Ixion, in Greek legend, son either of the god Ares or of Phlegyas, king of the Lapiths in Thessaly. He murdered his father-in-law. Ixion abused his pardon by trying to seduce Zeus's wife, Hera. Ixion was condemned to torment on a burning wheel for all eternity.
Iambe (Greek: Ἰάμβη) in Greek mythology The extravagant hilarity displayed at the festivals of Demeter in Attica was traced to her, for it is said that when Demeter, in her wanderings in search of her daughter, arrived in Attica, Iambe cheered the mournful goddess with her jokes
Astarte, goddess of war and in lesser manner sexual love. In Egypt she was thought of as an especially powerful warrior goddess and was also associated with the most powerful war machine of the time: the horse and chariot.
Hypnos was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. He lived in a cave next to his twin brother, Thanatos, in the underworld, where no light was cast by the sun or the moon; the earth in front of the cave was full of poppies and other sleep-inducing plants.
Cerberus, in Greek mythology, the monstrous watchdog of the underworld. He was usually said to have three heads and heads of snakes grew from his back, and he had a serpent's tail.
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Hemera Day(/ˈhɛmərə/; Ancient Greek: Ἡμέρα [hɛːméra] "Day") was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night).
goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means "discord". Eris's Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona.
Anteros was the god of requited love, literally "love returned" or "counter-love" and also the punisher of those who scorn love and the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love. paraventricular nucleus (hypothalamus), magnocellular division
Dijkstra invented an algorithm for finding the shortest path between two points. mMB tracks head angular velocity during turns, and coarsely keeps track of bursts of fast and slow speed. These are chained together to find paths.
Hathor was often depicted as a cow, symbolizing her maternal and celestial aspect, although her most common form was a woman wearing a headdress of cow horns and a sun disk.TIDA controls lactation during motherhood. Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, a cow from whose udders flowed milk
DEMETER was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty. She presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife in the realm of Elysium.
Herodotus was a Greek Historian from Ionia. He is most notably known for his writing of The Histories. The first six books deals with the growth of the Persian Empire under the rulers of Croesus and later Cyrus the Great .
Dyad is a title used by the Pythagoreans for the number two, representing the principle of "twoness" or "otherness". Numenius of Apamea, a Neopythagorean philosopher in the latter 2nd century CE, said that Pythagoras gave the name of Monad to God, and the name of Dyad to matter.
Bastet, also called Bast, ancient Egyptian goddess worshiped in the form of a lioness and later a cat. The daughter of Re, the sun god, Bastet was an ancient deity whose ferocious nature was ameliorated after the domestication of the cat around 1500 bce.
Flidais is a female figure in Irish Mythology, known by the epithet Foltchaín ("beautiful hair"). She is believed to have been a goddess of cattle and fertility.
Beowulf was the first hero of western literature. Typical, epic heroes are honest, hard-working, loyal, brave, of noble birth, and probably good-looking, too. Beowulf has all these qualities.
Apollo was a god in Greek mythology, and one of the Twelve Olympians. He was the god of healing, medicine and archery, and of music and poetry. He was the leader of the Muses.
Hera (Roman name: Juno), wife of Zeus and queen of the ancient Greek gods, represented the ideal woman and was goddess of marriage and the family.
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404-323 BCE) was a Greek Cynic philosopher best known for holding a lantern (or candle) to the faces of the citizens of Athens claiming he was searching for an honest man.
AIDOS (Aedos) was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of modesty, shame, reverence and respect. ... As a quality Aidos was the feeling of shame which restrains men from doing wrong.
HIMEROS was the god of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of love. ... Himeros was depicted as winged youth or child. He often appears alongside Eros in scenes of Aphrodite's birth, fluttering around the goddess as she reclines in her conch-shell bed.
Cernnunos was the shaggy Celtic god who defended the forest. Right amygdala reacts to threats to self and affronts to conservative values.
Brigid was a goddess of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She was a daughter of the chief of the gods, The Dagda, and was known as a goddess of healers, poets, smiths, childbirth and inspiration. Her name means "exalted one".
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