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Hygieia is a goddess from Greek mythology (also referred to as: Hygiea or Hygeia; / h aɪ ˈ dʒ iː ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὑγιεία or Ὑγεία, Latin: Hygēa or Hygīa). Hygieia is a goddess of health (Greek: ὑγίεια – hugieia [2]), cleanliness and hygiene. Her name is the source for the word "hygiene". Hygieia developed ...
Hygieia was the Greek goddess of health, hygiene, cleanliness, and sanitation, and the daughter of Asclepius, who she is often closely associated with e.g. in prayers and hymns. Asclepius' symbol is his rod, with a snake twined around it; correspondingly, Hygieia's symbol is a cup or chalice with a snake twined around
Airmed, Irish goddess associated with healing and resurrection. Daughter of Dian Cecht and sister of Miach. Alaunus, Gaulish god of the sun, healing and prophecy associated with Greek god Helios-Apollo; Atepomarus, Gaulish healing god associated with the Greek god Apollo; Borvo, Celto-Lusitanian healing god associated with bubbling spring water
Chiron (Χείρων), god of healing (up for debate if it is a god) Darrhon (Δάρρων), Macedonian god of health; Epione (Ἠπιόνη), goddess of the soothing of pain; Hygieia (Ὑγεία), goddess of cleanliness and good health; Iaso (Ἰασώ), goddess of cures, remedies, and modes of healing; Paean (Παιάν), physician of the gods
Goddess of the healing process and curing of sickness. The statue of Akeso, 2nd c. AD, Archaeological Museum, Dion. ... Hygieia, Panacea, and Aegle. [3] Mythology.
Panacea (the goddess of universal health) Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation) Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness) Aceso (the goddess of the healing process) Aegle (the goddess of radiant good health) Panacea also had four brothers:
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Votive relief of Asclepius, Epione and Hygieia. Mid-4th cent. BC, Acropolis Museum, Athens. From the fifth century BC onwards, [36] the cult of Asclepius grew very popular and pilgrims flocked to his healing temples to be cured of their ills. Ritual purification would be followed by offerings or sacrifices to the god (according to means), and ...