Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia - Aphrodite
Aphrodite (World Book «AF roh DY tee») (Αφροδίτη, "risen from sea-foam") is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia Ii - Aphrodite - Birth
"Foam-arisen" Aphrodite was born of the sea foam near Paphos, Cyprus after Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and the elder god's blood and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia Ii - Aphrodite - Worship
The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia (Virgil I, 7...   » Read the article

Article - Wiccan Holidays: March 21 - Vernal Equinox - Lady Day
March 21 - Vernal Equinox - Lady Day As Spring reaches its midpoint, night and day stand in perfect balance, with light on the increase...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hephaestus: Encyclopedia - Hephaestus
Hephaestus (World Book «hih FEHS tuhs») (Greek: Ἡφαιστος Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moirae: Encyclopedia - Moirae
In Greek mythology, the white-robed Moirae or Moerae (Greek Μοίραι — the "Apportioners", often called the Fates) were the personi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia - Adonis
Adonis, an annual vegetation life-death-rebirth deity, imported from Syrian into Greek mythology, always retained aspects of his Semitic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve Olympians: Encyclopedia - Twelve Olympians
The Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon (Greek: δωδεκα, dodeka, "twelve" + θεον, theon, "of the gods"), in Greek re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apelles: Encyclopedia - Apelles
Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (gnostic). "Apelles" was also a pseudonym used by the Jesui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brauron: Encyclopedia - Brauron
Brauron (Greek, Ancient: Βραυρών, Modern: Βραυρώνα Vravrona or Vravronas) is an early sanctuary site on the east coast of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umbilicus: Encyclopedia - Umbilicus
The umbilicus (commonly called a navel, or belly button), is essentially a scar caused at birth by the removal of the umbilical cord from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atalanta: Encyclopedia - Atalanta
Atalanta ("balanced") is a character from ancient Greek mythology. She was from the Arcadia region of Greece, a daughter of Iasus or Scho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Venus De Milo: Encyclopedia - Venus De Milo
The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek sculpture. It is believed to depict Aphro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theotokos: Encyclopedia - Theotokos
Theotokos (Greek Θεοτόκος) is a title of Mary, the mother of Jesus. This term is used especially in the Orthodox Church and relat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leto: Encyclopedia - Leto
Asclepius, god of medicine Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis Pan, shepherd god Nymphs Anatolian deities In Greek mythology Lētō' (G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karl Kerényi: Encyclopedia - Karl Kerényi
One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 - April 14, 1973) was born in T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia - Hermes
Hermēs (pronounced HUR-mees; Greek: Έρμης: "pile of marker stones"), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the trave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hestia: Encyclopedia - Hestia
In Greek mythology, virginal Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family, who received the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanchuniathon: Encyclopedia - Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon or Sanchoniathon or Sanchoniatho is the purported Phoenician author of three lost works originally in Phoenician, surviving...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sramana: Encyclopedia - Sramana
A Sramana (Sramati tapasyatiti Sramanah) is one who performs acts of mortification or austerity. According to the definition, a being is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyprus: Encyclopedia - Cyprus
2. The north has a separate president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). 3. Not recognised by Turkey, which instead recog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia - Helen
Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology
Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ichthys: Encyclopedia - Ichthys
Ichthys (Greek: ἰχθύς; also transliterated and latinized as ichthus, icthus, or ikhthus), is the Greek word for "fish." It refers t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia - Hera
In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hêra (World Book «HIHR uh») (Greek Ἥρα or Ἥρη) was the wife and sister ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ishtar: Encyclopedia - Ishtar
4 primary: An Enlil Ki Enki 3 sky: Ishtar Sin Sama Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate north...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cronus: Encyclopedia - Cronus
In Greek mythology, Cronus (of obscure etymology, perhaps related to "horned"), pronounced: kroh'-nuhs , also spelled Cronos or Kronos, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia - Hercules
Hercules (also known as Alcides) was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the Roman name being a metath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia Ii - Adonis - Birth Of Adonis
Adonis' birth is shrouded in confusion for those who require a single, authoritative version. The resolutely patriarchal Hellenes sought ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adonis: Encyclopedia Ii - Adonis - Life Of Adonis
Adonis' birth is shrouded in confusion for those who require a single, authoritative version. The resolutely patriarchal Hellenes sought ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Artemis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Artemis
Artemis (Greek) Greek divinity, commonly identified with the Roman Diana, daughter of Leto and Zeus, twin of Apollo. Goddess of chasti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mother Goddess: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Mother Goddess
MOTHER GODDESS - 1. natural mother of all things or mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermanubis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermanubis
Hermaphrodite (from Greek Hermes + Aphrodite)   The form and typical nature of both the god and goddess in one individual. Androg...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermaphrodite: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite (from Greek Hermes + Aphrodite)   The form and typical nature of both the god and goddess in one individual. Androg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - Phaedra And Hippolytus
Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus's son by Hippolyte. According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes - Hermēs' Offspring
Hermes - Abderus. Abderus was a son of Hermes who was devoured by the Mares of Diomedes. He had gone to the Mares with his friend, Hera...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Apollo During The Trojan War
Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in rage because the Greeks had kidnapped Chry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Apollo During The Trojan War
Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in rage because the Greeks had kidnapped Chry...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Songs Over Fifteen Minutes In Length: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Songs Over Fifteen Minutes In Length - T
List of songs over fifteen minutes in length - Nobukazu Takemura. (17:05) "A Chrysalis" in Hoshi No Koe (2001) by Nobukazu Takemura ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apelles: Encyclopedia Ii - Apelles - Works
Apelles' paintings (none of which survive) include: Alexander wielding a thunderbolt, one of the many he did of both Alexander and his f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Venus Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Venus Mythology - Venus In Other Mythologies
In addition to Turan and Aphrodite, other figures possibly corresponding to Venus are: Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli in Aztec mythology Kukulcan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theotokos: Encyclopedia Ii - Theotokos - Theology
The expression "Mother of God" or "Birth-giver of God" should not be understood in the eternal sense; that is, Mary is not understood as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nyx: Encyclopedia Ii - Nyx - Nyx In Hesiod
In Hesiod's Theogony, Night is born of Chaos; her offspring are many, and telling. With her brother Erebus, Night gives birth to Aether (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera And Children
Hera liked to eat cows. Hera presides over the right arrangements of the marriage and is the archetype of the union in the marriage bed, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paris Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Paris Mythology - Paris' Childhood
Paris was the child of Priam and Hecuba; just before his birth, his mother dreamed that she brought forth a bundle of flaming sticks, fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umbilicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Umbilicus - Human Anatomy
The umbilicus is an important landmark on the abdomen, since its position is relatively consistent among humans. The skin around the wais...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umbilicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Umbilicus - Mollusks
In mollusks, the umbilicus of a shell is the axially aligned hollow cone within the whorls of a coiled gastropod shell, where no columell...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paris Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Paris Mythology - Paris And The Trojan War
Paris is portrayed throughout the Iliad as a cowardly character; in a duel between him and Menelaus, he is narrowly saved by Aphrodite. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes - Birth
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia to Maia. As the story is told in the Homeric Hymn, the Hymn to Hermes, Maia was a nymph, but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen - Helen In Greek Mythology
Helen - Birth. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Cast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umbilicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Umbilicus - Fashion
Fashion sometimes exploits the navel through clothing that leaves part of the lower abdomen bare, and is much more common for women than ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Umbilicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Umbilicus - Fashion
Fashion sometimes exploits the navel through clothing that leaves part of the lower abdomen (i.e. the midriff) bare, and is much more com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Dionysus In Neopaganism
Modern Neopagans view Dionysus in different lights, depending largely on the individual sects and the other gods worshipped by a sect. Di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apelles: Encyclopedia Ii - Apelles - Biography
Probably born at Colophon in Ionia, he first studied under Ephorus of Ephesus, but after he had attained some celebrity he became a stude...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy - Legendary Troy
The story of the Trojans first began in myth and legend. According to Greek mythology, the Trojans were the ancient citizens of the city ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hathor: Encyclopedia Ii - Hathor - The Divine Waterway
In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for house of Horus) was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achilles: Encyclopedia Ii - Achilles - Birth
Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Phthia (southeast Thessaly), and the sea nymph Thetis. Zeus and Posei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyprus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyprus - History
Cyprus - Prehistoric and Ancient Cyprus. Main article: Cyprus (Prehistory), Ancient history of Cyprus There are but scanty traces of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Birth
Dionysus had an unusual birth that evokes the difficulty in fitting him into the Olympian pantheon. His mother was Semele (daughter of Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaia Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaia Mythology - In Greek Mythology
Hesiod's Theogony (116ff) tells how, after Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus. She brough...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - Birth And The Six Labours Of Theseus
Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens, in Aethra, daughter of Troezen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Etymology And Pre-history
Unlike some Greek gods, such as Zeus and Poseidon, Hera's name is not analyzable as a Greek or Indo-European word. She therefore seems to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ichthys: Encyclopedia Ii - Ichthys - Other Symbolism Associated With The Fish
The constellation Pisces comprises a set of dim and scattered stars that trace the images of two widely separated fish joined by a knotte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Other Stories
When Hephaestus bound Hera to a magical chair, Dionysus got him drunk and brought him back to Olympus after he had passed out. For this a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Later Life
His victory in 312 over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge resulted in his becoming Western Augustus, or ruler of the entire Weste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sramana: Encyclopedia Ii - Sramana - Sramanas In Western Litterature
Sramana - Nicolaus of Damascus c.10 CE. Nicolaus of Damascus is famous for his account of an embassy sent by an Indian king "named Pand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ichthys: Encyclopedia Ii - Ichthys - Origins
This symbol has origins predating Christianity, relating to fertility, female genitalia, and fish, but today is primarily associated with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cronus: Encyclopedia Ii - Cronus - In Greek Mythology And Early Myths
In ancient Greek myths, Cronus envied the power of his father and the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ichthys: Encyclopedia Ii - Ichthys - Origins
This symbol has origins predating Christianity, relating to fertility, female genitalia, and fish, but today is primarily associated with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera's Jealousies
Hera - Echo. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leto: Encyclopedia Ii - Leto - Birth Of Artemis And Apollo
When Hera, the most conservative of goddesses — for she had the most to lose in changes to the order of nature — discovered that Leto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Hera The Nemesis Of Heracles
Hera was the enemy of Heracles, the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece (Ruck and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Modern Interpretations
In his book The Birth of Tragedy, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Early Life
Constantine was born at Naissus,(today's Niš, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro) in Upper Moesia, to Constantius I Chlorus, and his first wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Apollo And The Birth Of Hermes
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. His mother, Maia, had been secretly impregn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Early Life
Constantine was born at Naissus, (today's Niš, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro) in Upper Moesia to Greek general,Constantius I Chlorus, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apollo: Encyclopedia Ii - Apollo - Apollo And The Birth Of Hermes
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. His mother, Maia, had been secretly impregn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - An Overview
The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology is incredibly far-reaching. Events ranging from the atrocities of the early gods to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hathor: Encyclopedia Ii - Hathor - Goddess Of Motherhood
As a provider of milk, and due to cows careful tending of their calves, the cow was a universal symbol of motherhood, and so Hathor becam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Childhood
The legend goes that Zeus took the infant Dionysus and gave him in charge to the rain-nymphs of Nysa, who nourished his infancy and child...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Midas
Once, Dionysus found his old school master and foster father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and had wandered away drun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Constantine's Legal Standards
Constantine's laws in many ways improved those of his predecessors, though they also reflect his more violent age. Some examples: For th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Constantine's Courts And Appointees
Constantine respected cultivation and Christianity, and his court was composed of older, respected, and honored men. Leading Roman famili...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse: Encyclopedia Ii - Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse - Horses And Their Riders
In summary, the horses and their riders as described in the Bible are as follows: It should be noted that, while the rider of the white h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy Film - Deviations From Homer's Version Of The Myth
It would be difficult to give a fair assessment as to the historical accuracy of the film; there is very little if any "historical" accur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In Ugarit And Among The Canaanites
For the Canaanites, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of mankind and all creatures. He may have been a desert god at some point as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zeus: Encyclopedia Ii - Zeus - Zeus In Myth
Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homer: Encyclopedia Ii - Homer - Ancient Accounts Of Homer
Of the date of Homer probably no record, real or pretended, ever existed. Herodotus (2.53) maintains that Hesiod and Homer lived not more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homer: Encyclopedia Ii - Homer - Ancient Accounts Of Homer
Of the date of Homer probably no record, real or pretended, ever existed. Herodotus (2.53) maintains that Hesiod and Homer lived not more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Cult
Hera was especially worshipped, as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia), at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hera: Encyclopedia Ii - Hera - Other Stories Involving Hera
Hera - Cydippe. Cydippe, a priestess of Hera, was on her way to a festival in the goddess' honor. The oxen which was to pull her cart w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hercules: Encyclopedia Ii - Hercules - The Greek Legend Of Heracles
Heracles was born in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus (who took the guise of her husband Amphitryon). Heracles was conceived ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysus - Parallels With Christianity
It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between the legends of Diony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Constantine's Legacy
Although he earned his honorific of "The Great" from Christian historians long after he had died, he could have claimed the title on his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Constantine And Christianity
Constantine is perhaps best known for being the first Roman Emperor to freely allow Christianity. Christian historians ever since Lactant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantine I Emperor: Encyclopedia Ii - Constantine I Emperor - Constantine's Life And Actions After The Edict Of Milan
Coins struck for emperors often reveal details of their personal iconography. During the early part of Constantine's rule, representation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphrodite: Encyclopedia Ii - Aphrodite - Adulthood
Aphrodite, in many of the myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is one of the few g...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Sitemap I - A
This is a sitemap for Spiritual - A . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.  ...   » Read the article