Selene was the ancient Greek Titan goddess of the moon. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a rai
"Far-shooting (iokheaira) Artemis ranges the mountainside--on lofty Taygetos, it may be, or it may be on Erymanthos--taking her pleasure among the boars and the running deer; Nymphai of the countryside (agronomoi), daughters of Zeus who holds the aigis, are all around her and share...
. are holy to Isis." Note: the Hathor Head-dress, consisting of a disc between two cow's horns, is frequently found on later representations of Isis. (Plutarch) on Isis: "Of the plants in Egypt they say that the persea is especially hallowed to the goddess, because its fruit resembles...
[Temples of Hierapolis, particularly the temple of Atargatis, as the best] 10 Of all these temples, and they are numerous indeed, none seems to me greater than those found in the sacred city. No shrine seems to me more holy, no region more hallowed. They posses...
Domesticity, imperialism, and emigration in the Victorian novel But would any hearth do as long as it was hallowed by the presence of a domestic goddess, or was this Victorian definition of home more discriminating... DC Archibald - 《Dickens Quarterly》 被引量: 8发表: 2002年 加载更多来源...
"Iris, in her thousand hues enrobed traced through the sky her arching bow . . . Iris entered, and the bright sudden radiance of her robe lit up the hallowed place . . . Iris departed, and fled away back o'er the arching rainbow as she came." ...