FUKUZAWA Ichirō

Zeus fell in love with the Spartan queen Leda and transformed himself into a swan to visit her.From this mystical encounter, Leda is said to have laid an egg, from which later grew Helen (the unparalleled beauty who sparked the Trojan War) and the heroic twins Castor and Pollux.From this episode, swans came to have the role of "beautiful incarnations of God."