The girl, unwittingly, asked of Jove a boon unnamed. ‘Choose what you wil,l’ the god replied, ‘There's nothing I'll refuse; and should you doubt, the Power of rushing Styx shall be my witness, the deity whom all gods hold in awe.’ She, too successful, happy in her ruin, ...
This Roman deity was mainly the goddess of wealth and fertility of the earth, in fact the very origin of the name is linked to that meaning of wealth or abundance. Another meaning of the wordopsis to work or plow the land. For this reason he was a very present deity in Roman cults w...
Aphrodite is a major female deity in the Greek Pantheon, she is the goddess and personification of beauty, love, sex, pleasure, passion and procreation and a member of The Twelve Olympians in Greek Mythology. Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love, Beauty and
Meaning: God of the cold north wind Variations/Synonyms: Bringer of winter Description: He’s an Anemoi (wind god) who’s the personification of the north wind. Caerus Origin: Greek Meaning: God of opportunity, favorable moments, and luck Variations/Synonyms: Kairos, Occasio, or Tempus...
misfortune, bad luck - unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major - a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not ...
Eileithyia - (a.k.a. Eileithyiai, Eilithia, Eilythia, Eleuthia, Ilithia, Ilithyia, Lucina) Goddess of childbirth.Eireisone - The deity who embodied the sacred ceremonial olive branch.Electra - (a.k.a. Atlantis) One of the seven Pleiades....
Fortuna was the Roman goddess of luck. Furiae see "Erinys" Gaea Gaea was a Greek goddess of the earth. Galatea In Greek mythology, Galatea was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. She rejected the advances of the Cyclops Polyphemus and instead gave herself to the Sicilian shepherd Acis. ...
She thus becomes a deity of the lower world; but this notion does not occur till the time of the Greek tragedians, though it is generally current among the later writers. She is described in this capacity as a mighty and formidable divinity, ruling over the souls of the departed ; she ...
Ares on Ancient Greek Coins | Mars, his Roman Equivalent Ancient Coins | Virtus, the god of valor, often depicted like Mars or Ares on ancient Roman Coins Nymph the Ancient Greek Deity depicted on Greek and Roman coins Felicitas the Ancient Roman goddess of luck | Fortuna the Ancient Roman...
Finally she put the two together and became the harmonious deity of pouring oil on troubled waters. Harmonia was given unto Cadmus, founder of Thebes, to be his wife. Her wedding present was a dodgy necklace made by Hephaestus which brought bad luck to all in its vicinity. Harmonia didn’...