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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 12:55 am

Iris ☏
the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods

Aeolus ╰╮
the ruler of the winds

Selene ☾
tthe moon was personified as Selene.

Helios ☀
the sun was personified as Helios, also a sun god.

Erebus ★
God of darkness and shadow.

Nyx ☪
Goddess of night.

Hecate ✧
magic, witchcraft, necromancy, and crossroads

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:46 am

Iris
the personification of the rainbow and messager of the gods
Mother: Electra
Father: Thaumas
Siblings: Harpies, Aello, Celaeno, Ocyete
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Iris was the goddess of the rainbow, the messenger of the Olympian gods. She was often represented as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera. Iris was a goddess of sea and sky--her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a marine-god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a cloud-nymph. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks, the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and sea, and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea. Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own. In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess. Her name contains a double meaning, being connected both with iris, "the rainbow," and eiris, "messenger."

Iris appears in ancient Greek vase painting as a beautiful young woman with golden wings, a herald's rod (kerykeion), and sometimes a water-pitcher (oinochoe) in her hand. She was usually depicted standing beside Zeus or Hera, sometimes serving nectar from her jug. As cup-bearer of the gods Iris is often indistinguishable from ********* in art.

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:59 pm

Aeolus
the ruler of the winds
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AIOLOS (or Aeolus) was the king of the winds who kept the stormy Anemoi Thuellai and Aellai locked away inside the hollow heart of the floating island of Aiolia. At the command of the gods he released these to wreck devastating storms. Since the Winds were often conceived of as horse-shaped spirits, Aiolos was titled Hippotades, "the reiner of horses," from the Greek hippos ("horse") and tadên ("reined in tightly").

Homer's wind-god Aiolos bears quite a few similarities to Hesiod's Ouranos--both are described as having six sons and daughers joined in wedlock, and both trapped the storm-winds behind a threshold of bronze. In the case of Ouranos, the twelve children were the Titan-gods, while the storm-spirits were the giant Hekatonkheires and Kyklopes.
Aiolos also bears a resemblance to Hesiod's Titan-god of the winds and stars, Astraios. Stesichorus apparently confirms this connection when he describes Aiolos Hippotades as the cousin of Iris Thaumantias ("the wondrous rainbow"). It should also be noted that the Greek words aiolos ("glittering"), aiolokhros ("spangled"), and astraios ("starry") were all adjectives applied to the starry night-sky (ouranos).

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