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In this account, Aura is the nymph daughter of the Titan Lelantos. [15] Nonnus seems to imply that Aura's mother was the wife of Lenatos, the Oceanid nymph Periboia, [16] although elsewhere, he calls Aura the "daughter of Cybele". [17] Aura was a resident of Phrygia and companion of the goddess Artemis. She was "Aura the Windmaid", as fast as ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Aura most commonly refers to: Aura (paranormal), a purported field of luminous multi-colored radiation around a person or object Aura (symptom), a symptom experienced before a migraine or seizure Halo (religious iconography), glory, or aureola, a ring of light that surrounds a person in ...
Lelantos is the Titan father of the nymph Aura ("Breeze"), [1] who was a hunting companion of Artemis and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries. [2]
Dionysus rapes Aura as she sleeps; when she awakes she goes mad and slaughters shepherds and destroys a shrine of Aphrodite. Artemis mocks the pregnant Aura as Nicaea helps her give birth to the twins after whom Mt. Dindymon is named. Aura tries to get a lion to eat the children, but they are saved and she is transformed into a spring.
While a singular aura was a common attribute of deities, seven auras are for the most part exclusively attested in connection to Humbaba, though an exception, the tablet CBS 7972 (STVC 40) + N 3718, a fragment of a hymn dedicated to Nergal, has been identified and subsequently published by Jeremiah Peterson in 2008. [31]
Nemesis promised to the goddess that Aura would have her punishment, and that the punishment would be to lose the virginity she took such pride in. Nemesis then contacted Eros, the god of love, and he struck Dionysus with one of his arrows. Dionysus fell madly in love with Aura, and when she rebuffed his advances, he got her drunk, tied her up ...
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According to spiritual beliefs, an aura or energy field is a colored emanation said to enclose a human body or any animal or object. [1] In some esoteric positions, the aura is described as a subtle body. [2] Psychics and holistic medicine practitioners often claim to have the ability to see the size, color and type of vibration of an aura. [3]