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List of Gods : "Adrasteia" - 2 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Nymph name "Adrasteia"	Greek	A Cretan nymph, daughter of Melisseus, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be reared in the Dictaean grotto.
Hero name "Ananke"	Roman	The Protogenos of inevitability, compulsion and necessity and the personification of destiny, unalterable necessity and fate. She was also the mother of Adrasteia and of the Moirae. She was rarely worshipped until the creation of the Orphic mystery religion. In Roman mythology, she was called Necessitas ("necessity"). From Herodotus, The History Book Eight

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