Post by DANNA on Jan 4, 2011 19:48:22 GMT -5
Θεοί και θεές
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THE GODS
PRIMARY
APOLLO - god of music, archery, poetry, healing, plague, and prophecy. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, along with his twin sister Artemis.
ARES - god of war, violence, civil order, courage, and bloodlust. Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera.
DIONYSUS - god of parties and festivals, wine, pleasure, drunkenness, and madness.
EROS - god of love, pleasure, and sexual desire. Eros is one of the Erotes, and the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He married Psyche and had two daughters - Hedone and Voluptas.
HADES - god of death and the dead. He is Zeus's older brother, and the son of Kronos and Rhea. He is the King of the Underworld, the realm of the dead which he guards with his three-headed dog, Cerberus.
HEPHAESTUS - god of fire, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoes. Hera bore him through parthenogenesis, and he is crippled. He is also the husband of Aphrodite.
HERMES - god of travel, thievery, athletics, and language. The son of Zeus and Maia, he leads the dead into the Underworld.
POSEIDON - god of the sea, storms, and earthquakes. He is the son of Kronos and Rhea, the brother of Zeus and Hades, and is known as the "Storm Bringer" or "Earth Shaker."
ZEUS - god of the sky, thunder, weather, law, order. and fate. He became King of the Gods after overthrowing his parents, Kronos and Rhea. He is both the brother and the husband of Hera.
SECONDARY
[/right]AETHER - god of the upper air.
EREBOS - god of darkness and shadow.
CHRONOS - the keeper of time, but a different deity than the Titan Kronos, who fathered Zeus.
THE OUREA - gods of the mountains.
PHANES - god of procreation
PONTOS - god of the sea, who fathered the fish and other sea creatures.
URANUS - god of the heavens, and father of the Titans, Cyclops , and Hecatonchires, the latter two of whom he banished to the Underworld.
THE GODDESSES
PRIMARY
[/right]APHRODITE - goddess of love, lust, seduction, beauty, and pleasure. She is the unfaithful wife of Hephaestus, and has had many lovers, including Ares.
ARTEMIS - goddess of animals, the hunt, childbirth, and plague. She is a virgin, daughter to Zeus and Leto, and Apollo's twin sister.
ATHENA - goddess of wisdom, warefare, strategy, and heroism. She is a also virgin, and the daughter of Zeus and Metis.
DEMETER - goddess of fertility, agriculture, and harvest. She is the daughter of Kronos and Rhea, and brother to Zeus. This didn't stop her, however, from bearing Zeus's daughter Persephone.
HERA - goddess of marriage, childbirth, and empires. She is known as the Queen of Heaven, and is the daughter of Kronos and Rhea.
HESTIA - virgin goddess of the hearth and home, Hestia is the daughter of Kronos and Rhea, and the sister of Zeus.
SECONDARY
[/right]ANANKE - goddess of compulsion, inevitability, and necessity.
GAIA - goddess of the Earth, also known as Mother Earth, and the mother of the Titans.
HEMERA - goddess of the sun and daylight.
THE NESOI - goddesses of the islands.
NYX - goddess of the night.
THALASSA - the spirirt of the sea, along with Pontos.
CONCEPTUAL DEITIES
EIRENE - goddess of peace
THE EROTES -
- ANTEROS - god of requited love
- EROS - god of love and sexual passion
- HIMEROS - god of sexual desire
- POTHOS - god of sexual longing, yearning and desire
HARMONIA - goddess of harmony and concord
HPYNOS - god of sleep
MORPHEUS - god of dreams, who takes the shape of humans
NEMESIS - goddess of righteous indignation and retribution
OTHER DEITY CATEGORIES
OF AGRICULTURE
[/right]APHAEA - minor goddess of agriculture and fertility
BOOTES - agricultural demi-god inventor of the wagon and the plough
CYAMITES - demi-god of the bean
DEMETER - goddess of fertility, agriculture, grain and harvest
DESPOINA - daughter of Poseidon and Demeter, goddess of mysteries in Arcadia
DIONYSUS - god of viticulture and wine
EUNOSTUS - goddess of the flour mill
HESTIA - maiden goddess of the hearth who presided over the baking of bread, mankind's stable food
PERSEPHONE - queen of the underworld, wife of Hades and goddess of spring growth
PLUTUS - god of wealth, including agricultural wealth, son of Demeter
OF THE COUNTRY
[/right]AETNA - goddess of the volcanic Mount Etna in Sicily
AMPHICTYONIS - goddess of wine and friendship between nations, a local form of Demeter
ARISTAEUS - god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting
ARTEMIS - goddess of wild animals, birds and fresh-water fish, and of hunting, fishing and fowling
ATTIS - vegetation god and consort of Cybele
BRITOMARIS - Cretan goddess of hunting and nets used for fishing, fowling and the hunting of small game
CABEIRI - gods or spirits who presided over the Mysteries of the islands of Lemnos and Samothrace
- AITNAIOS
- ALKON
- EURYMEDON
- ONNES
- TONNES
CHLORIS - goddess of flowers and wife of Zephyrus
COMUS - god of revelry, merrymaking and festivity
CORYMBUS - god of the fruit of the ivy
CYBELE - a Phrygian mountain goddess associated with Rhea
DIONYSUS - god of wine, drunken orgies and wild vegetation
GAIA - primeval goddess of the earth
HECATERUS - god of the hekateris—a rustic dance of quickly moving hands—and perhaps of the skill of hands in general
HEPHAESTUS - god of metalworking
HERMES - god of herds and flocks, of roads and boundary stones
THE HORAE - goddesses of the seasons and natural order
- EUNOMIA - spirit of good order, and springtime goddess of green pastures
- DIKE - spirit of justice, may have represented springtime growth
- EIRENE - spirit of peace and goddess of the springtime
- THALLO - goddess of spring buds and shoots, identified with Eirene
- AUXO - goddess of spring growth
- KARPO - goddess of the fruits of the earth
- PHEROUSA - "the bringer"
- EUPORIE - "abundance"
- ORTHOSIE - "prosperity"
THE OUREA - primeval gods of mountains
THE PALICI - a pair of rustic gods who presided over the geysers and thermal springs in Sicily
PAN - god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility
POTAMOI - river gods
- ACHELUS
- ACIS
- ACHERON
- ALPHEUS
- ASOPUS
- CLADEUS
- EUROTAS
- COCYTUS
- LETHE
- PENEUS
- PHLEGETHON
- STYX
- SCAMANDER
PRIAPUS - god of garden fertility
SILENUS - an old rustic god of the dance of the wine-press
TELETE - goddess of initiation into the Bacchic orgies
OF THE SEA
[/right] AEGAEON[/b] - god of violent sea storms and ally of the Titans
AMPHITRITE[/b] - sea goddess and consort of Poseidon
BENTHESIKYME[/b] - daughter of Poseidon, who resided in Ethiopia
BRIZO[/b] - goddess of sailors
CETO[/b] - goddess of the dangers of the ocean and of sea monsters
CYMOPOLEIA[/b] - a daughter of Poseidon and goddess of giant storm waves
DORIS[/b] - goddess of the sea's bounty
GLAUCUS[/b] - the fisherman's sea god
THE ICHTHYOCENTAURS[/b] - a pair of centaurine sea-gods with the upper bodies of men, the lower fore-parts of horses, ending in the serpentine tails of fish
- BYTHOS - "sea depth"
- APHROS - "sea foam"
LEUCOTHEA[/b] - a sea goddess who aided sailors in distress
NEREUS[/b] - the old man of the sea, and the god of the sea's rich bounty of fish
PALAEMON[/b] - a young sea god who aided sailors in distress
PHORCYS[/b] - god of the hidden dangers of the deep
PONTOS[/b] - primeval god of the sea, father of the fish and other sea creatures
POSEIDON[/b] - king of the sea and lord of the sea gods; also god of rivers, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses
PROTEUS[/b] - a shape-shifting, prophetic old sea god, and the herdsman of Poseidon's seals
SCYLLA[/b] - monstrous sea goddess
THAUMAS[/b] - god of the wonders of the sea
THOOSA[/b] - goddess of swift currents
TRITEIA[/b] - daughter of Triton and companion of Ares
OF THE SKY
[/right]ACHELOIS[/b] - "she who washes pain away", a minor moon goddess
AEOLUS[/b] - king of the winds
AETHER[/b] - primeval god of the upper air
ALECTRONA[/b] - solar goddess of the morning or waking up
ANEMOI[/b] - gods of the winds
- BOREAS - god of the north wind and of winter
- EURUS - god of the unlucky east or southeast wind
- NOTUS - god of the south wind
- ZEPHYRUS - god of the west wind
- APARCTIAS - another name for the north wind (not identified with Boreas)
- APHELIOTES - god of the east wind (when Euros is considered southeast)
- ARGESTES - another name for the west or northwest wind
- CAICIAS - god of the northeast wind
- CIRCIOS (or THRASKIAS) - god of the north-northwest wind
- EURONOTUS - god of the southeast wind
- LIPS - god of the southwest wind
- SKEIRON - god of the northwest wind
THE ASTRA PLANETI[/b] - gods of the five wandering stars or planets
- STILBON - god of Hermaon, the planet Mercury
- EOPSPHORUS - god of Venus the morning star
- HESPERUS - god of Venus the evening star
- PYROEIS - god of Areios, the planet Mars
- PHAETHON - god of Dios, the planet Jupiter
- PHAENON - god of Kronion, the planet Saturn
CHIONE[/b] - goddess of snow and daughter of Boreas
HEMERA[/b] - primeval goddess of daylight and the sun
HERA[/b] - Queen of Heaven and goddess of the air and starry constellations
HERSE[/b] - goddess of the morning dew
IRIS[/b] - goddess of the rainbow and divine messenger
THE MENAE[/b] - fifty goddesses of phases of the moon and the fifty lunar months of the four-year Olympiad
OURANOS[/b] - primeval god of the heavens
PANDIA[/b] - daughter of Selene and Zeus; goddess of the full moon and of the earth-nourishing dew
THE PLEIADES[/b] - goddesses of the constellation Pleiades
- ALCYONE
- STEROPE
- CELAENO
- ELECTRA
- MAIA
- MEROPE
- TAYGETE
ZEUS[/b] - King of Heaven and god of the sky, clouds, rain, thunder and lightning
OF THE UNDERWORLD
[/right]EREBOS[/b] - the primeval god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth
HECATE[/b] - goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy
MACARIA[/b] - daughter of Hades and goddess of blessed death
MELINOE[/b] - daughter of Persephone and Zeus who presided over the propitiations offered to the ghosts of the dead
NYX[/b] - the primeval goddess of night
PERSEPHONE[/b] - queen of the underworld, wife of Hades and goddess of spring growth
TARTARUS[/b] - the primeval god of the dark, stormy pit of Hades
MISCELLANEOUS
[/right] ACESCO[/b] - goddess of the healing of wounds and the curing of illnesses
ACRATOPOTES[/b] - god of unmixed wine and incontinence
ADRASTEA[/b] - a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, or an epithet of Nemesis
AEGLE[/b] - goddess of radiant good health
AGDISTIS[/b] - Phrygian hermaphroditic deity
ASCLEPIUS[/b] - god of healing
ASTRAEA[/b] - virgin goddess of justice
AUXESIA[/b] and DAMIA[/b] - two local fertility goddesses
CHARITES[/b] - goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility
- AGLAEA - goddess of beauty, adornment, splendour and glory
- EUPHROSYNE - goddess of good cheer, joy, mirth and merriment
- THALIA - goddess of festive celebrations and rich and luxurious banquets
- HEGEMONE - "mastery"
- ANTHEIA - goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths
- CLETA - "the glorious"
- PHAENNA - "the shining"
- EUDAIMONIA - "happiness"
- EUTHYMIA - "good mood"
- CALLEIS - "beauty"
- PAIDIA - "play, amusement"
- PANDAISIA - "banquet for everyone"
- PANNYCHIS - "all-night (festivity)"
CERAON[/b] - demi-god of the meal, specifically the mixing of wine
CIRCE[/b] - goddess-witch of Aeaea
DEIPNEUS[/b] - demi-god of the preparation of meals, specifically the making of bread
EILEITHYIA[/b] - goddess of childbirth
ENYAlIUS[/b] - minor god of war
ENYO[/b] - goddess of destructive war
EPIONE[/b] - goddess of the soothing of pain
THE ERINYES[/b] - the Furies, goddesses of retribution
- ALECTO - the unceasing one
- TISIPHONE - avenger of murder
- MEGAERA - the jealous one
HARPOCRATES[/b] - god of silence
HEDYLOGOS[/b] - god of sweet talk and flattery
HERMAPHRODITUS[/b] - god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men
HYGIEIA[/b] - goddess of cleanliness and good health
HYMENAIOS[/b] - god of marriage and marriage feasts
ICHNAEA[/b] - goddess of tracking
IASO[/b] - goddess of cures, remedies and modes of healing
IYNX[/b] - goddess of the love charm
MATTON[/b] - demi-god of the meal, specifically the kneading of dough
MUSES[/b] - goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets
- TITAN MUSES - daughters of Gaia and Ouranos
- AOIDE - muse of song
- ARCHE - muse of origins
- MELETE - muse of meditation and practice
- MNEME - muse of memory
- THELXINOE - muse "charmer of minds"
- OLYMPIAN MUSES - daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne
- CALLIOPE - muse of epic poetry
- CLIO - muse of history
- ERATO - muse of erotic poetry
- EUTERPE - muse of lyric poetry
- MELPOMENE - muse of tragedy
- POLYHYMNIA - muse of sacred poetry
- TERPISCHORE - muse of dance and choral poetry
- THALIA - muse of comedy and bucolic poetry
- URANIA - muse of astronomy
- YOUNGER MUSES - daughters of Apollo
- CEPHISSO
- APOLLONIS
- BORYSTHENIS
- HYPATE - "the upper (chord of the lyre)"
- MESE - "the middle (chord of the lyre)"
- NETE - "the lower (chord of the lyre)"
- POLYMATHEIA - muse of knowledge
PAEON[/b] - physician of the Olympian gods
PANACEA[/b] - goddess of healing
PASITHEA[/b] - goddess of rest and relaxation
RHAPSO[/b] - minor goddess or nymph whose name apparently refers to sewing
TESEPHOROUS[/b] - demi-god of convalescence, who "brought to fulfillment" recuperation from illness or injury
ORIGINAL GODS
[/right]CASCADIA -- goddess of obsession and seduction
CORBAN -- god of danger and misfortune
DANICA -- goddess of torment and manipulation
HADRIANE -- goddess of pain and sin
JESMAR -- god of disease
RHEA -- goddess of lost hopes and dreams
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