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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.
Persephone, Greek Goddess of Spring. Her festival or the day she returns to her mother Demeter from the Underworld is on 3rd of April. Many fertility deities are also associated with spring; In Roman mythology, Flora was a Sabine-derived goddess of flowers [1] and of the season of spring [2]
Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer.. The Greeks, as early as the time of Homer, appear to have been familiar with the division of the year into the twelve lunar months but no intercalary month Embolimos or day is then mentioned, with twelve months of 354 days. [1]
The seasons were not viewed by Greeks as dividing the year into four even blocks but rather spring and autumn were shorter tail sections of the overarching seasons, summer and winter. The divisions could be formalised by using star risings or settings in relation to the equinoxes : for instance, winter is defined in one medical text as the ...
Of the four chief Anemoi, Boreas (Aquilo in Roman mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air, Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) [5] is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer breezes, and Notus (Auster in Latin) is the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn; Eurus, the southeast [6] (or ...
[1] [2] The name is a colloquialism for the winter season derived from ancient Greek mythology and Old World pagan beliefs evolving into modern characters in both literature and popular culture. [3] He is usually depicted as an old man, often blowing winter over the landscape with his breath, or simply freezing the landscape with his very ...
In some versions of Hyacinthus's story, Boreas supplants his brother Zephyrus as the wind-god that bore a one-sided love for the beautiful Spartan prince, who preferred Apollo over him. [10] In other accounts, Boreas was the father of Butes (by another woman) and the lover of the nymph Pitys. In one story, both Pan and Boreas vied for Pitys's ...
In ancient Greek religion, Kanathos (Greek: Κάναθος) in the Argolid was the spring at Nauplia, [1] where Hera annually renewed her virginity.There, Pausanias noted, [2] was "a spring called Kanathos where, so say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and, by so doing, becomes a maiden; it is this story which is of the secrets connected with the rites which they perform to Hera."