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[62] [63] Greek visual art usually showed women as white, much lighter than the typical male. [67] As a goddess of beauty, Aphrodite was usually given very white skin in both graphic and textual art. [37] Whiteness was generally seen as a desirable part of femininity in Ancient Greek culture.
In one sense it is the pleasant whiteness of pearl-barley, or a woman's body, or milk, or unsmutched snow; in another it is the horrifying whiteness of a corpse, or a spectre, or leprosy. … Alphito, it has been shown, combined these senses: for alphos is white leprosy, the vitiliginous sort which attacks the face, and alphiton is barley, and ...
Leukothea, Goddess of Sailors. In Greek mythology, Leucothea (/ lj uː ˈ k oʊ θ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λευκοθέα, romanized: Leukothéa, lit. 'white goddess'), sometimes also called Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, romanized: Leukothóē), was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.
In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce, also spelled Leuke (Ancient Greek: Λεύκη, "white", specifically "white poplar"), was a nymph, an Oceanid; a daughter of the Titan Oceanus and his wife, Tethys. [citation needed]
Sovereignty goddess is a scholarly term, almost exclusively used in Celtic studies (although parallels for the idea have been claimed in other traditions, usually under the label hieros gamos). [1] The term denotes a goddess who, personifying a territory, confers sovereignty upon a king by marrying or having sex with him.
In Greek mythology, Galatea (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Γαλάτεια; "she who is milk-white") [1] was the name of the following figures: Galatea, a Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. [2] Galatea, the statue of a woman created by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite. [3]
Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial evidence. Divination is a traditional set of methods of consulting divinity to obtain prophecies (theopropia) about specific circumstances defined beforehand.
The word Caduceus is from the Greek root meaning "herald’s wand" and was also a badge of diplomatic ambassadors and became associated with commerce, eloquence, alchemy, thievery, and lying. The etymology of Caduceus is from Doric Greek κᾱρύκειον karukeion , from the Greek κῆρυξ kērux meaning "herald".