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List of Gods : "Agathos" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Spirit name "Agathos"	Greek	Good guardian spirit, the personification of good fortune, Greek
Spirit name "Agathos Daimon"	Greek	A good genius / guardian spirit
Spirit name "Agathos Daimon (good demon)"	Greco - Roman	God of fortune. Known locally from Alexandria and depicted in the form of a snake. May have originated as an androgynous fertility spirit, but later becomes identified as the consort of Agathe Tyche (see TYCHE). Libations were made regularly to this deity after meals and he was regarded as a friendly household guardian....
Goddess name "Tyche"	Greco - Roman	Goddess of fortune. She appears as a nereid in the Hymn to Demeter (Homer). According to Hesiod's Theogony she is the daughter of OKEANOS. Elsewhere she is identified as the daughter of ZEUS and HERA. She is depicted carrying a rudder or, alternatively, cornucopiae. Also mentioned as Agathe Tyche, the consort of Agathos Daemon. She became widely identified with the Asian mother goddess KYBELE but was replaced, in Roman times, by the goddess FORTUNA and åśśociated symbolically with a wheel device. She retained popularity for a long time. There is a record that the Emperor Julian sacrificed to Tyche at Antioch in AD 361-2 and her temple was still intact during the reign of Theodosius (379-95)....

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