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"There
are many myths surrounding the origin of amber. Ovid wrote that
when Phaethon, a son of Helios, the sun, convinced his father to
allow him to drive the chariot of the sun through the heavens for
a day, he erred too close to the earth, scorching it. To save the
earth, Zeus struck Phaethon with a thunderbolt and he died, plunging
out of the sky. His mother and sister turned into trees in their
grief but still mourned him. Their tears, dried by the sun, are
amber."
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