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Following is the translation by Apostolos Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow, of the hymn to Melinoe: I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, whom revered Persephone bore by the mouth of the Kokytos river upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. In the guise of Plouton Zeus tricked Persephone and through wiley plots bedded her;
God of dusk, stars, and planets, and the art of astrology. Ἄτλας (Átlas) Atlas: God forced to carry the heavens upon his shoulders by Zeus. Presumed to be the god of endurance and astronomy. Also Son of Iapetus. Διώνη (Diṓnē) Dione: Goddess of the oracle of Dodona. Ἥλιος (Hḗlios) Helios: God of the Sun and guardian of ...
Melinoe, in the Hymns, seems to be the offspring of Zeus and Persephone, and is associated with Hecate, [151] also being mentioned on a bronze tablet from Pergamon. [152] According to Morand, this epigraphic evidence, which is roughly contemporaneous with the Orphic Hymns , [ 153 ] indicates deities such as Mise and Hipta were not invented by ...
Despoina and "Hagne" were probably euphemistic surnames of Persephone, therefore Karl Kerenyi theorizes that the cult of Persephone was the continuation of the worship of a Minoan Great goddess. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] It is possible that some religious practices, especially the mysteries , were transferred from a Cretan priesthood to Eleusis, where ...
Perseis' name has been linked to Περσίς (Persís), "female Persian", and πέρθω (pérthō), "destroy" or "slay" or "plunder". [citation needed]Kerenyi also noted the connection between her and Hecate due to their names, denoting a chthonic aspect of the nymph, as well as that of Persephone, whose name "can be taken to be a longer, perhaps simply a more ceremonious, form of Perse ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Aztec mythology. Huitzilopochtli, god of the Sun and war. Nanahuatzin, god of the Sun. Teoyaomicqui, god of lost souls, the Sun, and the sixth hour of the day. Tonatiuh, god of the Sun and ruler of the heavens. Brazilian mythology. Guaraci, god of the Sun (Guarani mythology) Meri, folk hero and god of the Sun.
t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (/ ˈhiːliəs, - ɒs /; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the god who personifies the Sun. His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyperion ("the one above") and Phaethon ("the shining").