Category: Greek Mythology

Thyone – Lady of Inspired Frenzy; Ecstatically Raging ORIGIN: Greece Thyone is the goddess who presides over the Dionysian Mysteries, known in Rome as the…

Titans (lords, rulers) In Greek mythology, primeval gigantic beings; children of Uranus and Gaea. Their number varies, though 12 are generally named, coinciding with the…

Selene (moon) : In Greek mythology, ancient moon goddess; daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia; sister of Helios and Eos. Selene was a beautiful…

Hecuba (Hekabe) (moving far off) is in Greek mythology the second wife of King Priam of Troy, mother of 19 of his 50 sons and…

PANDORA : ALL GIVING; RICH IN GIFTS Has any goddess ever been more defamed than Pandora? Hesiod’s version of her myth is so famous and…

Triton ORIGIN: Greece Triton, the son of Amphitrite and Poseidon. lives at the bottom of the sea in his mother’s golden palace. Triton is a…

Semele In Greek mythology, daughter of Cadmus, king of Thebes, and Harmonia, mother of Dionysus by Zeus. Zeus fell in love with Semele and often…

Hestia ORIGIN: Greece Hestia is the goddess of hearth fire and the presiding spirit of the home. (Although typically described as a goddess of the…

Hebe Flower of Youth ORIGIN: Greece Hebe is the beautiful daughter of Hera and Zeus, sister of childbirth goddess, Eileithyia. Hebe is the goddess of…

Iphigenia (mothering a strong race) In Greek mythology, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; sister of Electra, Chromythemis, and Orestes. When Agamemnon’s ships were stilled at…