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List of Gods : "Hesychius" - 3 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "Amaltheia"	Crete	The nurse of the infant Zeus after his birth in Crete. The ancients themselves appear to have been as uncertain about the etymology of the name as about the real nature of Amaltheia. Hesychius derives it from the verb to nourish or to enrich, others from firm or hard; and others again from to signify the Divine goat, or the tender goddess. The common derivation is from to milk or suck.
"Babo"	Greek	A mythical woman of Eleusis, whom Hesychius calls the nurse of Demeter
Goddess name "Bendis"	Greece	A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis.

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