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Hestia

Hestia (in Rome: Vesta)

Hestia is the daughter of Kronos and Rhea. She was the Holy Hearth, goddess of hearth (hestia) and hearth-fire. Her sacred place was at the centre of the household and also at the hearth of the city. Hestia was higly honored but never very famous in Greek myth. She was more or less confined to her place at the centre of the home. She didn´t take part in the ordinary activities of the gods, yet Hestia remains forever at the centre. Fire is a pure and purifying element so Hestia was considered to be a Virgin goddess. Her sacred hearth-fire was guarded by the unmarried girls of the household.

Beginning with Hestia

Hestia was important in rituals. She would usually receive the first offering at sacrifices. She would normally be invoked before any other god in prayers. The first and final libations would be dedicated to her at feasts. This inspired the proverbial phrase "beginning with Hestia" which means to make a good proper start or sound beginning of something.
Another ancient saying regarding Hestia and her sacred fire is that it could be said that "Hestia´s laughing" when the fire crackled.

Vesta

The Romans identified Hestia with their goddess Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. Vesta was more important and more public than Hestia in her cult as guardian of the Roman state. Her priestess were called Vesta Virgins. They lived a life of chastity and guarded the sacred flame.




List of Gods : "Hestia" - 6 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼

"Azeus"
Greek A son of Clymenus of Orchomenos, father of Actor and grandfather of Astyoche. He went with his brothers against Thebes, to take vengeance for the murder of his father, who had been slain by the Thebans at a festival of the Onchestian Poseidon. Greek

"Cronus"
Greek A son of Uråñuś and Ge, and the youngest among the Titans. He was married to Rhea, by whom he became the father of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cheiron is also called a son of Cronus. Greek
Goddess name
"Hesperides"
Greek These goddesses of evenings and the golden light of Sunset were the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hestia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions; sometimes they are called the daughters of night or Erebus (Theogony of Hesiod 215), sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto, sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or Hesperides, and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis Greek
Goddess name
"Hestia"
Greek The goddess of the hearth, or rather the fire burning on the hearth, was regarded as one of the twelve great gods, and accordingly as a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Greek
Cyclop name
"Kronos or Cronus"
Greek A son of Uråñuś and Ge, and the youngest among the Titans. He was married to Rhea, by whom he became the father of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cheiron is also called a son of Cronus. At the instigation of his mother, Cronus unmanned his father for having thrown the Cyclopes, who were likewise his children by Ge, into Tartarus. Out of the blood thus shed sprang up the Erinnyes. Greek

"Leda"
Greek A daughter of Thestius, whence she is called Thestias but others call her a daughter of Thespius, Thyestes, or Glaucus, by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucippe, Eurythemis, or Paneidyia. She was the wife of Tyndareus, by whom she became the mother of Timandra, Clytaemnestra, and Philonoe. Greek

Sources:
Robin Hard, the Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology 2004