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In Greek mythology, Hemera (/ ˈ h ɛ m ər ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἡμέρα, romanized: Hēmérā, lit. 'Day' [hɛːméraː]) was the personification of day. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the sister of Aether.
4.7 Greek. 4.8 Mari. 4.9 Roman. 5 Oceania. ... A light deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with light and/or ... dragon deity of daylight; Japanese ...
In Greek mythology, the Horae (/ ˈ h ɔː r iː /), Horai (/ ˈ h ɔː r aɪ /) or Hours (Ancient Greek: Ὧραι, romanized: Hôrai, lit. 'Seasons', pronounced [hɔ̂ːrai̯]) were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time.
Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess; Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the ...
In Greek mythology, Nyx (/ n ɪ k s / NIX; [2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, , "Night") [3] is the goddess and personification of the night. [4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are mainly personifications of ...
In Greek mythology, Anatole (Ancient Greek: Ανατολη, romanized: Anatolê, lit. 'rising') was the second Hora (Hour) who presided over the hour of dawn. [1] She was also called Anatolia or Antolia (Ἀντολίη means ‘eastern’). [2]
In fact, Greek mythology tells the story of a confrontation between Lycaon, a cruel king, and the Greek god, Zeus, in which Zeus ultimately punishes Lycaon by turning him into a wolf.
' father daylight-sky-god '), [1] [2] is the reconstructed name of the daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. * Dyēus was conceived as a divine personification of the bright sky of the day and the seat of the gods, the * deywṓs .