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Lyssa (/ ˈ l ɪ s ə /; Ancient Greek: Λύσσα, romanized: Lússa, lit. 'rage, rabies'), also called Lytta (/ ˈ l ɪ t ə /; Ancient Greek: Λύττα, romanized: Lútta) by the Athenians, is a minor goddess in Greek mythology, the spirit of rage, fury, [1] and rabies in animals.
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; sing. Erinys / ɪ ˈ r ɪ n ɪ s, ɪ ˈ r aɪ n ɪ s / ih-RIN-iss, ih-RY-niss; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες) and Semnae (Σεμναί, “the dread ones”) [3] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek ...
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
God of light. With Theia, he is the father of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). Ἰαπετός (Iapetós) Iapetus: God of mortality and father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas. Mνημοσύνη (Mnēmosýnē) Mnemosyne: Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses. Ὠκεανός ...
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
Apollo, god of light, among many other things; Eos, goddess of the dawn; Hemera, personification of day; Hyperion, Titan of light; sometimes conflated with his son Helios; Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the ...
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
As a result of this thinking, each god or goddess in polytheistic Greek religion is attributed to an aspect of the human world. For example, Poseidon is the god of the sea, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, Ares is the god of war, and so on and so forth for many other gods.