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In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura (Ancient Greek: Αὔρα, romanized: Aúra, lit. 'breeze' pronounced, or Αὔρη pronounced) is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". [1] The plural form, Aurae (Ancient Greek: Αὔραι) is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs.
The term derives from Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος, [6] from οὐρά oura 'tail' plus -βορός-boros '-eating'. [7] [8]The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth; the snake's skin-sloughing symbolises the transmigration of souls.
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]
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 ...
This, by what the OED calls a "strange blunder", derived the word from the Latin aura as a diminutive, and also defined it as meaning a halo or glory covering the whole body, whilst saying that "nimbus" referred only to a halo around the head. This, according to the OED, reversed the historical usage of both words, but whilst Didron's diktat ...
In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus (Ancient Greek: Ζέφυρος, romanized: Zéphuros, lit. 'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi.
In Greek mythology, the name Periboea (/ ˌ p ɛ r ɪ ˈ b iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Περίβοια "surrounded by cattle" derived from peri "around" and boes "cattle") refers to multiple figures: Periboea, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] She was the mother of Aura by ...
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, sg. Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.