THE ALGEA were the personified spirits (daimones) of pain and suffering--body and mind--, grief, sorrow and distress. They were the bringers of weeping and tears. The Algea were related to Oizys, the milder spirit of misery and sadness, and Penthos, the god of mourning and lamentation. ...
Dionysus was the greek god of wine, ecstacy and love. He was so charismatic that women left their homes to revel in the woods with him. He symbolizes the perpetual youth who never wants to grow up.
"[Alkmena (Alcmena), the mother of Herakles (Heracles), tells the story of her son's birth :] May the gods favour you when your time comes, with no long painful waiting when you call on Ilithyia, who attends the pangs and fears of labour. To myself she was by Juno's [Hera's]...
The god of the Underworld WhenHadesfirst took overErebos, he became gloomy and decided to do some redecorating. He added five rivers: the depressingRiver Cocytus, the fieryRiver Phlegethon, the painfulRiver Acheron, the forgetfulRiver Lethe, and the hatefulRiver Styx. ADaimonson of Nyx namedCharo...
a beuatiful shield for her son Achilles, a shield predestined to bring its bearer death. It was the last futile effort of Thetis; soon Achilles died. Hephaestus is said to have lusted after Athena, another crafts person; and in some versions of Mount Olympus, he was the husband ofAphrodite...
He taught that the root of all human neurosis is death denial, and the tendency for human beings to assume that death will be horrific and painful, which he claimed causes unnecessary anxiety, selfish self-protective behaviors, and hypocrisy. According to Epicurus, death is the end of both ...
s identity. This kind of soul was not associated with any specific body part. It was silent during active life but appeared in the dreams during sleeping, left the body during swoons and abandoned the corpse when a person died. At the moment of death, the psyche fled away from the...
Freud claimed that all life has the goal of death, and this instinct is occasionally more powerful than the pleasure principle, supporting one's ego. The reason why Thanatos supports an individual's ego is that it may be more appealing in certain cases to test this instinct and come back ...
So many possessed, anarchists and seduced ones! I see what awaits us, and it’s painful for me. The bitter taste of human pain is in my mouth. * * * The spirit of lukewarmness reigns. There’s no manliness at all! We’ve been spoiled for good! How does God s...
"And Nyx bare hateful Moros (Doom of Death) and black Ker (Fate of Death) and Thanatos (Thanatus, Death), and she bare Hypnos (Hypnus, Sleep) and the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams). And again the goddess murky Nyx, though she lay with none, bare Momos (Momus, Criticism) and painful Oi...