Minor Gods

==MINOR GODS Edit == These are the Many god/Goddess that either play a minor part in Greek myths or some that are just mentioned. These are just what they represent and if the play any part in mythology.

Pheme Edit
Pheme, goddess of Fame and Gossip. Her favour being nobility and her wrath being scandalous rumors. She was the daughter of either Gaia or Elpis "Hope" and described as "She who initiates and furthers communication" and had an alter at Athens. Pheme is said to have pried into the affairs of Mortals and Gods and repeated what she learned, starting with a gentle dull whisper and it got louder each time she repeated it, until everyone knew.

Penia Edit
Penia, Goddess of Poverty. She married Porus (Plenty) at Aphrodite's birthday and was sometimes considered the mother of Eros

Soter Edit
Soter, God of Deliverance, Safety and Preservation. He is often identified with Persephone, Soter with Zeus and her daughter Praxidikai with Goddess's Erinyes. Soter and Ktesios (The son of Soter) were also cult titles of Zeus.

Arke Edit
Arke was the messanger of the Titans and the twin sister of the rainbow messanger Iris. She may have been associated with the second rainbow sometimes seen in the shadow of the first. During the Titan- wars the two sister goddess served on opposite sides. Iris served on Olympus and Arke assumed the role as messanger for the titans. Post war punishment for the Goddess was that she was stripped of her wings and was cast into the Tartarean pits with her masters. Zeus then gave her wings to the Thetis who once Achilles was born fixed them to his ankles.

Aceso Edit
Aceso, Goddess of healing wounds and curing illnesses. Unlike her sisters she represented the process of curing not cure itself. Her parents were Aesclepius and Epione.

Epione Edit
Epione, Goddess of Soothing of pain. Her name translates into "soothing". She was the wife of Aesclepius and mother of the minor healer goddesses icluding Aceso and Hygieia (Hygiene).

Hygieia Edit
Hygieia, Goddess of good health, Cleanliness, Hygiene and Sanitation. She palyed an Important part in her fathers cult. While her father was more directly focused on healing, Hygieia was more for the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name is the source of the word Hygiene.

Iaso Edit
Iaso, goddess of Recuperation from illness. She was the daughter of Aesclepius. Not much is known about Iaso, She was probably considered a demigod unlike her sisters who were give a full god status. She did however have followers know as Iasides (Sons of Iaso).

Panacea Edit
Panacea, goddess of cures. She was one of five daughters of Aesclepius who eash performed a facet in Apollo's art. Panacea was said to have a Poultice or Potion with which she healed the sick. This brought forth the concept of the Panacea in medicine, a substance meant to cure all diseases.

Aesclepius Edit
Aesclepius, God of Medicine and Healing. Aesclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts along with, Hygieia (Good Health), Iaso (medicine), Panacea( Cures), Aceso (Healing), Algaea (Healing Glow). The intertwining snakes on a sceptre is known as todays face of Medicine, it is also Aesclepius's sceptre. Apollo: Parent

Achelois Edit
Achelois, Minor moon goddess and also the goddess who drives away pain. She was worshipped via the Dodonian Oracle. Her name is directly translated into the "lady who drives away pain". When a sacrifice is made she will cure headaches or toothaches etc.

Achlys Edit
Achlys was in some cases the Goddess of the eternal night but in other senses she was more the goddess of the Death-mist. She was a being created adn existed even before Chaos. She also represented Sadness and Misery, which was shown on the shield of Heracles: Pale, emaciated, weeping with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her hands, bloody cheeks and dust covered shoulders. If she was a daughter to Nyx then she may have been numbered amongst the Keres. Parent, Nyx (Maybe)

Adicia Edit
Adicia was the Spirit and also the Goddess of Injustice and wrong doing. She was seen as an ugly barbarian woman with tattooed skin. Her opposite was the Goddess Dike (Justice) who was sometimes seen beating Adicia with a club. Parents, Nyx and Eris

Aedos Edit
Aedos, Goddess of Modesty, Shame, respect and Reverance. She was a companion of the goddess Nemesis. Aedos(Aidos) as a guality, was the feeling of shame and reverance which retrains men from doing wrong; Nemesis was Rightous Indignition aroused by the sight of wicked living in undeserved good fortune. She was the daughter of Prometheus.

Aergia Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Aergia, Goddess of Idleness, Laziness, Sloth and Indolence. Her counterpart was probably Hormes (Effort). Her Parents are Gaia and Aether (Upper air).

Aglaia Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Aglaia, The Goddess of Beauty, Glory, Magnificance, adornment and Splendour. She was one of the three Graces (Kharites) who often appears dancing with her sisters. Aglaia was once the wife of Hephaestus and the mother of four younger Graces. Her parents were Zeus and Eurynome.

Eurynome Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Eurynome, Goddess of Pasturelands and Water-meadows. The third woman to bed Zeus with whom bore the three Graces, three goddess of Beauty and Magnificance. Eurynome was also the Goddess of a Nearby river "Neda" in Arkadia, the mother of Asopos, a nearby stream. Her parents were Oceanus and Thetys.

Moros Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Moros, God of Doom. He was the force which drove a man towards his fate. In sense he was also a represntation of depression. It is sometimes described how Prometheus saved mankind from the misery of seeing their doom with giving the gift of hope (Elpis). Moros' siblings Thanatos and Ker represented the physical aspects of death-- Ker, bringer of violent death and Thanatos represented in the passing peacefully away

Momos Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Momos, God of Mockery, Blame, Ridicule, scorn, complaint and stinging criticism. He was expelled form the heavens for ridiculing the Gods. Momos' opposite was Eupheme (Praise). Momos was the son of Nyx (Only). He is said to have censured in the man formed by Hephaestus, that a little door had been left open upon his chest, so as to enable one to look into his secret thoughts. Aphrodite alone was Blameless.

Eos Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Eos "The rosy-fingered goddess" Goddess of the Dawn. She and her siblings Helios (Sun) and Selene (Moon) were numbered among the second Generation of titans. Eos rose up into the shy from the river Oceanus at the start of each day, and with her rays of light, dispersed the mistd of night. She was sometimes seen roding a winged horse drawn golden chariot and at other tomes she was seen borne aloft with her own pair of wings. Eos had an unquenchable desire for young handsome men, some say as a result of a curse placed upon her by Aphrodite. Her lovers were Orion, Phaethon, Kephalos and Tithonos, three of which she ravished away to distant lands. The Trojan prince Tithonos became her consort. When the Goddess petitioned Zeus for immortality for Tithonos, she neglected also to request eternal youth. In time he shrivelled up by old age and was transformed into a grasshopper.

Komodia Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Komodia, Goddess of Happiness and Amusement.

Baubo Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Baubo, Goddess of Laughter. She appears in the story of Demeter searching for Persephone. Thanks to Baubo's rude jokes Demeter finally laughed.

Ecechiera Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Ecechiera, Goddess of Armistice and Truce. She appeared undercover at every Olympic games to keep the peace and make sure there were no hostilities.

Melinoe Edit
<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); background-color: rgb(248, 233, 174); ">Melinoe, a frightful underworld goddess who presidedovet the propitiations offered by the ghosts of the dead. She wandered the earth at night with a retinue of ghosts striking fear into the hearts of mankind