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  The Greek Goddesses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ananke was the Goddess of Fate and Necessity.
Athena was the Patron Goddess of Athens, the Goddess of Wisdom, and the Goddess of Weaving.
Melissa is greek for "honey bee" and she was the name of Artemis as the moon goddess and the goddess who took suffering away from mothers giving birth.
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Goddess of birth, daughter of Zeus and Hera.
Hera is the supreme goddess of the Greeks and goddess of marriage and childbirth, and wife to Zeus.
Nike, the winged goddess of victory, is the daughter of the fearsome river goddess Styx and the sister of Zelos ("zeal").
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  Harmonia (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Harmonia is the immortal goddess of harmony and concord.
According to another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.
Harmonia is recognized as the equivalent of the Discordian goddess Aneris by the Mythics of Harmonia and by Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.
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Hera is the supreme goddess of the Greeks and goddess of marriage and childbirth, and wife to Zeus.
Eris is the goddess of discord and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
Nike, the winged goddess of victory, is the daughter of the fearsome river goddess Styx and the sister of Zelos ("zeal").
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 Harmonia
Harmonia, in Greek mythology, is the goddess of harmony and concord.
According to another account, Harmonia was from to Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.
Finally, Harmonia is rationalized as closely allied to Aphrodite Pandemos, the love that unites all people, the personification of order and civic unity, corresponding to the Roman Concordia.
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Greek goddess of barley flour, destiny, and the moon.
Eris is the goddess of discord, evil, infatuation, mischief and strife and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
The Greek goddess of the harvest, fertility, and spring.
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The Greek goddess of violent death, Cer (or Ker) is the daughter of Nyx ("night") and sister of the Moriae ("fates").
Eos is the goddess of dawn, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Selene.
Eris is the goddess of discord and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
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 Avatars of the Goddess
Harmonia is the mother of Ino and Semele.
Daughter of Perses and Asteria, She was a Goddess of travels by night, especially a patroness of crossroads, and by extension, any choice made in darkness or incomplete knowledge.
Her name is from the Aegean Greek for "Lady" or "Holy One." Originally the chief divinity in pre-patriarchal Greece, she ruled the earth and all beings, was worshipped as a triple Goddess (youth, mother, crone), and was highly celebrated in the Heraea, which were games that pre-dated the Olympics.
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In Greek mythology, Proteus was a son of Abas and the twin brother of Acrisius.
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Styx was the principal river in the underworld.
In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Helen by the nymph Orseis.
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According to one Greek tradition Adonis was the result of an incestuous liaison in which Smyrna (Myrrha) deceived her father Theias as to her identity (perhaps at the instigation of Aphrodite).
It was as a goddess of women's life in general that Artemis acquired her seemingly contradictory role as a goddess of fertility and childbirth.
Greek goddess of force, daughter of the Titan Pallas and the underworld goddess Styx.
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She was the goddess of war and peace, a patron of arts and crafts, a guardian of cities (notably Athens), and the goddess of wisdom.
Demeter, in Greek mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Cronus and Rhea; mother of Persephone by Zeus.
Persephone or Proserpine, in Greek and Roman mythology, goddess of fertility, queen of the underworld; daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
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 HARMONIA : Greek goddess of harmony ; mythology ; pictures : CONCORDIA
HARMONIA was the goddess of harmony and concord.
Soon Harmonia yoked by the cestus-girdle that guides wedded desire, carried in her womb the seed of many children whom she brought forth soon one by one: turn by turn she was delivered of her teeming burden by the birth of daughters, after four times nine circuits had been fulfilled.
Harmonia gave to Aphrodite the surname of Ourania to signify a love pure and free from bodily lust; that of Pandemos, to denote sexual intercourse; the third, that of Apostrophia, that mankind may reject unlawful passion and sinful acts.
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 Human Women in Greek Myths ~ Acacallis to Xenodike
Ino was the human daughter of Harmonia and Cadmus, sister to Agave, Semele, and Autonoe.
She offered the goddess (without knowing she was a goddess) a cup of water with grain and mint, which Demeter, who'd been traveling forever, drained in a single shot.
Her birth was a little out there (she was said to be the daughter of the goddess Derceto who abandoned her in a field as a baby after killing her father.
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 Greek gods (Athena, Demeter, Leto, Harmonia) - All About Turkey
Greeks believed that the men were solely responsible for conception of a child, and the woman's only role was to carry it until it was born, therefore Metis is not given any credit for Athena birth.
Of the three virgin goddesses (Athena, Artemis and Hestia) she was chief and called the Maiden, Parthenos, accordingly her temple in Athens was called the Parthenon.
The "uniter," Harmonia is the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.
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 Greek Mythology God Goddess
Centaurus (Greek mythology) - In Greek mythology, Centaurus was the founder of the Centaur race - a breed of half-men, half-horse warriors that inhabited northern Greece.
Apollo - Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities.
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 The goddess page
The goddess concept is advocated by modern matriarchs and pantheists as a female version of, or analogue to god, (i.e., the Abrahamic god) who in feminist and other circles is perceived as being rooted in patriarchal concept of dominance— to the exclusion of feminine concepts.
Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies; these include the Greek Erinyes (Furies) and Moirae (Fates); the Norse Norns (Fates); Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology, and so on.
This might be a "Dark Goddess" or "Wisewoman", perhaps as suggested by the missing dark of the moon in the symbolism above, or it might be a specifically erotic goddess standing for a phase of life between Maiden (Virgin) and Mother, or a Warrior between Mother and Crone.
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 Greek Mythology Goddess
The complex greek mythology goddess and sometimes contradictory mass of legends functioned for the Greeks as the history of their origins, while for us the stories are full of local colour greek mythology goddess and archetypal meaning.
Harmonia (Greek goddess) - In Greek mythology, Harmonia is the goddess of harmony and concord.
Hebe (mythology) - In Greek mythology, Hêbê (Greek: Ἥβη) was the goddess of youth (Roman equivalent: Juventas).
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 Harmonia and the Pleiades
In this form, far from being called a daughter of Dione, which was mainly an attribution of convenience, she was a daughter of the somehow fearsome Tethys whom Homer tried to tame by calling the ill-fated and murderous Achilles her son.
Aphrodite Harmonia was also a Sun or Moon Goddess, hence her 'daughters': Autonoe 'wisdom itself,' Ino 'one who makes sinewy,' Agave 'high born,' and Semele 'Light,' all Goddesses of the Sun or Moon in their own right.
The Amazons themselves were daughters of Harmonia in the sense that she was the great ancestor of the tribe associated with Thebes.
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Demeter (Ceres) is the goddess of fertility, the mother of the corn.
She is goddess of transformation via death, which is essential for the renewal and spiritual growth.
Hestia (Vesta)-The goddess of the hearth, she is considered the founder of the family and the state and the one who maintains public reverence for the gods.
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Hestia (Vesta) Goddess of the hearth and home and was in general pretty boring.
She was originally the goddess of the sky but once she was married she became the patron of marriage and maternity, thus controling the detiny of women.
Greek: Most famous is the Doric Temple (449 BC) of Hephaestus and Athena.
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 Avatars of the Goddess
Goddess of concord and unity, Her spirit was invoked in works of pacification and diplomacy.
Like Hermes, she was a messenger and herald, and she served as an oath-taker on solemn occasions among the Gods, bearing a jar containing water from the River Styx, which would render a Divinity comatose for a year should they foreswear themselves.
She is regarded as the messenger of the gods to mankind, and particularly of the goddess Hera whose orders she brought to humans.
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 Harmonia * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The daughter of Ares (god of War) and Aphrodite (goddess of Love); her name means Harmony; she is the sister of Phobos (Panic) and Deimos (Terror); the wife of Kadmus (Cadmus).
Harmonia had four daughters and one son: Ino, Agaue, Autonoe, Semele and Polydorus.
There is a story regarding the marriage of Kadmus and Harmonia in which Kadmus gave Harmonia a necklace that had been fashioned by Hephaistos (Hephaestus); the necklace was cursed but the exact ill effects it had on Harmonia and Kadmus are not clear.
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She was the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft and was especially worshiped by magicians and witches, who sacrificed fl lambs and fl dogs to her.
In Greek mythology, the Cretan labyrinth was constructed by the Athenian craftsman Daedalus as a prison for the Minotaur, a part-bull, part-man monster.
in Greek mythology, king of Ethiopia, the son of the Trojan prince Tithonus and of Eos, goddess of the dawn.
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The name is of unknown etymology, but the earliest sources that mention the name are in Greek and associate it with the Greek adjective katharos, meaning "pure." The suggestion that it may have been derived from Hekate, the pagan goddess of sorcery, is not convincing.
: "The waterer." Greek myth name of one of the Hesperides, and a water nymph (Nereid), daughter of Nereus, who was pursued by Alpheus, the river god.
It is most likely a Macedonian form of Greek Pherenike, meaning "bringer of victory," which probably originated in the Egyptian royal house of Macedon.
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Greek, Goddess of communication, messenger of the gods, and new endeavours.
Roman, Goddess of women and the moon, queen of the gods.
Hindu, Creative / destructive goddess, protectress of abused women, she should be called upon if a woman is in fear of physical danger.
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At the time when the brothers Atreus and Thyestes 1 disputed about the kingdom of Mycenae, Zeus sent Hermes to Atreus to make him stipulate with Thyestes 1 that Atreus should be king if the sun should go backwards; and when Thyestes 1, believing it impossible, agreed, the sun set in the east.
Juturna became a goddess of lakes and rivers in return for the maidenhood Zeus ravished.
When once Hera, for the sake of helping the Achaeans in the Trojan War, wished to keep Zeus away from the battles, she received Aphrodite's magic belt from this goddess, and with its help and her own charms she was able to distract her husband.
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 harmonia_dotcom - Harmonia, Goddess of Harmony - Pictures
Goddess of Harmony and also known as a rectifying force who dissuades wives from sexual misconduct.
This is a character journal for the Goddess of Harmony in Greek Mythology for
24: agave, anteros, aphrodite, ares, autone, cadmus, deimos, dionysus, elysian fields, eris, eros, greek mythology, harmonia, hera, hermes, ino, phobos, polydorus, semele, strife, theatrical muse, thebes, thyone, zeus.
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 The Greek Goddess Hera: An Introduction
Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage and childbirth, wife and older sister of Zeus, and queen of
Juno is Hera’s Roman counterpart: the goddess of womankind, light, and birth.
Of course, Harmonia is bubbling with excitement and can’t possibly sleep; though the hour is late, the constant whirling outside spins creative webs of stories in her racing mind.
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