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Who was the jealous goddess? ›

Hera was goddess of marriage and childbirth. Since Hera's husband was Zeus, king not only of gods, but of philanderers, Hera spent a lot of time in Greek mythology angry with Zeus. So Hera is described as jealous and quarrelsome.

Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn. t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne) is a deity of moisture, moist air, dew and rain in Ancient Egyptian religion. She is the sister and consort of the air god Shu and the mother of Geb and Nut.

Venus of Willendorf

She has been considered a fertility figure, a good-luck token, a mother goddess symbol, and an aphrodisiac for the men. But we will never truly know what she represented. This 4.4 inch figurine is estimated to have been carved around 25,000 years ago from an ooliticlimestone.

In Ancient Greek mythology, Maniae or Mania (Ancient Greek: Μανίαι/Μανία, romanized: Maniae/Mania) are the spirits personifying insanity, madness, and crazed frenzy.

Lord Vishnu, Kali's brother, confronted Kali in an attempt to cool her down. She was unable to see beyond the limitless power of her rage and Lord Vishnu had to move out of her way. Seeing this the devas became more fearful, afraid that in her rampage, Kali would not stop until she destroyed the entire universe.

Nemesis, the Greek goddess of revenge and retribution, was often used to balance the scales of revenge both on Mount Olympus, where gods like Zeus, Aphrodite, and Athena reigned, and in the mortal world.

It is also the root of the English word "hedonism". In Greek mythology, Hedone is personified as a goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight, as the daughter born from the union of Eros (personification of love) and Psyche (personification of the soul). She was associated more specifically with sensual pleasure.

In Greek mythology, Methe (/ˈmiːtiː/; Ancient Greek: Μέθη) is the spirit and personification of drunkenness. She entered the retinue of Dionysus and was mentioned in association with the god or other companions of his. Methe was the daughter of Dionysus in some accounts.

In Greek mythology, Ate, Até or Aite (/ˈeɪtiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἄτη) was the goddess of mischief, delusion, ruin, and blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path of ruin. She also led both gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering.

Women looked up to Aphrodite, Goddess of love, sex, beauty and fertility and depicted her with a round face, large breasts and a pear-shaped body.

Who is the goddess of obesity? ›

As the goddess of sloth, Jyestha's ugliness and obesity streams from her laziness. She is merely inauspicious and troublesome, but not terrifying.

Lesson Summary. Himeros is the Greek god of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of various types of love. He is the twin brother of Eros, the Greek god of love, and both are the sons of Aphrodite, the Olympian goddess of sex, love and beauty.

Kakia (Ancient Greek: Κακία) (meaning bad and evil) is the Greek goddess of vice and moral badness, abominations (presumably, sin or crime). She was depicted as a vain, plump, and heavily made-up woman dressed in revealing clothes, and was presented as the opposite of Areté, goddess of excellence and virtue.

In Greek mythology, Lyssa (/ˈlɪsə/; Ancient Greek: Λύσσα, romanized: Lússa), called Lytta (/ˈlɪtə/; Ancient Greek: Λύττα, romanized: Lútta) by the Athenians, was the spirit of mad rage, frenzy, and rabies in animals. She was closely related to the Maniae, the spirits of madness and insanity.

Because he represented death, Hades was the most feared of the Ancient Greek gods – some people even refused to say his name! Hades was aided in the underworld by his three headed dog, Cerberus.

In Greek mythology, Phthonus (/ˈθoʊnəs/; Ancient Greek: Φθόνος Phthónos), or sometimes Zelus, was the personification of jealousy and envy, most prominently in matters of romance. In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, he is by proxy the cause of Semele's death, having informed Hera of Zeus's affair with the princess.

Invidia is an ancient Roman Goddess of Envy who personified jealousy and hatred. Invidia according to Roman mythology, is pitied by the Roman deities who sees her as somewhat hideous and spiteful. She holds a great grudge against her kind and seeks to poison all creation with her taint of hate, one soul at a time.

In Roman mythology, Psyche's beauty attracted much attention. Venus, the goddess of love, became jealous and tried to get revenge.

This is based on the story by Roman poet Ovid who wrote that when Hades had an affair with a Nymph named Minthe, Persephone was so incensed with jealousy that she turned Minthe into a plant (aka mint).