be sacfras it flew over the sea, giving her name to the Hellespont - the long narrow strait dividing the Balkans from Anatolia (modern Turkey). When he arrived at Colchis, at the far end of the Black Sea, Phrixos sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung its Golden Fleece on an oak tree in a sacred grove, where it became the prize sought in the quest of Jason and the Argonauts.