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** Apollo is sometimes depicted riding a chariot pulled by swans.
* Swans also appear in Irish mythology. For example, the Irish legend of the ''Children of Lir'' is about a stepmother transforming her children into swans for 900 years. In another instance, in the legend ''The Wooing of Etain'', the king of the Sidhe, transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies.
** Aengus Og fell in love with Caer Ibormeith, who was cursed to become a swan every other year. Her father said if Aengus could pick her out of 150 swans, the curse would break. Being the god of love, Aengus chose
* In [[Norse Mythology]], there are two swans that drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods.
* Swans are revered in Hinduism, and are compared to saintly persons whose chief characteristic is to be in the world without getting attached to it, just as a swan's feather does not get wet although it is in water.
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