The two threads are further linked by the placement of the Greek word brododactylos (" rosy-fingered ") applied by Homer to the dawn but given here in the dialect of Sappho and used by her in a poem of unrequited love.

In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet " rosy-fingered " ( rhododactylos ), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia:

** with her rose-red fingers, rosy-fingered ( )

The first he called " formulas ": " rosy-fingered dawn ", " the wine-dark sea ", and other specific set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics.

Hagoromo appears again before the poem returns to Beardsley, also in the shadow of death, declaring the difficulty of beauty with a phrase from Symons and Sappho / Homer's rosy-fingered dawn woven through the passage.

the landscape of Greek history broadens widely, and rather abruptly, in the eighth century B.C., the age of Homer's `` rosy-fingered Dawn ''.

# Epithet: Heavy use of repetition or stock phrases: e. g., Homer's " rosy-fingered dawn " and " wine-dark sea.

Many poetic dictions use repetitive phrases for effect, either a short phrase ( such as Homer's " rosy-fingered dawn " or " the wine-dark sea ") or a longer refrain.

" But when fair rosy-fingered morn appears, forthwith bring out your host and your horsemen in front of the ships, urging them on, and yourself fighting among the foremost.

Homer used the stock epithet " rosy-fingered Dawn " frequently in The Iliad and The Odyssey.

: But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector.

A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in " rosy-fingered " dawn or " swift-footed " Achilles.

As a specialist in winter landscapes, he explored the nuances of the evening sky and the rosy-fingered dawn.

It is said that an ochre or saffron-robed sannyasi was once passing his ( Bhaskararaya's ) house while he was sitting in the portico.

The religion places a heavy emphasis on asceticism and feats of endurance, and white and saffron-robed yamabushi toting a horagai conch-shell trumpet are still a common sight near the shugendō holy site of Dewa Sanzan and in the sacred mountains of Kumano and Omine.

In the Olympian system, the " queenly " and " golden-throned " Eos can no longer grant immortality to her lover as Selene had done, but must ask it of Zeus, as a boon.

Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

* Hippo, an Amazon who took part in the introduction of religious rites in honor of the goddess Artemis.

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

* Temple of Aphaea, dedicated to its namesake, a goddess who was later associated with Athena ; the temple was part of a pre-Christian, equilateral holy triangle of temples including the Athenian Parthenon and the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Sipriotes is a boy, who, either because he accidentally sees Artemis bathing or because he attempts to rape her, is turned into a girl by the goddess.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of " goddess of autumn " ( Sharada ).

Isis, an Egyptian goddess who represented, among many other things, ideal motherhood, was often portrayed as suckling pharaohs, thereby confirming their divine status as rulers.

In some tales, the figure who first appears to be a " banshee " is later revealed to be the Irish battle goddess, the Morrígan.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

Doric Dāmātēr ) is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

In Homer's Odyssey she is the blond-haired goddess who separates the chaff from the grain.

She refers to Diana, goddess of the moon, who is often depicted with a silver hunting bow.

* In the popular MOBA game League of Legends, there is a champion named Diana who is loosely based on the goddess.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

Loki is sent to retrieve the gold, and Loki goes to the goddess Rán, borrows her net, and then goes back to the Andvara-falls.

In the Hymskvidha, Tyr's father is named as the etin Hymir – the term " Hymir's kin " was used a kenning for etinkind – while his mother goes unnamed, but is otherwise described in terms that befit a goddess.

After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home ; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her.

Athena sees all of this and goes to the house of Envy and orders the goddess to poison Aglauros.

Another is " snowshoe deity's fosterer ", or the father of the goddess who goes about on skis.

Her Alcinous made his wife, and honored her as no other woman on earth is honored, of all those who in these days direct their households in subjection to their husbands ; so heartily is she honored, and has ever been, by her children and by Alcinous himself and by the people, who look upon her as upon a goddess, and greet her as she goes through the city.

Bahucharaji is seated on low end and other end goes to sahastrar, which means that Bahucharaji is the goddess of starting the awakening of kundlini which eventually leads the liberation or moksha.

At the end she goes to the lake goddess, Uhamiri, who is like a mirror of herself.

Teshub then goes to the Hattian goddess Inaras for advice.

the procession goes to Marnamikatte where the goddess is worshipped.