She is depicted as a majestic solemn woman wearing a diadem. she is one of the 12                                 original Olympians. Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. The Sun is also reconstructed with a nominative form *séHaul and a genitive form *sHau-én-s. In Greek mythology he is one of the 12 original Olympians. In Avestan she is demonized as Paurwa, but replaced by Anahita. After Cronus castrated Uranus, Gaia was separated from him, and gave birth to Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Euribia. the planet Venus. She pours out the waters that sustain people and livestock. This is not to be understood as a belief in (or worship of) three Gods, nor as a belief that there are three subjectively-perceived "aspects" in one God, both of which the Catholic Church condemns as heresy. [35] A modern idea of a triple goddess is central to the new religious movement of Wicca. In Greek mythology Ares is a bloodthirsty god who desires war. The Greek goddess Hecate portrayed in triplicate. Ares (Mars) is the god of war. She is one of the 12 original Olympians. Rhea found some of her children such as the Cyclopses horrifying, so she had Cronus Castrate Uranus with a sickle. Forms include Hittite Lelwanni, a Goddess, the “Pourer” (p. 760, G&I); Sanskrit Prthivi in the Rig Veda; as u-fratis, the ancient Persian name of the Euphrates river (Vol. In Greek mythology he earned his spot on mount Olympus by getting Hephaestus to release Hera from his trap chair. Such deities are common throughout world mythology; the number three has a … Athena came out, fully clothed and armored. Hermes                                  guides the dead into the Underworld. Celtic versions of Goddess Danu are discussed on the *Danu, a Celtic Pagan Goddess page. Demeter is the goddess of the harvest. Uranus. The Pandemonium is an important division that developed between groups of deities, such as the Ashuras and Devis and is most noticeable among the Zoroastrian (Avestan) Gods and the Vedic (Sanskrit) Gods. They can conveniently be grouped according to where they are found in nature, however many of their names are cognate with the Great Gods and often their names are just plural forms. This article is about deities with triple forms. With Zeus she gave birth to Persephone who was abducted by Hades. Other forms are Russian Zorya and Zaria in folklore; Old Prussian and Lithuanian Saulė; Latvian SaÅ©le; and Albanian Diell. These Gods give their names to Thursday, the fourth day of the seven day week in various languages. he is the youngest child of Cronus and Rhea, along with Poseidon, Demeter, his wife Hera, Hades, and Hestia. He holds a 2 pronged staff unlike Poseidon's 3 pronged trident. Hades is the god of the underworld. She is the mother of Hephaestus, Ares, and. This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. He will fight for either side in a war, and is known as a coward. She is depicted either on a horse or in a chariot with winged steeds. She only lets grains grow when her daughter is with Her during the Spring. While it is sometimes argued that Pagan religion is extinct, it certainly is not. Other horse twins are: Greek, Dioskuri (Polydeukēs and Kastōr); borrowed into Latin as Castor and Pollux; Irish, the twins of Macha; Old English, Hengist and Horsa (both words mean ‘stallion’), and possibly Old Norse Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse born of Loki; Slavic Lel and Polel; Lithuanian AÅ¡vieniai, and possibly christianized in Albanian as the Saints Flori and Lori. She was created when Uranus's reproductive organs were thrown into the sea by Cronus, causing her to rise from the sea foam. She helps around Olympus, and prepares Ares's bath. This reconstruction obscures a much more important and interesting set of relationships and, as is commonly the case with much of what has been written about Proto-Indo-European religion, it leaves out the female deities. *Pria, the Goddess of the Garden, is generous to everyone and she embodies the flowers of Spring and the fruit trees. [fuggle26]. Triads or triple beings are ubiquitous in the Welsh and Irish mythic imagery" (she gives examples including the Irish battle-furies, Macha, and Brigit). He then became an earth god, then a death god, then a war god. The rligious scholar Saul M. Olyan, the author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel, calls the representation on the Qudshu-Astarte-Anat plaque "a triple-fusion hypostasis" and considers Qudshu to be an epithet of Athirat by a process of elimination since Astarte and Anat appear after Qudshu in the inscription. This work was begun by Jacob Grimm in the nineteenth century, but it became controversial when many people realized how embarrassing it was to the monotheistic religions. In Slavic languages she is also worshiped under the name Paraskeva (a Greek word meaning ‘veil’), and re-christianized as St. Paraskeva. [19] The Roman poet Ovid, through the character of the Greek woman Medea, refers to Hecate as "the triple Goddess";[20] the earlier Greek poet Hesiod represents her as a threefold goddess, with a share in earth, sea, and starry heavens. This God is demonized by Christians as Old Nick and christianized as Saint Nick, patron saint of sailors. An additional problem is that these deities lack corresponding features in the various languages. He has a bow and arrow that when shot by, you immediately fall in love with the first person. There are at least 40 deities that can be reconstructed to Proto-Indo-European and most have both male and female forms. Once she sat in it she was trapped, and was only let go when Aphrodite was promised to him. *Pleto is discussed in more detail in an article on another page. Her mother Demeter searched desperately for Persephone, and when she found her, she tried to take her back. *Arta is one of the most important of the Proto-Indo-European Goddesses and very easily reconstructed on both linguistic and comparative religion grounds. In recent years, a sort of “substitute” pantheon has been invented for the Proto-Indo-Europeans based on psychological models or comparative religion methods which are vague and subjective. They became constellations; Orion, Sirius, and Scorpio. References. Thanatos is the personification of peaceful death. The Proto-Indo-European pantheon includes a number of securely reconstructed deities such as * Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr, the daylight-sky god; his consort * Dʰéǵʰōm, the earth mother; his daughter * H₂éwsōs, the dawn goddess; his sons the Divine Twins; and *Seh₂ul, a solar goddess. Devis and Devas are found among all the Indo-Europeans, and the word is often used as a general word for ‘a god, any god or goddess’ and sometimes for a specific Goddess or God. Many of these Goddesses now give their names to the fifth day of the week, Friday. also deus pater in the Vulgate, e.g. Hades is the god of the underworld. They were associated with motherhood and fertility. Pashupati and Pushan are cognate with the Greek Goddess Psyche, but they do not correspond to Pan, Faunus and Fauna and the fauns. Many Christian saints, especially martyrs, are trios who share a feast day or other remembrance. Eros is the personification of Love. The archaic triads in the religions of antiquity and of the East are too numerous to be mentioned here. Obviously Moon Goddesses give their names to the first day of the seven day week and they are normally worshiped on the first day of every lunar month, see for example the Greek Noumenia Ritual on another website. *Pleto, a Goddess of Wide Rivers that meander across the land is reconstructed as *pltHa wiHa (p. 267, Oxford Introduction). A Water or Sea God is reconstructed (p. 438, Oxford Introduction) as *Haepōm nepōts ‘uncle/grandson/nephew of waters’ from Avestan and Vedic Apām Nápāt, and as *néptonos from Latin NeptÅ«nus, Etruscan Nethuns, Celtic Nechtan, and Germanic forms Old Norse Hnikarr, Old English Nicor, along with the Nixies or water spirits, and the Neckar River, (see Puhvel, p. 277-284 and Golden Bough Vol. ), The Ugaritic Baal cycle: Volume 2 by Mark S. Smith - Page 295, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts by Mark S. Smith - Page 237, The golden chain: an anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy, "Back to the Future: Resonances of the Past", pp.56-57, "Ritual Sacrifice and the Pre-Christian Subtext of Gawain's Green Girdle," in, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Triple_deity&oldid=982860257, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jung, C. G. "A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity" (1948), in, This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 20:22. She is depicted as a majestic solemn woman wearing a diadem. The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture gives the forms on p. 385, but doesn’t even have an entry for a Moon Goddess. The names of Gods and Goddesses are often the first words we find written in each of the Indo-European languages. 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