Helen (Elenh) – daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of the ancient king lakonskogo Tindareya sister Clytemnestra, celebrated in the Greek epic her beauty. E., originally no doubt a goddess (the very name by sel – light), in the Homeric poems is a mortal woman, the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; because of her abduction by Paris ignited the Trojan War.

During the war, E. lives in Troy, as the wife of Paris, repenting of his misconduct, despising Paris and wishing with all my soul to return to his first wife and abandoned her daughter Hermione. Priam and the elders of the noble Trojans homage to her beauty.
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Venus (Latin: Venus) – one of the 12 Greco-Roman deities of Olympus, Aphrodite by the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty, the mother of Cupid (Eros), the Queen of the Nymphs and Graces. According to Homer Aphrodite, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, has a belt, which is able to make any woman or goddess "more beautiful than beauty itself." Thus, the initial presentation of Aphrodite is a personification of beauty, the highest enchanting female power.
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Leta (LhJh – oblivion): – 1) daughter of Eris, the mother of the Graces.

2) Channel and the River of Oblivion in the underworld.
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Eumenides (EumenideV, implied. Jeai) – are the merciful, benevolent goddess – one of the names of female deities, the best known under the name Erin, from the Romans Furies, which means angry, furious, the goddess of avenger, also known as the majestic (Potniai), venerable (Semnai) . In Hesiod, E. – daughter of the earth, fertilized drops of blood of the oldest deity Uranus, castrated his son, crown. This is – an explanatory myth of later origin, in conjunction with pedigree EA to the world's first violence against a parent.
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Sarah (originally Sarah) – wife of the patriarch Abraham, mother of Isaac. By Ieponimu and Arab writers, SA was the daughter of his father Abraham, but from another mother.
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Hymen (hmhn. HmhnaioV): a) Name of a special kind of choral songs of the ancients, who sang for the bride to the groom's house the boys and girls. Permanent chorus it was: "YGmhn YGmenai w w". – 2) Deity of marriage, actually personified wedding song.
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Occian (kelt. Oisin; Irish. Ossin or Osein) – along with his father, Fin MakKummalom, stands in the center of a vast cycle of Celtic legends. According to legend, they lived in Ireland, III,. AD. As Finn Mac Kummal, and his son ruled Ossin "finiyami or feniyami" who were in the ancient Irish standing army (FIAN), enjoyed great privileges.
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Patroclus – son Menoytiya, a relative of Achilles. As a boy, he had a game of dice killed his friend, for the father sent him to Peleyu in Ftiyu, where he was raised along with Achilles. Since then their friendship had begun, does not stop until his death AP and lasted into the realm of Hades.
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Osiris or Osiris – the most popular Egyptian deity. Related thereto myths recorded by Plutarch in his treatise: "De lside" and confirmed by innumerable allusions in hieroglyphic texts. Popularity O. explained mainly by its attitude to the world beyond the grave and the funeral cult. Son of the earth (Keba) and sky (Nut) Island, on the removal of his parents, he reigned over Egypt, along with his sister and wife Isis, with whom he was married before the birth. Noticing that their subjects, despite the long reign of the previous kings of the gods, were still deep in barbarism, O., and Isis taught them agriculture and settled life, medical skill, built cities, was injected marriages ustanovlyali cult. In doing so, they contributed largely man – personification of wisdom. Then O. undertook an expedition to Asia, for political and, even more, the cultural conquests. After the victorious return of O., a brother and his opponent, Seth, brought to the feast of beautiful chest and promised to donate it to the person on whose growth he will. Thus, managed to make it OA and throw a box into the Nile, which, through Tanisskoe track and threw it in the Phoenician Byblos, who grew up there Eric covered him with his trunk, and the king, I cut it, made one of the props of the roof of the palace. Ishida long sought a corpse, finally appeared in Byblos, had become first a teacher prince, and then opened, and obtained a tree trunk with a coffin O., who classified into Egypt. Seth found him and he hacked into 14 pieces. Isis managed to collect almost everything, and at each location, it was erecting the tomb, so most of the Egyptian nomes regarded themselves as the resting place of God or one of its members. This news is probably of more recent origin and was formed to explain the local cults and traditions; very many provincial gods-patrons were compared and otozhestvleny with O. – eg. "Great God, the leader of the Western" (ie the dead) in Abydos. This city and its Tinitsky Mr. arms had they had a reliquary with the head of O., from time immemorial attracted pilgrims, hence displays Manetho Start the Egyptian monarchy.

Already in the texts of the pyramids, where the myth of OA and its cycle is formed, this area is mentioned at every turn.
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Shiva – (Sanskrit: siva = friendly, supportive, darling) – one of the three main deities of Indian mythology poslevediyskoy era.
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