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Melinoë (/ mɪˈlɪnoʊiː /; Ancient Greek: Μηλινόη, romanized: Mēlinóē pronounced [mɛːlinóɛː]) is a chthonic goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns (2nd or 3rd centuries AD?), and represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness. In the hymn, Melinoë has characteristics that seem similar to Hecate and the Erinyes, [1 ...
Melinoë (. Hades. ) Melinoë is a character in the upcoming video game Hades II. She is the game's protagonist, being the sister of Hades protagonist Zagreus and daughter of its antagonist, Hades. She is a witch, and is able to use magic techniques as well as weapons in combat, tasked with saving her father by killing the Titan Chronos.
Potamides. Semystra. Thriae. v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Eidothea or Idothea (Ancient Greek: Εἰδοθέα) was the name of the following women: Idothea, a daughter of Oceanus and possibly Tethys, thus considered to be one of the Oceanids. Together with her sisters Adrasta and Althaea (Amalthea [1]), she was one of the nurses of young Zeus.
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Acis and Galatea (/ ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /, / ɡ æ l ə ˈ t iː. ə / [1] [2]) are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
Zephyrus. In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus (Ancient Greek: Ζέφυρος, romanized: Zéphuros, lit. 'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, and Astraeus, Zephyrus is the most gentle and ...
The 'wise Penelope' explains how "the dreams are by nature perplexing and full of messages which are hard to interpret", and goes on to describe the two gates of the evanescent dreams; the truthful gate of polished horn and the deceitful gate of sawn ivory. [14] [7] For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one ...
Aeaea, Ææa or Eëä (/ iːˈiːə / ee-EE-ə or / əˈiːə / ə-EE-ə; Ancient Greek: Αἰαία, romanized:Aiaíā [ai̯.ǎi̯.aː]) was a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe. "Circe would fain have held me back in her halls, the guileful lady of Aeaea, yearning that I should be her husband". (Homer ...