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<p> (Gr. Εώς ), in [[Greek]] and [[Roman]] mythology, is the goddess of twilight, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was the daughter of the [[Titan]] [[Hyperion]] and. his sister Theia, or his sister Euryphaeessa. She was sister to [[Helios]] (God of the Sun) and to [[Selene]] (goddess of the moon). She is the constant companion of the god of the sun, opening the golden door with rosy fingers and strewing roses in his path. [[By]] Astrseus she was mother of the winds Zephyr, Boreas, and Notus, and also of [[Hesperus]] and of the constellations. [[Besides]] this, she favored four mortals and gave birth by them to children. The first was Orion, whose love she only had for a short time, as [[Diana]] slew him with her arrows; another was Clitus, son of Mantius, whom she brought to the place of the immortal gods because of his beauty; a third was" Tithonus, the son of Laomedon, king of Troy; the fourth was Cephalus, whom she abducted from his wife [[Procris]] and later returned again, and by whom she had a son, Phaethon. </p> | <p> (Gr. Εώς ), in [[Greek]] and [[Roman]] mythology, is the goddess of twilight, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was the daughter of the [[Titan]] [[Hyperion]] and. his sister Theia, or his sister Euryphaeessa. She was sister to [[Helios]] (God of the Sun) and to [[Selene]] (goddess of the moon). She is the constant companion of the god of the sun, opening the golden door with rosy fingers and strewing roses in his path. [[By]] Astrseus she was mother of the winds Zephyr, Boreas, and Notus, and also of [[Hesperus]] and of the constellations. [[Besides]] this, she favored four mortals and gave birth by them to children. The first was Orion, whose love she only had for a short time, as [[Diana]] slew him with her arrows; another was Clitus, son of Mantius, whom she brought to the place of the immortal gods because of his beauty; a third was" Tithonus, the son of Laomedon, king of Troy; the fourth was Cephalus, whom she abducted from his wife [[Procris]] and later returned again, and by whom she had a son, Phaethon. </p> | ||
