Recherche, Mythographie [Obvie]

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               Ellis, Edward Sylvester. 
         (1895) 
         The youth’s dictionary of mythology for boys and girls
      
    d mingling brooded the god Chaos, who shared his throne with Nox, the 
    
goddess

     of night. From this union the innumerable myths g
  
    irus, both famous physicians, and four daughters, of whom Hygeia, the 
    
goddess

     of health, is the most renowned. Many temples wer
  
    into this flower.  Angero′nia [Angeronia], otherwise Volupia, was the 
    
goddess

     who had the power of dispelling anguish of mind. 
  
     the shape of an eagle.  Astre′a [Astrea], mother of Nemesis, was the 
    
goddess

     of justice; she returned to heaven when the earth
  
    ain. Hippomenes, however, with the aid of Venus, was successful. That 
    
goddess

     gave him three golden apples, one of which he dro
  
    rned into lions by Cybele, for profaning her temple.  A′te [Ate]. The 
    
goddess

     of revenge, also called the goddess of discord an
  
    ning her temple.  A′te [Ate]. The goddess of revenge, also called the 
    
goddess

     of discord and all evil. She was banished from he
  
    peare.   Athe′na [Athena], a name obtained by Minerva as the tutelary 
    
goddess

     of Athens.  Atlas, was King of Mauritania, now Mo
  
    nd the officiating priest was called an augur.  Auro′ra [Aurora], the 
    
goddess

     of the morning,  “Whose rosy fingers ope the gate
  
    ted as riding in a splendid golden chariot drawn by white horses. The 
    
goddess

     loved Tithonus, and begged the gods to grant him 
  
    sto.  Beauty, see Venus.  Bees, see Mellona.  Belisa′ma [Belisama], a 
    
goddess

     of the Gauls. The name means the Queen of Heaven.
  
     who destroyed a monster called the Chimæra.  Bello′na [Bellona], the 
    
goddess

     of war, and wife of Mars. The 24th March was call
  
    is.  Blue eyes, see Glaukopis.  Bo′na De′a [Bona Dea]. “The bountiful 
    
goddess

    ,” whose festival was celebrated by the Romans wit
  
    yclops. He is the personification of a blacksmith.  Bubo′na [Bubona], 
    
goddess

     of herdsmen, one of the rural divinities.  Bud′dh
  
    .”   Ceremonies, see Themis.  Ce′res [Ceres], daughter of Saturn, the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, and of the fruits of the earth. S
  
    tarius, the Archer.  Chlo′ris [Chloris]. The Greek name of Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers.  Chou. An Egyptian god corresponding 
  
    nemosyne. She presided over history.  Cloaci′na [Cloacina]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of sewers.  Clo′tho [Clotho] was one of the Fates
  
    f the Romans and the Sabines, which was ratified near a statue of the 
    
goddess

    .  Cly′temnes′tra [Clytemnestra], wife of Agamemno
  
    ], see Ancilia.  Colli′na [Collina] was one of the rural deities, the 
    
goddess

     of hills.  Comedy, see Thalia.  Co′mus [Comus] wa
  
    o right hands joined, and a pomegranate.  Concor′dia [Concordia]. The 
    
goddess

     of peace. One of the oldest Roman goddesses. She 
  
     Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.”  Shakespeare.   Co′pia [Copia], the 
    
goddess

     of plenty.  Co′ran [Coran]. One of Actæon’s hound
  
    Mars, meaning Shaker of the Helmet.  Cotyt′to [Cotytto]. The Athenian 
    
goddess

     of immodesty.  “Hail! goddess of nocturnal sport,
  
    lmet.  Cotyt′to [Cotytto]. The Athenian goddess of immodesty.  “Hail! 
    
goddess

     of nocturnal sport, Dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom 
  
    sichore.  Dangers, see Charybdis, also Scylla.  Daph′ne [Daphne]. The 
    
goddess

     of the earth. Apollo courted her, but she fled fr
  
     1503 b.c.   Devil, see Dahak, Daityas, and Obambou.  Di′ana [Diana], 
    
goddess

     of hunting and of chastity. She was the sister of
  
    nown among the Greeks as Diana or Phœbe, and was honored as a triform 
    
goddess

    . As a celestial divinity she was called Luna; as 
  
    Hecate.  Dictyn′na [Dictynna], a Greek name of Diana as a terrestrial 
    
goddess

    .  Di′do [Dido]. A daughter of Belus, King of Tyre
  
    t up the sacrifices.  Dolphin, see Arion.  Door′ga [Doorga]. A Hindoo 
    
goddess

    .  Do′ris [Doris] was daughter of Oceanus, and sis
  
     Comus.  Envy, see Furies.  Enyo was the Grecian name of Bellona, the 
    
goddess

     of war and cruelty.  E′olus [Eolus], see Æolus.  
  
     name given to Minerva. It means the work-woman, and was given to the 
    
goddess

     because she was credited with having invented spi
  
    ′syne [Euphrosyne], one of the three Graces, see Graces.  “Come, thou 
    
goddess

     fair and free, In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne.”  Mi
  
    ites which consisted of purifications.  Fero′nia [Feronia], the Roman 
    
goddess

     of orchards, was patroness of enfranchised slaves
  
    .  Festivals, see Thalia.  Fidelity, see Iolaus.  Fi′des [Fides], the 
    
goddess

     of faith and honesty, and a temple in the Capitol
  
    ece, Argonauts, and Jason.  Flies, see Muscarius.  Flocks, see Pales (
    
goddess

     of pastures).  Flo′ra [Flora], goddess of flowers
  
    Muscarius.  Flocks, see Pales (goddess of pastures).  Flo′ra [Flora], 
    
goddess

     of flowers and gardens, was wife of Zephyrus. She
  
    Flora′lia [Floralia] were licentious games instituted in honor of the 
    
goddess

     Flora.  Flowers, see Flora, Chloris, Hortensis, a
  
    ortensis, and Zephyrus.  Flute, see Marsyas.  Fortu′na [Fortuna], the 
    
goddess

     of fortune, had a temple erected to her by Serviu
  
    g a cornucopia.  Fraud, one of the evil deities, was represented as a 
    
goddess

     with a human face and a serpent’s body, and at th
  
    of Sweden and Iceland.  Frey′ja [Freyja]. The Scandinavian Venus. The 
    
goddess

     of love.  Fri′ga [Friga]. The Saxon goddess of ea
  
    e Scandinavian Venus. The goddess of love.  Fri′ga [Friga]. The Saxon 
    
goddess

     of earthly enjoyments. The name Friday is derived
  
    name Friday is derived from her. In Scandinavian mythology she is the 
    
goddess

     of marriage.  Fro. The Scandinavian god of tempes
  
    resented sitting on the back of a flying eagle.  Gardens, see Pomona [
    
goddess

     of fruit-trees].  Gates, see Janus.  Gau′tama [Ga
  
    s.  He′be [Hebe], daughter of Zeus (Jupiter) and Hera (Juno), was the 
    
goddess

     of youth. She was cup-bearer to Jupiter and the g
  
    rcules.  Her′cules [Hercules] was the son of Jupiter and Alcmena. The 
    
goddess

     Juno hated him from his birth, and sent two serpe
  
    lden tree.”  Milton.   Hes′tia [Hestia]. The Greek name of Vesta, the 
    
goddess

     of the hearth.  Hierogly′phics [Hieroglyphics], s
  
    ome say, by Æsculapius.  Hippo′na [Hippona] was a rural divinity, the 
    
goddess

     of horses.  History, see Clio and Saga.  Honey, s
  
    and Isis. See Harpocrates.  Hostil′ina [Hostilina]. A rural divinity; 
    
goddess

     of growing corn.  Hunger, see Erisichthon.  Hunti
  
    heads. It was slain by Hercules. See Hercules.  Hyge′ia [Hygeia], the 
    
goddess

     of health, was a daughter of Æsculapius and Epion
  
    ions from the Egyptians that after her death she was worshiped as the 
    
goddess

     Isis.  Iola′us [Iolaus], son of Iphicles, assiste
  
     Apollo and Neptune were banished from heaven by Jupiter. Juno is the 
    
goddess

     of marriage, and the protectress of married women
  
    ses, Juno was much displeased when Paris gave the apple to Venus. The 
    
goddess

     is generally represented riding in a chariot draw
  
     spread eagle.  Justice, see Astrea, Nemesis.    K     Kali. A Hindoo 
    
goddess

    , after whom Calicut is named.  Ka′loc [Kaloc]. On
  
    ed. Also the name of one of Actæon’s hounds.  Laks′mi [Laksmi] Hindoo 
    
goddess

     of wealth and pleasure. One of the husbands of Vi
  
     [Libissa]. Queen of fays and fairies.  Libiti′na [Libitina]. A Roman 
    
goddess

    , the chief of the funeral deities.  Licentiousnes
  
     him, was turned from Paradise and made a specter.  Li′na [Lina]. The 
    
goddess

     of the art of weaving.  Lin′dor [Lindor]. A lover
  
    dinavian god who guards friendship.  Lof′ua [Lofua]. The Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     who reconciles lovers.  Loke. The Scandinavian Sa
  
    an ass.  Lu′cifer [Lucifer]. The morning star.  Luci′na [Lucina]. The 
    
goddess

     who presides at the birth of children. She was a 
  
    iana as a celestial divinity. See Diana and Hecate. Also, the Italian 
    
goddess

     of the moon.  Lu′percus [Lupercus], or Pan. The R
  
    e god of war, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. Venus was his favorite 
    
goddess

    , and among their children were Cupid, Anteros, an
  
    ], see Palæmon.  Mello′na [Mellona]. One of the rural divinities, the 
    
goddess

     of bees.  Melpom′ene [Melpomene]. One of the nine
  
     goddess of bees.  Melpom′ene [Melpomene]. One of the nine Muses, the 
    
goddess

     of tragedy.  Mem′non [Memnon], son of Tithonus an
  
    ology the god of wisdom.  Mind, see Erinnys.  Miner′va [Minerva], the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, war, and the liberal arts, is said to 
  
     with the Roman Sol.  Mnemos′yne [Mnemosyne]. Mother of the Muses and 
    
goddess

     of memory. Jupiter courted the goddess in the gui
  
    syne]. Mother of the Muses and goddess of memory. Jupiter courted the 
    
goddess

     in the guise of a shepherd.  Moak′ibat [Moakibat]
  
    Moneta]. A name given to Juno by those writers who considered her the 
    
goddess

     of money.  Money, see Moneta.  Money-God, see Mam
  
    Ægle as being the fairest of the Naiades.  Nan′di [Nandi]. The Hindoo 
    
goddess

     of joy.  Nar′ræ [Narræ]. The name of the infernal
  
    ternal punishment, corresponding with Hades.  Na′tio [Natio]. A Roman 
    
goddess

     who took care of young infants.  Nemæ′an Lion [Ne
  
    fants.  Nemæ′an Lion [Nemæan], see Hercules.  Nem′esis [Nemesis], the 
    
goddess

     of vengeance or justice, was one of the infernal 
  
    ers under the name of Adrasteia. The Romans always sacrificed to this 
    
goddess

     before they went to war, because they wished to s
  
    and was the mother of Nemesis and the Fates.  Nundi′na [Nundina]. The 
    
goddess

     who took charge of children when they were nine d
  
    ed their children.  Nuptia′lis [Nuptialis]. A title of Juno. When the 
    
goddess

     was invoked under this name the gall of the victi
  
    for the ripening of the fruits of the earth.  Orbo′na [Orbona]. Roman 
    
goddess

     of children, invoked by mothers when they lost or
  
    or Melicerta, a sea-god, son of Athamas and Ino.  Pa′les [Pales]. The 
    
goddess

     of shepherds and sheepfolds and protectress of fl
  
     each thing.”  Pope.   Palla′dium [Palladium]. A famous statue of the 
    
goddess

     Pallas (Minerva). She is sitting with a spear in 
  
    en she destroyed a famous giant named Pallas. The Greeks called their 
    
goddess

     of wisdom Pallas Athene. See Minerva.  “Apollo, P
  
    , Or those which wafted Perseus on his way.”  F. Lewis.   Persuasion, 
    
goddess

     of, see Pitho.  Pha′eton [Phaeton]. A son of Sol,
  
     to sing, and were changed into magpies.  Pie′tas [Pietas]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of domestic affection.  Pillar, see Calpe.  Pilum
  
    m were killed, and the remainder took to flight.  Pi′tho [Pitho], the 
    
goddess

     of Persuasion, daughter of Mercury and Venus. She
  
    e god of riches, was son of Jasion or Iasius and Ceres (Demeter), the 
    
goddess

     of corn. He is described as being blind and lame;
  
    hery that Achilles was shot in the heel.  Pomo′na [Pomona]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of fruit-trees and gardens.                      
  
    ek name of Neptune, god of the sea.  Prac′riti [Pracriti]. The Hindoo 
    
goddess

     of nature.  Predictions, see Cassandra.  Pri′am [
  
    esolved to remain unmarried, but he made such a beautiful statue of a 
    
goddess

     that he begged Venus to give it life. His request
  
     and he was then called Janus Quadrifrons.  Qui′es [Quies]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of rest; she had a temple just outside the Collin
  
    n Fleece.  Reeds, see Pan, also Syrinx.  Rem′bha [Rembha]. The Hindoo 
    
goddess

     of pleasure.  Reproduction, see Priapus.  Rest, s
  
    lus became the first King of Rome.  Rumi′a Dea [Rumia Dea]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of babes in arms.  Ru′mina [Rumina]. Roman pastor
  
    oral deities, who protected suckling cattle.  Runci′na [Runcina]. The 
    
goddess

     of weeding or cleansing the ground.    S     Sacr
  
    th proposition of the book of Euclid.  Sa′ga [Saga]. The Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     of history. The word means a saw or saying; hence
  
     Salamander’s name.”  Pope.   Sala′tia [Salatia], or Salacia, a Roman 
    
goddess

     of the salt water. See Amphitrite.  Sal′ii [Salii
  
     the god straight to the infernal regions.  Sa′lus [Salus]. The Roman 
    
goddess

     of health.  Sap′pho [Sappho], a celebrated poetes
  
    ed the jealousy of Neptune’s wife, Amphitrite, and was changed by the 
    
goddess

     into a frightful sea-monster, which had six fearf
  
     A name of Juno, as the safeguard of women. She is called the “saving 
    
goddess

    .”  So′ter [Soter]. A Greek name of Jupiter, meani
  
    eams, Abhorrèd Styx, the flood of deadly hate.”   Sua′da [Suada], the 
    
goddess

     of Persuasion. See Pitho.  Success, see Bonus Eve
  
    and Surya.  Sunflower, see Clytie.  Sur′ade′vi [Suradevi]. The Hindoo 
    
goddess

     of wine.  Sur′geon [Surgeon], see Podalirius.  Su
  
    ed pipes, and named them “The Syrinx.”    T     Tac′ita [Tacita]. The 
    
goddess

     of Silence. See Harpocrates, also Horus.  Tan′tal
  
    mpests, see Fro.  Temple. An edifice erected to the honor of a god or 
    
goddess

     in which the sacrifices were offered.  Tenth Muse
  
    ′na [Tergemina]. A name of Diana, alluding to her triform divinity as 
    
goddess

     of heaven, earth, and hell.  Ter′minus [Terminus]
  
    s], a daughter of Cœlus and Terra, and wife of Jupiter, was the Roman 
    
goddess

     of laws, ceremonies, and oracles.  The′seus [Thes
  
    ptolemus]. A son of Oceanus and Terra. He was a great favorite of the 
    
goddess

     Ceres, who cured him of a dangerous illness when 
  
    t the bottom of a well.  Tutel′ina [Tutelina]. A rural divinity — the 
    
goddess

     of granaries.  Two Faces, see Janus.  Typhœ′us [T
  
    ine on an island where he and they were shipwrecked, he compelled the 
    
goddess

     to restore them to their human shape again. As he
  
    an god of archery.  Valleys, see Vallonia.  Vallo′nia [Vallonia]. The 
    
goddess

     of valleys.  Varu′na [Varuna]. The Hindoo Neptune
  
    ejupiter], see Vejovis.  Vengeance, see Nemesis.  Ve′nus [Venus]. The 
    
goddess

     of beauty, and mother of love. She is said to hav
  
    ng a wild boar. Venus indirectly caused the Trojan War, for, when the 
    
goddess

     of discord had thrown among the goddesses the gol
  
    te, Cypria, Urania, Astarte, Paphia, Cythera, and the laughter-loving 
    
goddess

    . Her favorite residence was at Cyprus. Incense al
  
     as some mythologists say, of the seasons; the husband of Pomona, the 
    
goddess

     of fruits and orchards.  Ves′ta [Vesta], daughter
  
    and orchards.  Ves′ta [Vesta], daughter of Saturn and Cybele, was the 
    
goddess

     of the hearth and its fire. She had under her spe
  
     because he presided over the making of roads.  Vic′tory [Victory]. A 
    
goddess

    , the daughter of Styx and Acheron, generally repr
  
    d of silence (corresponding with the classic Harpocrates).  Virtue. A 
    
goddess

     worshiped by most of the ancients under various n
  
    men, see Juno.  Vish′nu [Vishnu]. The Preserver, the principal Hindoo 
    
goddess

    .  Volu′pia [Volupia], see Angeronia.  Vul′can [Vu

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               Keightley, Thomas. 
         (1838) 
         The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy (2e éd.) 
         pp. -516 
      
    hich they regarded as the mother of dews (p. 61). Another name of the 
    
goddess

     may have been ἡ ἀλθέоυσυ, ἀλδέоυσα or ἀρδέоυσα, a
  
    s not Janus, i. e. the Sun, but a male deity answering to Matuta, the 
    
goddess

     of the dawn.     Contents.      CHAP. X.    Palla
  
     ; he has in his chlamys the seed which he is to scatter abroad ; the 
    
goddess

     holds the roll of the laws of agriculture. Cameo.
  
      Persephone and Spring come to Zeus : Hermes explains to him why the 
    
goddess

     is to spend but a part of the year in the upper-w
  
    anding him some more : a person, supposed to be Hecate, is behind the 
    
goddess

    , and another is feeding the serpents. Painting on
  
    of rain, thunder, and lightning. The people raised altars to her as a 
    
goddess

    , and they named the sun and moon after her haples
  
    conscious of no evil thoughts or acts, they had not to fear the awful 
    
goddess

     Nemesis103. On the south coast of the Sea, eastwa
  
    the Melian nymphs : from what fell into the sea sprang Aphrodite, the 
    
goddess

     of love and beauty. Earth bore to her other son P
  
    ; and Ersa (Dew) was also the offspring of the king of heaven and the 
    
goddess

     of the moon258. This last is a pleasing fiction o
  
     obvious and natural genealogy. In Homer and Hesiod Eôs is simply the 
    
goddess

     of the dawn, but in the works of succeeding poets
  
    g) and Phaëthôn (Gleaming)266. Æschylus267 and Theocritus268 name the 
    
goddess

     ‘white-horsed’, and Euripides269 describes the ‘w
  
    Boreas, Zephyros and Notos, and of the stars of heaven273. The lovely 
    
goddess

     of the dawn was more than once smitten with the l
  
    s assented, and Tithonos became exempt from death ; but the love-sick 
    
goddess

    , having forgotten to have youth joined in the gif
  
    n she turned him into a tree-hopper (τϵττιξ, cicada)278. In Homer the 
    
goddess

     is less fastidious, and she is escribed as rising
  
     if it should be such.     Έκάτη. Hecate.     In the Theogony291 this 
    
goddess

     is the daughter of Perses and Asteria. Bacchylide
  
    might prevent the souls of the dead from appearing305. A name of this 
    
goddess

     was Brimo306. This seems to have been chiefly emp
  
     both in men and women in those early and martial ages. Thus when the 
    
goddess

     Athena334 ascends as. driver the chariot of Diome
  
     described as covering seven plethra of ground, and the helmet of the 
    
goddess

     herself would, we are told336, cover the footmen 
  
     of Zeus, Apollo the god of music and archery, his sister Artemis the 
    
goddess

     of the chace, and their mother Leto, Aphrodite go
  
    er Artemis the goddess of the chace, and their mother Leto, Aphrodite 
    
goddess

     of love, and her mother Dione, Ares god of war, P
  
    goddess of love, and her mother Dione, Ares god of war, Pallas Athene 
    
goddess

     of prudence and skill, Themis goddess of justice,
  
     Ares god of war, Pallas Athene goddess of prudence and skill, Themis 
    
goddess

     of justice, Hermeias god of gain, Hebe the attend
  
    ces, and the Seasons. Poseidôn was frequently there ; but Demeter the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, and Dionysos the god of wine, do 
  
    ad not yet appeared. “Dear Earth ! do thou too bring forth,” said the 
    
goddess

    , and smiting the mountain with her staff she caus
  
    d her when she was pregnant, and swallowed her ; and after a time the 
    
goddess

     Pallas Athene sprang from his head. He then marri
  
     Arcadian nymph Callisto he presumed to take the form of Artemis, the 
    
goddess

     of chastity. A bull was the form in which he carr
  
    y, and they feel their wretched state acutely. Achilles, the son of a 
    
goddess

    , declares to Odysseus that he would rather be a d
  
    ardianship of a peculiar deity, whom they named from it, Hestia. This 
    
goddess

     does not appear in the poem of Homer, though he h
  
    RA : — ARES, HEPHÆSTOS, HEBE.       Ἥρη, Ἥρα. Juno.     In Homer this 
    
goddess

     is one of the children of Kronos and Rhea, and wi
  
    os would aid her, he flung him down from Olympos506. In this poem the 
    
goddess

     appears dwelling in peace and harmony with Leto, 
  
     were the offspring of Zeus by mortal mothers. In like manner, as the 
    
goddess

     of Argos, she is active in the cause of the Achæa
  
    ian deities more decidedly Grecian in feeling and character than this 
    
goddess

    . The chief seats of the worship of Hera were Argo
  
     were appropriated to the Olympian queen. According to the legend the 
    
goddess

     herself formed this last bird from the many-eyed 
  
    was their native place, and that they were the favourite birds of its 
    
goddess

    . The comic poet Antiphanes, a contemporary of Soc
  
    ed peafowl.  Whole flocks of them were fed in the sacred grove of the 
    
goddess

    . They were gradually but slowly spread through Gr
  
    egend said, renewed each year her virginity516. In the temple of this 
    
goddess

     near Mycenæ (in which stood her statue, the far-f
  
    low (λύγος), beneath whose shade, according to the temple-legend, the 
    
goddess

     was born522. Another name of the Imbrasos was sai
  
    bed, for such it apparently is, refers perhaps to the chastity of the 
    
goddess

    , the willow being regarded as a great promoter of
  
    our own usage of bride-cakes. In the temple there was a statue of the 
    
goddess

     in the bridal-dress527, and a new bridal-robe was
  
    ymphs ; Admeta, daughter of Eurystheus, fled thither from Argos ; the 
    
goddess

     appeared in a vision to her, and she became pries
  
    ll be observed, we have here again a reference to the chastity of the 
    
goddess

    . The making her an Argive, and daughter of Euryst
  
     Zeus and Hera was viewed as the pattern of those of mankind, and the 
    
goddess

     was held to preside over the nuptial league. Henc
  
     Greece devised the mythe of the perpetually renewed virginity of the 
    
goddess

    . The physical union of earth and heaven is, we th
  
    kin to that of the Greeks) the cow was assigned to the service of the 
    
goddess

     Hertha, or Earth. At Argos the chariot in which t
  
    se been supposed, not without reason, that the ancient epithet of the 
    
goddess

    , Ox-eyed or Cow-eyed (βοῶπις), refers to this con
  
    r ; and the latter to that part of her character by which she was the 
    
goddess

     presiding over the nuptial union. As the goddess 
  
    by which she was the goddess presiding over the nuptial union. As the 
    
goddess

     of the earth in the religion of Argos, her name w
  
    ever, that the two derivations may in a certain sense be correct. The 
    
goddess

     may have been originally merely Earth, and then, 
  
    ves him from the battle547 ; and in the conflict of the gods548, this 
    
goddess

     herself strikes him to the earth with a stone. To
  
    the Charites ; in the interpolated tale in the Odyssey, Aphrodite the 
    
goddess

     of beauty580. He is said to have asked Pallas-Ath
  
    . Hephæstos was a rough wooer, and attempted to offer violence to the 
    
goddess

    . An Athenian legend refers the birth of Erichthon
  
    w not for what reason) on Harmonia596. At Phliûs in the Peloponnese a 
    
goddess

     was worshiped, whom the ancient Phliasians, Pausa
  
    d by Ovid603, arrived in Lycia. The sun was shining fiercely, and the 
    
goddess

     was parched with thirst. She saw a pool, and knel
  
    dge and rushes, refused to allow her to slake her thirst. In vain the 
    
goddess

     entreated, representing that water was common to 
  
    ly mocked at her distress, but jumped into and muddied the water. The 
    
goddess

    , though the most gentle of her race, was roused t
  
    umerous offspring, ventured to set herself before Leto : the offended 
    
goddess

     called upon her children Apollo and Artemis, and 
  
    to Pytho. Inflamed with love he attempted to offer her violence : the 
    
goddess

     called to her children for aid, and he soon lay s
  
    . Gold-tressed ;4. Much-honoured.  With respect to the origin of this 
    
goddess

     and her name, the most simple hypothesis, in our 
  
    rth. Determined therefore that no place should receive the travailing 
    
goddess

    , she took her own station in the sky : she placed
  
     hills, and rivers of Hellas refused to hearken to the prayers of the 
    
goddess

    . Moved with wrath, the unborn Apollo menaced Theb
  
    an the wrath of Hera : he checked his stream to give a shelter to the 
    
goddess

     ; but instantly Ares arose, clashed his arms, tha
  
    h floated among the Cyclades616. Delos generously invited the wearied 
    
goddess

     to enter her, expressing her willingness to encou
  
     expressing her willingness to encounter the anger of Hera. This last 
    
goddess

    , when informed by her messenger, remits her anger
  
    os’ mother, is one of Persephone ; and Pheræ was a town sacred to the 
    
goddess

     Hecate, who was connected with the lower-world641
  
    emis was daughter of Zeus and Leto, and sister to Apollo. She was the 
    
goddess

     of the chase669 ; she also presided over health. 
  
    of the ‘dark-pebbled’ Anauros at the foot of that hill : of these the 
    
goddess

     unaided by her dogs caught four, which she reserv
  
    e bull, or boar, or whatever else she may have brought, exhorting the 
    
goddess

     to let the hares and small game alone, and attach
  
    he horses of Zeus feed, and fill their golden troughs with water. The 
    
goddess

     herself meantime enters the house of her father, 
  
    ialtes, it was said, sought in marriage Hera and Artemis : the latter 
    
goddess

    , changing her form into that of a hind, sprang ou
  
    s more examples perhaps than any other deity. The Cretans worshiped a 
    
goddess

     the same as or very similar to Artemis, whom they
  
    n their dialect signified Sweet Maid. She was also called Dictynna, a 
    
goddess

     of that name, and of a similar nature, having bee
  
    (δίκτυα) of some fishermen. The Cretans afterwards worshiped her as a 
    
goddess

     under the name of Dictynna from the above circums
  
    of Artemis as a love-shunning maiden became the prevalent one687, the 
    
goddess

     was made to fly the pursuit of Alpheios688. The l
  
     were celebrating a pannychis or wake, and mingled with them. But the 
    
goddess

    , suspecting his design, had daubed her own face a
  
    ly fountains in her temples. She was therefore probably regarded as a 
    
goddess

     of nature, that gave vigour and growth to plants 
  
     Loxias and Hecaergos. She was styled Arge as the swift or the bright 
    
goddess

    , and Upis or Opis as her whose eye was over all. 
  
    er identified with Selene, with Hecate, and even with Persephone, the 
    
goddess

     of the under-world, and to be thence called the t
  
    mewhat difficult of solution700. Artemis was also confounded with the 
    
goddess

     worshiped on the Tauric Chersonese, whose altars 
  
    e cast on that inhospitable shore701. She was identified too with the 
    
goddess

     of nature adored at Ephesus, whose symbolical fig
  
    eucophryne703, who was probably regarded as bearing a relation to the 
    
goddess

     similar to that borne by Upis and Arge at Delos. 
  
     of her beauty. As however beauty was not an attribute of the Asiatic 
    
goddess

    , the former is more likely to be the true supposi
  
    account of the unusual title Lycæa709. Another ambiguous name of this 
    
goddess

     was that of Tauropolos710. The chief titles given
  
    efore sound and pure, probably with reference to the virginity of the 
    
goddess

    . Welcker regards it as an epithet of the same nat
  
    s caused by his action. For a similar reason arrows were given to the 
    
goddess

     of the moon727. The names Phœbos and Artemis, as 
  
     in his worship. Artemis may in like manner have been regarded as the 
    
goddess

     of the chase from her being armed with arrows, or
  
    name is apparently the feminine of his, and probably signified simply 
    
goddess

     737.    Ἀϕροδίτη. Venus.     The Aphrodite of the
  
     was the daughter of Kronos742. The husband assigned to this charming 
    
goddess

     is usually the lame artist Hephæstos. Her amour w
  
    y by all the wild beasts of the mountains, whose breasts the exulting 
    
goddess

     filled with love and desire. Anchises happened to
  
    nd was amusing his leisure by playing on the lyre. When he beheld the 
    
goddess

    , who had divested herself of the usual marks of d
  
    at of the marriage and the dower. But while thus speaking, the artful 
    
goddess

     filled the heart of the youth with love. Believin
  
     taking advantage of the favourable moment. He seized the hand of the 
    
goddess

    , and ‘led her blushing like the morn’ into the ru
  
     the arrival of the herdsmen with the sheep and oxen was at hand, the 
    
goddess

     poured a profound sleep over Anchises. She arose 
  
    awe, he conceals his face in the clothes and sues for mercy ; but the 
    
goddess

     reassures him, and informs him that she will bear
  
    e child is the offspring of one of the nymphs ; but the secret of the 
    
goddess

     is to remain inviolate, under pain of his being s
  
    ith lightning by Zeus.  So saying, unto breezy Heaven she sped. Hail, 
    
goddess

    , who o’er well-dwelt Cyprus rulest ! But I will p
  
    nd gave him to Persephone to keep. But as soon as she beheld him, the 
    
goddess

     of the under-world refused to part with him ; and
  
    ground where his blood fell was sprinkled with nectar by the mourning 
    
goddess

    , and the flower called the anemone or wind-flower
  
    derived its present hue from this fatal event ; for as the distracted 
    
goddess

     ran barefoot through the woods and lawns to the a
  
    thenceforth tinged with red749. Other accounts, however, say that the 
    
goddess

     changed Adonis himself into this fragrant flower7
  
    a part of the year is absent, or as the legend expresses it, with the 
    
goddess

     of the under-world ; during the remainder with As
  
    s ascribed to Anacreon a dove announces herself as a present from the 
    
goddess

     to the bard. The bird called Iynx or Fritillus, o
  
    ôs, Corinth, Athens, Sparta, etc. In the more ancient temples of this 
    
goddess

     in Cyprus she was represented under the form of a
  
    ne of the Olympians of whom the foreign origin is so probable as this 
    
goddess

    . She is generally regarded as being the same with
  
    hrodite and Ares for parents768. In Olên’s hymn to Eileithyia769 that 
    
goddess

     was termed the mother of Love, and Alcæus said th
  
    ly apparent. It may be perhaps that in the hymn ascribed to Olên this 
    
goddess

     was identified with Aphrodite Archaia, to whom Th
  
    im to inspire her with a passion for some vile and abject wretch. The 
    
goddess

     departed, leaving her son to execute her mandate.
  
    e sacred isle of the Sun-god. Stesichorus787 had already sung how the 
    
goddess

     issued from the head of her sire in perfect panop
  
    oved, and Helios checked his steeds in their career till the new-born 
    
goddess

     took off her radiant armour. Later authorities as
  
    0 . Pallas-Athene is in Homer, and in the general popular system, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and skill. She is in war opposed to Are
  
    s, and other heroes were, as we shall see, favoured and aided by this 
    
goddess

    . As the patroness of arts and industry in general
  
    chne, proud of her skill in weaving and embroidery, in which arts the 
    
goddess

     had instructed her, ventured to deny her obligati
  
    igh-spirited maid unable to endure this affront hung herself, and the 
    
goddess

     relenting changed her into a spider (ἀράχνη)801. 
  
    . The invention of the flute or pipe (αὐλὸς) is also ascribed to this 
    
goddess

    . When Perseus ; says Pindar802, had slain Medusa,
  
    ts whose lugubrious hissing had given origin to it. Others803 say the 
    
goddess

     formed the pipe from the bone of a stag, and brin
  
    for Athens and Trœzên, and, according to one account, for Argos. This 
    
goddess

     is represented with a serious thoughtful countena
  
    p;c. We are now to inquire into the signification of the name of this 
    
goddess

     and her original nature. The simplest and most na
  
    veness of the earth. Her being represented in the poetic creed as the 
    
goddess

     of arts and war alone, need not cause us any hesi
  
    , is also given to Selene816. To these proofs respecting the Athenian 
    
goddess

     we may add that at Tegea Athena was called Alea, 
  
     these last were the ruling order, their view of the character of the 
    
goddess

     became the prevalent one823 ; yet even in the epi
  
    revalent one823 ; yet even in the epic poetry we find the idea of the 
    
goddess

     presiding over the arts still retained. Some of t
  
    s last hypothesis, that we think it not improbable that the Pelasgian 
    
goddess

     of Argos and other places, who had been identifie
  
    onos and Rhea, and by Zeus mother of Persephone877, was evidently the 
    
goddess

     of the earth, Mother-Earth (γῆ μήτηρ), whom some 
  
     gods on Olympos. She seems to have been early distinguished from the 
    
goddess

     called Earth880, and to have been regarded as the
  
    rrying off of her daughter Persephone by Hades, and the search of the 
    
goddess

     after her through the world. It is noticed by Hes
  
    aped, Aïdoneus in his golden chariot rose, and catching the terrified 
    
goddess

     carried her off in it shrieking to her father for
  
    nd by king Helios, whose eye nothing on earth escapes. So long as the 
    
goddess

     beheld the earth and starry heaven, the fishy sea
  
    of her sire had carried her away to be his queen ; and he exhorts the 
    
goddess

     to patience, by dwelling on the rank and dignity 
  
    he rank and dignity of the ravisher. Helios urged on his steeds ; the 
    
goddess

    , incensed at the conduct of Zeus, abandoned the s
  
    rince of that place, coming to the well to draw water, and seeing the 
    
goddess

    , inquired who she was and why she did not go into
  
    r a service in a respectable family. The princess Callidice tells the 
    
goddess

     the names of the five princes, who with her fathe
  
     the stranger could obtain the nursing her fortune would be made. The 
    
goddess

     bowed her thanks, and the princesses took up thei
  
    cks upon their shoulders flying wide, Like unto yellow flowers.   The 
    
goddess

     rose and accompanied them home. As she entered th
  
    ne splendour shone all around ; Metaneira filled with awe offered the 
    
goddess

     her own seat, which however she declined. Iambe t
  
    eing what the nurse was about, shrieked with affright and horror. The 
    
goddess

     threw the infant on the ground, declaring what he
  
     her without the town on the hill Callichoros.  Thus having said, the 
    
goddess

     changed her size And form, old-age off-flinging, 
  
    r before the people, and the temple was speedily raised. The mourning 
    
goddess

     took up her abode in it, but a dismal year came u
  
    s’ to Eleusis to invite Demeter back to Olympos, but the disconsolate 
    
goddess

     will not comply with the call. All the other gods
  
    ssed Persephone, granting her permission to return to her mother. The 
    
goddess

     instantly sprang up with joy, and heedlessly swal
  
    n returned to Olympos. “But come,” cries the Homerid,  But come, thou 
    
goddess

     who dost keep the land Of odorous Eleusis, and ro
  
    nd agriculture first practised in their country. They fabled that the 
    
goddess

     gave to Triptolemos (Thrice-plough), who occupies
  
    ter-Erinnys. The legend connected with it was as follows898. When the 
    
goddess

     was in search of her lost daughter, Poseidôn, fil
  
    eir union was the celebrated steed Areiôn ; and from the anger of the 
    
goddess

     at being thus abused she was named Erinnys899. It
  
     been carried off, clothing herself in deep black. The absence of the 
    
goddess

    , said the tradition, caused a general failure of 
  
    low-haired ; and 2. Fair-tressed, the appropriateness of which to the 
    
goddess

     of the corn is apparent. Beside these epithets He
  
    inger ; 9. Gold-sickled ; 10. Green ; all epithets well suited to the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture. Demeter was also named, 11. Law-g
  
    ilar cases, the question is, what was the original conception of this 
    
goddess

     ? Was she simply regarded as the queen of the mon
  
    is extremely feeble. But the singing of sacred hymns in honour of the 
    
goddess

     always formed a part of the service920. The ancie
  
    957 Hera and Athena drive out of Olympos in the chariot of the former 
    
goddess

    , to share in the conflict of the Achæans and the 
  
    ôs976. Yet though they seem to have been particularly attached to the 
    
goddess

     of love, the queen of heaven had authority over t
  
     to be their mother978. The Homeridian hymn to Artemis describes that 
    
goddess

     as going to the ‘great house’ of her brother at D
  
    mankind, and this is Demeter-Erinnys. In the Arcadian legends of this 
    
goddess

    , and in the concluding choruses of the Eumenides 
  
    EMESIS, FORTUNE, PERSONIFICATIONS.      Θέμις. Themis. Law.      This 
    
goddess

     appears in the Ilias1031 among the inhabitants of
  
    usually derived from ἐρῶ, ἐἴρω, to say, which suits the office of the 
    
goddess

    , and will accord with the rainbow in a view of it
  
    a seat and footstool, the workmanship of Hephæstos. Sleep reminds the 
    
goddess

     of the imminent danger which he formerly ran, for
  
    ght be expected, makes some use of him.    Νέμεσις. Nemesis.     This 
    
goddess

     is in the Theogony a daughter of Night1055. The t
  
    tively styled the offspring of Zeus and Nemesis1057. The name of this 
    
goddess

     comes most simply from νέμω, to distribute ; and 
  
    cter in the dramatists. At Smyrna two Nemeses were worshiped1058. The 
    
goddess

     adored at Cyzicos under the name of Adresteia, sa
  
    named Nemesis by Antimachus1060. This Asiatic Nemesis is probably the 
    
goddess

     of nature1061.    Τύχη. Fortuna. Fortune.     For
  
    her arms, whether as mother or nurse was uncertain. The image of this 
    
goddess

     made by Bupalos for the Smyrnæans had a hemispher
  
    out a presiding god,) he may have been regarded as a son of Zeus by a 
    
goddess

     named Semele, who in after-times, in pursuance of
  
    he Great Mother, was regarded by the Phrygians and Lydians1137 as the 
    
goddess

     of nature or of the earth. Her temples stood on t
  
    d fallen from heaven. The monarch readily yielded compliance, and the 
    
goddess

     was conveyed to Rome ; where a stately temple was
  
    founded her with Rhea, so the Latins made her one with their Ops, the 
    
goddess

     of the earth1143. In works of art Cybele exhibits
  
    ς ἢ Κοτυττὼ Κɑὶ Βϵνδȋς. Cotytto et Bendis.     Cotys or Cotytto was a 
    
goddess

     worshiped by the Thracians, whose kings were freq
  
    with great indecency and licentiousness1145. Bendis, another Thracian 
    
goddess

    , had some analogy with Artemis and Hecate1146, an
  
    ἐν Εϕέσῳ. Diana Ephesia.     The Ephesian Artemis was another Asiatic 
    
goddess

     whose worship was adopted by the Greeks. From the
  
    d by the influence of the moon. Nothing can be clearer than that this 
    
goddess

     was originally distinct from the Artemis of the G
  
    n gross superstition, vile juggling, and scandalous indecency. As the 
    
goddess

     herself is by Herodotus1153 identified with the G
  
    rdsmen was not without his amours ; he is said to have captivated the 
    
goddess

     of the night, Selene, under the form of a white r
  
    Nymphs. In the Odyssey, they are the attendants of Calypso, herself a 
    
goddess

     and a nymph. Of the female attendants of Circe, t
  
    endants of Circe, the potent daughter of Helios, also designated as a 
    
goddess

     and a nymph, it is said,  They spring from founta
  
    rang from a cliff into the sea. The gods out of compassion made her a 
    
goddess

     of the sea under the name of Leucothea, and him a
  
    Odysseus drawing his sword threatened to slay her ; and the terrified 
    
goddess

     bound herself by a solemn oath to do him no injur
  
     year. At the end of that period they were anxious to depart, but the 
    
goddess

     told the hero that he must previously cross the O
  
    n, the land of perpetual gloom. Odysseus obeyed the directions of the 
    
goddess

     in digging a small pit, into which he poured muls
  
    Odysseus came to the terrific Scylla and Charybdis, between which the 
    
goddess

     had informed him his course lay. She said1392 he 
  
    every ship that passes each mouth takes a man. The opposite rock, the 
    
goddess

     informs him, is much lower, for a man could shoot
  
    is, and Apollodorus1410 a Nereïs. Like Circe she was a human-speaking 
    
goddess

    , and dwelt in solitary state with her attendant n
  
    to his purpose, unless he could go thither and judge for himself. The 
    
goddess

     then bore him to heaven in her sevenfold shield, 
  
    which we have already given instances. She is the counselling (μῆδος) 
    
goddess

     ; and in the history of Iasôn we find Hera always
  
    , and the graves of the children of Medeia were in the temple of this 
    
goddess

    . It was an annual custom at Corinth that seven yo
  
    ward the virtue of Peleus the king of the gods resolved to give him a 
    
goddess

     in marriage. The spouse selected for him was the 
  
     to Elis : he was the father of Endymiôn, who enjoyed the love of the 
    
goddess

     Selene. Ætolos, one of the sons of Endymiôn by a 
  
    f his harvest to the gods, he omitted to notice Artemis. The offended 
    
goddess

     immediately sent a wild boar of huge size and str
  
     have been a mortal, and daughter to Cadmos. Hesiod1630 says that the 
    
goddess

     Harmonia was married to Cadmos in Thebes. Pindar 
  
    hildren of Cadmos seem all to refer to the element of water. Ino is a 
    
goddess

     of the sea, Agaue and Autonoe occur in the list o
  
     chanced to surprise Artemis and her nymphs as they were bathing. The 
    
goddess

    , incensed at his intrusion, flung some water upon
  
    g an image of Actæôn1647. Another cause assigned for the anger of the 
    
goddess

     was Actæôn’s boasting that he was superior to her
  
    ngs1675. The mythe of Niobe also is capable of a physical sense. This 
    
goddess

     1676, whose name denotes Youth or Newness 1677, i
  
    e of Sthenelos the son of Perseus was seven months gone of a son. The 
    
goddess

     brought on a premature labour, and Eurystheus cam
  
    rden through Arcadia, when he met Artemis and her brother Apollo. The 
    
goddess

     took the hind from him, and reproached him for vi
  
    heus, who returned them to him ; and he then gave them to Athena. The 
    
goddess

     carried them back to the garden of the Hesperides
  
    hena. A famine coming on the land, Aleos went into the temenos of the 
    
goddess

     ; and searching about, found his daughter's infan
  
    ll analogy — under the protection of another ; and Pallas-Athene, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and mental energy, appears throughout t
  
    that an Argive hero should be the object of persecution to the Argive 
    
goddess

     ; on the contrary, all analogy would lead us to s
  
    onception of a Peloponnesian hero1790, who, in obedience to the great 
    
goddess

     of the country (the goddess of the earth), cleare
  
     hero1790, who, in obedience to the great goddess of the country (the 
    
goddess

     of the earth), cleared it of the noxious animals 
  
    ade the object of the persecution instead of the favour of the Argive 
    
goddess

    . We do not think that the identification with Mel
  
    f Saïs, he says, informed Solôn out of their temple-archives that the 
    
goddess

     Neïth or Athena was the founder of both their cit
  
     a manner which gives no very high idea of Athenian delicacy1800. The 
    
goddess

     resolved to bestow immortality on the babe. She l
  
    in the temenos of Athena by his son ; or, according to others, by the 
    
goddess

     herself, whose favourite he had been, and whom in
  
     contrived to make him drunk, and while in that state he released the 
    
goddess

    . Zeus then desired him to demand a reward ; and P
  
    th the wishes of Eôs, pleading his fidelity to his wife, and that the 
    
goddess

     changed his form to put the faith of Procris to t
  
    ps and his family belong to the worship of Pallas-Athene. Beside this 
    
goddess

    , the symbol of the mild celestial heat, the ancie
  
    ar of Athena. He obeyed the prophet, and in the dead of the night the 
    
goddess

     and raised an altar to herself as Hippeia ([I]Of-
  
    ς), she as the Bridler (Χαλινȋτις)1888. Whether the legend viewed the 
    
goddess

     in her physical or in her moral character, it is 
  
    and swore to his spouse that he had been guilty of no infidelity. The 
    
goddess

    , affecting to believe him, asked the cow of him a
  
    s than true. Analogy would lead us to view in Io a form of the Argive 
    
goddess

     Hera, with whom she is so closely connected ; and
  
     of Zeus is the cause of offence, in both the nymph is changed by the 
    
goddess

     into her sacred animal1908. Argos is probably mer
  
    r of Hera ; the latter says that they made light of the statue of the 
    
goddess

    , — the former, that they ridiculed her temple, sa
  
    as much finer. It was also said that they were the priestesses of the 
    
goddess

     and were punished by her for taking the gold off 
  
    s-Athene aids the hero and enables him to achieve the adventure. This 
    
goddess

     was one of the most ancient deities of Argos, for
  
    , we invariably find the Gorgon (not the Gorgons) connected with this 
    
goddess

    , and moreover Gorgo is one of her own appellation
  
     cover the land with gloom. This is prevented by Perseus’ freeing the 
    
goddess

     from her opposite the Gorgo, which makes the moon
  
    d peculiar to Argos, we should feel rather disposed to see the Argive 
    
goddess

     in the Athena who appears in it. As this goddess 
  
    ed to see the Argive goddess in the Athena who appears in it. As this 
    
goddess

     was the earth, the mythe in this view forms a par
  
    84, who dedicated herself to the service of Artemis, and vowed to the 
    
goddess

     the maintenance of perpetual virginity. But Zeus 
  
    us who turns Callisto into a bear to conceal her from Hera ; and this 
    
goddess

     persuades Artemis to kill her with her arrows as 
  
    , and called Bears (ἄρκτοι), used to perform the sacred rites of this 
    
goddess

    , on which occasion they went round the temple cla
  
    temis did Otos and Ephialtes. Her name was probably an epithet of the 
    
goddess

     signifying the Joyful 1997.      Chapter IX.   MY
  
     the altar of Hera ; and Pelias, who never showed any regard for that 
    
goddess

    , slew her before it. The brothers afterwards fell
  
    s name, Pæonia2034. Endymiôn, it is also said, gained the love of the 
    
goddess

     Selene, and she bore him fifty daughters2035. Zeu
  
    y of the temple by the unhallowed gratification of their passion. The 
    
goddess

     was offended ; disease and pestilence testified t
  
    nd maiden of superior beauty to be offered annually as victims to the 
    
goddess

    . For many years this cruel rite remained in use, 
  
    time of Homer, none ventures to assign any other cause to it than the 
    
goddess

     Artemis, whose wrath (though Homer rather says th
  
    drew on himself. Some said that he attempted to offer violence to the 
    
goddess

     herself ; others, to Opis, one of her Hyperborean
  
    her arrows ; others again, that it was for presuming to challenge the 
    
goddess

     at the discus. It was also said, that when he cam
  
    ainly related to the sea. Among the Hyades we find Dione, the ancient 
    
goddess

     of Dodona ; Ambrosia, Coronis, Eudora are names e
  
    the Argo entered the West Sea and came to Ææa, the isle of Circe. The 
    
goddess

     performed the usual rites of purification to remo
  
    araos, who hated him as a chief cause of the war, perceiving what the 
    
goddess

     was about, cut off the head of Melanippos, whom T
  
    e, boasted that he was superior in skill to Artemis, and the offended 
    
goddess

     sent adverse winds to detain the fleet. Calchos h
  
    married to Achilleus. As they were in the act of sacrificing her, the 
    
goddess

     moved with pity snatched her away, leaving a hind
  
     the Achæans were about to stone him, but he fled to the altar of the 
    
goddess

    . Odysseus killed Astyanax the young son of Hectôr
  
     Zeus of the Greeks, the Jupiter of the Romans, was named Tina2254. A 
    
goddess

     named Kupra was called by the Romans Juno ; and a
  
    s of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, which crowned the Capitol at Rome. A 
    
goddess

     named Nortia, answering to the Roman Fortuna, was
  
    e Tuscan god of the under-world was named Mantus2258, and there was a 
    
goddess

     of it called Mania. The Lars, which form so consp
  
    a, Mars and Neriene, Quirinus and Hora. In some cases the name of the 
    
goddess

     is only the feminine form of that of the god, as 
  
    se to Juno. This name therefore must have originally signified simply 
    
goddess

    , and we find it used in the plural — Junones2280 
  
     turned up at the points2292. Another, probably Sabine, title of this 
    
goddess

     was Curis or Curitis2293. Juno was generally repr
  
    lled Minerval2296. According to Varro2297, Minerva was the protecting 
    
goddess

     of olive-grounds ; but it may be doubted whether 
  
    was not a transference to her of one of the attributes of the Grecian 
    
goddess

     Pallas-Athene.    The temple or chapel of Minerva
  
     to be a translation.     Vesta.     The same obscurity involves this 
    
goddess

     as the corresponding Hestia of the Greeks, with w
  
     find this last also called Mater. 2308      Ceres.     Ceres was the 
    
goddess

     who presided over corn and tillage, thus correspo
  
    . Her temple at Rome was under the care of the ædiles, as she was the 
    
goddess

     of the agricultural plebeians2309. Festivals call
  
     over birth and growth in general, for as Venus Hortensis she was the 
    
goddess

     of gardens2315. She was held to be the same as Li
  
    e goddess of gardens2315. She was held to be the same as Libitina the 
    
goddess

     of funerals, because, says Plutarch2316, the one 
  
    goddess of funerals, because, says Plutarch2316, the one and the same 
    
goddess

     superintends birth and death. A temple of Venus a
  
    collected from it respecting the original office and character of the 
    
goddess

    . Venus Cloacina or Cluacina, was so called, says 
  
    alia, in each of which there appears to have been a reference to this 
    
goddess

    . The first was on the 23rd of April, the second d
  
    n Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite, where she describes the chariot of that 
    
goddess

     as drawn by sparrows ; and that of Alcæus to Apol
  
    t sup.   690. It is uncertain when this change took place ; it is the 
    
goddess

     who is pursued in Telesilla, ut sup. (O1. 64.). T
  
    es may perhaps be classed) it is held to relate to the worship of the 
    
goddess

     by the Taurians.  711. 1. ἰοχέαιρα : 2. χρυσήνιος
  
      744. By asserting that her hair was more beautiful than that of the 
    
goddess

    . Sch. Theocr. i. 109.  745. Hesiod (ap. Apollod. 
  
    gin of the rose to the blood, that of the anemone to the tears of the 
    
goddess

     :   Αἷμα ῥόδον τίκτει, τὰ δέ δάκρυα τὺν ἀνεμώναν.
  
    verborum.   758. See Pind. Pyth. iv. 380. and the scholion.  759. The 
    
goddess

     of Cyprus was plainly the Phœnician Astarte.  760
  
    h. and Et. Mag. s. v. said to be derived from the grief (ἄχος) of the 
    
goddess

    . Welcker (Schwenk, p. 293.) says it is the same a
  
    (i. 11.) that Osiris and Isis were Sun and Moon. Isis was also as the 
    
goddess

     of Saïs identified with Athena. Plut. de Is. et O
  
    . i. 19, 3.   1856. We are also told of a giant Pallas, from whom the 
    
goddess

     derived her name ; and in the Ægeus of Sophocles,

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    demigods, who derived their origin from a god and a mortal, or from a 
    
goddess

     and a mortal. Such were Hercules, Esculapius, Cas
  
    because they were ten in number, like the fingers. The feasts of this 
    
goddess

     were celebrated with the noise of drums and cymba
  
    al Virgins.]     Who was Vesta? Vesta was the daughter of Saturn; the 
    
goddess

     of fire; emblematical of that pure vital heat, wh
  
    n the age of six and ten years. The time of their consecration to the 
    
goddess

     lasted thirty years, and it was not till after th
  
    orn? Several cities disputed the honour of having given birth to this 
    
goddess

    : principally, Samos, and Argos, where she was mor
  
    ced the Hours and Graces. What were her attributes and worship?  This 
    
goddess

     presided over empires and riches, and her worship
  
     left, grasping a lighted torch. What were her attributes? She is the 
    
goddess

     of fruits; for her very name is derived from the 
  
    d in the infernal regions, Hecate. What were her offices? She was the 
    
goddess

     of chastity, of the chace, and of woods. In heave
  
    iendship, killed the high priest Thoas, and brought the statue of the 
    
goddess

     into Italy. What is the history of this goddess? 
  
    ght the statue of the goddess into Italy. What is the history of this 
    
goddess

    ? It is full of absurdities not worth noticing. In
  
     before the Lord.    Chap. XIII. Minerva.        Who was Minerva? The 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and deliberate courage, and the patrone
  
     a keen axe; and upon his doing so, Minerva instantly sprang forth, a 
    
goddess

     armed. How was this Deity represented? As a beaut
  
    sides that of Minerva? She was called Athena, from being the tutelary 
    
goddess

     of Athens; Pallas, from the Greek word, signifyin
  
    tter, who consequently gave her own name to the city. Of what is this 
    
goddess

     emblematical? Of wisdom, prudence, conquest over 
  
    upposed to be Belus, Who was Bellona? She was the sister of Mars, the 
    
goddess

     of war and cruelty, called by the Greeks Enyo. Sh
  
     Pope’s Homer’s Iliad.     Chap. XV. Venus.        How was Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love and beauty, produced? She is represented 
  
    s wafted by the gentle zephyrs to the foot of Mount Cythera. Here the 
    
goddess

     lands, and as she walks, flowers bloom beneath he
  
    ere, storms tremendous at the Scæan gate: Radiant in arms the furious 
    
goddess

     stands, And from the navy calls her Argive bands.
  
    s; in honour of whom the Romans celebrated games. Who was Pomona? The 
    
goddess

     of orchards, married to Vertumnus. The supposed s
  
    goddess of orchards, married to Vertumnus. The supposed skill of this 
    
goddess

     in the cultivation of fruit-trees and gardens, pr
  
    rshiped him under the name of Baal Peor. Who was Pales? Pales was the 
    
goddess

     of shepherds and protectress of flocks. Her feast
  
     of straw, round which they danced; and, afterwards, presented to the 
    
goddess

    , milk, cheese, prepared wine, and millet cakes! I
  
    her rural Divinities? Anna Perenna, nearly the same as Pales; Bubona, 
    
goddess

     of herdsmen; Mellona, of bees; Seisa, protectress
  
    e fatal shears, ready to cut the thread of life. Who was Nemesis? The 
    
goddess

     who presided over the punishment of guilt. She is
  
    d of these, bears a strong resemblance to that of Noah. Lachsmee, the 
    
goddess

     of abundance, who presides over agricultural labo
  
    me to be objects of adoration among that superstitious race. Thus the 
    
goddess

     Bubastis, supposed to be a personification of the
  
    or Venus. A white cow was the sacred animal, or living symbol of this 
    
goddess

    , the divinity of the nightly heavens. Who was Hor
  
    ate, Erinnys, the punisher of guilt, the mistress of the furies. This 
    
goddess

     was supposed to inflict various diseases upon tho
  
    and particularly blindness. Who was Bouto, or Buto? Bouto was another 
    
goddess

     worshiped by the Egyptians, and called by the Gre
  
    ficent edifice, having porticoes forty cubits high. The shrine of the 
    
goddess

     was of one solid stone, having equal sides, each 
  
    eir offspring as food. The asp was supposed to be commissioned by the 
    
goddess

     Isis, as a minister of her vengeance, to destroy 
  
    ies were, Teutates, Hesus, the god of war; Dis, or Pluto; Andate, the 
    
goddess

     of victory, and many of the Grecian deities. Like
  
    d; and from her constantly searching for him, she was called Vanadis, 
    
goddess

     of hope. She was supposed to have the knowledge o
  
    the earth; and she was worshiped by most of the German tribes, as the 
    
goddess

     of love and pleasure; the patroness of marriage. 
  
    ed the differences between Gods and men. Iduna, queen of youth; Saga, 
    
goddess

     of waterfalls; Vara, the witness of oaths; Lofen,
  
     and as enjoying an equal degree of power. They reverenced likewise a 
    
goddess

    , who was styled the Great Mother, and regarded as
  
    ewise a goddess, who was styled the Great Mother, and regarded as the 
    
goddess

     of the waters. The chief deities of the Peruvians
  
    ge 99 Acīdǎlĭa, a name of Venus 61 Adītī, consort of Casyapa, a Hindû 
    
goddess

     133 Adōnis, a Phrygian deity 218 Agǎnīppĭdes, a n
  
     a name of Jupiter 16 Astārtē, a name of Venus 61 Astarte, a Phrygian 
    
goddess

     218 Astrēǎ, Justice 104 Astrōlatry 122 Athēna, a 
  
     of Bacchus 49 Bēllĕrŏphōn, the conqueror of Chĭmærǎ 116 Bēllōnǎ, the 
    
goddess

     of war 58 Bēlus, a Babylonian deity 216 Bēlus, a 
  
    bridge which reached from earth to heaven 202 Bŏnǎ Dĕǎ, the bountiful 
    
goddess

     85 Bŏnŭs-Evēntŭs, a rural divinity 87 Bŏrĕās, the
  
    sæus, a name of Bacchus 47 Brōntēs, one of the Cyclops 68 Būbōna, the 
    
goddess

     of herdsmen 87 Būddah, a pagan deity 127 Būddhism
  
     87 Būddah, a pagan deity 127 Būddhism 127 Bouto or Buto, an Egyptian 
    
goddess

     171    C    Cǎcŭs, a son of Vulcan 68 Cādmŭs, the
  
    a people of Thessaly 115 Cērbĕrŭs, the three-headed dog 94 Cĕrēs, the 
    
goddess

     of corn 26 Cēstŭs, the girdle of Venus 62 Chaldēa
  
     Cœcŭlus, a son of Vulcan 68 Cœlus, the same as Uranus 5 Cōllīnǎ, the 
    
goddess

     of hills 88 Cōmus, the god of revelry 108 Cōnsuāl
  
    on, a hero of antiquity 109 Dewtahs, malignant spirits 131 Diāna, the 
    
goddess

     of the chase 44 Dīctnnǎ, a name of Diana 44 Dĭēs 
  
     of the Muses 42 Ergatīs, a name of Minerva 53 Eilethyia, an Egyptian 
    
goddess

     170 Erīcthĕŭs, a son of Vulcan 68 Erīnnys, the Fu
  
    , a name of Pluto 99 Fēnrĭs, a Scandinavian evil deity 205 Flōra, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers 86 Fōrsētĭ, a son of Odin 203 Frēǎ, a 
  
    goddess of flowers 86 Fōrsētĭ, a son of Odin 203 Frēǎ, a Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     199 Fŭllǎ, the handmaid of Frea 200 Furies, the p
  
    s, Aēllo, Ocy̌pĕtē, Cĕlēnō 116 Harpōcrǎtes, an Egyptian god 164 Hēbē, 
    
goddess

     of youth 25 Hecate, a name of Diana 44 Heimdāl, a
  
     of Diana 44 Heimdāl, a Scandinavian deity 202 Hēla, the Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     of death 204 Hēlĭǎdĕs, daughters of Sol 38 Hĕlĭcŏ
  
    the Trojan war 115 Heroes of the Theban war 115 Hertha, a name of the 
    
goddess

     Frea 119 Hindû mythology 129 Hindû pantheon 145 H
  
     Hindû temples 145 Hippŏcrēnides, a name of the Muses 43 Hippōnǎ, the 
    
goddess

     of horses 88 Hōder, a son of Odin 202 Horus, an E
  
    , a name of Venus 61 Idaæa, a name of Cybele 10 Idŭnā, a Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     203 Inǎchŭs, a hero of antiquity 109 Indian pagod
  
    ter 25 Irminsūl, a Scandinavian deity 201 Isĭs, a celebrated Egyptian 
    
goddess

     157 Ixīōn, a criminal of the infernal regions 107
  
    ours of Hercules 110 Lāchĕsĭs, one of the Parcæ 103 Lachsmee, a Hindû 
    
goddess

     133 Lādon, the father of Syrinx 90 Lama, Grand 12
  
    rcury 70 Mamacocha, a Peruvian deity 221 Mānēs 104 Mariatale, a Hindû 
    
goddess

     138 Mărīnā, a name of Venus 61 Mars, the god of w
  
     Megăle, a name of Juno 23 Mĕgălēsĭă, festivals of Cybele 11 Mellōna, 
    
goddess

     of bees 87 Mēlpŏmĕnĕ, one of the Muses 42 Mēnădes
  
    , a king of Phrygia 38 Mīmĕr, a Scandinavian prophet 207 Mĭnērvă, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom 52 Mīnōs, one of the infernal judges 10
  
     hell 135 Nārāyān, a Hindû god 130 Nārcīssŭs 90 Nĕmĕsĭs, the avenging 
    
goddess

     108 Neptune, god of the ocean 74 Nepthys, the wif
  
    ān, a name of Apollo 37 Paganism 125 Palemon, a sea god 79 Pales, the 
    
goddess

     of shepherds 87 Palilia, feasts of Pales 87 Pallā
  
    nĭa, one of the Muses 42 Pŏly̌phēmŭs, the chief Cyclop 76 Pōmōnă, the 
    
goddess

     of orchards 86 Pŏpŭlōnĭă, a rural divinity 87 Pōr
  
    vinity 87    S    Sabism, worship of the sun 179 Sāga, a Scandinavian 
    
goddess

     203 Salamanders, genii of fire 93 Sălĭī priests o
  
    nus, a name of Pluto 99 Superstitions of the Hindûs 149 Sūradevī, the 
    
goddess

     of wine 138 Sūrtur, a genius of fire 201 Sūrya, a
  
    Odin 208 Valkyries, Scandinavian goddesses 205 Vānădis, a name of the 
    
goddess

     Frea 199 Vārā, a Scandinavian deity 203 Varūna, t
  
     of the waters 138 Vedas, the holy books of the Hindis 130 Vesta, the 
    
goddess

     of fire 12 Vestal Virgins, priestesses of Vesta 1
  
    goddess of fire 12 Vestal Virgins, priestesses of Vesta 12 Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of beauty 60 Vertūmnŭs, the god of tradesmen 86 V
  
    und.  Pitt’s Virgil.   7.   Alecto. This said, to earth th’ impetuous 
    
goddess

     flies Inflam’d with rage and vengeance, from the

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    iet water-god. When the farmer sowed the seeds in the field, it was a 
    
goddess

     that made the green stalks come up and be fruitfu
  
    ; and Ceres was one of his sisters. She was the stately and beautiful 
    
goddess

     who made the fields grow green and yield their cr
  
    ontentment, for his eyes were used only to this. Soon the poor little 
    
goddess

    , who was to be queen of this awful kingdom, began
  
    ad. All the jewels and riches of the world could not make this little 
    
goddess

     happy without sunshine and flowers and fresh air 
  
    d, and the only sweet live creature in the palace was the poor little 
    
goddess

     Proserpina, who seemed like a sunbeam gone astray
  
    t playmate. She was terrified as she heard the footsteps of the great 
    
goddess

    . Yet she was able to tell the news. Proserpina ha
  
     out, but there was no help at hand and they had seen their beautiful 
    
goddess

     friend no more. When Ceres heard that, her face g
  
    cked up a rose which had fallen from the hands of the poor frightened 
    
goddess

     and which was already faded. The world soon grew 
  
    had begun to grow were withering. Then all the farmers called, on the 
    
goddess

     for help, praying to her to pity the land and car
  
    ey could see in the sky the glow of her great torch, where the mighty 
    
goddess

     wandered alone, searching; and, when the storms w
  
     calling, “Proserpina.” Many weeks passed thus, but at last, when the 
    
goddess

     was near to despair, she came to the fountain of 
  
     of dazzling white, and with golden sandals; at his left sat Minerva, 
    
goddess

     of truth and wisdom, clear-eyed and quiet and ter
  
    e by force.” Then Jupiter bowed his head in thought, and Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, said, “If Proserpina has eaten anythin
  
     some one coming toward her across the meadows — a slender, beautiful 
    
goddess

    , with flowers in her golden hair and in the folds
  
     golden hair and in the folds of her fair, white gown; and this young 
    
goddess

     had a smile on her lips, and her eyes were as bri
  
    s. And she allows nothing to grow upon the earth until the fair young 
    
goddess

     comes back. The men of earth have given the evil 
  
    meter’s daughter go.    The tender corn upon the lea    Droops in her 
    
goddess

     gloom when she    Cries for her lost Persephone. 
  
    it a woman, warm and alive and human. He called to his aid Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love, to add beauty to the form, and Minerva, 
  
    the goddess of love, to add beauty to the form, and Minerva, the wise 
    
goddess

    , to make the woman intelligent, and thus each of 
  
     summer evening, she had never had a lover. She worshipped Diana, the 
    
goddess

     of maidenhood and hunting, and spent all her days
  
     In a few moments Eurydice came in, tall and fair arid beautiful as a 
    
goddess

     of Olympus. “Take her, sweet singer,” said Pluto,
  
    s, “the path of Happiness is as if strewn with roses.” Then the other 
    
goddess

     drew near. She was taller than Happiness, and eve
  
    old him. Then, lifting his head, he chose the path of the fair, stern 
    
goddess

     who is called, by men and by the gods, Virtue. Af
  
    f the Hesperides. Hercules knew something about these apples. The old 
    
goddess

     Earth had brought them as a bridal gift at the we
  
     the Morning Star had gone onward with his flaming lamp, and the rosy 
    
goddess

     of dawn had appeared. It was almost time for the 
  
    orld saw the light of day and Pluto was alarmed. At last, the ancient 
    
goddess

     Earth raised her voice. She it was who suffered m
  
     the sunlight on her golden hair that Dictys thought she must be some 
    
goddess

     of the sea, although there was near her a small b
  
    nwhile Perseus grew rapidly. He was tall and strong, and Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, loved him. Of all the children of the 
  
     saw that it was no longer an old woman who stood before him, but the 
    
goddess

     Minerva. The light flashed upon her breastplate o
  
    They will tell you where Medusa is to be found.” With these words the 
    
goddess

     disappeared, but at his feet Perseus saw the wing
  
    of thanksgiving. But Perseus sacrificed to Minerva, and to Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love. In the midst of the feast which followed
  
    ing, for all his anger, dared do her no harm, for he feared the great 
    
goddess

     of wisdom; but he left soldiers at the door of th
  
    er forth from the temple, and when they hesitated, fearing the great; 
    
goddess

     Minerva, he stepped forward himself to do the imp
  
    ’s head to Minerva, who had helped him so constantly. Ever after, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom bore the terrible snaky head either upo
  
     danced, and grateful sacrifices were offered by them to Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and courage, and to Venus, the goddess 
  
    them to Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and courage, and to Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love, for it was these two who had given These
  
    he gods and goddesses were bidden to the marriage feast — all but the 
    
goddess

     Discord. On the appointed day the palace was thro
  
    y a dispute arose, for queenly Juno, and wise Minerva, and Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love, all claimed the prize, and no one could 
  
    t before he could utter the thought that was in his heart, Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of love, stepped forth. “Paris,” she said — and P
  
    t the sky was full of a rosy light. It was the radiance of the golden 
    
goddess

     Venus, who came and wakened Helen, saying to her:
  
     Agamemnon, even in the midst of the Grecian chiefs, but Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, came behind him and caught him by his 
  
    ge at the loss of his slave, Briseis, whom he loved. Then Thetis, the 
    
goddess

     mother of Achilles, went up to Olympus and prayed
  
    ld do himself harm. Far away, at the bottom of the ocean, Thetis, the 
    
goddess

     mother of Achilles, heard the sounds of grief. Sh
  
    ose and went forth upon the field of battle. He had no armor, but the 
    
goddess

     Minerva threw a golden light about his head, so t
  
     touched, and said: — “I, also, was in the wrong, O Achilles, for the 
    
goddess

     of strife clouded my eyes, that I should not see;
  
    said to have fallen from heaven. It was called the Palladium, and the 
    
goddess

     had promised that as long as it remained within t
  
    rious halls of Olympus, Juno, the queen of the gods, and Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of courage and wisdom, were sternly contented, fo
  
    ng doors were opened by a woman so beautiful that they knew she was a 
    
goddess

    . She invited them to enter, and all followed her,
  
    t Eurylochus, who was suspicious. Circe, for that was the name of the 
    
goddess

    , led the men into the great hall, and with a show
  
    he tenth he was washed ashore on the Island of Ogygia, where the fair 
    
goddess

     Calypso reigned. Now, when the goddess saw Ulysse
  
    land of Ogygia, where the fair goddess Calypso reigned. Now, when the 
    
goddess

     saw Ulysses, she loved him, and would not let him
  
    ashore and piled up his gifts under the olive tree near him. Minerva, 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and courage, had always kept watch over
  
    meter by the Greeks. Sister of Jupiter, 14; mother of Proserpina, 15; 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, 14; she searched six months for P
  
    ed by the Greeks Artemis; daughter of Jupiter; twin sister of Apollo; 
    
goddess

     of the chase, 59.  Dio΄tys. A fisherman; aided Da
  
    of Tydeus; Greek warrior, 202, 210.  Dis΄cord. Called by Greeks Eris; 
    
goddess

     of strife. At the marriage of Peleus and Thetis s
  
    eeks Hera. Wife of Jupiter; queen of Olympus, 31. At her wedding, the 
    
goddess

     Earth gave her the golden apples afterward plante
  
    ged seer. Predicted the future of Hercules, 80.  Ti΄tans. Sons of the 
    
goddess

     Earth, 41; fought with the gods and tried to forc

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    ods, who derived their origin from a god by a female mortal or from a 
    
goddess

     by a mortal. Such were Hercules, Æsculapius, Cast
  
    emi-men, because they were sons of a god and a female mortal, or of a 
    
goddess

     by a mortal. Before we give the history of Jupite
  
    ts sustenance without culture; all things were in common; Astrea, the 
    
goddess

     of justice, ruled; and there were neither content
  
    r of the gods. They also affirm that Cybele gave her own name to that 
    
goddess

    , and that the Corybantes, her priests, took their
  
    from Corybas. In time Cybele was reckoned the mother of the gods. The 
    
goddess

     Astergatis was the symbol of the earth; and the E
  
    edded; but he prefered to her the nymph Sangaris. Fable says that the 
    
goddess

     revenged herself upon Atys, by binding Sangaris t
  
     or Tellus, the wife of Cœlus and the mother of Saturn, was the older 
    
goddess

    . She is painted as sitting with a drum, because t
  
    nd contains the boisterous winds in its bosom. Vesta the younger, the 
    
goddess

     of fire, was the daughter of Saturn by his wife R
  
     respect. Their declarations were admitted for an oath. Vesta, as the 
    
goddess

     of fire, had no statues; but as the guardian of h
  
     which gave rise to the saying that he made a man with the aid of the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom. Hence, he is painted, stealing fire fr
  
    Jupiter metamorphosed her into a cow. The trick could not deceive the 
    
goddess

    . She imperiously demanded that this cow should be
  
    r under the guard of Argus, who had one hundred eyes. This spy of the 
    
goddess

     could not be surprised, because fifty of his eyes
  
    s the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Hebe, and Ilithya, or Lucina. Hebe, the 
    
goddess

     of youth, was cupbearer to the gods. Having displ
  
    ls were celebrated in the month of February; Juga, because she is the 
    
goddess

     of marriage; Socigena, because she helps to coupl
  
    in a chariot, drawn by peacocks. — See Fig. 8.   Fig. 8. Juno.   “The 
    
goddess

     then to Argus straight convey’d Her gift, and him
  
    trife Of lab’ring nature, and dissolve her life. Downward the various 
    
goddess

     took her flight, And drew a thousand colours from
  
    to make the wife abide with her husband through life.  Viriplaca, the 
    
goddess

     of family peace, was worshipped, that husbands mi
  
    us and wise, only by good conduct and real excellence.  Quies was the 
    
goddess

     of rest, and was supposed to be the donor of peac
  
    tness. She had a temple without the walls of Rome.  Meditrina was the 
    
goddess

     of medicines; her festivals were called Meditrina
  
    , which served them for physic. The Romans gave thanks to Vitula, the 
    
goddess

     of mirth, for mitigating the toils of life.  Sent
  
     What was the office of Domitius? What was the duty of Manturna? What 
    
goddess

     reconciled husbands to their wives? What was the 
  
    tercidona? What is known of Deverra? What was the duty of Janus? What 
    
goddess

     blesses sleeping infants? What is said of Nundina
  
     What goddess blesses sleeping infants? What is said of Nundina? What 
    
goddess

     blesses youth? What goddess patronizes noble acti
  
    ng infants? What is said of Nundina? What goddess blesses youth? What 
    
goddess

     patronizes noble actions? What was Quies? Who was
  
     Who was Angerona? What is said of Stata or Statua Mater? Who was the 
    
goddess

     of thieves? What two deities presided over the wi
  
    o deities presided over the will? What is said of Aius Locutius? What 
    
goddess

     presided over funerals?    Chapter X. Of Ceres.  
  
    oddess presided over funerals?    Chapter X. Of Ceres.     Ceres, the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, was the daughter of Saturn and Cy
  
    ch thus requite the mischief they have done.”  Ovid.   “To thee, fair 
    
goddess

    , we’ll a garland plait, Of ears of corn, t’ adorn
  
    urs of this description. Questions. Who was Ceres? Was Ceres a chaste 
    
goddess

    ? Was Ceres a beneficient goddess? What were the E
  
    s. Who was Ceres? Was Ceres a chaste goddess? Was Ceres a beneficient 
    
goddess

    ? What were the Eleusinian mysteries? What heavy m
  
      Chapter XII. Aurora, Tithonus, Memnon, and Phaeton.     Aurora, the 
    
goddess

     of the morning dawn, and the harbinger of the sun
  
    a, and twin-sister of Apollo. She was the queen of the woods, and the 
    
goddess

     of hunting. She devoted herself to perpetual celi
  
    es. While Diana was bathing in it, the youth imprudently gazed on the 
    
goddess

    , who, casting the waters into his face, he was tr
  
    ee qualities or offices, the name of Triformis, and Tergemina, or the 
    
goddess

     with three forms, was given to her. She was denom
  
    red to her.  Obs. 1. — Confounded with Hecate and Luna, Diana was the 
    
goddess

     of magic and enchantments. The magicians of Thess
  
    ds and mountains in the moon caused the poets to say that she was the 
    
goddess

     of hunting. The moon smiles upon the world, for w
  
    ued from the Nile, and was much worshipped in Egypt., The second, the 
    
goddess

     of war, was the daughter of Saturn; the third, th
  
    econd, the goddess of war, was the daughter of Saturn; the third, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter; the fourt
  
    dess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter; the fourth, the tutelary 
    
goddess

     of Athens, was daughter to Vulcan; the last of th
  
    is head with a hatchet; whence Minerva sprang out, not a child, but a 
    
goddess

    , formed, and in complete armour. She was immediat
  
     sciences and the arts are the true riches of the mind, not needing a 
    
goddess

     of wisdom to produce them. The oil indicates that
  
    er beheld it. While the citadel of Troy was building, an image of the 
    
goddess

    , called the Palladium, is reported to have fallen
  
    t 6 inches. Noble remains of it are still in being. The statue of the 
    
goddess

    , made of gold and ivory, 26 cubits high, was one 
  
    sterpieces of Phidias. The other temple was called Victory. In it the 
    
goddess

     was represented with a pomegranate in her right h
  
    lled Ægis, which vomitted whirlwinds of flame. In process of time the 
    
goddess

     engraved on it the head of Medusa. A crown of oli
  
    in useful labours. Questions. Who was Minerva? Was Minerva a powerful 
    
goddess

    ? Did Minerva bestow any other benefits on mankind
  
    toria.     Bellona, or Duellonia, (often confounded with Pallas,) the 
    
goddess

     of war, and sister of Mars, was called Enyo by th
  
    a chariot drawn by furious horses, called Flight and Terror, with the 
    
goddess

     Discord flying before them in tattered garments. 
  
    hildren had Mars?    Chapter XX : Venus, Cupid, Adonis.    Venus, the 
    
goddess

     of Love and Beauty, the mother of Cupid, and the 
  
    va, and Venus, being present at the wedding of Thetis and Peleus, the 
    
goddess

     Discord threw into the assembly a golden apple, i
  
    ound her, buoyed on silken wings. Her companion was Python Suada, the 
    
goddess

     of eloquence. Cupid, Hymen, and Adonis, and the G
  
    earth’s wide regions her with joy receive.” “This part perform’d, the 
    
goddess

     flies sublime, To visit Paphos and her native cli
  
     smiles. Then, on her beryl throne, by Tritons borne, Bright rose the 
    
goddess

     like the star of morn, With rosy fingers as uncur
  
    ht, as he is often seen, A bow he bore and arrows bright and keen: No 
    
goddess

     she, commissioned to the field, Like Pallas, drea
  
    d, Groaned the sad gales, and rivers blushed with blood; And beauty’s 
    
goddess

     bending o’er his bier, Breathed the soft sigh, an
  
    y of physics, morality, and history. Sometimes they consider her as a 
    
goddess

    , sometimes as a planet, and not unfrequently as a
  
    sisters of poetry, imitated her flights. Venus was represented as the 
    
goddess

     of pleasure; Cupid or Love was given her for her 
  
    imals. The poets represent him as the son of the god of riches by the 
    
goddess

     of poverty, to intimate that fortune and misery e
  
    re and the art of working metals. Vulcan was married to the beautiful 
    
goddess

     Venus, but she appears to have despised her defor
  
    ven’s far beaming brazen mansions shine. There the lame Architect the 
    
goddess

     found, Obscure in smoke, his forges flaming round
  
    ladies much honoured Leucothea; but they durst not offer vows to that 
    
goddess

    , because they dreaded for their children the misf
  
     beautifully describes Jun o ’ s visit to Æ olus  :   “Thus rag’d the 
    
goddess

    , and with fury fraught, The restless regions of t
  
    rially influence crops and vegetation were the second two. Ceres, the 
    
goddess

     of corn, and Bacchus, the god of wine, were the t
  
     earth. He was arbitrarily called Ops, or Tellus; and the name of the 
    
goddess

     Vesta, Ceres, Proserpine, Rhea, Diana, or Cybele,
  
    different festivals of Earth, one was called the festival of the good 
    
goddess

    . On the first day of May, Vestals entered the hou
  
    entered the house of the high priest, to make a sacrifice to the good 
    
goddess

    , the mysterious deity, whose name women only knew
  
    n to the Earth? What was one of Earth’s festivals called? How was the 
    
goddess

     Earth usually represented?   Chapter II. Terminus
  
     was Terminus?    Chapter III. Flora, Feronia, Pomona.     Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers and gardens, was the Chloris of the Gr
  
     shoulders, and a wreath of flowers around his head.  Feronia was the 
    
goddess

     of woods and orchards. A grove near Mount Soracte
  
    ame green again. It was customary to offer a yearly sacrifice to this 
    
goddess

    , and to wash the face and hands in the waters of 
  
    r could walk barefoot over burning coals without injury.  Pomona, the 
    
goddess

     of fruit, was unknown among the Greeks. She lived
  
    y assimilated Laurentia to the ancient Flora, and honoured her as the 
    
goddess

     of groves and flowers.  Obs. 2. — Vertumnus is sa
  
        Chapter IV. Pales and some other rural deities.     Pales was the 
    
goddess

     of sheepfolds and pastures, chiefly worshipped at
  
    raw, around and over which they danced and leaped; and offered to the 
    
goddess

    , milk, cheese, boiled wine, and cakes made of mil
  
     Her festivals, called Fornacalia, were first instituted by Numa.  “A 
    
goddess

     Fornax island her the clowns adore, That they may
  
    eks. Questions. Who was Pales? What do you know of Anna Perenna? What 
    
goddess

     watched over the country? What goddess reigns ove
  
    you know of Anna Perenna? What goddess watched over the country? What 
    
goddess

     reigns over hills? What god presides over the hil
  
    d husbandmen pray for the protection of the corn during harvest? What 
    
goddess

     presides over weeding? What god did the ancients 
  
    he earth? What god first invented the art of manuring the earth? What 
    
goddess

     produces the corn from the ground? What god knots
  
     is said of Tutelina? What god did millers and bakers invoke? To what 
    
goddess

     do the poets ascribe the invention of making hone
  
    of Pluto. She presided over death, so that none could die; unless the 
    
goddess

    , or Atropos her minister, cut off one of the hair
  
    d of Wealth, and son of Jasion and Ceres. He was educated by Pax; the 
    
goddess

     of peace; for which reason Pax was represented at
  
     Nox, Somnus, and Mors.     Nemesis, the daughter of Justice, was the 
    
goddess

     of Vengeance. She rewarded virtue, and punished v
  
    oves slow, The slower is its pace, the surer is its blow.”   Nox, the 
    
goddess

     of the night, was the daughter of Chaos and Erebu
  
     poppies in his hand. He could turn himself into any form.  Mors, the 
    
goddess

     of death, was the daughter of Nox. She was worshi
  
     killed herself. The Athenians were victorious; and, therefore, their 
    
goddess

     Felicity assumed the name of Macaria. The Romans 
  
    had to sustain their rights and prerogatives that the presence of the 
    
goddess

     of Peace might banish all hatred and all the aspe
  
    l hatred and all the asperity which is apt to arise in disputes. This 
    
goddess

     was represented in the form of a woman, crowned w
  
     of two women shaking hands with each other, commonly represents this 
    
goddess

    . — See Fig. 54.   Fig. 54. Fidelity.  A people as
  
    im under the name of Harpocrates. The Romans represented Silence as a 
    
goddess

     whom they called Ageronia. The latter had also th
  
    gods, and she came to the earth to exercise her furies. To this cruel 
    
goddess

     were attributed wars, quarrels, and dissensions i
  
    d four daughters, of whom Hygeia is the most celebrated.  Hygeia, the 
    
goddess

     of health, was held in great veneration, and was 
  
    ed, went away, and at that very moment Hercules was born. The enraged 
    
goddess

     turned Galanthis into a weasel. When Hercules was
  
    ip, that the one would have died for the other. In the worship of the 
    
goddess

     Diana Taurica, human victims were offered up by t
  
    led a favourite stag of Diana’s at Aulis, which accident provoked the 
    
goddess

     to such a degree, that she caused a calm, which r
  
         Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of Thessaly, by Thetis, the 
    
goddess

     of the sea. His mother dipped him in the river St
  
     and onions. They spent the night in devotion, near the statue of the 
    
goddess

    . The Egyptians supposed the soul of Osiris to tra
  
    istory of the third is very analogous to that of Noah.  Lachamee, the 
    
goddess

     of abundance, was the wife of Vishnu. She patroni
  
    h a bow of cane, and shafts inwreathed with flowers.  Suradevi is the 
    
goddess

     of wine. When, after the deluge, the ocean was di
  
     arrows.  Pavan is the king of the winds.  Mariatale is the favouring 
    
goddess

     of the Parias, a low and miserably despised class
  
     by inferior water-nymphs like the Grecian Naiades. His partner was a 
    
goddess

     of water.  Centeot, the Ceres of Mexico, presided
  
    es and doves were offered to her. The Mexicans acknowledged a god and 
    
goddess

     of hell, and described them as dwelling in a regi
  
    nal night, and celebrated their rites at night.  Jo-al-ti-cit was the 
    
goddess

     of cradles. Different tribes of Mexicans worshipp
  
    reat sacrifices a year. The Mexicans also celebrated the worship of a 
    
goddess

     of hunting, a god of fishing, a goddess of salt, 
  
    o celebrated the worship of a goddess of hunting, a god of fishing, a 
    
goddess

     of salt, a goddess of drugs, and a god of wine.  
  
    rship of a goddess of hunting, a god of fishing, a goddess of salt, a 
    
goddess

     of drugs, and a god of wine.  Ix-lil-tot, the Æsc
  
    . Who was Tlaloc? Who was Centeot? Did the Mexicans worship a god and 
    
goddess

     of hell? Who was Jo-al-ti-cit? How many gods of w
  
    or Frau, signifies a woman. In succeeding times, this Frea became the 
    
goddess

     of love and debauchery, the Venus of the north, n
  
    and swept the cords, which emitted a sweet sound. His wife Iduna, the 
    
goddess

     of youth, had charge of certain apples, of which 
  
     consort of Odin. Each of them had her peculiar offices. Eira was the 
    
goddess

     of medicine; Gelione, of virginity; she protects 
  
    f they die unmarried, takes them to her heavenly dwellings; lyna, the 
    
goddess

     of friendship and good faith, kisses away the tea
  
     was the confident of Frigga, and the patroness of finery; Freya, the 
    
goddess

     of lovers, is the most mild and bountiful of the 
  
    receives their oath, and punishes those who violate them. Snotra, the 
    
goddess

     of modesty, sciences, and good morals, patronises
  
     law, avenges broken faith, and exposes perjury; Wora, the omniscient 
    
goddess

    , penetrates every secret of the heart; and Saga p
  
    eft of Thor, was represented with various attributes, among which the 
    
goddess

     of pleasure might be recognized. Odin was honored
  
    easons, and dispenser of rain, drought, and fertility; Frigga, as the 
    
goddess

     of love and marriage. They held three great festi
  
    allowed. The second feast was instituted in honour of Earth or of the 
    
goddess

     Frigga. Pleasures, fecundity, and victory, were i
  
    pring, into which they sometimes cast a victim devoted to Frigga, the 
    
goddess

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    Heaven and Earth; the former was a god called Cœlus, and the latter a 
    
goddess

     named Terra. Cœlus and Terra were the parents of 
  
    ts of Cybele?     Vesta.     Vesta was the daughter of Saturn and the 
    
goddess

     of fire. Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome,
  
    n the age of six and ten years. The time of their consecration to the 
    
goddess

     lasted thirty years, and it was not till after th
  
    as a warrior completely armed, and attended by Bellona, his sister, a 
    
goddess

    , fierce as himself. They were represented in a ch
  
    een of heaven, was the sister and wife of Jupiter. Though a celestial 
    
goddess

    , the mythologists say she was born upon earth. It
  
    f Argos. At the latter place she was accounted a tutelary or guardian 
    
goddess

    . At Rome, Juno was worshipped in the earliest age
  
    d is borne through the heavens by peacocks, and attended by Iris, the 
    
goddess

     of the rainbow.    Iris.     In the Hebrew Script
  
    nstant attendant of Juno, and more particularly the messenger of that 
    
goddess

    . Iris was frequently employed by Juno to stir up 
  
     Ganymede.     Hebe was the daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was the 
    
goddess

     of youth, and had the power of imparting to other
  
    o was Ganymede?     Minerva.     See plate, page 55.  Minerva was the 
    
goddess

     of Wisdom. Wisdom is the knowledge of what is rig
  
     a keen axe; and upon his doing so, Minerva instantly sprang forth, a 
    
goddess

     armed. Minerva was the tutelary, or guardian godd
  
     sprang forth, a goddess armed. Minerva was the tutelary, or guardian 
    
goddess

     of Athens. That city was called by one of her nam
  
    a was one of the Gorgons, a sea nymph — she offended Minerva, and the 
    
goddess

     transformed her beautiful hair to frightful serpe
  
     and beautiful temple of antiquity, and was erected in honour of this 
    
goddess

     at Athens. On a conspicuous part of this temple w
  
    know the style of dress common to the Athenians.  Who was the heathen 
    
goddess

     of Wisdom — and what is signified by Wisdom? Who 
  
    icity, and carrying; baskets of cakes and flowers as offerings to the 
    
goddess

    . These were of honourable families, and were atte
  
      See plate, page 55.  Ceres, the daughter of Saturn and Ops, was the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture. She first instructed men to ploug
  
    ments in the art of cultivating the earth. The Egyptians worshipped a 
    
goddess

    , called by them Isis; who, like the Ceres of the 
  
    ated property. The mythologists say, that Isis and Ceres are the same 
    
goddess

    , worshipped under those different names, in diffe
  
    \\o enjoyed this privilege were under the immediate protection of the 
    
goddess

    , and not only in this life, but after death. Thos
  
    h, and then rises to the upper air and adorns the fields Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, is usually drawn with an owl by her si
  
    t, as he is often seen, A bow he bare, and arrows bright and keen. No 
    
goddess

     she, commissioned to the field, Like Pallas, drea
  
    r vivacity and happy disposition, is often styled the laughter-loving 
    
goddess

    . That she was intrusted to the Hours and conveyed
  
    les.     Then, on her beryl throne, by Tritons borne, Bright rose the 
    
goddess

     like the star of morn. With rosy fingers, as uncu
  
     the most celebrated. In some places incense only was offered to this 
    
goddess

    . The dove and the swan, the rose and the myrtle, 
  
    d, Groaned the sad gales, and rivers blushed with blood. And Beauty’s 
    
goddess

     bending o’er his bier, Breathed the soft sigh, an
  
    ks Diana or Phebe was honoured under three different characters, as a 
    
goddess

     of heaven, earth, and hell, and was therefore cal
  
    dess of heaven, earth, and hell, and was therefore called the triform 
    
goddess

    . As a celestial divinity she was Luna, the Moon; 
  
    ess. As a celestial divinity she was Luna, the Moon; as a terrestrial 
    
goddess

    , Diana; and in the infernal regions, Hecate. Dian
  
    al goddess, Diana; and in the infernal regions, Hecate. Diana was the 
    
goddess

     of chastity, of the chase, and of woods. In heave
  
     “silver shrines for Diana,” that is, little altars and images of the 
    
goddess

    , and models of the great temple, (probably for th
  
    e, (probably for the embellishment of houses,) being in fear that the 
    
goddess

     would fall into contempt, thus admonished the Eph
  
     in danger to be set at naught, but also that the temple of the great 
    
goddess

     Diana should be despised, and her magnificence sh
  
    oweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great 
    
goddess

     Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupi
  
    al intelligence, that his poetry might be worthy of the favour of the 
    
goddess

    , and of the esteem of mankind. The Muses were dau
  
     did Virgil praise Bacchus?  ———  Flora was the wife of Zephyrus, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers; in honour of whom the Romans celebrat
  
    g and fair, as became “the queen of all the flowers.”  Pomona was the 
    
goddess

     of orchards, married to Vertumnus. The supposed s
  
    goddess of orchards, married to Vertumnus. The supposed skill of this 
    
goddess

     in the cultivation of fruit-trees and gardens, pr
  
    rn nations worshipped him under the name of Baal-Peor.  Pales was the 
    
goddess

     of shepherds and protectress of flocks. Her feast
  
     of straw, round which they danced; and, afterwards, presented to the 
    
goddess

    , milk, cheese, prepared wine, and millet cakes. I
  
    er rural deities were Anna-Perenna, nearly the same as Pales; Bubona, 
    
goddess

     of herdsmen; Mellona, of bees; Seisa, protectress
  
    ing of corn, and Picumnus over the manuring of lands. Hippona was the 
    
goddess

     of horses and stables, and Collina of hills: whil
  
    on of the ancients respecting spirits?     Aurora.     Aurora was the 
    
goddess

     of morning, and the mother of the winds and the s
  
    eated of his wife to bestow upon him the gift of immortality, and the 
    
goddess

     obtained it for him from the Destinies. But when 
  
    n they fainted under the sun’s rays. Zephyr was married to Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers. He was represented in the octagon tem
  
    wealth is dispensed lo the good and bad indifferently.  Fortune was a 
    
goddess

    , who distributed her favours without judgment. Sh
  
    w comes among men not only as a friend, but an avenger.  Nemesis, the 
    
goddess

     of divine vengeance, or retributive justice, puni
  
     superfluities, others suffer want. The ancients thought that a blind 
    
goddess

     dispensed or denied riches to whom she pleased; a
  
    what she pleased. They represented Fortune, as they called this blind 
    
goddess

    , turning a wheel, which raised up some persons, a
  
    this act: but he pleaded the command of a severe task-master, and the 
    
goddess

     forgave him. The fourth labour of this hero, was 
  
    a, by killing her favourite stag, and that it was the pleasure of the 
    
goddess

     to detain the Greeks by adverse winds, until the 
  
    phigenia was the priestess, and assisted at all the sacrifices of the 
    
goddess

    . As soon as Iphigenia learned that the victims sh
  
    loated to the island of Calypso, where he was kindly received by that 
    
goddess

    . Calypso lived in a delicious spot, and was so mu
  
    les’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly 
    
goddess

    , sing.”  Achilles withdrew himself from the battl
  
    he loss of Briseis, he reminds his mother of his destiny.  Oh! parent 
    
goddess

    ! since in early bloom, Thy son must fall, by too 
  
    e?     Eneas.     Eneas was a prince of Troy, son of Anchises and the 
    
goddess

     Venus. When Troy was in flames, Eneas escaped wit
  
    re supposed by the Hindus to have existed successively. Lachsmee, the 
    
goddess

     of abundance, who presides over agricultural labo
  
    r hands the palmira leaf, and the reed for writing. Durga is the same 
    
goddess

    , when regarded as difficult of access, the severe
  
    ving a bow of cane, and shafts enwreathed with flowers. Suradevi, the 
    
goddess

     of wine, who arose from the ocean, when, after th
  
    venly arrows. Pavan, the ruler of the winds. Mariatale, the favouring 
    
goddess

     of the Parias, the lowest and miserably despised 
  
    s. It was supposed to be the prophecy of Vola or Volo, a Scandinavian 
    
goddess

    . The Voluspa begins with a description of Chaos; 
  
    t remarkable adventures, and their disputes with Loke, a Scandinavian 
    
goddess

    . It concludes with a representation of the final 
  
     on horseback, and shared the dead with him. Frea was called Vanadis, 
    
goddess

     of hope. Frea inhabited a magnificent palace of h
  
    ed the differences between gods and men. Iduna, queen of youth; Saga, 
    
goddess

     of waterfalls; Vara, the witness of oaths; Lofen,
  
     and malicious enemv of gods and men. Here resided Hela, the dreadful 
    
goddess

     of death, daughter of the evil genius Loke and th
  
    ho was Vala? Had the Scandinavians a dog like Cerberus? What terrible 
    
goddess

     resided in Niflheim? Who were the Valkyries? What
  
    f thick-ribbed ice, and called it the isle of the cold land. Hela was 
    
goddess

     of the Goths. The northern nations of Europe, in 
  
    esided over rivulets and fountains. Tlaloc was also associated with a 
    
goddess

     of water, who divided with him the charge of that
  
    ained.  Centeot, or she who supports us, was the Ceres of Mexico, the 
    
goddess

     of fertile fields and of harvest. This goddess ha
  
    e Ceres of Mexico, the goddess of fertile fields and of harvest. This 
    
goddess

     had a multitude of priests employed in her worshi
  
    t was content with hares and doves. The Mexicans worshipped a god and 
    
goddess

     of hell. These were supposed to inhabit a region 
  
    s; and their rites were performed in the night.  Jo-al-ti-cit was the 
    
goddess

     of cradles. To her protection, they commended the
  
    e every year. These North American savages, besides these gods, had a 
    
goddess

     of hunting, a god of fishing, a goddess of salt, 
  
    es, besides these gods, had a goddess of hunting, a god of fishing, a 
    
goddess

     of salt, another of drugs, and a god of wine. Ix-
  
    by the priest, was given to be drunk as a medicine.  Coat-li-cue, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers, had a temple in Mexico. Baskets and b
  
    asures and comfort, and did they worship a god of Physic? Who was the 
    
goddess

     of flowers? Had the Mexicans still other gods? Di
  
    ite sculpture. The temples contained a statue, or image of the god or 
    
goddess

    , to whose worship it was consecrated. The interio
  
    , as a suitable dwelling-place for the “august Athena;” the favourite 
    
goddess

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     island in which Latona had taken refuge from the anger of Juno. This 
    
goddess

    , jealous of Latona, sent the serpent Python to de
  
    ttachment to Venus, the poets relate but little of Mars. Bellona, the 
    
goddess

     of war, was, according to some, the sister of Mar
  
    s and shoulders, making libations of their own blood, to the terrible 
    
goddess

    .    Chapter V. Mercury — Hermes.    Mercury (Herm
  
    o hide her from the anger of Juno by transforming her into a cow. The 
    
goddess

     suspected the deceit, and begged the beautiful he
  
    tory of Semele?  Ans. She was destroyed by the jealousy of Juno. This 
    
goddess

     visited Semele in the shape of an old woman, and 
  
    t children had Juno?  Ans. Vulcan, Mars and Hebe. Hebe was called the 
    
goddess

     of youth, on account of her extraordinary beauty,
  
    ely displeased when Jupiter placed them among the constellations. The 
    
goddess

     carried her complaint to Oceanus [Ocean′us], bidd
  
    Juno always rode in a chariot drawn by oxen. The sacred plants of the 
    
goddess

     were, the willow, pomegranate, the dittany and th
  
    — Story of Medusa’s Head.    Ques. Who was Minerva?  Ans. She was the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and of war. She had no mother, but spra
  
    re building the temple and castle of Minerva in Troy, a statue of the 
    
goddess

     fell from heaven into the castle, which was still
  
     presumption to challenge Minerva to a trial of skill in weaving. The 
    
goddess

     wrought into her work the most beautiful designs,
  
     particularly for her flowing hair; but having offended Minerva, that 
    
goddess

     changed her locks into serpents, and rendered her
  
    Rose — Names of the Graces.    Ques. Who was Venus?  Ans. She was the 
    
goddess

     of love and beauty. She sprang from the froth of 
  
     and immoral. The swan, the dove, and the sparrow were sacred to this 
    
goddess

    ; and among plants, the rose, the myrtle and the a
  
    s and Thetis, Discordia, or Discord being the only one excluded. This 
    
goddess

     was determined to revenge the slight; she entered
  
    ined to undertake the race, but first, he had recourse to Venus. This 
    
goddess

     gave him three golden apples gathered in the gard
  
    loved by Venus. He was killed by a wild boar, while hunting with that 
    
goddess

    . Venus grieved much for her favorite. To commemor
  
     up the mud, defiled the waters so that it became unfit to drink. The 
    
goddess

     was so much incensed, that she changed the cruel 
  
    nt Tityus in hell, were also the penalty of an insult offered to this 
    
goddess

    . The Greeks personified Night, under the name of 
  
    nurse of Horus and Bubastis [Bu′bastis], their Apollo and Diana. This 
    
goddess

     is generally represented on ancient monuments, as
  
     Obsequies — Vocal Statue.    Ques. Who was Aurora?  Ans. She was the 
    
goddess

     of the morning and sister of the sun and moon. Sh
  
    ed by Aurora, who carried him with her to heaven; but he regarded the 
    
goddess

     with indifference, and insisted on returning to h
  
    ger move his aged limbs, and his feeble voice was scarcely heard, the 
    
goddess

     was moved with compassion, and changed him into a
  
    arkle in the morning on the grass and flowers are the tears which the 
    
goddess

     continues to shed during the long hours of night.
  
     whom was Vulcan married?  Ans. Vulcan was married to Venus, but that 
    
goddess

     behaved treacherously towards him and attached he
  
     animals are grouped about her.  Ques. What was the character of this 
    
goddess

    ?  Ans. She was esteemed very holy, and was the pa
  
    ve the first oblations in all sacrifices. Fire was the emblem of this 
    
goddess

    , and in her temple, at Rome, a sacred fire was su
  
    ea — Story of the Vestal Claudia.    Ques. Who was Cybele?  Ans. This 
    
goddess

    , sometimes called by the Greeks, Rhea, and by the
  
    tins, Ops, is considered to be a personification of the earth. She is 
    
goddess

    , not of cities only, but of all things which the 
  
    . How was she worshipped?  Ans. Sacrifices were first offered to this 
    
goddess

     in Phrygia and Lydia. Her temples were generally 
  
    nd was regarded by the people as the heaven-sent image of their great 
    
goddess

    . At the close of the second Punic war, the Romans
  
    ns. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, and was worshipped as the 
    
goddess

     of fruits and corn. It is supposed that she first
  
    s. She instructed both gods and men, and was generally considered the 
    
goddess

     of law and justice. Her origin is uncertain; but 
  
     been a Titaness.  Ques. Who was Astræa [Astræ′a]?  Ans. She was also 
    
goddess

     of justice; according to some, she was the daught
  
     was Nemesis [Nem′esis]?  Ans. She was the daughter of Night, and the 
    
goddess

     of just vengeance. It was her office to follow an
  
    e daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and the twin-sister of Apollo. This 
    
goddess

     had three names. On earth she was called Diana, a
  
    ad three names. On earth she was called Diana, and was honored as the 
    
goddess

     of woods and hunting; in heaven she was called Lu
  
    loved by Apollo. She spoke scornfully of the beauty of Diana, and the 
    
goddess

    , in revenge, pierced her tongue with an arrow.  Q
  
    ed of their number as rendering her superior to Latona. The indignant 
    
goddess

     called upon Apollo and Diana to revenge the insul
  
    ted by 127 superb columns, each the gift of a king. The statue of the 
    
goddess

     was of ebony, and the most skillful painters and 
  
    in that city, the people were very indignant; in their zeal for their 
    
goddess

     they ran about the streets for the space of about
  
    f Air and Tellus; she was one of Juno’s attendants, but offended that 
    
goddess

     by her talkativeness. She was so far deprived of 
  
    ut only a few were well known. Among those we may mention Pomona, the 
    
goddess

     of orchards, and Flora, the goddess of flowers. P
  
     those we may mention Pomona, the goddess of orchards, and Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers. Pales was the goddess of shepherds an
  
    goddess of orchards, and Flora, the goddess of flowers. Pales was the 
    
goddess

     of shepherds and pastures. The Romans celebrated 
  
     Ino, the daughter of Cadmus and Hermione. Ino offended Juno, and the 
    
goddess

    , in revenge, deprived Athamas of reason. The king
  
    r him from his birth. In early times, children were sacrificed to the 
    
goddess

     Mania, who was supposed by some to be the mother 
  
     Virtues, but the abstract idea of virtue itself was personified as a 
    
goddess

    . The Romans dedicated two temples, one to this di
  
     was said to have been founded by Numa Pompilius. The symbols of this 
    
goddess

     were, a white dog, two hands joined, or sometimes
  
    en sent to treat of peace. A magnificent temple was dedicated to this 
    
goddess

     in the Roman Forum. Justice was worshipped by the
  
    eks and Romans. Her emblems have been described in the article on the 
    
goddess

     Astræa. Hope had a temple at Rome in the herb mar
  
    itia Patricia, and Pudicitia Plebeia.  Ques. Was Fortune honored as a 
    
goddess

    ?  Ans. Yes, the ancients worshipped under this na
  
    Rome; one to Bona Fortuna, the other to Fors Fortuna. This capricious 
    
goddess

     was sometimes represented with her eyes bandaged,
  
    ight hand resting on a wheel. In the temple of Fortune at Thebes, the 
    
goddess

     held Wealth, represented as an infant, in her arm
  
    , the goddess held Wealth, represented as an infant, in her arms. The 
    
goddess

     Salus, or Health, was much honored by the Romans.
  
    ed some branches loaded with golden apples, which were offered by the 
    
goddess

     of the Earth. She begged the Earth to plant them 
  
    he directed him to pass the night in the temple of Minerva. There the 
    
goddess

     visited him in a dream, and gave him a golden bri
  
    ing sacrifice to the gods, neglected the honors due to Diana, and the 
    
goddess

    , in revenge, sent a wild boar of enormous size to
  
    ing garb, and invoked vengeance on the head of their impious foe. The 
    
goddess

     was moved, and delivered Erisichthon into the pow
  
    sichthon into the power of Famine. As the Fates had decreed that this 
    
goddess

     and Ceres should never meet, an Oread was sent to
  
    y field, tearing up with teeth and claws the scanty herbage. The pale 
    
goddess

     obeyed the command of Ceres, and visiting the dwe
  
    te deer. Calchas, the soothsayer, was consulted; he declared that the 
    
goddess

     could only be appeased by the sacrifice of Iphige
  
    t length cast by the waves upon the island of the nymph Calypso. This 
    
goddess

     entertained Ulysses with much kindness, and even 
  
     provide him with all that was necessary for his homeward voyage. The 
    
goddess

     reluctantly obeyed; a raft was constructed and fu
  
     in this quest, Minerva bade him return to Ithaca; he obeyed, and the 
    
goddess

     contrived that he should arrive on the same day w
  
    m thence to Argos, a certain statue of Diana, from the temple of that 
    
goddess

    . It was the custom at Tauris, to sacrifice all st
  
    , now at the Louvre, is considered the counterpart of the Apollo. The 
    
goddess

     is engaged in the chase, and a hind is running by
  
    as supposed, like Cybele, to personify the earth.  Ques. How was this 
    
goddess

     represented?  Ans. As a woman with the horns of a
  
     among the decorations of Egyptian temples. After the worship of this 
    
goddess

     was introduced into Rome, her image was adorned w
  
     were repeatedly forbidden at Rome. Tiberius caused the images of the 
    
goddess

     to be thrown into the Tiber; her worship was, how
  
    henna call’d, the type of Hell.”   Ques. Who was Astaroth?  Ans. This 
    
goddess

    , called by the Greeks Astarte, represented the mo
  
    . His death, which we have already referred to in connection with the 
    
goddess

     Venus, is said to have taken place in the mountai
  
    rtook to negotiate with Thrym; but the giant demanded the hand of the 
    
goddess

     Freya, and refused to restore the hammer on any o
  
    s much troubled, as he knew how vain it was to expect that the bright 
    
goddess

     of love and song would consent to dwell in the di
  
    wrath by an injury offered to Sif or Sifa, his wife. The hair of this 
    
goddess

     flowed around her in sunny waves that shone like 
  
    dy for mischief, found means to cut off her hair while she slept. The 
    
goddess

     was inconsolable, and Thor sought the insolent of
  
    med, therefore, the form of an old woman, and went to see Frigga. The 
    
goddess

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     on ambrosia and nectar, the latter being handed around by the lovely 
    
goddess

     Hebe*. Here they conversed of the affairs of heav
  
    ey will show how Homer conceived of Olympus: —   ‘So saying, Minerva, 
    
goddess

     azure-eyed, Rose to Olympus, the reputed seat Ete
  
    e Mythology. — Greek, Eos*; Roman, Aurora*; Hindu, Sarunya*. Eos, the 
    
goddess

     of the dawn, was daughter of Hyperion and Thea, a
  
    with Eos were transferred by the Roman writers to the person of their 
    
goddess

     Aurora without alteration.  Epithets given to Eos
  
    ted in a silvery chariot, and accompanied by her daughter Hersa*, the 
    
goddess

     of the dew, appeared the mild and gentle queen of
  
    nd the lower regions, for which reason she was invoked as the “triple 
    
goddess

    .” Hecate represented the moon in her invisible ph
  
    resented under the figure of a heifer; and Isis herself, the Egyptian 
    
goddess

     of the moon, was always depicted with horns. The 
  
    ft of the Tyrrhenians*, who attempted to carry away the statue of the 
    
goddess

    , but were detained in the harbor by an invisible 
  
    -meter, earth-mother) was a daughter of Chronos and Rhea. She was the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, and represented that portion of G
  
    ing the wonderful fertility of their country to the partiality of the 
    
goddess

    . The most celebrated legend linked with the name 
  
    t had occurred with the consent of Zeus. Full of wrath and grief, the 
    
goddess

     now withdrew from the society of the other deitie
  
    . In vain Zeus sent one messenger after another, beseeching the angry 
    
goddess

     to return to Olympus. Demeter swore that she woul
  
    e as nurse to their youngest brother Demophoon*, or Triptolemus*. The 
    
goddess

     consented, and was kindly received m the house of
  
    w of the fire. The imprudent curiosity of his mother, who watched the 
    
goddess

     and rushed into the room, deprived him of the int
  
    eusis. When it had been hastily completed, with the assistance of the 
    
goddess

    , she initiated Celeus and some other princes of E
  
     that incurred her displeasure. Stellio was a youth who ridiculed the 
    
goddess

     for the eagerness with which she was eating a bow
  
    he head of Zeus, which Hephæstus had been ordered to cleave open. The 
    
goddess

     of war, in full armor, sprung forth, while a grea
  
    oth on sea and land announced the event to the world. She is also the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, and as such is the protectress of stat
  
    lfare requires in peace or war proceeds from her. Thus she appears as 
    
goddess

     of peace as well as of war. It was she who first 
  
    and Hera’s. On one occasion, Arachne, a mortal maiden, challenged the 
    
goddess

     to a trial of skill in weaving. Arachne’s work wa
  
    sias*, son of Chariclo, approached the fount to drink, and beheld the 
    
goddess

    . As it was a law of the Celestials that whoever s
  
    with the Greek Athene. In Rome, however, the warlike character of the 
    
goddess

     was merged in that of the peaceful inventress and
  
    ly covered with drapery, while the shield rests on the ground. As the 
    
goddess

     that promoted domestic arts and progress, she is 
  
    ptian, Anouka. Hestia was a daughter of Chronos and Rhea. She was the 
    
goddess

     of the hearth, of the fire on it, and of the fami
  
    n the Roman women made a pilgrimage, barefooted, to the temple of the 
    
goddess

    , and placed there offerings of food. The young of
  
     may account for the fact that the ancients had so few statues of the 
    
goddess

    . The best example which has been preserved is the
  
    ch belongs to the private collection of Prince Torlonia, of Rome. The 
    
goddess

     is represented as standing, her right hand presse
  
    liad, Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the 
    
goddess

     of moisture. This account was replaced by another
  
    enerative forces of nature. Among the Greeks she was worshiped as the 
    
goddess

     of beauty and love. Aphrodite was the most beauti
  
    us (the Lovely One) was regarded by the earlier Italian tribes as the 
    
goddess

     of spring, for which reason April, the month of b
  
    Cloacina* (the purifier).  “The surname of Libitina* points to her as 
    
goddess

     of corpses. All the apparatus of funerals were ke
  
    .”   Seemann .  Julius Cæsar erected a temple to Venus Genetrix*, the 
    
goddess

     of wedlock.   Representation.    In the more anci
  
     of wedlock.   Representation.    In the more ancient temples of this 
    
goddess

     in Cyprus, she was represented under the form of 
  
    ected the worship of Aphrodite for that of Psyche, and in revenge the 
    
goddess

     sent her son, Eros, to fill the heart of Psyche w
  
    thrown away in disgust, discovered that, having touched the lips of a 
    
goddess

    , it played most charmingly. He foolishly challeng
  
    nstead a number of boys to be cruelly whipped before the image of the 
    
goddess

     on the occasion of her annual festival. This is t
  
    arture of the Greeks for Troy. The Scythians in Tauris likewise had a 
    
goddess

     whom they propitiated with human sacrifices. This
  
    rtemis Orthia, and the story arose that Iphigenia was conveyed by the 
    
goddess

     to Tauris, from which place she subsequently, ass
  
    bsequently, assisted by her brother Orestes, brought the image of the 
    
goddess

     to Brauron in Attica. She was then known as the B
  
    own as the Diana of Versailles, now in the Louvre. In this statue the 
    
goddess

     appears in the act of rescuing a hunted deer from
  
    mis and her attendents bathing, imprudently ventured to approach. The 
    
goddess

    , incensed at his audacity, sprinkled him with wat
  
    ghters, proudly set herself above Leto, who had but two children. The 
    
goddess

     complained to Apollo and Artemis, and soon all th
  
    ars, reaches to her feet, and a long robe completely envelops her. As 
    
goddess

     of the chase she is represented as a youthful and
  
    ent down to quench his thirst from a spring clear as crystal, and the 
    
goddess

     caused him to fall in love with his own shadow, w
  
    the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus.    Nike* (Victoria).    Nike*, the 
    
goddess

     of victory, was a personification of the invincib
  
    in excellent preservation. Far more extensive was the worship of this 
    
goddess

     at Rome under the name of Victoria. Her chief shr
  
     was on the Capitol, where successful generals erected statues of the 
    
goddess

     in remembrance of their exploits. The most magnif
  
    erected by Augustus after his victory at Actium. The festival of this 
    
goddess

     took place on the 12th of April.    Ganymedes*.  
  
     face.    Nemesis*.    Nemesis*, a daughter of Nyx, was regarded as a 
    
goddess

     of equality, who sees that happiness and misfortu
  
    according to merit. Eventually, she was regarded only as the avenging 
    
goddess

    . She is represented as a beautiful woman, wearing
  
     for her festival. The Romans honored a deity called Felicitas as the 
    
goddess

     of positive good fortune. These deities were term
  
    ey in one hand and a staff in the other.    Flora*.    Flora* was the 
    
goddess

     of flowers. Her festival, Florialia*, was celebra
  
    a beautiful girl crowned with flowers.    Pomona*.    Pomona* was the 
    
goddess

     of orchards and fruit-trees. It is said that she 
  
    s hand a pruning-knife.    Pales*.    Pales* was the ancient pastoral 
    
goddess

     of the Italian tribes, from whom the name Palatin
  
    s last. The earth now yielded her increase only after much labor. The 
    
goddess

     of justice having abandoned mankind, no influence
  
    ey were filled with sorrow. They repaired to an ancient oracle of the 
    
goddess

     Themis, hoping to obtain advice and consolation. 
  
    s directed by him to go sleep in the temple of Athene. He obeyed; the 
    
goddess

     appeared to him, and giving him a bridle, directe
  
    cadia. On his way he met Artemis (Diana) and her brother, Apollo. The 
    
goddess

     reprimanded him for molesting an animal sacred to
  
    at their ingratitude, she caused them to give offence to Cybele. That 
    
goddess

     changed them into lions and yoked them to her car
  
    er car, where they are still to be seen in all representations of the 
    
goddess

     Cybele.    Dædalus* and Icarus*.    Dædalus was o
  
    conditions. He went to the temple of Hecate to supplicate that mighty 
    
goddess

    , and was met there by Medea*, daughter of Æetes, 
  
    higenia*, the daughter of Agamemnon, would alone appease the incensed 
    
goddess

    . For a long time the unhappy father refused to li
  
    phigenia to Tauris, where she became a priestess in the temple of the 
    
goddess

    .    The Departure of the Fleet.    The fleet now 
  
    had advised building this gigantic horse as a tribute to the offended 
    
goddess

    , hoping to appease her anger. The Trojans urged t
  
    f soft music were heard from within. Eurylochus called aloud, and the 
    
goddess

     came forward and invited them to enter. They all 
  
    troyed. He floated about for two days and nights, but at last the sea 
    
goddess

    , Leucothea*, aided him, and he was cast ashore on
  
    blem.  Sate*, the wife of Neph, and one of the forms of Isis, was the 
    
goddess

     of vigilance; she was the eastern sky waiting for
  
    ilance; she was the eastern sky waiting for the morning sun.  Athor*, 
    
goddess

     of love, was the beautiful western sky, wife of t
  
     day’s labor; the cow was her emblem.  Neith*, wife of Pthah, was the 
    
goddess

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     which he could be seen. He shared his throne with his wife, the dark 
    
goddess

     of Night, named Nyx or Nox, whose black robes, an
  
    upiter had his own special attendants, such as Victoria, or Nice, the 
    
goddess

     of victory, who was ever ready to obey his slight
  
    at he generally held an image of her in his hand. The hundred-tongued 
    
goddess

     of fame, Fama, trumpet in hand, proclaimed, at hi
  
    onington’s tr.).  Close by Jupiter’s side was sometimes seen Fortuna, 
    
goddess

     of fortune, poised on a constantly revolving whee
  
    g with indifference her choicest smiles; while Hebe, or Juventas, the 
    
goddess

     of youth, was ever ready at his wish to pour out 
  
    .”  Homer ( Bryant’s tr.).      Jupiter. Capitol, Rome. But this fair 
    
goddess

     awkwardly tripped and fell on a solemn occasion, 
  
       The Consort of Jupiter     Juno (Hera, Here), queen of heaven, and 
    
goddess

     of the atmosphere and of marriage, was the daught
  
    clave of the gods declared that Juno should be henceforth honoured as 
    
goddess

     of marriage.                                  “Ju
  
     worshipped in the same temples as Jupiter. Many fine statues of this 
    
goddess

     were found in Greece and Italy, some of which are
  
    anxious to go to the temple at Argos, where she had ministered to the 
    
goddess

     for many years, and which she had left only to be
  
    tion over land and sea proclaimed the advent of a great divinity. The 
    
goddess

    , who had thus joined the inhabitants of Olympus, 
  
    ts, from that time forth, were taught to honour her as their tutelary 
    
goddess

    . Ever at Jupiter’s side, Minerva often aided him 
  
    r ( Bryant’s tr.).  The din of battle had no terrors for this doughty 
    
goddess

    , and on every occasion she was wont to plunge int
  
    Minerva’s. She made this remark so loudly and so frequently, that the 
    
goddess

     finally was annoyed, and left her seat in high Ol
  
    l-meant warning, saucily tossed her head, and declared she wished the 
    
goddess

     would hear her, and propose a contest, in which s
  
    spin without ceasing—a warning to all conceited mortals. Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, was widely worshipped. Temples and alt
  
    uatria, every year. At these festivals the Palladium, a statue of the 
    
goddess

    , said to have fallen from heaven, was carried in 
  
    y of Latona    Apollo was the son of Jupiter and Latona, or Leto, the 
    
goddess

     of dark nights. Juno’s jealousy had been aroused 
  
     of the sea. The rocking motion, however, proving disagreeable to the 
    
goddess

    , Neptune chained the island fast in the Ægean Sea
  
     but their content was viewed with great displeasure by Eos (Aurora), 
    
goddess

     of dawn, who had previously tried, but without su
  
    loved leader of the nine Muses, — daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, 
    
goddess

     of memory, — was surnamed Musagetes.      “Whom a
  
    d Tithonus    Apollo’s favourite attendant was Eos (Aurora), the fair 
    
goddess

     of dawn, whose rose-tipped fingers opened wide th
  
     announce her master’s coming.      “Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing 
    
goddess

    , hail! Rejoiced I see thy purple mantle spread O’
  
    And orient pearls from every shrub depend.”  Somerville.  This dainty 
    
goddess

     loved and married Tithonus, Prince of Troy, and w
  
    ensome presence, she changed him into a grasshopper. At this time the 
    
goddess

     fell in love with Cephalus, the young hunter, and
  
    o Hymettus’ top repair! Thy darling Cephalus expects thee there!’ The 
    
goddess

    , with a blush, her love betrays, But mounts, and,
  
    Phœbe, Selene, Artemis), the fair twin sister of Apollo, was not only 
    
goddess

     of the moon, but also of the chase.  “‘Goddess se
  
    ste Dian, here thou deign’st to rove.’”  Byron.  In works of art this 
    
goddess

     is generally represented as a beautiful maiden, c
  
    sacred to her, and never profaned by human gaze. There each night the 
    
goddess

     paused to gaze enraptured upon his beloved counte
  
    ed to enjoy a plunge. The cool waters rippled so invitingly, that the 
    
goddess

     and her attendants hastened to divest themselves 
  
     hunting garments, and lave their heated limbs. But unfortunately the 
    
goddess

     and her attendant nymphs had not been the only hu
  
    s. The ancients also celebrated many festivals in honour of this fair 
    
goddess

     of the moon, who was ever ready to extend her pro
  
    s      The Birth of Venus     Venus (Dione, Aphrodite, Cytherea), the 
    
goddess

     of beauty, love, laughter, and marriage, is by so
  
    nd marriage, is by some said to be the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, 
    
goddess

     of moisture: others report that she sprang from t
  
    he four beautiful Horæ (the Seasons), daughter of Jupiter and Themis, 
    
goddess

     of justice, stood there on the shore to welcome h
  
    ours, fair Venus’ train,” appeared. The wind finally brought the fair 
    
goddess

     in safety to the shore; and, as soon as her foot 
  
    d Hymen, god of marriage. A throne had been prepared for the expected 
    
goddess

    , and, when she suddenly appeared to take possessi
  
    o oracularly replied, “Love cannot grow without Passion.” In vain the 
    
goddess

     strove to catch the concealed meaning of this ans
  
    n as old enough, spent all her time in the temple, ministering to the 
    
goddess

    , or in a lonely tower by the sea, where she dwelt
  
    maidens were cordially invited. Under pretext of paying homage to the 
    
goddess

    , Leander entered her temple, and saw the young pr
  
    f Berenice, who, fearing for her beloved husband’s life, implored the 
    
goddess

     to protect him in battle, vowing to sacrifice her
  
    rs, there to shine for ever in memory of her wifely sacrifice. Venus, 
    
goddess

     of beauty, is represented either entirely nude, o
  
     shade.”  Macaulay.  Numerous ancient and some modern statues of this 
    
goddess

     grace the various art galleries, but among them a
  
    is way. It is thus, therefore, that he yielded to the charms of Maia, 
    
goddess

     of the plains, and spent some blissful hours in h
  
     Metus (Fear), Demios (Dread), and Pallor (Terror). Bellona, or Enyo, 
    
goddess

     of war, also accompanied him, drove his chariot, 
  
    not to listen to a lover’s pleadings until her time of service at the 
    
goddess

     Vesta’s altar was accomplished, yielded to Mars’ 
  
    caves of Mount Ætna. Amused by all the strange sights and sounds, the 
    
goddess

     at first seemed quite contented; but after a time
  
    elter her from Juno’s persecutions. Neptune is said to have loved the 
    
goddess

     Ceres, and to have followed her during her prolon
  
    h for her daughter, Proserpina. Annoyed by his persistent wooing, the 
    
goddess

    , to escape him, assumed the form of a mare; but t
  
    as on one of these occasions that Pluto abducted Proserpina, the fair 
    
goddess

     of vegetation, daughter of Ceres, whom he set on 
  
    s, and place them in the scales of Themis, the blindfolded, impartial 
    
goddess

     of justice, who bore a trenchant sword to indicat
  
     individual names of Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megæra, and with Nemesis, 
    
goddess

     of revenge, were noted for their hard hearts and 
  
     her arms. The gods, in pity for her sufferings, changed her into the 
    
goddess

     Leucothea and her son into a sea deity by the nam
  
    ghter of Cronus and Rhea, and one of Jupiter’s numerous consorts, was 
    
goddess

     of agriculture and civilisation. Her manifold car
  
    ared by her daughter, Proserpina (Cora, Pherephatta, Persephone), the 
    
goddess

     of vegetation. Whenever her duties permitted, thi
  
    goddess of vegetation. Whenever her duties permitted, this fair young 
    
goddess

     hastened off to the Island of Sicily, her favouri
  
    ale in search of Proserpina. Weary at last of her hopeless quest, the 
    
goddess

     seated herself by the wayside, near the city of E
  
    at the palace, the royal heir was entrusted to her care. Tenderly the 
    
goddess

     kissed the puny child’s little pinched face; and 
  
    ls do, but in its own silvery accents.    Arethusa and Alpheus    The 
    
goddess

     was not mistaken; for a few minutes later she cou
  
    rating Ceres’ power is told about a lad, Stellio, who made fun of the 
    
goddess

     when she was journeying, on account of the haste 
  
    e Worship of Vesta     Vesta, or Hestia, daughter of Cronus and Rhea, 
    
goddess

     of fire and of the family hearth, and guardian an
  
    ly care. Its flames were also intended to represent the purity of the 
    
goddess

    , who, although wooed by many lovers, — among whom
  
    veliest and noblest among the Roman maidens were chosen to serve this 
    
goddess

    , and were known as Vestals, or Vestal Virgins. Ad
  
    a, were among the most beautiful and popular in Rome. Statues of this 
    
goddess

     —  generally representing a woman of majestic bea
  
    ir ranks, followed them, barefooted, chanting the praises of the good 
    
goddess

     Vesta. On these occasions great banquets were pre
  
    Lares, Manes, and Penates    Among the Romans, Vesta was not the only 
    
goddess

     invoked on the family hearth, for she shared that
  
     to Olympus, there to dwell in happiness for ever with Hebe, the fair 
    
goddess

     of youth, whose hand was given him in marriage.  
  
    greeting     To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright 
    
goddess

    , with a blush at meeting,     Gives the nectar to
  
    ny south. But when Minerva refused to grant her wish, she reviled the 
    
goddess

    , and declared that nothing but a conviction that 
  
     token of gratitude for her help. Greatly pleased with this gift, the 
    
goddess

     set it in the centre of her terrible Ægis, where 
  
    ellespont. The fairest among all the lesser gods was doubtless Flora, 
    
goddess

     of flowers, who married Zephyrus, the gentle god 
  
    nquet-hall. All present immediately recognised Eris (Discordia, Ate), 
    
goddess

     of discord, whose snaky locks, sour looks, and vi
  
    hly requested to be informed who might assert greater claims than the 
    
goddess

     of beauty. The dispute grew more and more bitter,
  
    aris to return to Troy, make himself known to his parents, — who, the 
    
goddess

     promised, would welcome him warmly, — and obtain 
  
     done, took flight, but only to be pursued by the Furies and Nemesis, 
    
goddess

     of revenge, sent by the gods to punish him for ta
  
    ed him, and hurled it down upon the unsuspecting lovers. Galatea, the 
    
goddess

    , being immortal, escaped unhurt; but poor Acis, h
  
    attered Ulysses’ raft, and buffeted him about on the waves, until the 
    
goddess

     Leucothea, seeing his distress, helped him to rea
  
     and wash her linen robes in readiness for her wedding-day, which the 
    
goddess

     assured her was near at hand. Nausicaa obeyed, an
  
    eks, to carry out this idea, united their fire god, Hephæstus, to the 
    
goddess

     of marriage, Aphrodite. The Greek Hestia (or Lati
  
    who indirectly causes Eurydice’s death, 59  Ar′te-mis. Same as Diana, 
    
goddess

     of the moon and the chase, 73-81  Ar′y-an. Primit
  
    n by, 150; significance, 356  A-the′ne. Same as Minerva, 39; tutelary 
    
goddess

     of Athens, 40; significance, 360  A-the′ni-ans. I
  
    k expedition against Troy, 277, 278, 279, 280  Au-ro′ra. Same as Eos, 
    
goddess

     of dawn; attendant of Apollo, 66, 85; jealousy of
  
    ountered by Theseus, 220  Ce-re-a′li-a. Festivals in honour of Ceres, 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, 168  Ce′res. Same as Demeter, god
  
    onour of Ceres, goddess of agriculture, 168  Ce′res. Same as Demeter, 
    
goddess

     of agriculture and civilisation, 136, 158-170; Cr
  
     owner of the marvellous horse Arion, 129  Co′ra. Same as Proserpina, 
    
goddess

     of vegetation, 158; significance, 361  Cor′inth. 
  
     stop Pluto when he abducted Proserpina, 160  Cyb′e-le. Same as Rhea, 
    
goddess

     of the earth, 8; chariot of, 243  Cy-clo′pes. Thr
  
    tain upon which Mercury was born, 109, 110  Cyn′thi-a. Same as Diana, 
    
goddess

     of the moon and the chase, 73-81  Cyn′thi-us. Nam
  
    anean sacred to Venus, 82, 98, 102  Cyth-e-re′a. Name given to Venus, 
    
goddess

     of beauty, love, and laughter, 82    D     dæd′a-
  
    sed by Jupiter’s wrath, 23; slime from, 48  De-me′ter. Same as Ceres; 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, 158, 163; significance, 361  De′m
  
    or of horses taken by Hercules, 194  Di-o′ne. I. Name given to Venus, 
    
goddess

     of beauty, love, laughter, &c, 82. 2. Mother 
  
    of beauty, love, laughter, &c, 82. 2. Mother of Venus by Jupiter; 
    
goddess

     of moisture, 30, 82  Di-o-nys′i-a. Festivals held
  
    ; favourite resort of Proserpina, 158  E-ny′o. Name given to Bellona, 
    
goddess

     of war, 116 E′os. Name given to Aurora, goddess o
  
    ame given to Bellona, goddess of war, 116 E′os. Name given to Aurora, 
    
goddess

     of dawn, 52, 70; jealousy of, 52; winds, offsprin
  
    given to the Furies, 139; significance, 357 E′ris. Same as Discordia, 
    
goddess

     of discord and strife, 116; apple cast by, 272  E
  
    land home of Gerones; visited by Hercules, 196  Es′ta. Same as Vesta, 
    
goddess

     of the family hearth, 171  E-te′o-cles. Son of Œd
  
    ame, 131; Hercules crosses, 203    F     Fa′ma; Attendant of Jupiter, 
    
goddess

     of fame, 28  Fates. Three sisters; also known as 
  
    cance, 364  He′ra, or He′re. Name given to Juno, queen of heaven, and 
    
goddess

     of the atmosphere and of marriage, 36; significan
  
    the West; father of the Hesperides, 81, 196  Hes′ti-a. Same as Vesta, 
    
goddess

     of the family hearth, 171; significance, 364  Him
  
    r′na. Sister and charioteer of Turnus, 338  Ju-ven′tas. Same as Hebe, 
    
goddess

     of youth, 28    K     Ka′kia. Goddess of vice; tr
  
    ce, 352, 357, 359, 360  Leu-co′the-a. Same as Ino, Athamas’ wife; sea 
    
goddess

    , 151; Ulysses rescued by, 317  Li′ber. Same as Ba
  
    re statue of Venus was found, 108  Mi-ner′va. Same as Pallas, Athene, 
    
goddess

     of wisdom; daughter of Jupiter, 39-43; man given 
  
    th, 221-225; significance, 355, 366  Mne-mos′y-ne. A Titanide, 6, 10; 
    
goddess

     of memory; wife of Jupiter; mother of the Muses, 
  
     South-west wind; son of Æolus and Aurora, 184-186  Nox. Same as Nyx, 
    
goddess

     of night; marries Chaos and Erebus, 2  Nu′ma Pom-
  
    o cared for Bacchus, and form a constellation, 150  Nyx. Same as Nox, 
    
goddess

     of night; mother of Day and Light, 2, 3, 4, 6; mo
  
    untered and slain by Theseus, 219  Per-seph′o-ne. Same as Proserpina, 
    
goddess

     of vegetation, 158, 161. 167  Per′seus. Son of Ju
  
    nificance, 341, 363  Pro-ser′pina. Same as Proserpine and Persephone; 
    
goddess

     of vegetation, 105, 158-170; Orpheus visits, 60; 
  
    ven to Juno, 38, 113, 124  Quin-qua′tri-a. Festivals in honour of the 
    
goddess

     Minerva, 43  Quir′i-nal. One of the seven hills o
  
    Pluto every hundred years, 137  Se-le′ne. Name given to Diana as moon 
    
goddess

    , 73-81; significance, 352  Sem′e-le. Daughter of 
  
     dancing; daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, 69  Ter′ra. Same as Gæa, 
    
goddess

     of the earth, 3  Teu′cer. Ancient king of the Tro
  
    ipus, king of, 246-255  The′mis. One of the six female Titans, 6, 10; 
    
goddess

     of justice, 30, 83, 86, 139  The-odo′sius. Worshi
  
    ignificance, 348    V     Ve′nus. Same as Dione, Aphrodite, Cytherea, 
    
goddess

     of beauty, 82-108; loved by Mars, 118; day of, 17
  
    d of the orchards; loved by Pomona, 268, 269  Ves′ta. Same as Hestia, 
    
goddess

     of fire and of the family hearth, 118, 171-174; b
  
    o the service of Vesta, 118, 172-174. 339  Vic-to′ri-a. Same as Nice, 
    
goddess

     of victory 28  Vol′scians. Tribe in Italy who joi
  
    he god of wealth. Abandoned in infancy, he was brought up by Pax, the 
    
goddess

     of peace, who is often represented holding him in

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     different interpreters to half a dozen elements of nature. A certain 
    
goddess

     represents now the upper air, now light, now ligh
  
    owed That timely light to share his joyous sport; And hence a beaming 
    
goddess

     with her nymphs Across the lawn and through the d
  
    evil was fashioned, — in Heaven, properly enough, — and every god and 
    
goddess

     contributed something to her perfection. One gave
  
    hter; and the gods, one by one, abandoned it, Astræa, following last, 
    
goddess

     of innocence and purity.  The Flood. — Jupiter, o
  
    e conception of Olympus entertained by Homer: —  “So saying, Minerva, 
    
goddess

    , azure-eyed, Rose to Olympus, the reputed seat Et
  
    re interpreted by priests. That Jupiter himself, though wedded to the 
    
goddess

     Juno, should be charged with numerous other love 
  
     of Heaven, according to others, the Lady. Some think it approves her 
    
goddess

     of earth; others, goddess of the air; still other
  
    thers, the Lady. Some think it approves her goddess of earth; others, 
    
goddess

     of the air; still others, for reasons by no means
  
    andcuffs, and hanging anvils to her feet. The cities that the ox-eyed 
    
goddess

     favored were Argos, Sparta, and Mycenæ. To her th
  
     with her battle-cry awakening the echoes of heaven and earth. She is 
    
goddess

     of the lightning that leaps like a lance from the
  
    the cloud-heavy sky, and hence, probably, the name, Athene 74. She is 
    
goddess

     of the storms and of the rushing thunder-bolt, an
  
    he rushing thunder-bolt, and is, therefore, styled Pallas. She is the 
    
goddess

     of the thunder-cloud, which is symbolized by her 
  
    edusa, the Gorgon, that turns to stone all beholders. She is also the 
    
goddess

     of war, rejoicing in martial music, and protectin
  
    krit, Greek, and Latin words for mind. She is eternally a virgin, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, of skill, of contemplation, of spinnin
  
    ade most hateful of all the gods.76 His loved one and mistress is the 
    
goddess

     of beauty herself. In her arms the warrior finds 
  
    d. The daughter of Latona is, as her name Artemis indicates, a virgin 
    
goddess

    , the ideal of modesty, grace, and maidenly vigor.
  
    chase, and surrounded by a bevy of fair companions, the swift-rushing 
    
goddess

     was wont to scour hill, valley, forest, and plain
  
    neum: Welcker, Alte Denkmäler, 2: 3, 5; Roscher 4: 566.] § 40. Venus, 
    
goddess

     of love and beauty, was, according to the more an
  
     the fruitfulness of the animal and of the vegetable creation. She is 
    
goddess

     of gardens and flowers, of the rose, the myrtle, 
  
    ducting Souls to Pluto and Proserpine. [ Hirt.] § 42. Vesta (Hestia), 
    
goddess

     of the hearth, public and private, was the first-
  
    rth, reverence as the oldest and worthiest of Olympian divinities. As 
    
goddess

     of the burning hearth, Vesta is the divinity of t
  
     honey-bloom that blows.”88   (2) Hebe, daughter of Jupiter and Juno, 
    
goddess

     of youth, and cup-bearer to the gods. According t
  
    edy. (5) Themis, one of the Titans, a daughter of Uranus. She sat, as 
    
goddess

     of justice, beside Jupiter on his throne. She was
  
    dern Diana. Eos, or, in Latin nomenclature, Aurora, the rosy-fingered 
    
goddess

     of the Morn, was mother of the stars and of the m
  
    nstellation Orion, whose story will be narrated; Victoria (Nike), the 
    
goddess

     of Victory; Discors (Eris), the goddess of Strife
  
    arrated; Victoria (Nike), the goddess of Victory; Discors (Eris), the 
    
goddess

     of Strife; and Iris, goddess of the rainbow, who 
  
     goddess of Victory; Discors (Eris), the goddess of Strife; and Iris, 
    
goddess

     of the rainbow, who is represented frequently as 
  
    h back to his place of rising in the east. § 45. Ceres (Demeter), the 
    
goddess

     of sowing and reaping, of harvest festivals, and 
  
     wife of Uranus, belongs to the older order of gods; so also, another 
    
goddess

     of the earth, Rhea, the wife of Cronus and mother
  
    applied both to the ruler of the shades and to his realm. When she is 
    
goddess

     of spring, dear to mankind, Proserpina bears a co
  
    ers, and revisits the earth in duly recurring season. But when she is 
    
goddess

     of death, sitting beside Pluto, she directs the F
  
    darkness and terrors. She haunted cross-roads and graveyards, was the 
    
goddess

     of sorcery and witchcraft, and wandered by night,
  
    d equally to all, in the reign of Saturn. The wife of Saturn was Ops, 
    
goddess

     of sowing and harvest, (later confounded with Rhe
  
    lace among the immortals. (4) Bellona, a war-goddess. (5) Lucina, the 
    
goddess

     who brings to light, hence the goddess of childbi
  
    a war-goddess. (5) Lucina, the goddess who brings to light, hence the 
    
goddess

     of childbirth: a title bestowed upon both Juno an
  
     of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks. There was also a 
    
goddess

     called Fauna, or Bona Dea (good goddess). To Maia
  
     the Greeks. There was also a goddess called Fauna, or Bona Dea (good 
    
goddess

    ). To Maia, wife of Vulcan, this designation, Bona
  
    nus, presiding over forest-glades and ploughed fields. (9) Pales, the 
    
goddess

     presiding over cattle and pastures. Flora, the go
  
    (9) Pales, the goddess presiding over cattle and pastures. Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers. Pomona, presiding over fruit trees. V
  
    on; Mater Matuta, the Dawn; Juventus, Youth; Fides, Honesty; Feronia, 
    
goddess

     of groves and freedmen; and a great number of per
  
    rtals, his queen had rivals in his affection: for instance, Latona, a 
    
goddess

     of darkness, daughter of the Titans Cœus and Phœb
  
    a, a goddess of darkness, daughter of the Titans Cœus and Phœbe. This 
    
goddess

     became, as we have already seen, the mother of Ap
  
     of the approach of his wife, had changed into that form. The ox-eyed 
    
goddess

     joined her husband, noticed the heifer, praised i
  
    ld not, without exciting suspicion; and he, therefore, consented. The 
    
goddess

     delivered the heifer to Argus, to be strictly wat
  
    Arcadia was another maiden who excited the jealousy of Juno. Her, the 
    
goddess

     changed into a bear. Often, frightened by the dog
  
     crimson rose, and shone preëminent among them all like the foam-born 
    
goddess

     among the Graces. Verily, she was not for long to
  
    ton and Cleobis. One Cydippe, an ancient priestess of the white-armed 
    
goddess

    , had desired to behold the famous new statue of H
  
    hought meet that so reverend a worshipper should herself approach the 
    
goddess

    , — ay, should ask of Hera some blessing on her fa
  
    e horse; Minerva produced the olive. The gods awarded the city to the 
    
goddess

    , and after her Greek appellation it was named.   
  
    t this she denied, and could not bear to be thought a pupil even of a 
    
goddess

    . “Let Minerva try her skill with mine,” said she.
  
    er fellow-mortals if she would, but at once to ask forgiveness of the 
    
goddess

    . Arachne bade the old dame to keep her counsel fo
  
     the old dame to keep her counsel for others. “I am not afraid of the 
    
goddess

    ; let her try her skill, if she dare venture.” “Sh
  
    itten the Earth, from which a horse had leaped forth. The bright-eyed 
    
goddess

     depicted herself with helmed head, her ægis cover
  
    l future times.” Then, sprinkling her with the juices of aconite, the 
    
goddess

     transformed her into a spider, forever spinning t
  
    ith spear of bronze, eager to take away his life. But the bright-eyed 
    
goddess

     Minerva with her hand seized the spear, and thrus
  
    hirst. There the following adventure ensued. By chance the persecuted 
    
goddess

     espied in the bottom of the valley a pond of clea
  
    with their feet, so as to make the water unfit to drink. Enraged, the 
    
goddess

     no longer supplicated the clowns, but lifting her
  
    d, on one occasion, scoffed at the annual celebration in honor of the 
    
goddess

     and -her two children. Surveying the people of Th
  
    h this worship!” The people left the sacred services uncompleted. The 
    
goddess

     was indignant. On the Cynthian mountain top she t
  
    goddesses except Juno alone, begin now to doubt whether I am indeed a 
    
goddess

    . I shall be deprived of my worship altogether unl
  
    hence all nine fell, rais’d it, and stood erect, And thus bespake the 
    
goddess

     enthroned on high: ‘Thou heardest, Artemis, my da
  
    iobe. The speedy transformation of Daphne has been attributed to this 
    
goddess

    , the champion of maidenhood. According to some, i
  
    tress-band. Numerous are the myths that celebrate the severity of the 
    
goddess

     of the unerring bow toward those who offended her
  
    d in the episode of the Calydonian hunt.166 Similar attributes of the 
    
goddess

     are exemplified in the myths of Arethusa, Actæon,
  
    f the cave, the nymphs, seeing a man, screamed and rushed towards the 
    
goddess

     to hide her with their bodies. But she was taller
  
    modern, poets who have identified Diana with Selene, the more ancient 
    
goddess

     of the moon.    Fig. 50. Endymion. [Relief in the
  
    fed his flock on Mount Latmos; and saw him sleeping. The heart of the 
    
goddess

     was unquestionably warmed by his surpassing beaut
  
    mion journeys on a mission under sea, thus describes a meeting of the 
    
goddess

     and her lover: —   On gold sand impearled With li
  
    re Along his fated way.174      7. Myths of Venus.    § 93. Round the 
    
goddess

     of love cluster romances of her own tender passio
  
    g is the myth of Venus and Adonis.  Adonis. 176 — The sweetly smiling 
    
goddess

    , playing one day with her boy Cupid, wounded her 
  
    n, to that hateful king and cruel, while wretched I yet live, being a 
    
goddess

    , and may not follow thee! Persephone, take thou m
  
    Finally she reached a temple of Ceres, where she won the favor of the 
    
goddess

     by arranging in due order the heaps of mingled gr
  
     Psyche took her way to the temple of the golden-crowned Cypris. That 
    
goddess

     received her with angry countenance, called her a
  
     black bread for her supper, and departed. Next morning, however, the 
    
goddess

    , ordering Psyche to be summoned, commanded her to
  
    ew: Hippomenes, Hero, Pygmalion, Pyramus, and Phaon. The favor of the 
    
goddess

     toward Paris, who awarded her the palm of beauty 
  
    n happiness, after all, forgot to pay due honor to Aphrodite; and the 
    
goddess

     was provoked at their ingratitude. She caused the
  
    ingratitude. She caused them to give offence to Cybele. That powerful 
    
goddess

     took from them their human form: the huntress her
  
    ll to be seen in all representations, in statuary or painting, of the 
    
goddess

     Cybele. § 96. Hero and Leander. 185 —  On Hellesp
  
    festival of Venus in Sestos, and thither fared to do obeisance to the 
    
goddess

    .  On this feast-day, — O cursed day and hour! — W
  
    s she arrayed In that fair garment that the priests had laid Upon the 
    
goddess

     on that very morn, Dyed like the setting sun upon
  
     Bacchus.    § 102. Since the adventures of Ceres, although she was a 
    
goddess

     of earth, are intimately connected with the life 
  
    m forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth. In Phrygia the 
    
goddess

     Rhea cured him and taught him her religious rites
  
    s they walked, Celeus said that his only son lay sick of a fever. The 
    
goddess

     stooped and gathered some poppies. Then, entering
  
     by the banks of the river Cyane. The river nymph would have told the 
    
goddess

     all she had witnessed, but dared not, for fear of
  
    uilt a temple to Ceres in Eleusis, and established the worship of the 
    
goddess

    , under the name of the Eleusinian mysteries, whic
  
    led forth the spring that still bears the Danaïd’s name. He loved the 
    
goddess

     Ceres also, through whose pastures his rivers str
  
    ard, Akadem. Abhandl.] § 112. Cephalus and Procris. 217 — Aurora, the 
    
goddess

     of the dawn, fell in love with Cephalus, a young 
  
    m, but in vain. He cared for his young wife Procris more than for the 
    
goddess

    . Finally Aurora dismissed him in displeasure, say
  
    y the breeze. Sometimes he would say aloud, “Come, gentle Aura, sweet 
    
goddess

     of the breeze, come and allay the heat that burns
  
    the gods she offered frequent incense, but more than all to Juno. The 
    
goddess

    , at last, could not bear to be further pleaded wi
  
    eel what it was to love and meet no return of affection. The avenging 
    
goddess

     heard. Narcissus, stooping over a river-brink, fe
  
     and boasting that he cared not whether it were a tree beloved of the 
    
goddess

     or not, addressed himself to the task. The oak se
  
    ght down the oak. The Dryads invoked punishment upon Erysichthon. The 
    
goddess

     Ceres, whom they had supplicated, nodded her asse
  
    ne to her, to remind their child that every flower or bush might be a 
    
goddess

     in disguise, to bring him often to be nursed unde
  
    returning to the sea, he there discovers the body of Scylla, whom the 
    
goddess

     has not transformed, but drowned; and learns that
  
    s, from a cliff into the sea. The gods, out of compassion, made her a 
    
goddess

     of the sea, under the name of Leucothea, and her 
  
    . This trophy the Naiads consecrated, and filled with flowers for the 
    
goddess

     of Plenty, who, adopting it as her symbol, named 
  
     her chief glory; but as she dared to vie in beauty with Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     deprived her of her charms, and changed her ringl
  
    ous greeting To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright 
    
goddess

    , with a blush at meeting, Gives the nectar to her
  
    e addressed her incantations, to the stars, to Hecate, to Tellus, the 
    
goddess

     of the earth. In a chariot borne aloft by dragons
  
    ertile soil of Attica. This Erichthonius327 was a special ward of the 
    
goddess

     Minerva, who brought him up in her temple. His so
  
    arture of his son for Creta, had given him this command: “If Minerva, 
    
goddess

     of our city, grant thee victory over the Minotaur
  
    l. By the aid of Chiron, the Centaur, Peleus succeeded in winning the 
    
goddess

     for his bride. In this marriage to be productive 
  
     of the Trojan War, — the son that should spring from this union of a 
    
goddess

     with a mortal. The following is from a translatio
  
     splendor, — Ay, but most — in the hall midmost — is the couch of the 
    
goddess

    , Glorious, made of the tusks of the Indian elepha
  
    with the exception of Eris, or Discord. Enraged at her exclusion, the 
    
goddess

     threw a golden apple among the guests, with the i
  
    king the two other goddesses his enemies. Under the protection of the 
    
goddess

     of love, he soon afterwards sailed to Greece. Her
  
    Agamemnon, while hunting, killed a stag that was sacred to Diana. The 
    
goddess

     in retribution visited the army with pestilence, 
  
    reupon, Calchas the soothsayer announced that the wrath of the virgin 
    
goddess

     could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virg
  
    is attention had been drawn from the field by the wiles of Juno. That 
    
goddess

     had arrayed herself in all her charms, and to cro
  
     field. Agamemnon made a suitable reply, laying the blame on Ate, the 
    
goddess

     of infatuation; and thereupon complete reconcilem
  
     Since there the barbarous people were accustomed to sacrifice to the 
    
goddess

     all strangers who fell into their hands, the two 
  
    rself to them; and the three made their escape with the statue of the 
    
goddess

    , and returned to Mycenæ.373     Fig. 101. Orestes
  
    e of the Erinyes. Finally, he took refuge with Minerva at Athens. The 
    
goddess

     afforded him protection, and appointed the court 
  
    in, and a sweet female voice singing. Eurylochus called aloud and the 
    
goddess

     came forth and invited them in; they all gladly e
  
     they all gladly entered except Eurylochus, who suspected danger. The 
    
goddess

     conducted her guests to a seat, and had them serv
  
    of, told his sad case, and besought the fair object (whether queen or 
    
goddess

     he professed he knew not) for food and clothing. 
  
    ormed him stood near her father’s dwelling. Under the guidance of the 
    
goddess

    , and, by her power, enveloped in a cloud which sh
  
    roes), and their battlements, till they came to the palace, where the 
    
goddess

    , having first given him some information of the c
  
    l pursued their way back to earth, he said to her, “Whether thou be a 
    
goddess

     or a mortal beloved by the gods, by me thou shalt
  
    e to be built to thy honor, and will myself bring offerings.”“I am no 
    
goddess

    ,” said the Sibyl; “I have no claims to sacrifice 
  
    es music, spring, and flowers, and the fairies of Elfheim. She is the 
    
goddess

     of love. Her day is Friday.  Bragi is the god of 
  
    s and the giants of the mountains. But he demanded for his reward the 
    
goddess

     Freya, together with the sun and moon. The gods y
  
     bride. Loki returned and reported the result of his mission, but the 
    
goddess

     of love was horrified at the idea of bestowing he
  
    he shape of a woman, he went to Fensalir, the mansion of Frigga. That 
    
goddess

    , when she saw the pretended woman, inquired of he
  
    rd fortress, down the dark unknown road to Hel, and there entreat the 
    
goddess

     Hela that she yield Balder back to heaven.” Höder
  
    Cellini. § 34. Juno was called by the Romans Juno Lucina, the special 
    
goddess

     of childbirth. In her honor wives held the festiv
  
    Argos and Mycenæ. It was of gold and ivory. (See Paus. 2. 17. 4.) The 
    
goddess

     was seated on a throne of magnificent proportions
  
    he is altogether a more ideal conception. The best description of the 
    
goddess

     will be found in Homer’s Iliad, Bk. 5: 730 et seq
  
    , the Dawn (?). Hence Athene is the Dawn-goddess; but she is also the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, because “the goddess who caused people
  
    the Dawn-goddess; but she is also the goddess of wisdom, because “the 
    
goddess

     who caused people to wake was involuntarily conce
  
     goddess who caused people to wake was involuntarily conceived as the 
    
goddess

     who caused people to know” (Science of Language, 
  
    e Attic tribes. (See §§ 152-157 C.) The name Pallas characterizes the 
    
goddess

     as the brandisher of lightnings. Her Palladium — 
  
    llas Athene, in Tiresias.  In Art.— The finest of the statues of this 
    
goddess

     was by Phidias, in the Parthenon, or temple of Mi
  
    by repose. The most important copy extant is of the Roman period. The 
    
goddess

     was represented standing; in one hand a spear, in
  
    pot. The prophetic influence was at first variously attributed to the 
    
goddess

     Earth, to Neptune, Themis, and others, but it was
  
    eus, a shapeless wooden idol.  Diana. — The Latin Diana means either “
    
goddess

     of the bright heaven,” or “goddess of the bright 
  
    a. — The Latin Diana means either “goddess of the bright heaven,” or “
    
goddess

     of the bright day.” She is frequently identified 
  
    near Ephesus. Diana of the Ephesians, referred to, Acts 19: 28, was a 
    
goddess

     of not at all the maidenly characteristics that b
  
    ns with human sacrifices; Agrotera, the huntress; Pythia; Eileithyia, 
    
goddess

     of childbirth; Cynthia, born on Mount Cynthus.  I
  
    to Nativity; H. K. White, Ode to Contemplation.  In Art. — In art the 
    
goddess

     is represented high-girt for the chase, either in
  
    at of a huntress in the excitement of the chase. The left hand of the 
    
goddess

     is extended over the forehead of the hind which r
  
    istics. All Semitic nations, except the Hebrews, worshipped a supreme 
    
goddess

     who presided over the moon (or the Star of Love),
  
    native Greek deity of love would appear to have been, however, Dione, 
    
goddess

     of the moist and productive soil (§ 34 C), who pa
  
    ris (the Cyprus-born), Cytherea; Erycina (from Mount Eryx), Pandemos (
    
goddess

     of vulgar love), Pelagia (Aphrodite of the sea), 
  
    ed certain attributes of the Eastern Aphrodite. She was worshipped as 
    
goddess

     of love, as presiding over marriage, as the godde
  
    was worshipped as goddess of love, as presiding over marriage, as the 
    
goddess

     who turns the hearts of men, and, later, even as 
  
    ge, as the goddess who turns the hearts of men, and, later, even as a 
    
goddess

     of victory. A festival in her honor, called the V
  
    rative. — See Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, for frequent references to the 
    
goddess

     of love; also the Court of Love; Spenser’s Protha
  
    l of the age of Praxiteles, probably in bronze, which represented the 
    
goddess

     partly draped, gazing at her reflection in an upl
  
    he mingled beauties of exulting Greece.”  And Byron’s  “There too the 
    
goddess

     loves in stone, and fills The air around with bea
  
    h breezes, herald of the gods, spy of the night, to the Vedic Saramâ, 
    
goddess

     of the Dawn. Others translate Saramâ, storm. Rosc
  
    o burn. The two former are consistent with the domestic nature of the 
    
goddess

    ; the latter with her relation to the hearth-fire.
  
    n in the Latin. Demeter (Τῆ μήτηρ, δᾶ μάτηρ), means Mother Earth. The 
    
goddess

     is represented in art crowned with a wheat-measur
  
    of cattle. Modern critics, such as Preller and Welcker, make Europa a 
    
goddess

     of the moon = Diana or Astarte, and translate her
  
     with the wandering Demeter (or Ceres), and considers Demeter to be a 
    
goddess

     both of the moon and of the earth ( Helbig, in Ro
  
    f Athene was introduced into Athens by this family. In sacrifices the 
    
goddess

     was clad in the skin of the sacred goat, but no g
  
    onnections. — See also § 132 (5) C.     Pelops. — It is said that the 
    
goddess

     Demeter in a fit of absent-mindedness ate the sho
  
    at the flute, an invention of Minerva’s, had been thrown away by that 
    
goddess

     because Cupid laughed at the grimaces which she m
  
    don, who represents the verdure of spring, and whom his mistress, the 
    
goddess

     of fertility, seeks, after his death, in the lowe
  
    garden of Adonis.” (2) He comes in the early year and is beloved by a 
    
goddess

     of vegetation, goddess sometimes of the moon, som
  
    He comes in the early year and is beloved by a goddess of vegetation, 
    
goddess

     sometimes of the moon, sometimes of the star of L
  
    ce, beloved by Medea, whose name, “the counselling woman,” suggests a 
    
goddess

    . Perhaps Medea was a local Hera-Demeter, degraded
  
    was carried to the Parthenon, and left on or before the statue of the 
    
goddess

    . The Peplus was covered with embroidery, worked b
  
    is father’s footsteps, was Calypso’s isle; as in the former case, the 
    
goddess

     tried every art to keep the youth with her, and o
  
    ering his realm, but was put to death by Hercules. Bu′to: an Egyptian 
    
goddess

     identified by the Greeks with Leto. Byr′sa, 342. 
  
     Skies, story of; analogy of incident, Com. § 94. Dau′lis, 258. Dawn, 
    
goddess

     of, Com. § 41. See, also, Aurora. Day, 38. Death 
  
    Chnuphis. He is represented as a mummy or a pigmy.  Pakht and Bast: a 
    
goddess

     of two forms, lioness-headed or cat-headed. At Me
  
    th the Greek Apollo.  Harpoc′ra-tes: see Horus.   Ha′thor or Athor: a 
    
goddess

     often identified with Isis. She had the head of a
  
    s body, jackal’s ears and snout, and the tail of a lion.  Nephthys: a 
    
goddess

     of the dead; the sister of Isis, and wife of Seth
  
    or Maut, and their son is Khuns.  Mut or Maut: the mother; the Theban 
    
goddess

     of womanhood, wife of Amen-Ra. She corresponds to
  
    n classical mythology is Pan, or, as god of gardens, Priapus.  Neith: 
    
goddess

     of the upper heaven; self-produced; mother of the
  
    Neith: goddess of the upper heaven; self-produced; mother of the sun; 
    
goddess

    , consequently, of wisdom, the arts of peace and o
  
    wer Egypt as a woman in form, with bow and arrows in her hand.  Ma-t: 
    
goddess

     of truth; her emblem the ostrich feather which si
  
    on of Osiris. Guide of ghosts. Eileithy′ia (Ilithy′ia), the name of a 
    
goddess

    , or of goddesses, of childbirth; later identified
  
    8, 389. Fensalir, 380. Fero′nia, 90; also worshipped in the mart as a 
    
goddess

     of commerce; a Sabine deity. Fi′des, 90. Flood, t
  
    ing spirit of the primitive Aryans (Gk. Zeus, Lat. Jovis).  Prithivi: 
    
goddess

     Earth, spouse of Dyaus.  Indra: son of Dyaus and 
  
    essenger between two hamlets” (Lat. ignis; cf. Gk. Hephæstus).  Vach: 
    
goddess

     of speech, teacher of spiritual worship, promoter
  
    a necklace of skulls and ear-rings of serpents.  Sarasvati, see Vach: 
    
goddess

     of speech; spouse of Brahma.  Sri or Lakshmi: god
  
    vati, see Vach: goddess of speech; spouse of Brahma.  Sri or Lakshmi: 
    
goddess

     of beauty; spouse of Vishnu.  Uma or Parvati (Kal
  
    § 139-143 (Interpret.). Hy-ge′a, Hy-gi′a, daughter of Æsculapius; the 
    
goddess

     of health.  Hy-gi′nus, references to, 147, 182, 1
  
    . Mass, 37. Ma-t; see under Egyptian deities (2). Ma′ter Matu′ta, the 
    
goddess

     of the Dawn, Aurora; among the Romans applied als
  
    Com. § 34. Peg′asus, myth of, 231-233; Com. § 138. Pei′tho, Suade′la: 
    
goddess

     of Persuasion. Pela′gia, Com. § 40; see Venus. Pe
  
    a-des), daughters of Atlas, 87; myth of, 147, 148; Com. § 91. Plenty, 
    
goddess

     of, 221. Plexip′pus, 251, 253. Plu′to, Aides, Ade
  
    1) Greek, an attendant, with Di′ke and Erinys, of Nemesis; (2) Latin, 
    
goddess

     of punishment. Pœnæ, sometimes the Furies. Poets

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               Bulfinch, Thomas. 
         (1855) 
         The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes
      
    ar, their food and drink, the latter being handed round by the lovely 
    
goddess

     Hebe. Here they conversed of the affairs of heave
  
    sey will show how Homer conceived of Olympus: —  “So saying, Minerva, 
    
goddess

     azure-eyed, Rose to Olympus, the reputed seat Ete
  
    Juno (Hera) was the wife of Jupiter, and queen of the gods. Iris, the 
    
goddess

     of the rainbow, was her attendant and messenger. 
  
    iana, (Artemis.) He was god of the sun, as Diana, his sister, was the 
    
goddess

     of the moon. Venus, (Aphrodite,) the goddess of l
  
    ana, his sister, was the goddess of the moon. Venus, (Aphrodite,) the 
    
goddess

     of love and beauty, was the daughter of Jupiter a
  
    increase rapidly in size and strength. Minerva, (Pallas, Athene,) the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, was the offspring of Jupiter, without 
  
    Megæra. They were also called Eumenides. Nemesis was also an avenging 
    
goddess

    . She represents the righteous anger of the gods, 
  
    me, exalted after his death to a place among the gods. Bellona, a war 
    
goddess

    . Terminus, the god of landmarks. His statue was a
  
     post, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of fields. Pales, the 
    
goddess

     presiding over cattle and pastures. Pomona presid
  
    ver cattle and pastures. Pomona presided over fruit trees. Flora, the 
    
goddess

     of flowers. Lucina, the goddess of childbirth. Ve
  
    presided over fruit trees. Flora, the goddess of flowers. Lucina, the 
    
goddess

     of childbirth. Vesta (the Hestia of the Greeks) w
  
    o fire burned. There they fell prostrate on the earth, and prayed the 
    
goddess

     to inform them how they might retrieve their mise
  
    votedly loved. Her name was Procris. She was a favorite of Diana, the 
    
goddess

     of hunting, who had given her a dog which could o
  
    eifer? He could not, without exciting suspicion; so he consented. The 
    
goddess

     was not yet relieved of her suspicions; so she de
  
    Callisto was another maiden who excited the jealousy of Juno, and the 
    
goddess

     changed her into a bear. “I will take away,” said
  
    ave seen Juno’s severity to her rivals; now let us learn how a virgin 
    
goddess

     punished an invader of her privacy. It was midday
  
    from one side, whose open basin was bounded by a grassy rim. Here the 
    
goddess

     of the woods used to come when weary with hunting
  
     Nephele, Hyale, and the rest drew water in capacious urns. While the 
    
goddess

     was thus employed in the labors of the toilet, be
  
    f the cave, the nymphs, seeing a man, screamed and rushed towards the 
    
goddess

     to hide her with their bodies. But she was taller
  
    ly to Shelley himself.    Latona and the Rustics.    Some thought the 
    
goddess

     in this instance more severe than was just, while
  
    standers told this story: “Some countrymen of Lycia once insulted the 
    
goddess

     Latona, but not with impunity. When I was young, 
  
    ere the country people were at work gathering willows and osiers. The 
    
goddess

     approached, and kneeling on the bank would have s
  
    r arms. “Who would not have been moved with these gentle words of the 
    
goddess

    ? But these clowns persisted in their rudeness; th
  
    s little girl was driving home their two goats, and as she passed the 
    
goddess

    , who appeared in the guise of an old woman, she s
  
     hope of recovery. Metanira, his mother, received her kindly, and the 
    
goddess

     stooped and kissed the lips of the sick child. In
  
    h his prize to his own dominions. The river nymph would have told the 
    
goddess

     all she had witnessed, but dared not, for fear of
  
    ngth failed. At last, exhausted, I cried for help to Diana. ‘Help me, 
    
goddess

    ! help your votary!’ The goddess heard, and wrappe
  
     I cried for help to Diana. ‘Help me, goddess! help your votary!’ The 
    
goddess

     heard, and wrapped me suddenly in a thick cloud. 
  
    ficent temple to Ceres in Eleusis, and established the worship of the 
    
goddess

    , under the name of the Eleusinian mysteries, whic
  
     Be not diffident, know your own worth. I protest to you that even I, 
    
goddess

     though I be, and learned in the virtues of plants
  
     the mountains, than I will cease to love Scylla, and her alone.” The 
    
goddess

     was indignant, but she could not punish him, neit
  
    , to breathe the air of the sea, and to bathe in its waters. Here the 
    
goddess

     poured her poisonous mixture, and muttered over i
  
    . He returns to the sea, and there finds the body of Scylla, whom the 
    
goddess

     has not transformed but drowned. Glaucus learns t
  
     roundness. Then at last the votary of Venus found words to thank the 
    
goddess

    , and pressed his lips upon lips as real as his ow
  
    e how he plucks flowers, remembering that every bush he sees may be a 
    
goddess

     in disguise. Farewell, dear husband, and sister, 
  
     these prayers, the last was the only one destined to be granted. The 
    
goddess

    , at length, could not bear any longer to be plead
  
    s, or the forest leaves, or the sea shore sand grains. As soon as the 
    
goddess

     entered and brushed away the dreams that hovered 
  
    d ruminating on what she should say and how best propitiate the angry 
    
goddess

    , feeling that the issue was doubtful and perhaps 
  
    ng himself among the nymphs. Echo by her talk contrived to detain the 
    
goddess

     till the nymphs made their escape. When Juno disc
  
    eel what it was to love and meet no return of affection. The avenging 
    
goddess

     heard and granted the prayer. There was a clear f
  
          Chapter XIV. Minerva — Niobe.      Minerva.        Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter. She was s
  
    the olive was the more useful of the two, and awarded the city to the 
    
goddess

    ; and it was named after her, Athens. There was an
  
    t this she denied, and could not bear to be thought a pupil even of a 
    
goddess

    . “Let Minerva try her skill with mine,” said she;
  
     Challenge your fellow-mortals as you will, but do not compete with a 
    
goddess

    . On the contrary, I advise you to ask her forgive
  
     my part I know what I say, and I stand to it. I am not afraid of the 
    
goddess

    ; let her try her skill, if she dare venture.” “Sh
  
     the story. The two stanzas which follow tell what was done after the 
    
goddess

     had depicted her creation of the olive tree: —  “
  
    ne’s own mortification and vexation, and not by any direct act of the 
    
goddess

    .   The following specimen of old-fashioned gallan
  
    rick: —  Upon a Lady’s Embroidery “Arachne once, as poets tell,     A 
    
goddess

     at her art defied, And soon the daring mortal fel
  
    who was received as a guest at the table of the gods; my mother was a 
    
goddess

    . My husband built and rules this city, Thebes, an
  
    y the elements of my power; nor is my form and presence unworthy of a 
    
goddess

    . To all this let me add I have seven sons and sev
  
    ip!” The people obeyed, and left the sacred services uncompleted. The 
    
goddess

     was indignant. On the Cynthian mountain top where
  
    goddesses except Juno alone, begin now to doubt whether I am indeed a 
    
goddess

    . I shall be deprived of my worship altogether unl
  
     her chief glory, but as she dared to vie in beauty with Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     deprived her of her charms and changed her beauti
  
     Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the                  “—— 
    
goddess

    , sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too brigh
  
    er marriage, and as they stood before the altar of Hecate, called the 
    
goddess

     to witness his oath. Medea yielded, and by her ai
  
    ars she addressed her incantations, and to the moon; to Hecate,11 the 
    
goddess

     of the underworld, and to Tellus the goddess of t
  
    e moon; to Hecate,11 the goddess of the underworld, and to Tellus the 
    
goddess

     of the earth, by whose power plants potent for en
  
    he next erected two altars, the one to Hecate, the other to Hebe, the 
    
goddess

     of youth, and sacrificathed a black sheep, pourin
  
    hrows his spear, with a prayer to Diana for success; and the favoring 
    
goddess

     allows the weapon to touch, but not to wound, rem
  
    le, loudly proclaims his own valor, and defies alike the boar and the 
    
goddess

     who had sent it; but as he rushes on, the infuria
  
     came up with him. The goal was near; one chance only remained. “Now, 
    
goddess

    ,” said he, “prosper your gift!” and threw the las
  
    eir own happiness that they forgot to pay due honor to Venus; and the 
    
goddess

     was provoked at their ingratitude. She caused the
  
    ingratitude. She caused them to give offence to Cybele. That powerful 
    
goddess

     was not to be insulted with impunity. She took fr
  
    ll to be seen in all representations, in statuary or painting, of the 
    
goddess

     Cybele.   Cybele is the Latin name of the goddess
  
    or painting, of the goddess Cybele.   Cybele is the Latin name of the 
    
goddess

     called by the Greeks Rhea and Ops. She was the wi
  
    These were the apples which Juno had received at her wedding from the 
    
goddess

     of the Earth, and which she had intrusted to the 
  
    ous greeting To the hall where reigns his sire adored; Youth’s bright 
    
goddess

    , with a blush at meeting, Gives the nectar to her
  
      S. G. B.      Hebe and Ganymede.    Hebe, the daughter of Juno, and 
    
goddess

     of youth, was cup-bearer to the gods. The usual s
  
     was carried to the Parthenon, and suspended before the statue of the 
    
goddess

    . The Peplus was covered with embroidery, worked b
  
    m forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth. In Phrygia the 
    
goddess

     Rhea cured him and taught him her religious rites
  
     impiously exclaimed: “I care not whether it be a tree beloved of the 
    
goddess

     or not; were it the goddess herself it should com
  
    e not whether it be a tree beloved of the goddess or not; were it the 
    
goddess

     herself it should come down if it stood in my way
  
    al. By the aid of Chiron the Centaur, Peleus succeeded in winning the 
    
goddess

     for his bride and their son was the renowned Achi
  
    ng from a cliff into the sea. The gods, out of compassion, made her a 
    
goddess

     of the sea, under the name of Leucothea, and him 
  
    of the Art of preserving Health, under the inspiration of Hygeia, the 
    
goddess

     of health, thus celebrates the Naiads. Pæon is a 
  
     issue. Tiresias in his youth had by chance seen Minerva bathing. The 
    
goddess

     in her wrath deprived him of his sight, but after
  
    ievous urchin Cupid having dared to laugh at the queer face which the 
    
goddess

     made while playing, Minerva threw the instrument 
  
     Moon, looked down and saw him sleeping. The cold heart of the virgin 
    
goddess

     was warmed by his surpassing beauty, and she came
  
    . Hemans’s verses on the same subject.    Aurora and Tithonus.    The 
    
goddess

     of the Dawn, like her sister the Moon, was at tim
  
    e grotto of Galatea, and tell her how she was persecuted. One day the 
    
goddess

    , while Scylla dressed her hair, listened to the s
  
    tying maiden had wiped away with her delicate finger, and soothed the 
    
goddess

    , “Tell me, dearest,” said she, “the cause of your
  
    ies of life.”      Chapter XXVII. The Trojan War.     Minerva was the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, but on one occasion she did a very foo
  
    with the exception of Eris, or Discord. Enraged at her exclusion, the 
    
goddess

     threw a golden apple among the guests, with the i
  
    Agamemnon in hunting killed a stag which was sacred to Diana, and the 
    
goddess

     in return visited the army with pestilence, and p
  
    lchas the soothsayer thereupon announced that the wrath of the virgin 
    
goddess

     could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virg
  
    as to be married to Achilles. When she was about to be sacrificed the 
    
goddess

     relented and snatched her away, leaving a hind in
  
    is attention had been drawn from the field by the wiles of Juno. That 
    
goddess

     had arrayed herself in all her charms, and to cro
  
    ld. Agamemnon made a suitable reply, laying all the blame on Ate, the 
    
goddess

     of discord; and thereupon complete reconcilement 
  
    auris, where the barbarous people were accustomed to sacrifice to the 
    
goddess

     all strangers who fell into their hands. The two 
  
    rself to them, and the three made their escape with the statue of the 
    
goddess

    , and returned to Mycenae. But Orestes was not yet
  
     of the Erinyes. At length he took refuge with Minerva at Athens. The 
    
goddess

     afforded him protection, and appointed the court 
  
    in, and a sweet female voice singing. Eurylochus called aloud and the 
    
goddess

     came forth and invited them in; they all gladly e
  
     they all gladly entered except Eurylochus, who suspected danger. The 
    
goddess

     conducted her guests to a seat, and had them serv
  
    le, filthy mesh, And merely given to the cold, bleak air. Have mercy, 
    
goddess

    ! Circe, feel my prayer!”     Scylla and Charybdis
  
    ther’s footsteps, was Calypso’s isle, and, as in the former case, the 
    
goddess

     tried every art to keep him with her, and offered
  
    ep;     There for the weary still a haven smiles,     Though the fair 
    
goddess

     long has ceased to weep,     And o’er her cliffs 
  
    wn? It certainly was a case worthy of the interposition of his patron 
    
goddess

     Minerva, who never failed him at a crisis. Breaki
  
    of, told his sad case, and besought the fair object (whether queen or 
    
goddess

     he professed he knew not) for food and clothing. 
  
    rmed him, stood near her father’s dwelling. Under the guidance of the 
    
goddess

    , and by her power enveloped in a cloud which shie
  
    roes,) and their battlements, till they came to the palace, where the 
    
goddess

    , having first given him some information of the c
  
    ales, giving him the contrary ones tied up in a bag. Æolus obeyed the 
    
goddess

     and sent forth his sons, Boreas, Typhon, and the 
  
    l pursued their way back to earth, he said to her, “Whether thou be a 
    
goddess

     or a mortal beloved of the gods, by me thou shalt
  
     to be built to thy honor, and will myself bring offerings.” “I am no 
    
goddess

    ,” said the Sibyl; “I have no claim to sacrifice o
  
    servant, and being admitted, threw off her disguise and appeared as a 
    
goddess

    , surrounded with thunder and lightning. Striking 
  
    pot. The prophetic influence was at first variously attributed to the 
    
goddess

     Earth, to Neptune, Themis, and others, but it was
  
    owed That timely light to share his joyous sport; And hence a beaming 
    
goddess

     with her nymphs Across the lawn and through the d
  
    idias. It stood in the Parthenon, or temple of Minerva at Athens. The 
    
goddess

     was represented standing. In one hand she held a 
  
    statue. Speaking of the Florence Museum, he says, —  “There, too, the 
    
goddess

     loves in stone, and fills The air around with bea
  
    s and the giants of the mountains. But he demanded for his reward the 
    
goddess

     Freya, together with the sun and moon. The gods y
  
     bride. Loki returned and reported the result of his mission, but the 
    
goddess

     of love was quite horrified at the idea of bestow
  
    he shape of a woman, he went to Fensalir, the mansion of Frigga. That 
    
goddess

    , when she saw the pretended woman, inquired of he
  
     sullen Cares And frantic Passions hear thy soft control.”     3. The 
    
goddess

     of innocence and purity. After leaving earth, she
  
     of night, so Hecate represents its darkness and terrors. She was the 
    
goddess

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    arning for her offspring, appears to have filled even the breast of a 
    
goddess

    ; and when delivered of Jupiter and Juno, she plac
  
     is, having no influence over the elements.    Cybele, Vesta.    This 
    
goddess

     was the daughter of Uranus, being the sister and 
  
    ical passion of Cybele, he is said to have destroyed himself, and the 
    
goddess

     metamorphosed him into a pine-tree. Insérer image
  
     the voice of men; To let her first in virgin lustre shine, In form a 
    
goddess

    , with a bloom divine; And next the sire demands M
  
    athen-mythology_1842_img029 Ceres, daughter of Saturn and Cybele, was 
    
goddess

     of the productions of the earth. She taught man t
  
    Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img048b    Diana.    The 
    
goddess

     Diana was daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and twi
  
       Venus, one of the most celebrated deities of the ancients, was the 
    
goddess

     of beauty, the mother of love, the queen of laugh
  
    the moist Zephyrs to the favoured shore, From Ocean’s foam the lovely 
    
goddess

     bore,”  after the mutilated body of Uranus had be
  
    ost ugly and deformed of the Gods. This ‌marriage did not prevent the 
    
goddess

     of love from gratifying her inclinations, and her
  
     birds, the dove, the swan, and the sparrow, were her favourites. The 
    
goddess

     of beauty was represented among the ancients in d
  
    as represented by Phidias, as rising from the sea, and crowned by the 
    
goddess

     of Persuasion.  ———— “ Phidias his keen chisel sw
  
    by doves, or at other times by swans or sparrows. The surnames of the 
    
goddess

     are numerous, and serve to show how well establis
  
    anitis, in allusion to the many artifices practised in love; and also 
    
goddess

     of the sea, because born in the bosom of the wate
  
    es around: And here she walks, endowed with every grace To charm, the 
    
goddess

     blooming in her face; Her looks demand respect, a
  
    ian twang of Love’s own bow, Can mingle music fit for the soft ear Of 
    
goddess

     Cytheræa! Yet deign, white queen of beauty, thy f
  
    formity. This was a throne of gold, with secret springs, on which the 
    
goddess

     no sooner sate, than she ‌found herself unable to
  
    here Heavens far beaming mansions shine, There the lame architect the 
    
goddess

     found Obscure in smoke, his forges flaming round;
  
    t Perestere, who accompanied them, attempted to win the favour of the 
    
goddess

    , by assisting to fill her basket. In revenge, Cup
  
    in rendering her miserable, who, not content with being taken for the 
    
goddess

     of beauty, had concluded by seducing from her the
  
    ssed with a belief that her powers were superior to those of Minerva, 
    
goddess

     of the art. ‌This wounded Minerva’s jealous pride
  
    ery line. This the proud maid, with scornful air denies, And e’en the 
    
goddess

     at her work defies, Disowns her heavenly mistress
  
     that she struck her two or three times on the forehead.  “The bright 
    
goddess

    , passionately moved, With envy saw, yet inwardly 
  
    ording to the different characters in which she has appeared, has the 
    
goddess

     been represented. Usually with a helmet on her he
  
    eauties fired, Resolved to compass what his soul desired. The bashful 
    
goddess

     turned her eyes away, Nor durst such bold impurit
  
    Shelley.  We have already seen that Minerva, not satisfied with being 
    
goddess

     of Wisdom, claimed also pre-eminence in beauty, a
  
    lower, through the very touch of which she might become a mother. The 
    
goddess

     tried, and from her touch sprang Mars. His educat
  
    e is usually represented in a chariot of steel, conducted by Bellona, 
    
goddess

     of War: on his cuirass are painted several monste
  
    re he had, according to the received traditions, disappeared with the 
    
goddess

    .  ———— “On the ground, She sinks without a single
  
    d him to Olympus. Here, Mercury rendering some kindness to Venus, the 
    
goddess

     fell in love with him, and bore to him Hermaphrod
  
     offered to him the tongues of the victims whom they immolated to the 
    
goddess

    .  “Who beareth the world on his shoulders so broa
  
    oportioned limbs, The nicest eye did no distinction know But that the 
    
goddess

     bore a golden bow, Descending from Lycæus, Pan ad
  
    became the mother of Priapus. Juno having vowed vengeance against the 
    
goddess

     of beauty, took that opportunity to deform her so
  
    ersed, they haunt the glassy depth of lakes, A glorious sisterhood of 
    
goddess

     birth.”  Hesiod.  Thetis, one of the sea deities,
  
    all the deities attended.  “Proteus thus to virgin Thetis said, ‘Fair 
    
goddess

     of the waves, consent to wed, A son you’ll have, 
  
    nstituted fêtes called Nemesia, in memory of deceased persons, as the 
    
goddess

     was supposed to defend the relics and the memory 
  
     be mixed with his bitterness, he declared that the noise made by the 
    
goddess

     in walking was far too loud to be agreeable, and 
  
    cious metals are in the bowels of the earth. He was brought up by the 
    
goddess

     of peace, and the Greeks spoke of him as a fickle
  
    way with greater velocity than he approached mankind. Fortuna was the 
    
goddess

     of Fortune, and from her hands were derived riche
  
     guides by Occasion; and before her marches Necessity, the inflexible 
    
goddess

    . ‌  In Bœotia she had a statue, represented as ho
  
      Themis, Astræa.    Themis, daughter of heaven and of earth, was the 
    
goddess

     of Justice, She wears a bandage over her eyes, an
  
    th, and thro’ his face Displayed an air so pleasing, as might charm A 
    
goddess

    , and a vestal’s bosom warm. Her ravished eyes sur
  
    sity, and by representing the commands of Eurystheus, he appeased the 
    
goddess

     and obtained the beast. Insérer image anonyme_hea
  
    e buckler of Minerva, as resplendent as glass, was given him by ‌that 
    
goddess

    . Mercury gave him wings and the Calaria, with a s
  
     Juno might choose to inflict on him, from the hatred she bore to the 
    
goddess

     of beauty. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mytholog
  
    els, which Juno however pursued with her wrath. Æolus obedient to the 
    
goddess

    , dispersed the fleet and menaced them with comple
  
    the temple of Jupiter, on the Capitoline hill, a golden statue of the 
    
goddess

     was placed, weighing three hundred and twenty pou
  
    upposed to exist all the luxuries which attend her reign. She was the 
    
goddess

     of sensual pleasures, and had a temple at Rome, w
  
     of the Trojan war, and of innumerable misfortunes to the Greeks. The 
    
goddess

     is represented with a pale and ghastly look, her 
  
    nder met during one of the festivals held annually at the fane of the 
    
goddess

    , in honour of Adonis.  “As thro’ the temple passe
  
    love to the beautiful being who had won it. In the very temple of the 
    
goddess

    , whose priestess she was, and while warmed with t
  
    fel? This cave was surely shaped out for the greeting Of an enamoured 
    
goddess

    , and the cell Haunted by holy love — the earliest
  
    umed to lay,                 In wanton play, Her hands, too venturous 
    
goddess

    , in her mirth,     On Seeva’s eyes, the light and
  
     many a light-oared boat, On thy jasper bosom float; Nor frown, dread 
    
goddess

    , on a peerless race, With liberal heart and marti
  
    with Europa. They pay homage also to peculiar divinities, such as the 
    
goddess

     of pleasure, and the god of war. The former was f
  
     the warriors of the land seek glory in battle, she sends an inferior 
    
goddess

     to watch over the safety of those whom she favour
  
    ading a fleet steed, went to demand the body of Balder from the ‌dark 
    
goddess

     Hel, who replied that he should be returned if al
  
    eek and Roman mythology, kept a perpetual fire in the temple of their 
    
goddess

    .  “The power of inflicting pains and penalties,” 
  
    the deity representing the earth. If the body fell to the bottom, the 
    
goddess

     was supposed to accept it; if not, she refused it
  
    in hand, as an emblem of mutual affection. ‌  The Mexicans also had a 
    
goddess

     of old age, to whom they rendered honours of the 
  
    rmous fragment floated to the East, and formed America. The principal 
    
goddess

     of the Sandwich islands, is remarkable chiefly fo
  
    ise all the perils which might have the power of injuring Balder. The 
    
goddess

     Frigga, the mother of Balder, undertook this task
  
    f an old woman, went to Frigga, and claimed her hospitality. The kind 
    
goddess

     related the story of her son to the impostor, who

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    . They would say she is fairer than Venus herself. Though Venus was a 
    
goddess

    , she was just like a silly woman. She was the mos
  
    oves to your altar, and sing hymns in your praise? “No,” answered the 
    
goddess

    , “Her parents have never aught her to celebrate m
  
     very wretched.” It seems by this that Venus was a malignant spiteful 
    
goddess

    , who could please herself by making human creatur
  
    emple which Psyche saw on a hill was dedicated to Ceres, a benevolent 
    
goddess

    , who had first taught these people to divide thei
  
    es to her. Psyche had heard of all the goodness of this compassionate 
    
goddess

    ; and she said, “Perhaps, as she has pitied the po
  
    ght paling, and under the portico which formed the front, she saw the 
    
goddess

    . She was a tall venerable figure, her head was cr
  
    e afflicted Psyche related her history, and concluded thus: “Gracious 
    
goddess

    ! I perceive in the precincts of this thy sanctuar
  
    e, but thou knowest that I can do nothing in opposition to any sister 
    
goddess

    . It becomes divinities to set before mortals an e
  
    Ceres, she sought the presence of Juno. Presenting herself before the 
    
goddess

    , she begged to be granted an asylum from the pers
  
    lf might relent, and she resolved to throw herself at the feet of the 
    
goddess

    . She proceeded to a shrine of the goddess, and th
  
     herself at the feet of the goddess. She proceeded to a shrine of the 
    
goddess

    , and there invoked her. Venus instantly appeared,
  
    r would relieve her. She might be very happy if she could reconcile a 
    
goddess

     who, she knew, was the most beautiful among the i
  
    d think of inflicting upon her. “Behold me, child of earth,” said the 
    
goddess

     to Psyche, “seest thou not the celestial, rosy re
  
    , by a fountain side, a naiad named Arethusa. “Who are you?” said the 
    
goddess

     to Arethusa, who was sitting on a stone, laving h
  
    he bed of the sea, from Elis to this valley.2 I mourn for my guardian 
    
goddess

     and the wood-nymphs, my companions. I pity you; f
  
    of those I love.” “Do you know me, Arethusa?” asked the wheat-crowned 
    
goddess

    . “Yes; you are she who have gained the hills and 
  
     you have given to man were once my favourite haunts — and Ceres, the 
    
goddess

     of agriculture, has done this.” “Your pleasure, t
  
    ss of agriculture, has done this.” “Your pleasure, then,” replied the 
    
goddess

    , “was death and destruction, but mine is to besto
  
    ike a common woman, and the peasants of Sicily did not take her for a 
    
goddess

    . It is related that one night she stopped at the 
  
    y were going to the temple of Minerva to celebrate a festival of that 
    
goddess

    . Minerva was honoured by young girls particularly
  
    r him, Cecropia; but the name was altered afterwards in honour of the 
    
goddess

     Minerva. One of her names was Athena.  Ann. Where
  
    eon now felt himself a mere brute, and he fled away from the offended 
    
goddess

    , weeping bitterly at the metamorphosis he had und
  
     but she once behaved improperly in Minerva’s temple. Minerva was the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom. She required all worshippers to offer 
  
    nx, the daughter of Ladon. Syrinx was a worshipper of Diana, and that 
    
goddess

     forbade her followers to listen to any male, eith
  
    f Minerva, and used to complain of the tyrannical disposition of that 
    
goddess

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    ugh the heavens.”  Aurora ( Guido Reni ).  His twin sister was Diana, 
    
goddess

     of the moon. She drove her silver car at night wh
  
    ght when Apollo had gone to rest in the western sky. She was also the 
    
goddess

     of hunting; and, in the daytime, she wandered thr
  
     and corals and shells. I must not forget to tell you of Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and of war. The owl was her favorite bi
  
    hter of Ceres to live with him in his underground home. Ceres was the 
    
goddess

     of the earth, and the people looked to her for bo
  
    utiful island of Sicily. Long, long ago, there lived on this island a 
    
goddess

     named Ceres. She had power to make the earth yiel
  
    h only shadows to talk to. Often and often, he had tried to urge some 
    
goddess

     to come and share his gloomy throne; but not the 
  
    up toward it, she saw Juno standing before her. With harsh words, the 
    
goddess

     ordered the poor mother to leave the island at on
  
    of the sun and of music, and Diana, his beautiful twin sister, is the 
    
goddess

     of the moon. So much did they honor their mother 
  
    she was only a humble girl, she was far greater in her skill than the 
    
goddess

     Minerva. Minerva, you remember, was the goddess o
  
    in her skill than the goddess Minerva. Minerva, you remember, was the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom and of war; but in her spare moments sh
  
    asked Minerva to enter into a trial of skill. Without more words, the 
    
goddess

     and the humble girl took their stand, each before
  
    olish and wrong she had been. It was too late now for repentance. The 
    
goddess

     seized the beautiful web, and tore it into shreds
  
      The story I am going to tell you is of that beautiful maiden Diana, 
    
goddess

     of the moon and of the chase. Every evening, when
  
    now he tried to speak, and found he could not utter a word. The angry 
    
goddess

     had changed his form into that of a deer, the ani
  
    hat last fierce struggle, one of the bull’s horns was broken off. The 
    
goddess

     of plenty, or Fortune, as she is sometimes called
  
    uld surely have been drowned, had he not been rescued by Minerva, the 
    
goddess

     of wisdom, who loved him because he was so skillf
  
     of the great festival of Venus was at hand. Venus, you know, was the 
    
goddess

     of love, and once a year, the youths and maidens 
  
    dens of Cyprus had a great celebration in her honor.   18. “The great 
    
goddess

     of love.”  Venus de Milo (Louvre, Paris).  On thi
  
     As he stood there, he began to pray. He prayed that Venus, the great 
    
goddess

     of love, would take pity on him; and since he cou
  
    down again. Among the ancient people, this was a sign that the god or 
    
goddess

     appealed to had heard the prayer, and would speed
  
    eat kindness to him, he and Galatea were married in the temple of the 
    
goddess

    , at the altar where Pygmalion first offered up hi

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