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Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...
Pallantium (Ancient Greek: Παλλάντιον) was an ancient city near the Tiber river on the Italian peninsula. Roman mythology, as recounted in Virgil's Aeneid for example, states that the city was founded in Magna Graecia by Evander of Pallene and other ancient Greeks sometime previous to the Trojan War. [1]
This story about Athena and Pallas inspired a yearly festival in Libya dedicated to the goddess. A passage by Herodotus recounts this custom: [2] "Next to these Machlyes are the Auseans; these and the Machlyes, separated by the Triton, live on the shores of the Tritonian lake. The Machlyes wear their hair long behind, the Auseans in front.
Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, [5] but by at least the time of the late Homeric Hymn, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. [6] Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, [ 7 ] and an Athenian festival called the Pandia (probably held for Zeus [ 8 ] ) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon ...
Thallo (Θαλλώ, from θάλλειν (thallein 'to sprout, grow', esp. fruit trees) [13] or Thalatte was the goddess of spring, buds and blooms, a protector of youth. Auxo (Αὐξώ, from αὐξάνειν ( auxanein , 'to increase') [ 14 ] or Auxesia was worshipped (alongside Hegemone ) in Athens as one of their two Charites , Auxo was the ...
Ovid uses the patronymic "Pallantias" or "Pallantis" as another name for Aurora, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos ("Dawn"), who was the sister of Selene; Ovid apparently regarding Aurora (or Eos) as the daughter of (or otherwise related to) Pallas.
A female Long Island high school student was charged with making a threat of “mass harm” online this week, prompting officers to rush to her campus urgently.
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