Poseidon carried Theophane to the island of Crumissa and transformed them both — she into a ewe, he into a ram — producing Chrysomallus, the golden-fleeced ram whose fleece Jason and the Argonauts would one day seek.
The golden ram Chrysomallus served Nephele by carrying her children Phrixus and Helle to safety when they were threatened with sacrifice by their stepmother Ino.
Phrixus sacrificed Chrysomallus to Zeus upon arriving safely in Colchis, offering the ram that had saved his life. He then gave the golden fleece to King Aeetes.
The Golden Fleece was the wool of Chrysomallus, the miraculous winged ram with fleece of pure gold, sacrificed by Phrixus to Zeus upon reaching Colchis and its fleece hung in the sacred grove of Ares.
Nephele sent the golden ram Chrysomallus to rescue Phrixus and Helle from the altar where Athamas, deceived by Ino's plot, was about to sacrifice them.
Chrysomallus flew to Colchis at the eastern edge of the Black Sea, carrying Phrixus to safety. The ram's fleece would remain there until Jason's quest.
Chrysomallus carried Helle alongside her brother Phrixus, but she lost her grip and fell into the strait that thereafter bore her name, the Hellespont.
Ino's plot to have Phrixus and Helle sacrificed prompted the divine intervention that sent Chrysomallus to rescue them from the altar.
Chrysomallus carried Phrixus through the sky from Greece to Colchis, rescuing him from sacrifice. Phrixus then sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung its golden fleece in Ares's grove.
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