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  2. Hecate - Wikipedia

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    The Hecate Chiaramonti, a Roman sculpture of triple-bodied Hecate, after a Hellenistic original (Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museums) Apart from traditional hekataia, Hecate's triplicity is depicted in the vast frieze of the great Pergamon Altar, now in Berlin, wherein she is shown with three bodies, taking part in the battle with the Titans.

  3. Interpretatio graeca - Wikipedia

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    A Roman wall painting showing the Egyptian goddess Isis (seated right) welcoming the Greek heroine Io to Egypt. Interpretatio graeca (Latin for 'Greek translation'), or "interpretation by means of Greek [models]", refers to the tendency of the ancient Greeks to identify foreign deities with their own gods.

  4. Circe - Wikipedia

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    Circe (/ ˈ s ər s iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη, romanized: Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. [2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse.

  5. Heqet - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; سنڌي; Slovenčina ... It has been proposed that her name is the origin of the name of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft. Name

  6. Triple deity - Wikipedia

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    The Greek goddess Hecate portrayed in triplicate. A triple deity is a deity with three apparent forms that function as a singular whole. Such deities may sometimes be referred to as threefold, tripled, triplicate, tripartite, triune, triadic, or as a trinity.

  7. Liminal deity - Wikipedia

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    Mercury, messenger god and psychopomp; equivalent to the Greek Hermes and shares several of his functions, such as being a god of commerce, travelers, merchants, and thieves; Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock; Proserpina, Roman equivalent of Persephone who spent some of her time living in the world of the dead

  8. Luna (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin Lūna [ˈɫ̪uːnä]). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god. Luna is also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess (diva triformis), along with Diana and either Proserpina or Hecate.

  9. Keres - Wikipedia

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    Their Roman equivalents were Letum (“death”) or the Tenebrae (“shadows”). Hunger, pestilence, madness, nightmare have each a sprite behind them; are all sprites," J.E. Harrison observed (Harrison 1903, p 169), but two Keres might not be averted, and these, which emerged from the swarm of lesser ills, were Old Age and Death.