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  Apollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apollo was also considered to have dominion over colonists, over medicine, mediated through his son Asclepius, and was the patron defender of herds and flocks.
Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of the chaste huntress Artemis, who took the place of Selene as goddess of the moon.
It is also stated that Hera kidnapped Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.
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 Bellona
She accompanied Mars in battle, and was variously given as his wife, sister or daughter.
She had a temple on the Capitolinus (inaugurated in 296 BCE and burned down in 48 BCE), where, as an act of war, a spear was cast against the distant enemy.
Bellona's attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet and armed with a spear and a torch.
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 Greek and Roman Mythology
Goddess of Justice; daughter of Zeus and Themis.
Goddess of rainbow; messenger of Zeus and Hera.
Goddesses presiding over arts and sciences: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric and love poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polymnia or Polyhymnia (sacred poetry), Terpsichore (choral dance and song), Thalia (comedy and bucolic poetry), Urania (astronomy); daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
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 A Ripe Idea - Black History
For you are the head of the inspired maidens [of Dionysus] of Delphi, and have been consecrated by your father and mother in the holy rites of Osiris."
Apuleius another Greek playwright of the 5th century B.C. wrote the GOLDEN ASS, which climax's with the goddess announcing to the hero: "Thus the Phrygians, earliest of all races, call me Pessinuntia, mother of all gods.
Thus the Athenians, sprung from their own soil, call me Cecropeian Minerva and the sea-tossed Cyprians call me Paphian Venus, the archer Cretans Diana, Dictynna, and the trilingual Sicilians Proserphine; to the Eleusianians I am Ceres, the ancient goddess, to others Juno, to others Bellona and Hera and Rhamnusia.
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 Mars, in Roman religion and mythology
His attributes include the spear and shield, and the wolf and woodpecker were sacred to him.
He was frequently associated with Bellona, the Roman goddess of war.
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