Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Hestia

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Hestia was the virgin goddess of the hearth. Hestia was the eldest child of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea. The Romans called her Vesta.
Hestia was one of the children to be swallowed by her father. Later, Cronus was tricked into drinking emetic, and vomited her and her siblings out. She was the last to leave her father's belly. So, in a way, she was both first-born (from Rhea) and last-born (disgorged from Cronus).
After the war against the Titans, Hestia managed to persuade her brothers, Poseidon and Hades, and her nephew, Apollo, of her wish to remain a virgin. According to the Hymn of Aphrodite, she sworn an oath upon the head of Zeus of not wedding to anyone and remain forever chaste and untouched by sexual love; such oath forced Poseidon and Apollo to find wives among other goddesses, or else they risk confrontation with Zeus.
According to the Fasti, the Roman poet Ovid wrote that Priapus, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, had almost raped Hestia, when she and the other gods had fallen into a slumber after a feast. Hestia (Vesta) only woke up when she heard an ass braying as the god was on the point of mounting her. The goddess' scream frightened off Priapus.
Although, there is very little information about Hestia in myths and literature, Hestia was nevertheless an important goddess in both Greek and Roman religions.
In the Homeric Hymns To Hestia, she attends the house of Apollo (temple) in Delphi. She was held in the highest honour, both among the gods and among mortals. She was worshipped everywhere, because there are hearths in every home and temple. Each city kept a hearth that had a consecrated fire burning perpetually in a chief public building. Fire from this hearth was taken whenever they sought a new colony.
Mortals, when holding banquets, would pour wine in offerings to the goddess, both first and last: one to open the banquet, and the other to close it (possibly referring that she was first-born and last-born status, as mentioned earlier). At the beginning of every meal at home, a small offering was thrown into the hearth flame. A song was sung in her praise, welcoming the goddess to the home.
After a newborn baby was given a name, the infant was carried to the hearth, where someone prayed for a blessing upon the child.
For the Romans, she was the all-important household goddess, the goddess of the hearth and the hearth fire. Her temple was situated within the Palatine in Rome, where the Vestal Virgins maintained the burning of the sacred fire.




Answer:  Why do you believe there is little information written about Hestia?

31 comments:

  1. it just talks about like what happened and not really any information like the previous myths and it's like in a story form not a myth form

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  2. because she was never married to any of the gods and didn't have any children.

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  3. She was never married to any of the gods

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  4. she never married any of the gods and wasn't that important because of it. She also didn't have children because she didn't want to be "touched"

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  5. She wasn't as outgoing as the others and had no sexual relations and no children.. So she didn't do much.

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  6. It just says stuff about like what happen and not really giving any info

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  7. I believe the reason there isn't a lot of information about Hestia because she wasn't married or didn't have any children.

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  8. it doesn't have as much information in it as the other ones do. Also she didn't have any children and she never got married.

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  9. She didn't get married and she never wanted to. All of the gods wanted to get married to someone or have children but she didn't even want kids.

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  10. It talks about how she never had any kid and how she was never married any gods. It also talks about the myth that happened.

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  11. Hestia was never married she never had children she always want to stay virgin not like the other god/goddess they weren't like her.

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  12. because she could not do much because she couldn't really fall in love and. she doesn't have any children and no husband.

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  13. I think there is little information because, she had no kids so she never had a husband. So therefore she is not in any other the other stories because, she has no kids and also no kids to zues.

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  14. she never had a husband or children so she is never talked about in any other story's. If she had children or a husband then she would be in there storys

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  15. because she never married anyone and remained a virgin. she didn't really do much

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  16. She didnt do anything but stay in the house.

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  17. She stayed in the house and didnt do anything because she never had a husband or children.

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  18. she stayed home and did nothing because she never had a husband

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  19. she didn't do anything and was boring with her life.

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  20. there werent many myths about her

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  21. she never married any of the gods and stayed in a house all the time.

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  22. Because she never got married and had children to have information about her children so that's why they didn't have a lot of information about her.

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  23. I think that there was little information about her because nothing really went on in his life and he never had a husband or kids.

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  24. she didn't have a husband nor any children so she didn't really do much but stay in the house

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  25. She never married anyone and had kids so they didn't have a lot of information about her

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  26. they didn't have important information about her because she ddint really have interesting things happening in her life

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  27. she never got married or had kids so not much really happened so they had nothing to say.

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  28. she was never a very interesting goddess and didnt really have an interesting life

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