CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fetus, Mount Kyllini, Twice Born
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The daughter of cronus and rhae, zeus"s sister. Goddess of hearth, female spheres of movement, the home and the heart. She is fixed and doesn"t move, and plays the harp of the city . She is more inportant to religion than myths. She is the opposite of hermes, and they are often paired in paintings. Virgin godess- one of the three goddesses that aphrodie has no control over. Daughter of zeus and hera, the product of childbirth. She takes on some of the attibutes of hera, and she takes on childbirth, and hera can control her daughter. Another daughter of hera and zeus, none of which are well known gods and godesses. Zeus was so worried about over thrown by his children (as he had done to his father) so none of his ligitiment children are that powerful or important. Moral and male cup bearer to the gods. Symbols: rooster (cock), staft and pederasty (gift of a cock)