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  2. Doves as symbols - Wikipedia

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    Aphrodite's associations with doves influenced the Roman goddesses Venus and Fortuna, causing them to become associated with doves as well. [3] In the Japanese mythology, doves are Hachiman's familiar spirit. Hachiman is the syncretic divinity of archery and war incorporating elements from both Shinto and Buddhism.

  3. Peristera (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek and Roman mythology, Peristera (Ancient Greek: Περιστερά, romanized: Peristerá, lit. 'dove') is a nymph who was transformed into a dove, one of Aphrodite's sacred birds and symbols, explaining the bird's connection to the goddess.

  4. Peleiades - Wikipedia

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    Peleiades (Greek: Πελειάδες, "doves") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona. Pindar made a reference to the Pleiades as the "peleiades" a flock of doves, but the connection seems witty and poetical, rather than mythic. The chariot of Aphrodite was drawn by a

  5. Aphrodite - Wikipedia

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    Aphrodite's most prominent avian symbol was the dove, [250] which was originally an important symbol of her Near Eastern precursor Inanna-Ishtar. [251] [252] (In fact, the ancient Greek word for "dove", peristerá, may be derived from a Semitic phrase peraḥ Ištar, meaning "bird of Ishtar".

  6. Astarte - Wikipedia

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    The dove was a sacred animal of ʿAštart, as, like with her East Semitic equivalent Ishtar, was the lion. ... In Greek mythology Europa was a Phoenician princess ...

  7. Symplegades - Wikipedia

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    Illustration by Howard Davie for The Heroes by Charles Kingsley.. The Symplegades (/ s ɪ m ˈ p l ɛ ɡ ə d iː z /; Greek: Συμπληγάδες, Symplēgádes), also known as Clashing Rocks or Cyanean Rocks (Κυανέαι), were, according to Greek mythology, a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together whenever a vessel went through.

  8. Owl of Athena - Wikipedia

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    The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...

  9. List of Greek deities - Wikipedia

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    It was once held that Dionysius was a later addition to the Greek pantheon, but the discovery of Linear B tablets confirm his status as a deity from an early period. Bacchus was another name for him in Greek, and came into common usage among the Romans. [7] His sacred animals include dolphins, serpents, tigers, and donkeys.