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- Asteria – Mythopedia
Asteria tried to flee by metamorphosing into a quail and throwing herself into the sea When Zeus (or Poseidon) continued his pursuit, Asteria transformed again, this time into a floating island The island was first simply called Asteria, then Ortygia (from the Greek word ortyx , meaning “quail”), then finally Delos
- Hecate – Mythopedia
Hecate was a powerful goddess of uncertain origin She was usually called the daughter of the Titans Asteria and Perses, but there were many alternate versions of her parentage, including some that made her a daughter of Zeus Though Hecate was most commonly depicted as a sinister goddess of magic, witchcraft, and the Underworld, she was
- Perses – Mythopedia
Perses was the son of the Titan Crius and his wife Eurybia and was often numbered among the Titans himself He married Asteria, another second-generation Titan, with whom he fathered Hecate, a goddess of witchcraft
- Phoebe - Mythopedia
Again, Phoebe came to the desired embrace of Coeus Then the goddess through the love of the god conceived and brought forth dark-gowned Leto, always mild, kind to men and to the deathless gods, mild from the beginning, gentlest in all Olympus Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife
- Astraeus – Mythopedia
Astraeus was a son of the Titan Crius and his wife Eurybia and was often numbered among the Titans himself He married Eos, the goddess of the dawn, with whom he fathered the Anemoi (“Winds”) and the Astra (“Stars”)
- Leto – Mythopedia
Mythology Origins Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe Though her parentage is clear, her place of birth was a source of debate in antiquity: some sources said she was born on the island of Cos in the southeast Aegean, while others insisted that she came from the mysterious northern land of the Hyperboreans
- Heracles - Mythopedia
There was, however, an obscure variant in which Heracles’ mother was in fact the Titan Asteria (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3 16; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 9, 392e) ↩; Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History 4 9 ↩; This story is recounted in Xenophon, Memorabilia 2 1 21–34 ↩
- Cailleach – Mythopedia
The band Crown of Asteria featured a song called “Cilleach: Crone Moon” on their album Crone; A short film, written and directed by Rosie Reed Hillman, told the story of Morag, an old woman in love with life on the edge of civilization in the Scottish Western Isles The character, who wore a hood like a veil, bore more than a few
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