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  Eos
The Greek personification of the dawn, the daughter of the Hyperion and Theia and the sister of Helios (sun) and Selene (moon).
By Astraeus she was the mother of the four winds: Boreas, Eurus, Zephyrus and Notus; and also of Heosphorus and the Stars.
She was depicted as a goddess whose rosy fingers opened the gates of heaven to the chariot of the Sun.
www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eos.html?esc   (108 words)

  
 Lucifer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star (aster orthrinos).
In the Eastern Empire, where Greek was the language, "morning star" (heosphorus) retained these earlier connotations.
When Liutprand, bishop of Cremona, attended the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II in 968, he reported to his master Otto I the greeting sung to the emperor arriving in Hagia Sophia:
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucifer   (2722 words)

  
 GTP
When her son Memnon was going to fight against Achilles, she asked Hephaestus to give her arms for him, and when Memnon was killed, her tears fell down in the form of morning dew (Virg.
By Astraeus Eus became the mother of Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus, Heosphorus, and the other stars (Hesiod.
Cephalus was carried away by her from the summit of mount Hymetttus to Syria, and by him she became the mother of Phaeton or Tithonus, the father of Phaeton; but afterwards she restored her beloved to his wife Procris (Hes.
www.gtp.gr /LocInfo.asp?infoid=30&code=EGRSDO41&PrimeCode=EGRSDO41&Level=6&PrimeLevel=6&IncludeWide=1&LocId=11531   (2467 words)

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