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First worship the Immortal gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law. Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light. Honour likewise the Terrestrial Daemons by rendering them the worship lawfully due to them. Honour likewise your parents, and those most nearly related to you.
Hymen, god of marriage, weddings, and the bridal hymn. Pothos, god of sexual longing, yearning, and desire. Hedone, goddess of pleasure. Helios, the sun, who played a role in love-magic; according to Pindar, lovesick men would pray to him. Pan, god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, rustic music, and fertility of the wild/flocks. Is portrayed as ...
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
Caerus is represented as a young and beautiful god. Opportunity obviously never gets old, and beauty is always opportune, flourishing in its own season. Caerus stands on tiptoe because he is always running, and like Hermes, he has wings in his feet to fly with the wind. He holds a razor, or else scales balanced on a sharp edge—attributes ...
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
Like her East Semitic equivalent, Ishtar, the Phoenician ʿAštart was a complex goddess with multiple aspects: being the feminine principle of the life-giving force, ʿAštart was a fertility goddess who promoted love and sensuality, in which capacity she presided over the reproduction of cattle and family growth; the goddess was also the ...
An ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period, Plato is considered a fundamental piece of the Western philosophy puzzle. ... that many Plato quotes about life, love and culture still ...
Miriam Lichtheim describes the hymn as "a beautiful statement of the doctrine of the One God." [18] In 1913, Henry Hall contended that the pharaoh was the "first example of the scientific mind." [19] Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat discusses the terminology used to describe these texts, describing them as formal poems or royal eulogies. He ...