Just after he was born, he was thrown from the top of Mount Olympus, but he was not killed in the fall. What is Hephaestus the god of? Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmithing, fire, volcanoes, and forges. According to some myths, he also had the power to create people and to...
The difficulty in seeing it notwithstanding, Mercury was known at least bySumeriantimes, some 5,000 years ago. InClassical Greeceit was calledApollowhen it appeared as a morning star just before sunrise andHermes, the Greek equivalent of the Roman godMercury, when it appeared as an evening st...
Demeter: goddess of agriculture Her relation to the god Zeus also makes her the aunt of other gods like Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, and Dionysus. She is considered to be one of the most powerful and important of the deities in the Greek pantheon and one to be regularly ...
The worship of the Greek goddess Aphrodite has its roots in the veneration of Atargatis. Born of the sea, and venerated as the goddess of the sea, Aphrodite was accompanied by Tritons and is associated with the myth of the two fish (Pisces). This connection stems from a Greek myth involv...
Diana’s devotees believed she could communicate with woodland animals. They also believed Diana could control the movements and behavior of animals. RELATION TO OTHER GODS Diana was the daughter of Jupiter, the god-king, and Latona, an ancientTitan. Apollo, the god of wisdom, rationality, and...
Orpheus, ancient Greek legendary hero endowed with superhuman musical skills. His singing and playing were so beautiful that animals and even trees and rocks moved about him in dance. He became the patron of a religious movement based on sacred writings
atogether we will partake in the melding of music and medicine that have been conjoined since the Greek god Zeus appointed his son Apollo as God of both 我们在合并将一起参加音乐和医学被连接,自从希腊神宙斯任命了他的儿子阿波罗作为上帝两个[translate] ...
The Greek God, Hermes, is often depicted with the cadaceous. (Image credit: Getty) Another, earlier depiction of the medical symbol is the staff of Asclepius, though it has no wings and only one snake. The son of Apollo and the human princess Coronis, Asclepius is the Greek demigod of ...
This symbol also has roots in Greek mythology as the symbol of Mercury or a messenger. However, as a symbol, it had mystical powers to soothe the suffering of those dying. There is also a connection with Apollo, who gave a Caduceus to his step brother, Hermes, as a token of friendship...
Constantine personally claimed to see an apparition of the sun god Sol in a grove of Apollo in Gaul two years before in 310 (discussed in Rodgers, Barbara S. “Constantine’s Pagan Vision, ”Byzantion, vol. 50, 1980, pp. 259–78)--and he continued with sun-god worship the rest of ...