Greek Goddesses?

Question

My two best friends and I are being greek goddesses for Halloween what other greek goddess should we be besides Aphrodite, and Athena

Answer 1

*Gaia*
Gaia is Mother Earth. She is from whom everything comes, but she is not quite a divinity, because she is Earth. She bore the Titans as well as monsters like the hundred armed men, and some of the Cyclopes - others were sons of Poseidon. She was the daughter of Chaos, and the mother of all creatures (according to some). She was the first and the last, and wanted all of her children, no matter what. She was primarily spoken of as a Mother of other Gods, rather than having her own myths.

*Hestia*
Hestia was the eldest of the 12 Olympian Gods and the eldest daughter of Rhea & Cronus. When she began her role as a Goddess, she had a throne of her own in Olympus, but when Dionysus grew into Godhood, she willingly gave up her throne to him, choosing the hearth as an alternative. She is the Goddess of Hearth and Home she is also one of the Three Virgin Goddesses. Her symbol was kept in every house, and whenever a child was born the parents had to carry the child around the symbol before he or she could be accepted in the family.

*Demeter*
Demeter was another daughter of Rhea and Cronus. She was the Goddess of the Harvest or the Goddess of the Fields. In her own time she was revered as much as Zeus was himself because her temper determined the lives of those on Earth. Centuries ago Greeks used to break bread in the name of Demeter as well as drink wine to Dionysus. Sound familiar?

*Hera*
Hera is most well known for being the wife of Zeus and the Queen of the Gods. She was also the youngest daughter of Rhea and Cronus. Her bird is the peacock, and in almost every myth she is portrayed as being maliciously jealous. But it must also be remembered that she was the Protector of Marriage. It is believed by some scholars that she earned her bad reputation by being combined with a similar Phoenecian goddess.

*Athena*
I could talk about Athena forever, but I'll attmept to be brief. Athena was the Patron Goddess of Athens, the Goddess of Wisdom, and the Goddess of Weaving. She was the Goddess of lots of other things, too, but I'm being brief. She was also a warrior and another of the Three Virgin Goddesses. Her father was Zeus. Technically her mother was Metis (Goddess of Prudence), but it is generally accepted that she had no mother. Athena was Greece's favorite Goddess, and there are many stories about her.

*Artemis*
She's definately my favorite goddess. Artemis was the Goddess of the Hunt. She had 50 hounds and 50 Dreiads (wood nymphs) and a quiver full of painless silver arrows. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto as well as being last of the Three Maiden Goddesses. She was also a part of the Triple Goddess. The Triple Goddess was the Moon in three forms. Artemis didn't carry the moon across the sky, yet she was still known as the moon. Although she was stunningly beautiful, she was very cold and she swore never to marry. She had only one love, a hunter named Orion (and even that's debatable). She was the Protector of Young Women. She was incredibly cool (coming from a young woman). The picture is copyrighted by Hrana Janto, who is the painter - with whose kind permission I am using the painting.

*Aphrodite*
Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love and Beauty. According to The Odyssey she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione, other myths speak of her as springing from the blood of Uranus after Cronus castrated him, and floating on the sea to Greece, where she was met by the Three Graces. The latter is the more accepted version. Personally I dislike her because she is exceedingly vain and thinks only of herself. I like to laugh at her eternal beauty and loveliness because she was a great grandmother of another God, Dionysus (who she also had a child by). She was married to Hephaestus, the Smith God, but she lusted after Ares, the much disliked God of War. She was also the patron Goddess of Prostitutes. Read more about Aphrodite.

Persephone
Persephone was special. She was the daughter of Demeter, the Maiden of Spring. Wherever she walked flowers grew. Unfortunately, one day Hades, the God of the Underworld, abducted her, raped her, and made her Queen of the Underworld. She hated it but there was nothing she could do, because she had eaten seeds from a pomegranet that grew there. So she was miserable for the half of her life she spent with him.


or you can find a better list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_god

Answer 2

Aphrodite and Athena have nothing to do with Samhain. I'm interested in knowing why you would choose these Goddesses. So if it were me?

Hecate would be a good choice as would Persephone. Demeter too as She is Persephone's mother.

Answer 3

Hey the site i am putting down list every major greek goddess so check it out even has pictures of them.......

Also the wilkipedia site has a list of all the greek gods and goddesses.......

Answer 4

Here's Aaron Atsma's interpretation of Medusa, from The Theoi Project website: "The poet Hesiod seems to have imagined the Gorgones as reef-creating sea-daemones, personifications of the deadly submerged reefs which posed such a danger to ancient mariners. As such he names the three petrifyers daughters of dangerous sea-gods. One also bears a distincty marine name, Euryale, "she of the wide briny sea". Later writers continue this tradition when they speak of reefs being created where Perseus had set the Gorgon's head and where he had turned a sea monster to stone. "In other motifs, the Gorgon Medousa was a portrayed as a storm daemon whose visage was set upon the storm-bringing aigis-shield of Athene. The two ideas were probably connected, with sea storms driving ships to destruction upon the reefs. "Some say there was ... but a single goat-like Gorgon, a daughter of the Sun-God, who was slain by Zeus at the start of the Titan-War to form his stormy aigis shield. "In older motifs the Gorgones were probably connected with Demeter Erinys (the Fury) and the three Erinyes. These were the bringers of drought, the withering of crops and the coming of famine. In myth the beheading of Medousa saw the release of two beings - Pegasos (of the springs) and Khrysaor (golden blade). This story might have represented the ending of drought with the release of the waters of springs (pegai) and the growth of golden (khryse) blades of grain. Demeter herself was titled Khrysaoros in Homeric poetry, further suggesting a close link between the name and blades of corn." I think that the above makes sense. Medusa never had a cult of any kind and so was certainly not a goddess, of snakes or even [like her parents] of the sea. Neither Lilitu nor Lilith seem to have been goddesses either. In fact it's debatable whether the Hebrew Lilith is the same as the lilitu spirits, who were more like nocturnal demonesses resembling vampire bats rather than snakes. Lucifer is a Latin name for the planet Venus and as a character in the original mythology was a very minor god hardly very hardly identifiable with Apollo, and more closely related to Venus (or Aphrodite).

Answer 5

Gaia, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Artemis, or Persephone

Answer 6

Hecate is a good witch for Halloween. Also, Demeter is a good choice--goddess of the harvest.

Answer 7

How about Hera, Demeter, Persephone, Hestia or Artemis?

Answer 8

Well other options are
Hestia (goddess of the hearth)
Hera (Zeus' wife)

Answer 9

Hera.
Demeter.

Answer 10

Hera,Artemis,Hecate or Persephone.Any of these would be my pick.Especially Hecate,Persephone or Medusa even.Of course it depends on the effect you're going for.