The Heliades mourned their brother Phaethon on the banks of the Eridanus, weeping until they took root as poplar trees. Their amber tears fell into the river's waters.
Phaethon fell blazing into the river Eridanus after Zeus struck him from the sun chariot. The Heliades and Cycnus mourned him on the Eridanus's banks.
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