Hestia

In the Greek Mythology, Hestia (in Greek old Ἑστία / Hestía ) is the divinity of crowned fire and the hearth. She is the oldest daughter of Cronos and Rhéa, sister of Zeus, Poséidon, Hadès, Héra and Déméter. Hestia belongs to the generation of the twelve large divinities of the Olympe (though its presence in the Olympian gun is variable).

In the Roman Mythology, it corresponds to Vesta.

When Zeus, his/her brother, seized the supreme capacity, it obtained, just like Artémis or Athéna, the favor to preserve its virginity eternally, in order to escape assiduities in love with Apollon and Poséidon.

Almost no myth is attached to this goddess, who does not take part in any conflict, which in fact a single case among the Olympian ones. Zeus holds the grease of the sacrifices for him.

Worship

Hestia incarnates the domestic hearth, the crowned flame which unceasingly burns in the residences and the temples, and which purifies them. She is venerated like protective families, cities and colonies.

Indeed, when the Greeks wanted to found a colony, they carried metropolis the fire of Hestia intended to light the hearth of the new fatherland. Thus, Hestia, symbolizes also the perenniality of civilization and the religion.

Each meal started and finished by an offering with Hestia.

Principal places of worship and sanctuaries

  1. Athens, chief town of Attic (southern of the Greece);

  2. Oropos, quoted of Attic;
  3. Hermione, quoted of Argolide (southern of Greece);
  4. Sparte, chief town of Laconie (southern of Greece);
  5. Olympie, Sanctuaire of Elect (Élide, south of Greece);
  6. Larissa, chief town of the Lapithes (Thessalie, north of Greece);
  7. the island of Ténédos, (Aegean Sea).

Iconography

In general the Old ones represented it upright, severely vêtue, with a veil on the head.

Attributes

  • Its attributes: fire, the hearth

Its symbol: fire

Sources

  • (I, 4-7).

  • Aristophane, the Wasps (v. 846).
  • Bacchylide (france 14B?).
  • (II, 27).
  • (I, 4; V, 68,1; V, 70,1).
  • (v. 453-454).
  • ( Foreword ).
  • (V with Aphrodite, v. 18; XVIII and XXIV in Hestia).
  • (LXXXIV with Hestia).
  • (VI, 285; VI, 319).
  • (I, 18,3; I, 34,3; II, 35,1; III, 11,11; Y, 11,8; V, 14,4; V, 26,2-3).
  • ( Néméennes , XI, 1-2).
  • (v. 246).

See too


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