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Acantha
The spirit of the acanthus tree who was once
a nymph loved by the sun god and who, at her death, was transformed
into a sun-loving herb.
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Achelois
A moon-goddess (she who drives away pain)
to whom sacrifice was ordered by the Dodonian Oracle.
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Greek river god. Acheloüs, in the form
of a bull, fought Heracles for Deianira. He lost and Heracles broke
off one of his horns which became the Cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
Achelous is known for having fathered the sirens, also called the
Acheloides. Eldest son of Oceanus and Tethys. Also known as Acheloos.
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Greek vegetation god and consort of Aphrodite.
He was actually a Phoenecian god who was later adopted by the Greeks
as a mortal consort to Aphrodite. He was killed by a wild boar,
and Aphrodite caused the plant anemone to grow from him when she
discovered his body. Symbolizes element of earth, love, fertility,
health.
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Greek god of wind and air. Aeolos lived on
an island near Sicily where he guarded the caves where he kept the
winds. He would let out he wind only as the gods of Olympus instructed,
whether in gusts, gales, or breezes.
One day, Odysseus visited Aeolos on the island. He was warmly welcomed,
and when he left, Aeolos gave him a bag containing all the dangerous
and threatening winds, so that Odysseus would have a safe travel
back to Ithaca without worrying about bad weather.
Odysseus did as Aeolos bid him, but once his homeland was in sight,
he laid down to sleep knowing he needn't worry about poor weather.
But as he slept, one of his men curiously opened the bag, freeing
all the fierce winds and blowing the little ship way of course.
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Greek goddess of midwinter, the new year,
stateliness, beauty and wisdom. Zeus fooled her by appearing as
her husband, because of which she had a child by him. The result
of her union with Zeus was Hercules.
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Greek goddess of the sea, the moon, calm,
tranquility. She who brings life to death and death to life.
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Alecto
One of the three Erinyes, goddesses of vengeance.
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Alectrona
An early goddess who was a daughter of the
sun.
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Alethia
Goddess of truth.
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Greek river god. He became infatuated with
a nymph named Arethusa. He pursued her to incessantly that she eventually
prayed to Artemis for help. Artemis answered her by making the stream
Arethusa inhabited and represent run underground, thereby eluding
the persistent Alpheios.
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Greek goddess of barley flour, destiny, and
the moon.
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Greek goddess of wine, friendships and relationships
between nations.
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Greek goddess of the sea. She took care of
all the creatures of the ocean. Wife of Poseidon, daughter of Oceanus
and Tethys.
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Ananke
Mother of the Fates (the Moirae). Also mother
of Adrasteia (daughter of Jupiter and distributor of rewards and
punishments). Goddess of unalterable necessity .
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Andromeda
A goddess of dreams. Daughter
of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiope. Cassiope offended the Nereids
by boasting that Andromeda was more beautiful than they were. In
retaliation Poseidon, their father, sent a sea monster to devastate
the kingdom. In order to escape from this destruction it was determined
that Andromeda had to be sacrificed to the monster. She was chained
to a rock at the shore for the monster to devour. Perseus, flying
by on the winged horse Pegasus saw her and fell in love with her.
He slew the sea monster and married her. They had six sons and a
daughter. At her death she was placed among the stars as the constellation
Andromeda.
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Angitia
Snake-Goddess.
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Anteros
Brother of Eros and god of returned or opposite
love, passion, mutual love and tenderness; he punished those who
defied and scorned love.
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Antheia
Goddess of blooming, flowers, vegetation,
lowlands, gardens, blossoms, the budding earth and human love.
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Apate
The goddess of deceit.
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The Greek goddess of sexuality, passion,
love, and beauty. She is a beautiful and often naked young
woman. Sometimes she is covered, or partially covered, in
a cloth. She can be seen carrying a dove or stepping out of
the sea. She is considered the epitome of beauty and femininity.
Said to have been born of sea foam.
She is kind to those she liked, but can be cruel and merciless
to those who displease her. She married Hephaestos, had an
affair with Ares, and was caught.
Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and mother of
Eros. Her animal totems are the dove, sparrow, swan, and swallow.
Plants sacred to her are myrtle, poppy, rose, and apple. She
symbolizes feminine prowess, sexuality, relationships, flower
magick.
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Greek god
of the sun, light, music, song, medicine, and healing. Patron
of herdsmen.
Apollo's mother Leto was forced to run from Hera, the jealous
wife of Zeus. She went to the Island of Delos and delivered
her two children the twins, Apollo and Artemis.
Though the god of light, Apollo had a dark side. Under the
name of Carneios, he is seen as a god of death. He and Artemis
slew all of their mother Leto's children when Niobe, their
grandmother, claimed all of Leto's children were more beautiful
than the gods.
Apollo was worshipped at the oracle of Delphi, where a priestess
would give forth his predictions. The Greeks believed that
the egyptian God Heru and Apollo were the same deities. He
is the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo's minor associations
include black magic, blessing, justice, divination, oracles,
prophecy, creativity, fertility, productivity, success.
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Greek spider goddess, weaver of fate
and destiny.
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Arete
Arete is the goddess of virtue and
justice, and teacher of Heracles.
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Ares
Greek war god of storms and hurricanes,
also considered a father of the gods. Undoubtedly the most
fierce and vicious of the gods within the Greek pantheon.
He had a passion for mass slaughter. Son of Zeus and Hera.
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Arges
Personification of brightness.
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Ariadne
A goddess of dreams. She was the daughter
of King Minos and Pasiphae. She fell in love with Theseus
and helped him escape the Labyrinth after he killed the
Minotaur. There are three different endings to this story.
One, she died in childbirth. Two, Theseus took her to Naxos
where he left her to marry Dionysus with whom she bore many
children. Three, Theseus abandoned her and she hanged herself.
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Aristaeus
Protector of flocks. God and patron
of the hunt, agriculture cattle and bees.
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Artemis
Greek goddess of the moon and the hunt.
She is also one of the virgin goddesses, and she protects
women in labor, small children and wild animals. She, Hestia,
and Athena are not affected by Aphrodite's manipulations.
Artemis may be thought of as the "silver goddess."
She wore silver sandals, rode a silver chariot in the silver
moonlight, and kills with silver arrows shot from a silver
bow. In fact, many dying women, as well as women in childbirth,
went to Artemis to ask for a quick, painless death from her
silver arrows.
Artemis was very beautiful and had many suitors, but would
not marry until she found someone as wild and free and herself.
Her nymphs, as well, vowed to not marry.
But one day, seven of the nymphs were in the woods when they
saw the strong and handsome hunter Orion. Because of their
promise to shun men, they fled. But he saw them and pursued.
Though swift and lithe, the nymphs grew weary. They called
out to Artemis for help. Hearing their prayer, she turned
them into pigeons, which flew up into the sky and because
the stars called the Pleiades.
Orion turned away to hunt elsewhere, but soon met Artemis
herself. Sharing a passion for hunting and the woodlands,
they became good friends.
Apollo worried that she would marry Orion and break her vow.
He knew that Orion received the ability to walk on water from
his father Poseidon and was often out on the sea. So, he went
to his sister and left her to the sea. Provoking her with
his great accomplishments, he dared her to try to hit a distant
target at sea. Unaware that it was Orion, she shot an arrow
precisely and hit the target.
The waves lifted Orion's body to the short. Artemis grieved
her loss, then she placed him among the stars, with the Pleiades
and his dog Sirius.
Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, and the daughter of
Leto and Zeus. Also symbolizes health, love, charms, shape
shifting. Sacred to Artemis are deer/stags, geese, wild dogs,
fish, goats, bees, bears, trees.
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The Lady of the Mountain. Greek goddess of
fertility, fire, love, productivity, astrology, war, vengeance,
victory, sexual prowess.
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Astraea
Star Maiden. Daughter of Zeus and Themis and
one of the goddesses of justice who resided among mortals. During
the Golden Age this star-maiden (meaning of her name) lived on earth
and blessed mortals. After the age ended she was placed in the heavens
as the constellation Virgo.
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Astraeus
God of the four winds.
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Greek goddess of obsession, guilt, infatuation,
and mischief. She was a trickster who would lead men into actions
that would be their demise.
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Greek goddess of war and wisdom. She is the
daughter of Zeus, born by springing forth fully grown from his forehead.
It is believed that she was conceived to carry out deeds that Zeus
could not do but would want to. She is a beautiful and serious young
woman. A warrior she wears a breastplate and helmet and carries
a lance and a shield. Sometimes she has an owl with her.
Her name, "Pallas Athene", is representative of her dual
nature. She can be seen as "Pallas", goddess of storms,
courage, strength, battle, war, chivalry, and victory. She can also
be "Athene", the goddess of peace, beauty, wisdom, creativity,
education, science, and the arts.
She was responsible for teaching mortals natal care and healing.
She also invented the flute, created the olive tree, and showed
men how to train horses.
Athena is the patron of craftsmen and the protector of cities. She
is associated with the city of Athens. Her animal symbols are the
cock, snake, owl, and olive tree.
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Greek goddess of the morning wind. See also
Aurora.
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Greek goddess of the dawning morning. She
gave birth to the morning star and the winds (Zephyrus, Boreas,
Notos, and Euros) by Astraeos, the god of starlight.
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Auxesia
Goddess of growth.
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Roman god of fertility, mirth, merriment,
revelry, wine, wisdom, and inspiration. Also known as the Greek
god Dionysus.
Bacchus was born of Zeus and Semele's union against the will of
Hera, Zeus' wife. When the jealous Hera learned of Semele's pregnancy
by Zeus she angrily plotted against them. She disguised herself
and came to Semele, telling her she should ask that Zeus appear
before her in all his glory as the god of thunder. Zeus swore to
grant whatever wish Semele might have. Forced to abide by his oath,
he appeared to Semele as a display of lightening and thunder, which
killed her. As Semele died, she gave birth to Bacchus, who died
as well. Zeus restored life to him and sent the child to be raised
by the nymphs, out of Hera's jealous eye.
As the god of spring, he is Bacchus is said to be in terrible pain
during winter when the flowering plants and vines wither and die.
His followers were called bacchants. After reveling and overindulging
in wine, they danced around in a craze often trampling and tearing
people and animals to pieces. Bacchanalia was a festival held which
involved excessive drinking and drunken orgies.
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Baubo
A Greek goddess of laughter of the kind generated
by indecent gestures or ribald jokes. She is supposed to have tried
to comfort Demeter who was sadly searching for Persephone. When
Demeter resisted Baubo's efforts to cheer her, Baubo lifted her
dress and exposed herself. This brought a grin to Demeter's face,
the barren earth stirred and soon Persephone returned. An almost
identical story is told in Japan involving Uzume and the goddess
Amaterasu.
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Bendis
Goddess of the moon and fertility.
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Bia
Goddess of violence. Personification of power
and force.
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Greek god of the northern arctic winds. He
vied with Zephyrus for the love of Chloris, and lost.
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Fertility Deities. Protectors of sailors.
Identified with the Dioscuri, Curetes and Corybantes. Certain gods
(Phrygian) worshipped in Asia Minor and Greece. The religion of
the Phrygians was an ecstatic nature worship, in which the Great
Mother of the Gods, Rhea, or Cybele, and a male deity, Sabazius,
played a prominent part. The orgiastic rites of this religion influenced
both the Greeks and the Romans. Their center of worship was Samothrace,
and their rituals involved scandalous obscenities. The main gods
were Axierus, Axiocersa, Axiocersus, and Cadmilus who promoted fertility
and guarded mariners.
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Calliope
Beautiful Voice
Chief of the nine Muses. She was the patron
of epic poetry. In various accounts she is the mother of Orpheus,
or of Hymen and Ialemus, or of Rhesus, or of Linus. And those four
groups were sired by four different men, one of whom was the god
Apollo.
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Callisto
Greek moon goddess.
A fountain goddess. Her fountain on Mt Parnassus
was the sacred place of the Muses.
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Cer
Goddess of violent death.
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Ceto
Sea Goddess. Ceto is the daughter of Gaia
and Pontus. She is the sister of Phorcys (who was also her husband),
Thaumas and Eurybia. She is the personification of the dangers and
horrors of the sea. Her name eventually became a name for any generic
sea monster. Ceto is regarded as the mother of the Gorgons and many
other monsters.
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Charis. Graces. Triad of Moon Goddesses.
Goddesses and personifications of delight, graces, pleasures, decorum,
purity, happiness, goodwill, kindness, gratitude, charm and beauty
in life. Goddesses of nature and fertility, closely associated with
the underworld and the Eleusinian mysteries. While the Muses inspire
artists, the Charities apply the artists' works to the embellishment
of life. They were dancing goddesses; they represented the grace
of manners (for they were always gentle and polite), and the greatest
grace, the gift of love itself, which these goddesses ruled with
Aphrodite. Aglaia - Splendor. The brilliant, shining one. Euphrosyne
- Joy, Good Cheer. The one who makes glad. Thalia - Mirth. The abundant,
flowering one.
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Charon
God of hell.
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Greek. Demeter's name as protector of spouts.
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Chloris
Goddess of flowers, places shaded by trees,
shrubs, and vines. She was the wife of Zephyrus.
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Circe
She-Falcon. Moon Goddess. Goddess of physical
love, sorcery, enchantments, evil spells, vengeance, dark magick,
witchcraft and cauldrons.
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Clio
Proclaimer
One of the nine Muses. She was the patron
of history, and inventor of historical and heroic poetry. From a
union with King Pierus she bore a son, Hyacinthus. He was a handsome
lad who was killed by his lover, Apollo. From his blood grew the
flower that bears his name.
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Cotys
Goddess of sexuality.
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Cotytto
The Thracian goddess of immodesty and debauchery.
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Crimisus
River God.
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Crinisus
River God.
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Cronus
Father Time. The Old King. Father of the Gods.
The Great Lesson-Giver. Ruler of the Golden Age. God of time, fate,
agriculture, abundance, Earth's riches and prosperity. Kronos, the
youngest Titan, who gained his power by castrating his father Uranus.
By his sister Rhea, he fathered the great gods (the Olympians):
Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Hestia. Zeus later led
the Olympian gods in defeating him. Cronus is equated with the Roman
god Saturn.
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Great Greek Mother of the Gods. She is the
leading deity of the Greek mystery religions. Symbolizes the element
air and fertility.
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Another name for the Greek love goddess Aphrodite.
See also Aphrodite.
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A race of invisible beings. Assigned by Zeus
to every mortal to attend to, protect, and guide. They were nameless
unless they attended a god or goddess. To be watchful of your life,
cheerful, and honorable, is to respect your daemon. To be reckless
and ignore your conscience is to go against the daemon. The daemon
would die with its assigned mortal.
The Greeks believed that great heroes and champions were possessed
by daemons. Eventually this belief extended, and the Greeks believe
that every hero who died honorably actually ascended to live with
the gods.
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Damia
Goddess of growth in nature.
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Deimos
A son of Ares and brother of Phobos. The god
of terror and panic.
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Greek earth goddess. All nourishing mother
of the earth. The goddess of the harvest. She is an old woman and
the mother of Persephone. She often weeps because she and Persephone
have been separated.
Her daughter, Persephone, was gathering flowers one day when Hades
came out from the earth and abducted her to make her his bride.
Demeter grieved and searched all the lands for her.
Wherever she was warmly received, she would give people instruction
in agriculture. Along her way she met the kind Keleos of Attica,
and left him her snake-drawn carriage and the seed of barely so
that he could spread the knowledge of agriculture around the lands.
Demeter finally found out where Persephone had been taken. Though
Zeus had given Hades permission to carry off the girl, and had instructed
the other gods not to help, Demeter was able to convince them to
come to her aid. They agreed, provided that Persephone had not eaten
anything in her time in the underworld.
However, Persephone had eaten six seeds of a pomegranate Hades had
given her as proof of her love. They came to a compromise; Persephone
would spend six months of the year with Demeter, during which time
the earth would prosper and flourish in Demeter's joy.
The other six months would be passed by Persephone in the underworld
with Hades. While Persephone is with Hades, Demeter grieves her
and the earth suffered extreme temperatures and poor harvests. This
is a myth which explains the seasons.
Demeter is the daughter of Chronos and Rhea. She is associated with
agriculture, crops, and all produce, as well as abundance in childbirth
and agriculture.
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Derceto
A goddess of fertility.
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Destiny
Ancient Goddess of destiny.
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Dike
One of the Horae; she was the personification
of justice. Also known as Astraea. She protected those that administered
justice; she encouraged rewarding the good as well as punishing
the evil. Her assistant was Poena, the goddess of retaliation and
retribution.
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Greek nature and earth goddess, daughter
of Uranus and Gaia. Mother of Aphrodite. Associated with divination,
predictions, love, prophecy.
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The Greek god of wine, the life force,
and the wildness of instinct. A young man dressed in an animal
skin, he carries a staff and sometimes is seen as a bull or
a goat.
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Discordia
Roman goddess of discord and strife, known
as Eris to the Greeks. The other gods employed her to stir up feuds
and rivalry amongst men. Mother of Enyo.
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The personification of armistice or truce.
She appeared at the Olympic games to ensure that there would be
no hostilities.
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The female personification of a Greek ritual
object: a branch of olive wood, twined with wool and hung with fruits,
which was carried in festivals by children with two living parents.
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Goddess of childbirth. She was a daughter
of Zeus and Hera. In some tales she is immeasurably ancient (before
Zeus/Hera); she was said to have mid-wived the gods and goddesses
of classical Greece. Some legends even call her the mother of Eros,
not the god of love, but the primordial force of creation hatched
from the world egg.
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Greek goddess of peace and wealth. Her symbols
include the cornucopia, the olive branch, corn ears on her head,
and Herme's staff. Also known as Pax.
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Eleos
The goddess of mercy.
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Greek god of hope who stood over Eros holding
a lily.
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Greek goddess of war. She spreads terror
and alarm before and during combat. A consort of Ares, sometimes
considered his sister, sometimes his wife.
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Enipeus
River God.
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Enyalius
War god.
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Eos
Eos was the goddess of dawn, daughter of the
Titans, Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Selene. She
was the mother of the evening star Eosphorus (Hesperus), other stars,
and the winds Boreas, Zephyrus and Notus. When she was caught in
a tryst with Ares, Aphrodite cursed her with an insatiable desire
for handsome young men. She most often appears winged or in a chariot
drawn by four horses, one of them being Pegasus.
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Erato
Passionate
The Muse of lyric poetry and mime, usually
depicted holding a lyre.
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Greek god of darkness.
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Erinyes
These are the three goddesses of revenge.
Eumenides ("protectors of the suppliant", "the well-disposed
ones") or the Semnai ("the venerable ones"). They
are solemn maidens dressed as huntresses, wear bands of serpents.
They pursue wrongdoers and torment them in ways that make the criminals
wish they were dead. Crimes that especially draw their attention
are disobedience toward parents, ill-treatment of the elderly, murder,
violation of the law of hospitality, and improper conduct toward
suppliants. Born from the castrated Uranus's genitals. The Furies
had snakes for hair and blood dripped from their eyes. They also
had bats’ wings and dogs’ heads. Alecto - Unceasing
in anger. Megaera - The grudging or unwilling.
Tisiphone - The avenger of murder.
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Eris-strife
Eris is the goddess of discord, evil, infatuation,
mischief and strife and the daughter of Zeus and Hera. She is obsessed
with bloodshed, havoc, and suffering. She calls forth war and her
brother Ares carries out the action.
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The Greek God of sexual attraction. He is
a small and beautifully formed young man with wings. He often carries
a lyre or a bow and a quiver of arrows.
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Ersa
Goddess of dew.
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Euphrosyne
One of the Graces.
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Europa
Fertility goddess.
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Eurus
God of the east wind, renewing and intelligence.
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Euryale
One of the Gorgons.
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Eurynome
The goddess of all creation, and ruled the
Titans (with Ophion) before Cronus.
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Euterpe
Rejoicing Well
The Muse of lyric poetry and music.
The three powerful goddesses who determined
the lives of men from the time they were born to the time they died.
Clotho - the spinner, who spun the thread of a person’s life.
Lachesis - the apportioner, who decided how much time was to be
allowed each person. Atropos- the inevitable, who cut the thread
when you were supposed to die.
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Roman and Italian god of woodlands. Symbolizes
love. Also known as the Greek god Pan.
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Roman goddess of blossoming and flowering
plants. She is the wife of Zephyrus who gave her eternal youth.
Also known as the Greek goddess Chloris.
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The mother earth. She sits on a throne and
holds many fruits, grains, and vegetables often in a cornucopia. She
is a mature woman and usually wears a robe. Gaia is often used in
craft rituals.
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Ganymede
Greek cup bearer.
Goddess of old age, she was the daughter of
Nyx.
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They were three monstrous daughters of the
sea god Phorcys and his wife, Ceto, and could change men to stone
at a glance. The Gorgons, whose faces and figures were truly beautiful,
were, even so, terrifying, monstrous creatures covered with impenetrable
scales, with hair of living snakes, hands made of brass, sharp fangs
and a beard. The hero Perseus killed Medusa and brought back her
head, with the help of the deities Hermes and Athena. From her blood
sprang the winged horse Pegasus, her son by the god Poseidon. Their
triplet sisters, the Graeae (see below), guarded the way to the
Gorgon's home beyond the sea, almost at the end of night. Euryale
- Far-roaming. Medusa - Ruler. Sthenno - Forceful.
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Graeae or Graii or
Graiae
Grey Goddesses. Goddesses of war, retribution
and divination. The three "old women" or "gray ones".
They are the daughters of Phorcys (a son of Gaia and Pontus) and
Ceto (his sister). The Graeae are the sisters and the guardians
of the Gorgons.
Enyo - Horror. Deino - Dread. Pemphredo - Alarm.
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Greek god of death, keeper
of the underworld. He was the brother of Zeus but was in the
underworld instead of upon Olympus. He is also king of the dead.
A mature man, he wears a beard and a helmet and often is seen
on a throne next to his young wife Persephone.
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Harmonia
Goddesses of storms. Personifications of the
storm winds. In earlier versions of Greek myth, Harpies were described
as beautiful, winged maidens. Later they became winged monsters
with the face of an ugly old woman and equipped with crooked, sharp
talons. Aello- Storm Swift. Celaeno- The Dark. Podarge- The Fleet
foot. Ocypete- The Swiftwing.
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The Goddess of magic and the Moon.
She often carries a torch and has snakes in her hair. She
can have three heads - those of the maiden, mother, and crone.
She can be found at the spot where three roads meet.
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Helios
Greek god of the sun. His roman counterpart
was Sol.
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Hephaestus
Greek blacksmith god.
Symbolizes fire magic, creativity, wisdom.
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The Greek goddess of women, matrimony
and cycles of women's growth. Sister and wife of Zeus, she
is the queen of the Gods. She wears a crown and carries a
scepter. She is mature and beautiful. She is best known for
her intense jealousy of all of Zeus' affairs with mortal women.
She can be invoked for love, the moon, element of Air, motherhood.
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The Greek god of commerce, communication,
thought, and travel. A beautiful, athletic young man, he wears
sandals with wings, a helmet with wings, and carries a caduceus.
He was a messenger for the gods, often carrying messages from
mortals to gods and vice versa. He symbolizes communication,
health, knowledge, fertility, and insight.
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Hespera
First goddess of the dawn.
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Hesperides
Nymphs who live in a beautiful garden.
Aegle, Arethusa, Erytheia and Hesperia.
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Hesperos
The goddess of evening and wife of Atlas.
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Greek mother goddess. She symbolizes the
element of fire, domestic and home magic, conception, and the well-being
of the self and family. See also Vesta.
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Hilaeira
Goddess of brightness.
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Himeros
Himerus. Pothos. God of desire and longing
for love. Personification of sexual desire.
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Horae
The Hours or Seasons. Guardian Goddesses of
Nature and Rain. They rule law, justice and Peace. Protectresses
of the young. The Horae are the goddesses of the seasons and the
orderly procession of things in general. They are also the collective
personification of justice. Hesoid, who saw them as givers of the
law, justice and peace gave them the names Eunomia - Discipline,
Dice - Justice and Eirene -Peace. At Athens two of the Horae, were
called Thallo and Carpo, and to the Athenians, represented the budding
and maturity of growing things. As a result, Thallo became the protectress
of youth.
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Hubris or
Hybris
God and personification of the lack of restraint
and insolence.
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Hygieia
Goddess of health, and the daughter of Aesculapius.
Her symbol was a serpent.
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Greek god of marriage. Symbolizes love, virginity,
and the oath of marriage.
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Hyperion
The Titan god of light, he was the father
of the sun, the moon, and the dawn.
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Greek god of sleep. Brother of Thanatos (death)
and Dreams. Son of Nox (night) and Erebus.
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Iaso
Goddess of healing.
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Inachus
River God.
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Iris
Goddess of the rainbow, messenger of the
gods.
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Judges
Of the Underworld
Minos, Aeacus, Rhadamanthus
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Kakia
Goddess and personification of vice.
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Keres
Avenging spirits of the dead.
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Kratos or
Cratos
God of force. Personification of strength
and power.
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Greek river god, son of Oceanus and Tethys,
father of Daphne.
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Leto
Leto is the mother of Apollo and Artemis and
is mostly worshipped in conjunction with her children. She was a
Titan and considered the goddess of fruitfulness.
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Leucothea
Ino. White Goddess. Sea Goddess.
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Loxias
God of prophecy and music
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Roman god of wild nature, fertility, passionate
lovemaking and wine. Also known as Libera. His counterparts are
the Greek gods Dionysus and Bacchus. He symbolizes fertility and
wild personalities.
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Litia
Goddesses who helped those whom Ate ruined.
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Grandmother of magick. Greek goddess of spring,
youth, life, and rebirth. One of the seven daughters of Atlas and
mother of Hermes. She symbolizes love.
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Medusa
One of the three Gorgons, who were three monstrous
daughters of the sea god Phorcys and his wife, Ceto. Her equally
hideous sisters were Stheno and Euryale. Medusa was the only mortal
one (She was killed by Perseus, who brought back her head, with
the help of the deities Hermes and Athena. From her blood sprang
the winged horse Pegasus, her son by the god Poseidon.). The Gorgons
were terrifying, dragon like creatures, covered with golden scales
and having snakes for hair. They turned all who looked at them to
stone.
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Melicertos
God of harbors and ports.
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Melpomene
One of the Muses. She was the muse of Tragedy.
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Metis
The daughter of Oceanos and Tethys and Zeus's
first wife. She represented counsel. Goddess and personification
of wisdom.
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Mnemosyne
She was the Titan goddess of
memory. Zeus spent nine consecutive nights with her, after which,
later, she gave birth to the nine Muses, one each day.
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Moira
Supreme Goddess. Most Powerful Goddess. Goddess
of fate. Supreme even over the gods of Olympus.
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Momus
The Greek god of censure and mockery, sarcasm,
pain, mockery, faultfinding, scoff and unfair criticism. Patron
of writers and poets. Son of Nox (Night). He was driven from Olympus
for ridiculing the other gods. He even found fault with Aphrodite
for the noise made by her feet, although he could find no fault
with her body.
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Mormo
Goddess that would bite naughty children and
cripple them.
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Greek god of doom. Deification of an unfortunate
destiny and the fate of a violent death.
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Morpheus
God of dreams.
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Muses
Mountain goddesses. Aganippides. Goddesses
of springs, memory, poetry, singing, arts and sciences. From their
name words such as music, museum, mosaic are derived. Calliope -
Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry. Clio (Kleio) - Muse
of history. Erato - Muse of lyric poetry, particularly love and
erotic poetry, and mimicry. Euterpe - Muse of music and lyric poetry,
joy and pleasure and of flute playing. Melpomene - Muse of tragedy.
Polyhymnia (Polymnia)- Muse of the sacred hymn, eloquence and dance.
Terpsichore- Muse of Dance. Thalia- Muse over comedy and light poetry.
Urania- Muse of astronomy and astrology.
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Fresh-water nymphs who lived in and presided
over brooks, springs, and fountains; or lakes, rivers, and streams.
Classified according to the type of water they inhabit: Crinaea
(fountains), Eleionomae (marshes), Limnatides (lakes), Pegaeae (springs),
Potameides (rivers). Some individuals were: Abarbarea, Aigle, Bateia,
Cleochareia, Echenais, Harmonia, Melite, and Polyxo
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Necessitas
Goddess who presided over the destinies
of mankind.
Nemesis
Goddess of vengeance.
The sea (salt-water) nymphs; the 50 daughters
of Nereus and 'grey-eyed' Doris. The best known are: Amphitrite,
Thetis, Panope, and Galatea. Others include: Agave, Arethusa, Cale,
Cranto, Cymo, Dero, Doto, Drimo, Euarne, Eudia, Galene, Glauke,
Halia, Helice, Ione, Lilaea, Memphis, Neso, Opis, Ploto, Proto,
Sao, Speio, and Themisto.
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Greek god of understanding and intelligence.
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Nyx or Nox
She was the goddess of night.
She was the daughter of Chaos and the mother of Death and Sleep.
She was one of the most feared of the gods.
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The father of all the water deities by Tethys.
Eldest of the Titans. Greek deified stream which encircled Gaea
and was the source of all water.
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Olympians
The gods who supplanted the Titans. Zeus,
Hera, Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Athena, Hestia, Ares,
Hephaestus, Hermes, and Hades.
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Oneirois
Gods and personification of dreams. Collective
name for the sons of Hypnos. Icelus- Dreams of humans.
Morpheus- Shaping dreams. Phobetor- Frightening dreams of beasts.
Phantasos- Apparitions.
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Orcus
God of oaths.
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Greek god of fertility and the woodlands.
He was later demonized by the Christian church. He embodies love,
lust, fertility, and the element of earth. The god of wild places
and things and of shepherds. Pan plays a set of connected pipes
called panpipes. He takes a form that is half man and half goat.
His legs and feet are of the goat, while his chest and upper body
are that of a hairy man. He usually has horns. He is frequently
invoked in pagan rituals.
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Panacea
Goddess of healing through herbs. Daughter
of Epione and Asclepius and sister of Aigle, Hygeia, and Iaso.
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Panatis
Goddess of weaving.
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Pandia
Goddess of brightness and of the full moon
and daughter of Zeus and Eos.
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Paregoros
Goddess of persuasion and consolation. Daughter
of Tethys and Oceanus but not a water deity.
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Pax
Goddess of harmony, peace and domestic concord.
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Peitho
She represented persuasion. The daughter of
Aphrodite and Hermes.
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Peneus
River God.
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Penia
Goddess of poverty and wife of Porus.
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Penthus
God of grief.
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The Greek goddess of the harvest, fertility,
and spring. She often is seen sitting with Hades on a throne in
the underworld, where she spends a number of months every year.
Sometimes she carries a pomegranate. She is also called "Kore",
the maiden.
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Phantastus
God of dreams of inanimate objects.
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Pheme
Goddess of fame and report. Personification
of rumors.
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Philotes
Goddess and personification of affection.
Triad with Apate(deceit) and Geras(old age). Daughter of Nyx.
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Philyra
Goddess of beauty, perfume, healing and writing.
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Phobos
God of alarm, fear, dread and terror. Personification
of terror and fear. A son of Ares and brother of Deimos.
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Phoebe
Moon Goddess. She was a Titan,
the daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She is identified with the moon
like her Roman counterpart Diana. By her brother Coeus she is the
mother of Asteria and Leto. Through Leto, she is the grandmother
of Apollo and Artemis.
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Phorcys
Sea God.
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Phospherus
The god of the morning star.
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Pleiades or Atlantides
The virgin companions of Artemis. They are
Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Merope and Taygete.
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Greek god of wealth. He was thought to be
blind because wealth is given indiscriminately to both the good
and the bad. Some stories say eventually he gains his sight back
so he can give wealth to the deserving.
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Polyhymnia
The muse of lyric poetry, and the inventor
of the lyre.
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Pontus
Sea God. Personification of the sea.
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Greek god of earthquakes and the sea. He
always carries a trident and is associated with dolphins and horses.
Symbolizes the elements air and water, can be invoked for the moon.
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Greek deification of love, passion, and desire.
Consort of Aphrodite.
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Praxidice
Goddess of enterprises, punishment of evil
actions, justice and retribution.
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Priapus
Fertility God. Protector of gardens, domestic
animals and fruits. His father was Dionysus. His mother unknown.
He was grotesquely formed and was always represented with a huge
phallus. (See priapism in your dictionary.) He was adopted as the
god of gardens, probably because he was considered fertile. God
of fertility in nature and in man, gardens, viniculture, sailors
and fishermen.
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Greek mythology, Prometheus was the titan
who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans, along with the
arts and civilization. He was also often regarded as the creator
of man from clay, the first human, and humanity's savior when Zeus
threatened to kill all human beings. He greatly offended Zeus by
his actions and was punished. There are different sources with different
accounts of the legend.
In Hesiod's version, Zeus' punishment was
the creation of Pandora, the first woman, who was overtaken by temptation
and opened a forbidden box thereby unleashing all the lamentations
and evils of the world.
In the Aeschylean version, Zeus had Prometheus chained to a rock
on Mount Caucasus where an eagle ate away at his liver, starting
all over each day after the liver had grown back during the night.
He is eventually rescued by Hercules.
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Greek sea god who served Poseidon. He was
a shape shifter and changed form at will.
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Roman god of agriculture and ruler of the
golden age. Also known to the Greeks as Kronos, Chronos.
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The Radiant, The Well Dressed Queen. Greek
moon goddess and teacher to the magicians and sorcerers or sorceresses.
She was a beautiful woman with long wings and a halo of gold. Daughter
of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Eos. She symbolizes
the moon. Also known as Phoebe.
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Ptolemaic god of the afterlife and fertility,
devised by the Greeks from Osiris and Apis. Physician and helper
of worshippers in distress. Symbolizes health, healing and fertility.
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Sileni
Greek woodland gods or spirits, half-man half-horse.
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Silvanus
Wood God of boundaries, gardens and woods.
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Simois
River God.
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Spercheus
River God.
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Styx
The goddess of the River Styx that wound beneath
the earth in the land of the dead is also called Styx "the
hated one," who prevented the living from crossing into the
realm of Persephone without first undergoing death's torments. Goddess
who all swore inviolable oaths and the river of death in the underworld.
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Telesphorus
God of healing.
Terpsichore
Rejoicing in the Dance
Sea Goddess. Personification of the fertile
ocean.
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One of the nine Muses. She presided over
comedy and pastoral poetry. The second Thalia is one of the Three
Graces.
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The Greek personification of death, twin brother
of Sleep (Hypnos).
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The wife of her brother Hyperion, Theia gave
birth to Helios (sun), Eos (dawn), and Selene (moon). She is the
goddess from whom light emanates and considered especially beautiful.
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Mother goddess. Earth goddess. Punisher of
the guilty. Goddess of order, justice, law, collective consciousness,
social order, peace, settlement of disagreements, righteousness,
feasts, social gatherings, oath-swearing, wisdom, prophecy, childbirth,
courts and judges. Personification of law and order. Protector of
the innocent. Themis is the goddess of the order of things established
by law, custom and ethics. By Zeus' command, she convenes the assembly
of the gods, and she is invoked when mortals assemble. Another Titan,
she is the mother of the Horae (seasons), the Fates, the Hesperides
and Prometheus.
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Greek goddess who had an affair with Zeus.
However, Zeus learned that Thetis' son would be more powerful than
his father, so he married her off to Peleus. They had a son named
Achilles. Thetis attempted to make him immortal by dipping him in
the river Styx, but because she held him by the heel, his heel remained
his weakness. Thus the allusion to "Achilles' Heel".
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Thriae
Three Holy Virgins. Goddesses of nature and
who can foresee the future.
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Titans
Personifications of the forces of nature.
(By most accounts they numbered twelve). They were children of Uranus
and Gaea. Often called the Elder Gods, they were for many ages the
supreme rulers of the universe and were of enormous size and incredibly
strong. They were: (six brothers) Oceanus (the river that flowed
around the earth), Coeus, Crius, Hyperion (the father of the sun,
the moon, and the dawn), Iapetus (the father of Prometheus, who
created mortals), and Cronus (Kronos; he was the most important
of the Titans and ruled the universe until he was dethroned by his
son Zeus, who seized power for himself.) and (six sisters) Theia,
Rhea, Themis (the goddess of divine justice), Mnemosyne (the goddess
of memory), Phoebe, and Tethys (wife of Oceanus). Others included
Atlas, Clymene, Dione, Hecate, Prometheus, Leto, Astraeus, Eurybea,
Ophion, Pallas, Epimetheus. Of all the Titans only Prometheus and
Oceanus sided with Zeus against Cronus. As a result, they were honored
and the others were bound in Tartarus. Eventually, however, Zeus
was reconciled with the Titans, and Cronus was made ruler of the
Golden Age.
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Titea
Earth Goddess.
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Tmolus
Mountain God.
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Triton
Sea God
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Triton was the son of the sea god Poseidon
and Amphitrite. He had the power to calm or agitate the waves by
blowing on a twisted seashell.
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Trophonius
Ancient Earth God.
Tyche
Goddess symbolizing fortune, chance, luck
and prosperity.
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Typhon
The youngest son of Tartarus of the underworld
and Gaea. He was described as a grisly monster with a hundred dragon's
heads. He was imprisoned under Mount Etna (a volcano) and thus was
considered the personification of volcanic forces. He was married
to Echidna, and had as children, Orthos, Cerberus (the three headed
dog that guarded the entrance to Hades), the multi-headed Lernean
Hydra, Chimaera, the Theban Sphinx, and the Nemean Lion. Zeus killed
him with a thunderbolt.
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Urania
Goddess of astronomy. One of the nine Muses.
Also the name of one of the Oceanides.
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Uranus
God of jealousy. Personification of zeal
or emulation.
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Greek-Roman god for the west winds, the most
pleasant and favored of the winds. Symbolizes the element air. Also
known as Zephyrs, Zephyr.
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Greek pantheon. He is the god of skies, lightening,
thunder, and storms. He is associated with rain and clouds and often
carries a thunderbolt. He is married to Hera, but often falls in
love with other women. He is a bearded man of great wisdom and authority.
He also takes on other forms, Zeus Chronos: Fertility, earth. Zeus
Sote: Father and savior of man. Zeus Xenios: Protector of politeness
and hospitality. Zeus Herkios: Protector of house and home. Zeus
Kleisos: Protector of property. Zeus Gamelios: God of marriage contracts.
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Zibelthiurdos
Storm God.
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