In Ancient Greece - the Muse of Comedy and Idyll (spelled Thaleia). Besides being the Muse, Thalie was also one of three Charites (they were called Gracias in Ancient Rome).

Three Charites (Gracias) symbolized joy, vitality and elegance. They inspired many artists. Greatest masterpieces titled "Three Graces" were created by Titian and Rafael.

Natalie leads "Star Shrink" - an experimental project researching the correlation between modern human perception and ancient wisdom. She understands all Roman and Slavic languages.

She has chosen Thalie not only because it sounds close to her real name, but also because this character is close to her self-image. She tries to make Athens homesteaders life more idyllic and joyful.

In Ancient Greece - the Muse of Music and Lyrics; alternately she is described as the Muse of lyric poetry and flute-playing. She sybmolized Harmony, and is pictured bearing a musical instrument, usually a flute.
Least serious of all music-oriented mythological characters, Euterpe can be named a patroness of pop-music.

Larie enjoys helping with HTML and loves to critique other people's sites. Other than helping people, she enjoys reading, writing, quilting, the outdoors, working on her Web pages, and the Beatles. She also keeps a personal page, which includes the Web Quilt, a project that she calls "slightly more than a guestbook."

Bast

Goddess of life and family and of the domestic cat, Bast is depicted enthroned as the cat-headed incarnation of Isis or, alternately, as the seated Sacred Cat, often holding the sacred rattle known as the sistrum.

Related to Neith, the Night Goddess, Bast symbolized the moon in its function of making a woman fruitful, with swelling womb. She was also the Egyptian Goddess of pleasure, music, dancing and joy, and associated with the Eye of Ra, acting as the instrument of the Sun God's vengeance.

The ancient Egyptians held cats in the highest esteem and the penalties for injuring or killing one was severe. A protectress of cats and those who cared for cats, Bast was an important deity in the home and also important in the iconography since the serpents which attack the Sun God were usually represented in papyri as being killed by cats.


For more information, and to learn how cats became demi-gods, visit The Temple of Bast.

Atheena chose Bast as her Pantheon deity because of her love of cats (indeed, all creatures great and small!) and fascination with the Egyptian mysteries.

Atheena is a founding member of the Friends of Athens Committee.

N E M E S I S

eudaimonos

Night bore NEMESIS (Indignation) to afflict mortal men --HESIOD Theogony

Although I've gone through many incarnations, I'm particularly happy with the current sexy version you may have seen on HERCULES: The Legendary Journeys. But it's not the first time my charms have gotten me in trouble. Who do you think gave the face that launched a thousand ships her beauty?

"Originally an abstraction of righteous indignation against evil, this idea was later personified as Nemesis, goddess of divine justice and vengeance. Her anger is directed toward human transgressions of the natural, right order of things and the hubris behind it. Nemesis pursues the insolent and the wicked with inflexible vengeance. Her cult probably originated from Smyrna.

Apart from playing this role in assorted myths, she is also considered to be the mother of Helen. When Nemesis was pursued by Zeus, she turned herself into a goose to escape him. However, he eventually caught her by turning himself into a swan. As a result of their union, Nemesis then laid an egg from which Helen was hatched.

Nemesis is portrayed as serious looking woman with in her left hand a whip, a rein, a sword, or a pair of scales. In the Hellenistic period she was portrayed with a steering wheel."

After thousands of years, I'm getting pretty tired of people not recognizing that I'm a just goddess. If only people would behave, I'd have time. . . I could. . . . Well, at present I could spend all day cavorting with Kevin Sorbo or darling little Iolaus.

If you'd like to help, please send me a cloud gif. If you'd like me to help. please write me at eudaimonos@oocities.com. I'm particularly sympathetic with people who have very basic (newbie-type) questions and those who get lost in the Geocities maze.

Nike, Goddess of Victory

NIKE is the winged Goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She is daughter of the Titan Pallas Athena and the river Styx. She sat at the side of Zeus, the ruler of the Olympic pantheon, in Olympus, and fought with him in his battle against the Titans.

She is a mystical presence, symbolizing victorious encounters and presiding over history's earliest battlefields. A Greek would say, "When we go to battle and win, we say it is NIKE." In Rome, Nike was called Victoria.

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