According to a Greek story adapted by Ovid, Baucis and Philemon, an old Phrygian couple, were the only ones willing to receive Jupiter and his son Mercury when they came to earth in disguise. In return for the couple's hospitality, the Gods saved them from a storm and turned their cottage into a temple, appointing them priest and priestess. Their wish to die together was granted and they were turned into an oak and a linden tree with intertwined boughs