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[85] [84] In Greece the Mediterranean goddess of nature is the bride of the Greek sky-god . In her fest Daedala Hera is related to the nymph Plataia (consort of Zeus), an old forgotten form of the Greek earth-goddess. [59] Plataia may be related to Gaia who is occasionally identified with Hera. [48] [86]
Queen of the gods, and goddess of women, marriage, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires. She is the goddess of the sky, the wife and sister of Zeus, and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was usually depicted as a regal woman in the prime of her life, wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff.
Metis was an Oceanid nymph, one of the 3000 daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, [5] and a sister of the river-gods, which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus , the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of being ...
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers. Abhimanyu and Uttara ; Acis and ... Venus and Adonis (Greek - Roman) Vishnu and Lakshmi ; Yarilo and Mara
Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites [2] because of their role as protectors of the mummy and the god Osiris and as the sister-wife of Set. She was associated with mourning , the night/darkness, service (specifically temples), childbirth, the dead, protection, magic, health, embalming, and beer.
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (/ æ m f ɪ ˈ t r aɪ t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρίτη, romanized: Amphitrítē) was the goddess of the sea, the queen of the sea, and her consort is Poseidon. She was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (or Oceanus and Tethys). [1]
In Greek mythology, Callidice (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ d ɪ s iː /; Ancient Greek: Καλλιδίκη, romanized: Kallidíkē, lit. 'beautiful justice') is a feminine name attributed to several individuals. Callidice, an Eleusinian princess as one of the daughters of King Celeus and Metaneira, sister of Cleisidice, Demo and Callithoe. [1] Callidice ...
The goddess Arke was born to Thaumas, a minor god; no mother of hers is mentioned anywhere. [1] [a] She and her sister Iris were both messenger deities; Iris is notably also the goddess of the rainbow, but unlike her Arke has not got any established connection to rainbows. Like Iris however Arke also sported wings which might be a nod to some ...