Iaso
In the Greek Mythology, Iaso (“cure”), girl of Asclépios and Épione, is a divinity of medicine.
It is comparable with the Roman divinity Juturne.
She had five sisters: Aceso, Aglæa/Æglé, Hygieia, Meditrine and Panacea. Each of the six were associated with an aspect of health or cure. One knows in fact very few things about it. She was probably regarded as a half-goddess, unlike her Panacée sister, to whom one allotted the complete statute of divinity. She did not have of them less disciples, Iasides (“wire of Iaso”). In Le Character esoteric of the Gospels of Helena, Petrovna Blavatsky written, “Iaso, girl of Asclépios, were the goddess of cure and all the candidates with initiation in the temple of his/her father were under his patronage, beginners or chrestoi, called " wire of Iaso". ”
At the 2nd century before Jesus-Christ Pausanias (the author of Periégèse of Grèce) wrote about the sanctuary of Amphiaraus with Oropos, in Attic:
“The furnace bridge is divided into parts. A part is in Héraclès, in Zeus and to Apollon healer, another is allotted to the heroes and to the women of hero, a third with Hestia, Hermes, Amphiaraus and with the children of Amphilochus. But Alcméon, because in the way in which it treated Ériphyle, is not honoured in the temple with Amphiaraus, and not more with Amphilochus. The fourth part of the furnace bridge is for Aphrodite and Panacée and still in Iaso, Hygéia and Athéna healer. Fifth is devoted to the nymphs and Pan and to the rivers Achélous and Céphisus. ”
Aristophane speaks about Iaso of way humorous in Ploutos , when one of the characters, Cario, known as that Iaso reddened because of the gas which it had let escape.
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