

His sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons. His signs and symbols include the laurel wreath, bow and arrow, and lyre. His most famous temple is in Delphi, where he established his oracular shrine. In myth, he can be cruel and destructive, and his love affairs are rarely happy. Apollo is depicted as young, beardless, handsome and athletic. Both Apollo and Artemis use a bow and arrow. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. Her sacred animals include doves and sparrows. Her symbols include the magical girdle, myrtle, roses, and the scallop shell. She is usually depicted as a naked or semi-nude beautiful woman. She was also a lover to Adonis and Anchises, to whom she bore Aeneas. She had many lovers, most notably Ares, to whom she bore Harmonia, Phobos, and Deimos. She was married to Hephaestus, but bore him no children. In Hesiod's Theogony (188–206), she was born from sea-foam and the severed genitals of Uranus in Homer's Iliad (5.370–417), she is daughter of Zeus and Dione. Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. Drinking cups and other vessels were painted with scenes from Greek myths. A temple would house the statue of a god or goddess, or multiple deities, and might be decorated with relief scenes depicting myths. Helios is a bright, vivacious individual who shines forth in the sky.Ĭonsider giving this name to a light-colored horse or pony like a palomino, grey, silver, or even a roan.The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes. One of his sisters is the moon goddess, Sếlene, and the other is Eos, goddess of the dawn. Helios is a god who is known as the personification of the sun. It would also work well for a really powerful, intimidating stallion or gelding. Hades would make a nice name for a horse who likes to take control or who gets jealous easily. Hades can be a bitter and jealous lord-when he fell in love with Persephone, daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, he tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds while in the underworld so that she would have to spend six months per year there. He has an enormous three-headed dog named Cerberus that guards the way in and out of the underworld. Hades, one of Zeus' brothers, is the god of wealth and the lord of the underworld.
