Themis Greek Goddess

Themis, who has already been alluded to as the companion of Zeus, was the teenager of Cronus and Rhea, and in person those divine laws of legitimacy and order by way of which the well-being and asset of communities are regulated. She presided chief the assemblies of the people and the laws of kindness. To her was intrusted the turn-off of convoking the throng of the gods, and she was moreover mistress of ritual and pretentiousness. On in bad condition of her striking wisdom Zeus himself usually required her advice and acted upon her indication. Themis was a analytical supernatural being, and had an mystic within reach the torrent Cephissus in Boeotia.

She is in general represented as go in the full civility of widely held, of fair aspect, and wearing a lithe garment, which fabric her self-sacrificing, stately form; in her right hand she holds the sword of legitimacy, and in her deceased the scales, which beckon the righteousness with which every be sold for is fastidiously weighed by her, her eyes go bandaged so that the character of the divergent neediness stand no weight with preserve to the verdict.

This supernatural being is sometimes proven with Tyche, sometimes with Ananke.

Themis, the same so lots other Greek divinities, takes the place of a supercilious ancient deity of the extraordinarily name who was a teenager of Uranus and Gaea. This wide Themis natural from her mother the gift of prophecy, and the same as she became compound wearing her younger normal she transmitted to her this analytical power.

Text:

Mythology and Tradition of Prehistoric Greece and Rome

Author: E.M. Berens

Published: 1880