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Tyche was uniquely venerated at Itanos in Crete, as Tyche Protogeneia, linked with the Athenian Protogeneia ("firstborn"), daughter of Erechtheus, whose self-sacrifice saved the city. [13] In Alexandria the Tychaeon, the Greek temple of Tyche, was described by Libanius as one of the most magnificent of the entire Hellenistic world. [14]
Protogeneia (/ ˌ p r ɒ t ə. dʒ ə ˈ n aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Πρωτογένεια means "the firstborn"), in Greek mythology, may refer to: Protogeneia, a Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion of Thessaly and Pyrrha , mythological progenitors of the Hellenes . [ 1 ]
An artist's rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt (inset). Tyche / ˈ t aɪ k i / was a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
258 Tyche – Tyche, Greek goddess: DMP · 258: 259 Aletheia – Veritas (Aletheia), Greek goddess: DMP · 259: 260 Huberta – Saint Hubertus: DMP · 260: 261 Prymno – Prymno, one of the Oceanids, daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology: DMP · 261: 262 Valda – Unknown origin of name.
They argued that evidence of Tyche's existence could be seen in a supposed bias in the points of origin for long-period comets. In 2013, Matese [ 89 ] and Whitmire [ 90 ] re-evaluated the comet data and noted that Tyche, if it existed, would be detectable in the archive of data that was collected by NASA 's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ...
Monumental head of the goddess Commagene (Tyche-Bakht) from Mount Nemrut Antiochus I of Commagene, shaking hands with Herakles. The cultural identity of the Kingdom of Commagene has been variously characterized. Pierre Merlat suggests that the Commagenian city of Doliche, like others in its vicinity, was "half Iranianized and half Hellenized". [8]
Tyche of Constantinople appears in two basic guises on coins and medallions. In one, she wears a helmet like Dea Roma. In the other, which was used for instance on silver medallions in 330 AD to commemorate Constantine's inauguration day, Tyche wears a crown of towers representing city walls, and sits on a throne with a ship's prow at her feet. [7]