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Despoina or Despoena (/ d ɛ s ˈ p iː n ə /; [1] Greek: Δέσποινα, romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshipped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and the sister of Arion. [2]
There is some evidence that the figures of the Queen of the Underworld and the daughter of Demeter were initially considered separate goddesses. [86] However, they must have become conflated by the time of Hesiod in the 7th century BC. [79] Demeter and Persephone were often worshipped together and were often referred to by joint cultic titles.
She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and the mother of Persephone by Zeus. [95] She and her daughter were intimately connected in cult, [96] and the two goddesses were honoured in the Thesmophoria festival, which included only women. [97] Demeter presided over the growing of grain, and she was responsible for the lives of married women. [98]
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
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Hesiod goes on to say that these "are the eldest ... but there are many besides" and that there were "three thousand" Oceanids, [2] a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable". [3] While some of these names, such as Peitho , Metis and Tyche , certainly reflected existing traditions, many were probably mere poetic inventions. [ 4 ]
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Next to Demeter, Leto was the most celebrated mother of the ancient world. [26] Hesiod describes Leto as "dark-gowned" [27] and the Orphic Hymn 35 to Leto describes her as "dark-veiled" and "goddess who gave birth to twins" (θεός διδυματόκος). [28] In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, she is described as golden-haired. [29]