If they please and interest the child, they will fulfill their purpose. […] They are great and happy and good, and they live forever; they can do whatever they please, and from them come all our joys and sorrows. […] Once in a great, great while they came in their own true forms; but far oftener they took on the shape of animals or human beings, so that they might not be recognized. […] So they built great temples of marble, and in them they set up gold and ivory statues of the gods; and there they came, in time of trouble, to ask for help and comfort; and when they were happy they came to offer up their thanks to the kind gods. […] Soon afterwards he married her, and they had one child, a boy, whom they called Theseus.