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Eirene was particularly well regarded by the citizens of Athens. After a naval victory over Sparta in 375 BC, the Athenians established a cult for Peace, erecting altars to her. They held an annual state sacrifice to her after 371 BC to commemorate the Common Peace of that year and set up a votive statue in her honour in the Agora of Athens.
"Yngvi-Freyr builds the Uppsala temple" (1830) by Hugo Hamilton.. Old Norse Yngvi, Old High German Ing/Ingwi [1] and Old English Ing are names that relate to a theonym which appears to have been the older name for the god Freyr.
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The same or a different goddess may have been a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite. Eirene (Εἰρήνη. "Peace", her Roman equivalent was Pax) was the personification of peace and wealth, and was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, scepter, and a torch or rhyton.
'righteousness, justice'), is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules. According to Hesiod (Theogony, l. 901), she was fathered by Zeus upon his second consort, Themis. She and her ...
Peace goddesses (5 C, 15 P) Peace gods (2 C, 13 P) This page was last edited on 3 September 2021, at 02:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Goddess Thần Mặt Trời, [39] the embodiment of the sun, the daughter of Ông Trời, old sister of Thần Mặt Trăng, she and her sister have a husband who is a bear, when the Bear God wants to meet them, a solar or lunar eclipse will appear.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.