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16 Cards in this Set
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Zeus |
Sky and Weather, king of gods, protection of guests, hosts, and suppliants |
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Hera |
Women in their roles of wives and mothers |
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Athena |
Cunning, battle, weaving, crafts, fertility of the olive tree |
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Poseidon |
The sea, rivers, springs, earthquakes, horses |
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Aphrodite |
Sexual desire, human and animal fertility |
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Hephaestus |
Metalworking and other crafts, fire as the basis of technology |
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Ares |
War |
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Eros |
Sexual desire |
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Apollo |
Purification, interpretation of religious law, prophecy, healing & plague, music & poetry, sun |
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Artemis |
Hunting, fertility of wild animals, childbirth, women's transition from virginity to sexual maturity, moon |
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Hermes |
Stone heaps and pillars, travel, boundaries, theft, fertility, luck |
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Hestia |
The hearth fire |
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Dionysus/Bacchus |
Fertility of vine, vegetation, life-giving fluids, release from social constraints, drama |
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Demeter |
Fertility of grain, Eleusinian Mysteries (hope of a happy afterlife) |
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Persephone/Kore |
Fertility of grain, queen of the underworld |
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Hades/Pluto |
King of the underworld |
