Leto

Leto is the Titaness of Motherhood and Demurity. She is the Protector of the Youth. Her Roman counterpart is Latona.
==History ==
===Early life===
Leto was born from Coeus and Phoebe, the First Oracle of Delphi. As the Titan Protector of the Young, Leto became the "world's first babysitter". She was very popular with all the Titans since she would help them babysit their children.
===Birth of Apollo and Artemis===
Like all the Titanesses, Leto didn't want to marry her cousin Zeus since he swallowed his previous wife, her cousin Metis. However, after he married his sister Hera, Zeus came to fall in love with Leto, who charmed her into having an affair with him, which concluded with her becoming pregnant with twins. When Hera found out, the Queen of Olympus cast a curse: no land with roots in the earth could receive Leto when it was time for her to give birth, and yet Leto could only give birth on land.
Due to this curse, Leto was driven from land to land, but unable to find a place to rest and give birth.
While trying to consult the Oracle of Delphi for advice, she caught the attention of Python and barely escaped. Leto found refuge on the floating island of Delos with her sister and niece and convinced the inhabitants to let her give birth there. With the help of almost all the goddesses (except Hera), Leto first delivered Artemis, who helped her deliver Apollo after several days.
===Motherhood===
Leto came to establish a reputation that she was a personage to be treated with all reverence, for no one could behave inappropriately towards her without incurring the wrath of her powerful children. When she was traveling to Delphi to visit her son, the giant Tityos attempted to abduct her, but Apollo intervened and slew him with arrows and even ensured that Tityos' soul was tormented for all eternity as punishment. When Queen Niobe of Thebes slightly slandered Leto by claiming that she was better than the Titaness for she had fourteen children (seven sons and seven daughters) while Leto only had two, the indignant Apollo and Artemis slew all of Niobe's children, with the exception of the youngest daughter.
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