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Parentage: Zeus + Hera
Function: Forge, metallurgy
Spouse: Aphrodite, Aglaia
Sanctuary: Lemnos, Athens
Animal: None
Attribute: Foreceps, double axe
Roman Name: Vulcan |
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Parentage: Zeus + Leto
Function: Disease, music, poetry, medicine, prophecy, late sun
Spouse: None
Sanctuary: Delphi, Delos, Didyma
Animal: Raven or crow
Attribute: Lyre, laurel wreath, bow and quiver
Roman Name: Apollo |
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Parentage: Zeus + Metis
Function: Crafts, wisdom, protectress of cities and heroes' civilization
Spouse: None
Sanctuary: Athens
Animal: Owl, snake
Attribute: Armor, helmet, spear
Roman Name: Minerva |
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Parentage: Kronos + Rhea
Function: King of Gods, state, justice, rain, thunder
Spouse: Hera
Sanctuary: Olympia, Dodona
Animal: Eagle
Attribute: thunderbolt, scepter
Roman Name: Jupiter |
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Parentage: Zeus + Maia
Function: Messengers, heralds, merchants, thieves, magic, herdsmen, psychopomos, etc...
Spouse: None
Sanctuary: None
Animal: Ram
Attribute: Caduceus, petasos, winged hat
Roman Name: Mercury |
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Parentage: Kronos + Rhea
Function: Agriculture, cereal crops
Spouse: Poseidon, Zeus
Sanctuary: Eleusis
Animal: None
Attribute: staff of wheat
Roman Name: Ceres
Meaning of Name: "Earth Mother," "barley mother" |
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Parentage: Zeus + Dione or Ouranos' genitals
Function: Love, sex, beauty
Spouse: Hephaistos
Santuary: Paphos, Cythera
Animal: Dove, swan
Attribute: Spindle, cupids
Roman Name: Venus
Meaning of Name: "risen from the foam" |
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Parentage: Hermes + ???
Function: God of sheep and goats
Spouse: Daphnis (boy)
Sanctuary: None
Animal: part man, part goat
Attribute: Wood, pastures, syrinx
Roman Name: Faunus
Meaning of Name: "to pasture" |
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3 Graces: Thalia, Eurphrosyne, Aglaia
Parentage: Zeus + Eurynome
Function: grace, beauty, adornment, mirth, festivity, dance, song
Spouse: Aglaia + Hephaistos
Animal: depicted as young maiden/3 muses
Meaning of Name: Thalia = "Blooming," Eurphrosyne = "Cheerfulness," Aglaia = "Splendor"
Note: From "Charis" (grace) comes "charisma." |
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Parentage: Zeus ordered Hephaistos to mold her out of earth
Function: Punishment for Prometheus' theft of secret of fire (turns those who look at her to stone)
Spouse: Prometheus
Animal: snakes
Attribute: Snakes for hair, Pandora's box
Roman Name: Pandora
Meaning of Name: "gift," "giver of all" |
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Parentage: King Thestius + wife of King Tyndareus
Function: begot Helen of Troy, Castor (mortal) and Polodueces (half-God)
Spouse: seduced by Zeus in guise of swan
Sanctuary: None
Attribute: Swan, Egg
Roman Name: Leda |
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Kalliope - epic poetry
Kleio - history, mathematics
Erato - lyric poetry
Euterpe - woodwinds, esp. flutes
Terpsichore - dance (her name means "delights in dance")
Thaleia (Thalia) - comedy
Melpomene - tragedy
Ourania - astronomy (her name means "heavenly")
Polymnia - hymns, mimes (her name means "she of many hymns") |
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Parentage: Kronos + Rhea
Function: God of sea, fresh water, horses, earthquakes
Spouse: Amphitrite
Sanctuary: Sounion
Animal: Horse, dolphin, bull
Attribute: trident
Roman Name: Neptune
Meaning of Name: "Earthshaker," "owner of water" |
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Parentage: Zeus + Demeter
Function: Goddess of underworld
Spouse: Hades abducted her
Sanctuary: Underworld
Animal: bat
Attribute: pomegranate
Roman Name: Proserpine, Kore |
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Parentage: Zeus + Leto
Function: hunting, animals, disease, childbirth, late moon
Spouse: none
Sanctuary: Ephesos, Delos, Brauron
Animal: Bear, stag
Attribute: bow and quiver, crescent
Roman Name: Diana
Meaning of Name: "safe" |
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Parentage: Zeus + Hera
Function: cupbearer on Mt. Olympus, goddess of youth
Spouse: Herakles
Sanctuary: Ganymeda
Animal: cat
Attribute: goblet
Roman Name: Juventas
Meaning of Name: "goddess of youth" |
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Parentage: Kronos + Rhea
Function: goddess of women, marriage, home
Spouse: Zeus
Sanctuary:
Animal: cuckoo bird, peacock, cows
Attribute: pomegranate, lilies
Roman Name: Juno
Meaning of Name: "Lady; protectress" |
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Parentage: oldest of Kronos + Rhea
Function: God of underworld, air, sea
Spouse: abducted Persephone
Sanctuary: underworld
Animal: skeleton ram's head
Attribute: cornucopia, two-pronged pick-axe
Roman Name: Pluto
Meaning of Name: "rich one," "unseen" |
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Meaning: "Chasm"
-First came Chaos; a void from which the cosmos and Gods emerged |
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Meaning: "Earth" personified
-Second came Gaia; goddess of earth, nature |
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Meaning: "deep place"
-Third came Tartaros; a deity when personified and place below the Underworld. |
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Meaning: "cupid"
-Lastly came Eros; primordial god of sexual love and beauty |
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12 elder gods who ruled earth before Olympians overthrew them.
Names: Oceanus and Tethys, Hyperion and Theia,
Coeus and Phoebe, Cronus and Rhea, Mnemosyne, Themis, Crius, Iapetus |
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Parentage: Uranus + Gaia
Function: presided over memory pool in the Underworld that made dead souls who drank from it remember their past lives
Spouse: mother of 9 Muses by ZEUS
Roman Name: Moneta
Meaning of Name: "memory" |
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Parentage: Atlas + Pleione
Function: mountain goddess along with 6 sisters; oldest, most beautiful, and shiest
Spouse: none; had child by Zeus
Animal: dove
Meaning of Name: "great" |
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Parentage: Hermes + Aprhodite
Function: god of hermaphrodites and effeminate men
Spouse: nymph combined with him
Roman Name: Hermaphroditus
Meaning of Name: combination of Hermes' and Aphrodite's names. |
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Parentage: Oceanus and Tethys
Function: Titan goddess of water-meadows and pastures
Spouse: Zeus, mother of the 3 Charites; Ophion
Meaning of Name: "wide," "broad" |
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Parentage: Zeus + Leda
Function: goddess by parentage, heroine involved in Trojan war
Spouse: Menalaus |
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Parentage:
Function: Titan goddess of water-meadows and pastures
Spouse: Zeus, mother of the 3 Charites
Sanctuary:
Animal: cuckoo bird, peacock, cows
Attribute: pomegranate, lilies
Roman Name: Juno
Meaning of Name: "Lady; protectress" |
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