Greek Mythology

Eos is heralding the breaking of the new day and her brother's arrival. She is said to not only open the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise, but she would often accompany Helios as well on his daily swing across the skies. In the night Selene is driving her moon chariot across the heavens. While the sun chariot has four horses, Selene's usually has two, described as "snow-white".

He married Psyche, goddess of the soul, and she becomes immortal to live alongside her husband. Together they had a daughter, Hedone, goddess of pleasure.

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Phastos is a technopath, able to create any invention or weapon, powered by cosmic energy. He is often seen as the blacksmith and weapons-maker of the Eternals.

Ikaros was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth of King Minos. Ikaros and Daedalus attempt to escape from Crete so Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Before trying to escape the island, he warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Icarus ignores Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the wax in his wings to melt. He tumbles out of the sky, falls into the sea, and drowns. Daedalus wept for his son and called the nearest land Icaria in memory of him.

Odysseus and his crew arrived at Thrinakie after passing Scylla and Charybdis. When his crew begged to be allowed to land to prepare supper, Odysseus grudgingly agrees on condition that the they swear that if they come upon a herd of cattle or a great flock of sheep, no one will kill any of them. Eurylochus though convinces the crew to drive off the best of the cattle of Helios and sacrifice them to the gods. Lampetia tells Helios that Odysseus' men have slain his cattle. In turn, Helios orders the gods to take vengeance on Odysseus' men. After they set sail again, Zeus kept his word and the ship is destroyed by lightning during a storm and all of his men die. Odysseus escapes by swimming to Calypso's island.

The Cattle of Helios, also called the Oxen of the Sun, were immortal cattle pastured on the island of Thrinacia, who were guarded by Helios’ daughters, Phaethusa and Lampetia.

Kyrene was a Thessalian princess, the daughter of King Hypseus of the Lapiths. She was a famed huntress who guarded her father's herds on Mount Pelion, slaying wild beasts with javelin and sword. One day, when she was wrestling a lion, the god Apollon spied her and was inflamed with love. He carried her off to the Hill of Myrtles in Libya where she bore him a son named Aristaios. The boy was placed in the care of the wise Kentauros Chiron and became a demi-god of beekeeping and other rustic pursuits. After she gave birth to their son, Apollo transformed her into a nymph, so that she could have a long life and keep hunting as much as she desired.

Ianthe was the Okeanis of “violet flowers” or the colour “violet”. She may have been a Nephele (cloud-nymph) of the violet tinged clouds of dawn, or an Anthousa (flower-nymph) of violets.

Pontos was the primordial god of the sea. He was the sea itself, not merely its resident deity, who was born from earth at the dawn of creation.  Pontos and Gaia were parents of the ancient sea gods Nereus, Keto, Phorkys, Thaumas and Eurybia. By Thalassa, his watery female counterpart, he was the father of fish and other sea creatures.  Poseidon, king of the sea, wed Pontos’ eldest granddaughter Amphitrite. 

Kymopoleia was a sea-nymph daughter of the god Poseidon and his wife Amphitrite and the wife of the hundred-handed, storm-giant Briareos. She was the goddess of the violent storm waves generated by her husband.

Astrape was the goddess and personification of lightning. She and Bronte, the twin goddesses of Lightning and Thunder, served Zeus as his shield bearers. Astrape stands besides the throne of Zeus carrying his thunderbolts.

Achlys was the personified spirit of the death-mist – the clouding of the eyes preceding death. She may also have been the goddess of deadly poisons. Akhlys was sometimes numbered amongst the Keres. She is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps also representing the personification of sorrow and grief.

The Nosoi were the personified spirits of plague, sickness and disease. They were numbered amongst the evil spirits which escaped from Pandora's jar. In most Homeric literature, however, the arrows of Apollon and Artemis were the bringers of plague and sickness rather than bands of daimones.

Amphitrite was the goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She was the female personification of the sea and mother of fish, seals and dolphins. When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite's hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the Ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king. Amphitrite was depicted as a young woman usually riding beside her husband in a chariot drawn by fish-tailed horses or hippocamps. 

Rhadamanthys, Minos and Aiakos were the judges of the dead, three demi-god ministers of Haides. They were originally mortal men, sons of the god Zeus, who were granted their station in death as a reward for establishing law and order on earth. Individually, Aiakos was guardian of the keys of Haides and judge of the men of Europe, Rhadamanthys the lord of Elysium and judge of the men of Asia, and Minos the judge of the third and final vote.