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Amibousa, a word referring to the phases of the moon, is written under each goddess's feet. Densely inscribed spells frame each goddess: the inscriptions around Dione and Nyche are voces magicae , incantatory syllables ("magic words") that are mostly untranslatable.
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Melpomene by Joseph Fagnani (1869). Melpomene (/ m ɛ l ˈ p ɒ m ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious') is the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology.
Muses (Μούσαι), goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets; Persephone (Περσεφόνη, Persephónē). Goddess of spring, Queen of the Underworld, wife of Hades and daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Her symbols include the pomegranate, grain, torches, wheat and the asphodelus. After her abduction by Hades ...
Siraya mythology Takaraenpada Egyptian mythology. Ahti; Amathaunta; Ament (Amentet) Ảmi-khent-āat; Ảmi-pet-seshem-neterit; Ảmi-urt;
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/ s ɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː] seh-LEH-neh, meaning "Moon") [2] is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene (MEH-neh), she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.