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    Deity Meanings

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    The Realms and Meanings of Some Popular Deities
    By: Keitha (FireWind)
    From: The Glass Temple

    Note: This is not an inclusive list, and most are my own interpretations; they might not be yours.

    Goddesses

    APHRODITE: Love, passion, sex, beauty
    ARACHNE: Weaving, high ambitions
    ARTEMIS: The huntress, the moon, women's mysteries, Patron of Witchcraft, healing, unrequited love, inner strength, virginity.
    ATHENA: Wisdom, strategy, warfare, government, virginity, bounty, the Olive Tree, weaving, strength.
    ATLANTA: Marriage, strength, unpaid debts.
    BELLONA: Victory, war.
    BRIGIT: Motherhood, the Earth, fires, poetry, Knowledge, smithcraft?
    CALLISTO: Motherhood, strength.
    CIRCE: Magic, enchantress, Witchcraft.
    CLYTIE: Unrequited love.
    DEMETER: The Earth, Mother, grain, crops, fertility, farmers.
    EOS: The dawn, morning, young people, new beginnings.
    EUMEIDES: Justice, fate.
    FATES: Fate, life, death, the path of life.
    FLORA: Spring, flowers.
    FORTUNA: Fortune, luck, fate, change.
    FREYA: Love, flowers, music, beauty, sexual love.
    FRIGG: Knowledge, wisdom.
    GAIA: Mother Earth, bounty, fertility, defense of children.
    HECATE: Queen of the Witches, night, inner strength, women's mysteries.
    HEL: Death, endings.
    HERA: Marriage, jealousy, inner strength, beauty.
    IRIS: Rainbows, flowers, sadness.
    KORE/PERSEPHONE: Spring, death, beginnings, endings, youth & age, innocence and self-possession.
    MARPESSA: True Love.
    MNEMOSYNE: Memory, strength.
    MORRIGU: Death, suffering, anything horrible, darkness, carrion.
    MUSES: Inspiration, creativity, great works of art.
    NAT: The night.
    NORNS: The Fates.
    PANDORA: Beauty, grace, innocence, hidden gifts, misfortune.
    POMONA: Fruit trees, apple trees, the Pentacle.
    RHEA: Motherhood.
    SIRENS: Women as dangerous, beauty, solitude, temptress.
    SYRINX: 'The pursued woman'.
    THISBE: True love, unhappy endings.
    VALKYRIES: Death, endings, glory, happy endings.
    VESTA: Fire, virginity, purity, life, knowledge.
    VICTORIA: Victory.

    Gods

    ADONIS: Sexual Passion, change
    AESCULAPIUS: Healing, Protection
    ANGUS: Love
    APOLLO: Music, healing, protection, scrying, men's mysteries, victory, poetry, fun.
    ARES: Victory in Battle, sexual lust, protection from enemies, anger
    ATLAS: inner strength, determination
    BALDER: innocence, happiness, spring, wisdom, knowledge, inspiration.
    BALOR: victory, protection, age, wisdom
    BAUCIS: hospitality, friendship
    BRAN: music, poetry, inspiration, endings, reputation
    CERNUNNOS: Fertility
    CHIRON: wisdom, inspiration, music, hunting, healing, protection, scrying, divination
    CRONUS: fear, strength, death, inevitability, time, the old giving way to the new
    DAEDALUS: Inspiration, victory through thinking, creativity
    DAGDA: Family, men's mysteries, the turning wheel, heritage, leadership
    DIONYSYS: Alcohol, partying, overendulgence, justice, peace, 'the original hippie'.
    EPIMETHEUS: Figuring out the past, acting without judgement
    EROS: Love, anguish through love, justice, 'doing what must be done', 'waiting until the right time'.
    FIONN MACCUMHAL: wisdom, foresight, leadership.
    FREY: fertility, wealth.
    HEPHAESTUS: smithcraft, anything mechanical, fires, the beauty within, bad temper
    HERAKLES: dealing with guilt, inner strength, finishing a task, determination
    HERMES: News, gossip, messages, theft, public speeches, trickster, sports, money, business, contracts, men's mysteries, wealth.
    HYMEN: Marriage, sex, virginity.
    HYPNOS: sleep, rest, meditation.
    JANUS: Foresight, hindsight, beginnings, access.
    MANANNAN: trickster,
    MIDAS: Greed, keeping secrets, things 'too good to be true', the fool.
    MORPHEUS: Dreams.
    NARCISSUS: Arrogance, just desserts, self involvement.
    ODIN: Wisdom, leadership, strength, knowledge, manners, poetry, battle.
    PAN: Fertility, solitude, unreasoned fear, rustic music, sexuality, simple joy
    PHAETHON: Adopted children, hard challenges, foolhardiness
    PLUTO: Death, endings, loneliness
    PROMETHEUS: Forethought, planning for future, knowledge, undeserved suffering, relief from grief.
    PROTEUS: Prophesy, divination, truth.
    TERMINUS: Neighbours, the outdoors, fences.
    ZEUS: The turning of power, thunder storms, weather, rain, hospitality, leadership.

    Copyright Info: All articles by Keitha may be copied, posted, printed, distributed, reprinted, and linked to as long as the text is not changed, money is not earned, full credit is given to Keitha at www.glasstemple.com, and this notice is attached.

    For all other uses, please contact me

    © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Keitha. All Other Rights Reserved.

      

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