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  2. Lists of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters

  3. List of Greek deities - Wikipedia

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    English name Greek name Description The twelve Titans Coeus: Κοῖος (Koîos) God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Crius: Κρεῖος (Kreîos) The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Implied to be the god of constellations. Cronus ...

  4. Moirai - Wikipedia

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    The Celtic Matres and Matrones, female deities almost always depicted in groups of three, have been proposed as connected to the Norns. [ 16 ] In Lithuanian and other Baltic mythologies , the goddess Laima is the personification of destiny, and her most important duty was to prophesy how the life of a newborn will take place.

  5. Atropos - Wikipedia

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    Atropos (/ ˈ æ t r ə p ɒ s,-p ə s /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ἄτροπος "without turn"), in Greek mythology, was the third of the Three Fates or Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny. Her Roman equivalent was Morta. Atropos was the eldest of the Three Fates and was known as "the Inflexible One."

  6. Triple deity - Wikipedia

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    Whereas Nicene Christians professes "one God in three divine persons" (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost), Modalism is a form of Christian Unitarianism which stands in opposition to Trinitarianism and holds that the one God is also just one person, but simply appears in three different forms; those forms being the Father, Son ...

  7. Virgin goddess - Wikipedia

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    In Greek myth, Hestia was one of the six children of Cronus and Rhea, the first of their three daughters, and thus the eldest of the twelve Olympians. [ i ] [ 1 ] She was the elder sister of Zeus , Poseidon , Hades , Hera , and Demeter , and was revered as goddess of the hearth and of domestic life . [ 2 ]

  8. List of mortals in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    While the Greek gods are immortal and unaffected by aging, the mortality of humans forces them to move through the stages of life, before reaching death. [2] The group of figures referred to as "heroes" (or " demigods "), unique to Greek religion and mythology, are (after the time of Homer ) individuals who have died but continue to exert power ...

  9. Lachesis - Wikipedia

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    Lachesis (/ ˈ l æ k ɪ s ɪ s / LAK-iss-iss; Ancient Greek: Λάχεσις, romanized: Lákhesis, lit. 'disposer of lots'; from λαγχάνω lanchánō, 'to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods'), in ancient Greek religion, was the middle of the Three Fates, or Moirai; the others were her sisters, Clotho and Atropos.