For other meanings see Nesoi . In Greek mythology , the Nesoi Greek N the islands were the goddesses of islands. Each island was said to have its own personification. They were classified as one of the ancient elemental gods called Protogenoi . References http theoi.com Protogenos Nesoi.html Theoi Project Nesoi Category Greek goddesses Category Greek mythology Greek deity stub ca Nesoi es Nesoi id Nesoi lt Nesojos pt NESOI ... more details
In Greek mythology , the ourea lang el O mountains, plural of O were progeny of Gaia mythology Gaia , members of the Protogenoi , who were the first born elemental gods and goddesses, children of Gaia blockquote And she brought forth long hills, graceful haunts br of the goddess Nymph s who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. ref Hesiod , Theogony , http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0130 3Acard 3D104 129&ndash 131 Argonautica , 1.498. ref blockquote The ourea , like Uranus mythology Uranus , and Pontus mythology Pontus , were parthenogetic offspring of Gaia alone. The Greeks rarely personified an individual mountain an exception might be Tmolus , both a king and a mountain in Lydia. Each mountain was said to have its own local nymph , an oread . Peak sanctuaries , a feature of Minoan civilization on Crete, are also identified in some archaic sites in mainland Greece. ref Walter Burkert , Greek Religion , 1985 26 28. ref They are not thought to be dedicated to the mountain itself. Notes reflist References Littleton, Scott and the Marshall Cavendish Corporation Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Volume 1 . Marshall Cavendish, 2005. ISBN 9780761475590. http books.google.com books?id HC93q4gsOAwC&pg PA1020&dq Ourea&hl en&ei PkE2TNn6NsP78AbM95DUAw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 10&ved 0CE0Q6AEwCQ v onepage&q Ourea&f false pp. 1020, 1134 Fitz Simon, James A., Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old and The Story That They Tell , T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. http books.google.com books?id 4h8rAAAAYAAJ&pg PA27&dq Ourea&hl en&ei 5ms6TP6LLIH88AaT4 ymBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 6&ved 0CD0Q6AEwBTgK v onepage&q Ourea&f false p. 27 Hard, Robin, Herbert Jennings Rose, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology Based on H.J. Rose s Handbook of Greek mythology , Routledge, 2004. ISBN 9780415186360. http books.google.com books?id XfGw5uYrDMYC&pg PA24&dq Ourea&hl en&ei Qm06TLqkNYH68Aau7amnBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum ... more details
Greek myth primordial In Greek mythology Hemera Greek language Greek , day was the personification of day and one of the Protogenoi or primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod , the daughter of Erebos and Nyx mythology Nyx the goddess of night . ref Hesiod. Theogony , 124 125. ref Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero s De Natura Deorum , where it is logically determined that Dies Hemera must be a god, if Uranus mythology Uranus is a god. ref Cicero. De Natura Deorum , 3.17. ref The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Gaius Julius Hyginus Hyginus in his preface to the Fabulae mentions Chaos cosmogony Chaos as the mother father and Nyx as her sister. She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether mythology Aether Light , but neither of them figured actively in myth or Cult religion cult . Hyginus lists their children as Uranus, Gaia mythology Gaia , and Thalassa the primordial sea goddess , while Hesiod only lists Thalassa mythology Thalassa as their child. According to the Theogony , Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it when Hemera returned, Nyx left ref Hesiod. Theogony , 744. ref Nyx and Hemera draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze and while the one is about to go down into the house, the other comes out at the door. Pausanias geographer Pausanias seems to confuse her with Eos when saying that she carried Cephalus away. Pausanias makes this identification with Eos upon looking at the tiling of the royal portico in Athens , where the myth of Eos and Kephalos is illustrated. He makes this identification again at Amyklai and at Olympia, Greece Olympia , upon looking at statues and illustrations where Eos Hemera is present. References reflist External links http www.theoi.com Protogenos Hemera.html Theoi Project Hemera Greek mythology deities Category Greek goddesses Category Personification in Greek mythology af Hemera als Hemera ar ... more details
Greek myth primordial Aether also there, lang el , in Greek mythology , is one of the Protogenoi , the first born elemental gods. He is the personification of the upper sky, space, and heaven, and is the elemental god of the Bright, Glowing, Upper Air. He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air , aer mortals breathe. In Hesiod s Theogony , he was the son of Erebus and Nyx mythology Nyx and brother of Hemera . Both were noted in passing in Cicero s De Natura deorum , but Hyginus mentioned Chaos cosmogony Chaos as his parent. The aether was also known as Zeus defensive wall, the bound that locked Tartarus from the rest of the cosmos. Aether had several offspring, but Hyginus seems to confuse him with Uranus mythology Uranus when saying that Aether had Uranus by Gaia mythology Gaia , his daughter. Aergia , a goddess of sloth and laziness, is the daughter of Aether and Gaia. Hyginus is also our source for telling us that Aether is the father of Uranus and Gaia mythology Gaia . But another source tells us that it is just Uranus who is his child. And like Tartaros and Erebos, in Hellas he might have had shrines but no temples and probably no cult either. In the Orphic hymns, he is mentioned as the soul of the world from which all life emanates. Callimachus , in calling Uranus Akmonides, claims him as the son of Akmon mythology Akmon , and Eustathius in Alcman tells us that the sons of Uranus were called Akmonidai. External links http www.theoi.com Protogenos Aither.html Theoi Project Aither . Greek mythology deities Category Greek gods Category Personification in Greek mythology Greek myth stub af Aither ar az Efir mifologiya bg ca ter mitologia cs Aith r de Aither es ter mitolog a eo Etero mitologio eu Eter mitologia fr ther mythologie ko hr Eter mitologija id Aither it Etere mitologia he lb Aither lt Eteris hu Aith r nl Aether ja no Aither pl Eter mitologia pt ter mitologia ro Aether ... more details
about the Greek mythology Greek god the geographic location Pontus infobox Greek deity Image ConstantaPontos.JPG Caption Pontus with Fortuna mythology Fortuna Name Pontus God of Primordial Being of the Sea Abode Sky Symbol Consort Gaia Parents Gaia Siblings Uranus mythology Uranus , and the Ourea Children Nereus , Thaumas , Phorcys , Ceto , and Eurybia Mount Greek myth primordial Greek myth sea In Greek mythology , Pontus or Pontos , English language English translation sea was an ancient, pre Olympian sea god, one of the protogenoi , the first born . Pontus was the son of Gaia mythology Gaia , the Earth Hesiod ref Hesiod, Theogony , 116. ref says that Gaia mythology Gaia brought forth Pontus out of herself, without coupling. For Hesiod, Pontus seems little more than a personification of the sea, ho pontos , the Road , by which Hellenes signified the Mediterranean Sea . ref The Black Sea was the Greeks ho pontos euxeinos , the sea that welcomes strangers . ref With Gaia, he was the father of Nereus the Old Man of the Sea , of Thaumas the awe striking wonder of the Sea, embodiment of the sea s dangerous aspects , of Phorcys and his sister consort Ceto , and of the Strong Goddess Eurybia . ref Hesiod, Theogony , 233. ref With the sea goddess Thalassa mythology Thalassa whose own name simply means sea but is derived from a pre Greek root , he fathered the Telchines . Compare the sea Titan Oceanus , the Ocean Stream that girdled the earth, who was more vividly realized than Pontus among the Hellenes. Nevertheless, Pontus was apparently personified in a description of a painting by the 3rd century AD rhetorician Philostratus the Elder , Imagines . ref Imagines 2. 15 2 http www.theoi.com Protogenos Pontos.html Theoi.com on line translation by Fairbanks ref In a Roman sculpture of the 2nd century AD illustration on the right Pontus, rising from seaweed, grasps a rudder with his right hand and leans on the prow of a ship. He wears a mural crown , and accompanies Tych ... more details
For the minor planet , see 65489 Ceto . Infobox Greek deity Image Caption Name Ceto God of Abode Sea Symbol Consort Phorcys Siblings Nereus , Thaumas , Phorcys , and Eurybia Children The Hesperides , The Gorgons , the Graea, Thoosa, Scylla, and Ladon Mount Greek myth sea Ceto also Keto , from lang el , sea monster is a Protogenoi primordial Greek sea gods sea goddess in Greek mythology , the daughter of Gaia mythology Gaia and Pontus mythology Pontus . Ceto was also variously called Krataiis , Accusative case acc. , from http archimedes.fas.harvard.edu cgi bin dict?name lsj&lang el&word kratu 2Fs&filter CUTF8 mighty and Trienos from http archimedes.fas.harvard.edu cgi bin dict?name lsj&lang el&word tri 2fenos&filter CUTF8 within three years , and was occasionally conflated by scholars with the goddess Hecate for whom Trienos and Krataiis are also epithets . As a mythological figure, she is most notable for bearing by her husband Phorcys a host of monstrous children, collectively known as the Phorcydes . The asteroid 65489 Ceto was named after her, and its satellite after her husband. This goddess should not be confused with the minor Oceanid also named Ceto Oceanid Ceto who appears in Hesiod s Theogony as a separate character from Ceto the daughter of Pontus and Gaia or with various mythological beings referred to as Cetus mythology ketos plural ketea this is a general term for sea monster in Ancient Greek. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.04.0057 3Aentry 3Dkh 3Dtos in Liddell, Henry and Robert Scott. 1996. A Greek English Lexicon. Revised by H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Ninth edition, with revised supplement . Oxford Clarendon Press. ref Ceto in ancient texts File KetoAltar.jpg thumb 200px left The goddess Ceto aiding her father Pontus in the mythological war known as the Gigantomachy ca. 166 156 BC Gigantomachy Frieze, Pergamon Altar Pergamon Altar of Zeus Hesiod s Theogony lists ... more details
Giordano.jpg right thumb 500px Nyx Protogenoi primordial goddess of the night, mother of Aether ... of the Protogenoi , the first born elemental gods. A deity, son of Erebus and Nyx , Aether is the personification ... more details
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