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Greek goddesses (28 C, 188 P) H. Women of Hades (1 C, 3 P) ... Pages in category "Women in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
The goddess of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity. Χάος (Kháos) Chaos: The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang. Depicted as a void. Initially genderless, later on described as female. Χρόνος (Khrónos) Chronos: The god of empirical time, sometimes equated with Aion.
Toggle Greek mythology subsection. 21.1 Cappadocian. 21.2 Cretan. 21.3 Minoan. ... This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender.
In Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion, Mnemosyne (/ n ɪ ˈ m ɒ z ɪ n iː, n ɪ ˈ m ɒ s ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μνημοσύνη, pronounced [mnɛːmosýːnɛː]) is the goddess of memory and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus.
The Greek word mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means 'art' or 'poetry'. According to Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is 'to excel in the arts'. The word derives from the Indo-European root *men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne and mania, English mind, mental and monitor, Sanskrit mantra and Avestan ...
In Greek mythology, Calypso (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ, romanized: Kalupsō, lit. 'she who conceals') [1] was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will. She promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but ...
Eris (mythology) (4 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Trickster goddesses" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Satyress is the female equivalent to satyrs. They are entirely an invention of post-Roman European artists, as the Greek satyrs were exclusively male and the closest there was to female counterparts were the nymphs , altogether different creatures who, however, were nature spirits or deities like the satyrs.