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Personifications in Greek mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. A. Anemoi (1 C, 16 P) E. Eos (3 C, 11 P) Eris ...
Beira, Queen of Winter, also Cailleach Bheur, a personification or deity of winter in Gaelic mythology; Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter.
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In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Moirai (/ ˈ m ɔɪ r aɪ,-r iː /)—often known in English as the Fates—were the personifications of destiny. They were three sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter), and Atropos (the inevitable, a metaphor for death). Their Roman equivalent is the Parcae. [1]
Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...
Deities and other spirits which are anthropomorphic personifications representing various concepts in different cultural mythologies and religious cosmologies. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
In genealogies given by Roman authors, he begets a large progeny of personifications upon Nox (the Roman equivalent of Nyx), while in an Orphic theogony, he is the offspring of Chronos (Time). The name "Erebus" is also used to refer either to the darkness of the Underworld , the Underworld itself, or the region through which souls pass to reach ...