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  2. Kairos - Wikipedia

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    Kairos relief, copy of Lysippos, in Trogir (Croatia) Kairos as portrayed in a 16th-century fresco by Francesco Salviati. Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. [1] In modern Greek, kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'.

  3. Caerus - Wikipedia

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    According to ancient Greeks, Kairos was the god of the "fleeting moment"; "a favorable opportunity opposing the fate of man". Such a moment must be grasped (by the tuft of hair on the personified forehead of the fleeting opportunity); otherwise the moment is gone and can not be re-captured (personified by the back of head being bald).

  4. Time and fate deities - Wikipedia

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    Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...

  5. Category:Time and fate gods - Wikipedia

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    Time and fate gods in Meitei mythology (9 P) Pages in category "Time and fate gods" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... Kairos; Kāla ...

  6. Chronos - Wikipedia

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    The egg produced the hermaphroditic god Phanes who gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosmos. Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos ("The seven recesses"), around 6th century BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas and Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was ...

  7. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...

  8. Metanoia (theology) - Wikipedia

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    When personified, Metanoia was a figure of unclear description who accompanied Kairos, the god of Opportunity, and ultimately inspired human individuals to deep changes in their normal consciousness modes; a feeling of personal regret would provide the emotional catalyst to approach life with a substantially different perspective.

  9. Aion (deity) - Wikipedia

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    The "time" which Aion represents is perpetual, unbounded, ritual, and cyclic: The future is a returning version of the past, later called aevum (see Vedic Sanskrit Ṛtú). This kind of time contrasts with empirical , linear, progressive, and historical time that Chronos represented, which divides into past, present, and future.