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Eos (Aurora)

Aurora (Adolphe-William Bouguereau)

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Aurora(from Latin aura - “pre-dawn breeze”, among the Greeks Eos) - goddess of the dawn, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Selene and wife of the Titan Astraea.
The goddess Aurora gave birth to the titan Astraea Zephyr, Boreas and Notus, as well as Hesperus and other constellations. In Roman mythology, she is the goddess of dawn, bringing daylight to gods and people.
She was usually depicted winged, often on a chariot drawn by winged or unwinged horses, in a red and yellow robe, sometimes with a solar disk above her head, with a halo or crown of rays around her forehead, or with a torch in her right hand, sometimes also with vessels (of dew) in hand.
The asteroid (94) Aurora, discovered in 1867, is named after Aurora.

Sunrise (Francois Boucher (1703-1770)

Aurora- (In Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Greek Eos).
Eos(ancient Greek Ἕως , epic Ἠώς , Mycenaean a-wo-i-jo) in Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn. Second generation Titanide: daughter of the Titan Hyperion and the Titanide Theia, sister of Helios and Selene. According to another version, her mother was Hyperion's sister Eirithaesa. Considering that during the revolt of the giants, Zeus temporarily forbade both Selene and Helios and Eos from shining, she, along with her relatives, is a bearer of light.

Apollo and Aurora (Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)

In her marriage to the giant Astraeus, Aurora gave birth to Boreas, Notus and Zephyr, the Morning Star (Venus), and, according to many, all the other stars in the heavens. The fact that Eos gave birth to all the winds except the east (which itself was considered fertilizing) suggests its close connection or identity with Astraeus. During the revolt of the titans, Astraeus rebelled against Zeus and was cast into Tartarus - it is not known for certain whether this happened before or after Eos’s many love interests.
In Homer, Eos is described as “rosy-fingered,” leading Helios daily to heaven, leaving her beloved Tithon still sleeping. On Greek vases she is depicted as winged, often riding a chariot drawn by four horses (quadriga). It was believed that she lives in Ethiopia and goes to heaven through the silver gate. She is wearing a saffron robe, and the stallions Lamp and Phaeton are harnessed to the chariot. Painting the sky pink and sending its rays first to Olympus and then to the earth to awaken people, Dawn announces the approach of Helios. With his appearance, Eos becomes Hemera (Day) and accompanies the sun all the way, finally turning into Hespera (Evening) on the western shore of the Ocean.
Eos is also known for her eternal and unquenchable passion for mortal youths. Aphrodite inspired this desire in her in retaliation for the fact that Eos shared a bed with Ares. Since then, shy and secretive, she seduces them one after another. Her lovers were: Orion, Cephalus, grandson Melampus Cleitus. Graves, however, considers the love adventures of Eos only an allegory: with dawn, erotic passion returns to lovers, and attraction usually arises in men.
Having fallen in love with Orion, Eos persuaded her brother Helios to restore his sight. After that, they shared a bed on the sacred island of Delos, from this shamelessness Dawn blushed, and remained crimson.

Aurora and Cephalus (P. N. Guerin)

Mullet was already married to Procris when he attracted the favorable attention of the goddess. Eos opened up to him, but he politely refused her on the grounds that he could not deceive Procris, with whom he was bound by an oath of eternal fidelity. Eos objected that she would easily break her oath in exchange for gold. To convince Cephalus, she made him look like a certain Pteleon and advised him to seduce Procris, promising a golden crown. When this was easily accomplished, Cephalus, without remorse, became the beloved of Eos, who aroused painful jealousy in Procris.

Aurora and Typhon (Francesco de Mura (1696-1784)

Typhon(Titon) is the most beautiful son of the Trojan king Laomedon (according to other versions - Tros or Ilus) and the brother of Priam. Eos kidnapped him and took him with her to Ethiopia, where she made him king and gave birth to Memnon from him. In another version, Tithon was kidnapped by the goddess along with his brother Ganymede, but Zeus took him from her. In return, Eos begged him to grant immortality to Tithon, but forgot to ask for eternal youth (like Selene for Endemion). When Tithon began to grow old, and Eos was tired of caring for him, she locked him in her bedroom, where he gradually dried up and turned into a cicada.
The abduction of Ganymede is seen by Graves as a misreading of the ancient image by a later mythographer, who perceived the image of the bride in the scene of the sacred marriage with the new king as an image of Eos.
After the death of his son Memnon at the hands of Achilles, Eos mourns him every morning, and the tears fall like the morning dew.

“Aurora” is a marble statue depicting an allegory of Morning (or Dawn),
created by Michelangelo during 1526-1531.

Irving Stone’s biographical novel “Torment and Joy” (1961) emphasizes the fact that Michelangelo, apart from Madonnas, had not made female statues in marble before, therefore “Night” and “Morning” occupy a special place in his work. In the work about the statue it is written as follows: “[Michelangelo] carved “Morning” - a woman who had not yet fully awakened, captured on the verge of dream and reality; her head was still sleepily resting on her shoulder; the ribbon pulled tightly under the breasts only emphasized their volume, their bulbous shape; the abdominal muscles sagged slightly, the womb was tired from bearing the fetus; the whole difficult path of her life was read in her half-closed eyes, in her half-open mouth; raised, as if broken at the elbow, the left arm hung in the air and was ready to fall the moment the woman lifted her head from her shoulder to look into the face of the day.”

Emblematics

In MC (Emblemata and Symbols) Aurora refers to the section “Times and Changes, or the Passage of Time,” to Daytime Times. The following is said about it:
Aurora statue (Krasnodar city)- Aurora, the morning star, morning or morning time, appears as a winged woman, with a star on her head, sometimes as a young nymph, crowned with flowers, sitting in a scarlet or purple chariot, drawn by Pegasus, with a torch in her right hand, scattering roses with her left. Sometimes with a great veil stretched far back, with ruddy breasts and scarlet horses. Sometimes with a rooster standing next to her.
Aurora (Eos) is a popular figure in Baroque painting (most often palace ceilings and vaults). There are many varieties of its image:

* flying in front of Helios's chariot with a torch;
* ruling chariot (two or four),
* riding on the winged Pegasus, scattering flowers on its way;
* her flight is often watched by the bearded Typhon (Tithon);
* often she and the chariot of the Sun are surrounded by young Oras - goddesses of the seasons.

Also often depicted are receding night clouds and an illuminated horizon.

Aurora (Auguste Fragonard)

Aurora and Cephalus; kidnapping of Cephalus

Aurora's passion for Cephalus was reinterpreted by Italian Baroque playwrights and, being popular, was widely used by artists. According to this story, the passion for Cephalus is the strongest among Eos. The fact that he rejected her forced Eos to neglect his daily duty, bringing Helios to heaven. Cupid saved the world from Khoas by forcing Cephalus to reciprocate her feelings. Happy Aurora carried the young man in her chariot to heaven. "Kidnapping" Cephalus means his capture rather than sexual violence, as in the cases of the kidnappings of Europa and Proserpina.
Aurora (Michelangelo Buonarroti)- Aurora (winged) is depicted rapidly flying from the sky down to Cephalus. Her chariot awaits them on the clouds, surrounded by cupids. In another interpretation, Cephalus is on a chariot, still trying to reject Aurora's embrace, while old Tithon lies nearby and sleeps, unaware of what is happening.
Aurora also appears in the story of Cephalus and Procris, another dramatic adaptation dating from the same time.

In the air heights, between night and day,

God set you as an eternal border,

He clothed you with purple fire,

He gave you a consort to be your companion.

When you're in the blue sky

You shine, quietly burning out,

I think, looking at you:

Dawn, we are like you:

A mixture of fire and cold,

A mixture of heaven and hell.

Merging of rays and darkness.

A.S. Khomyakov /1/.

The image of the Greek goddess Goddess Dawn is rarely found in Tarot and Oracle cards. We know this image in the oracle Ancient Feminin Wisdom(Ancient female wisdom), in Tarot "Union of Goddesses"(VII Arcana ) and, perhaps, that's all. In the deck Goddess Tarot there is a card called Dawn, the authors correlate it with the XIX Arcanum. A beautiful energy map, but this is an image of the Slavic pantheon, so its analysis will be the subject of another article.

The Goddess Eos is a complex, contradictory, ambiguous archetype that has evoked in us many strong feelings, associations and thoughts.

Eos is the presence of what is not...

“Young Eos with purple fingers rose from the darkness”

Homer

Hearken, goddess, leading a luminous day for mortals,

Brightly burning Eos, which makes the world blush!

You foreshadow the bright Titan, the great god,

You direct the path of the impenetrable night into the underground depths

You send it away, gloomily, when you ascend to heaven.

You are a guide in business, a leader in human life,

You are a delight for mortals: no one seeks to avoid

The highest eye of the Dawn when it appears in the sky, -

No, but when you drive away the sweet dream from your mind,

The human race is glad, and the animal nations are glad,

The feathered birds and the entire population of the sea are happy,

For to those who live in the world you give a field of life.

Now in mystics increase the burning of the holy light!

Orphic hymn

Eos (H w z) goddess of the dawn, daughter of the titan Hyperion and his wife Theia, sister of Selene and Helios. Eos was believed to live in distant Ethiopia, and every day she leaves through the silver gate and rides ahead of the Sun, turning the sky pink. Eos sends its rays first to Olympus to notify the gods of the coming of a new day, and then to earth to awaken people. Eos precedes the appearance of Helios on the horizon. Warning the sun's chariot from rising, it washes the earth with dew, and its drops burn on the herbs and leaves like precious stones /3/.

The state of nature at dawn is interesting. Transition from night to day. The coldest time, thickening darkness, some special silence in the world, not a breeze... And now - the dew falls, the birds wake up, the sky brightens... A turning point! Turn! Everything around began to play, light up, sound, Dawn came!

“Dawn is a celestial fiery sphere that illuminates the landscape and testifies to the earth about heaven,” gives a definition from Dahl’s dictionary. Vyach. Okeansky, analyzing the metaphysics of the poem by A.S. Khomyakov’s “Dawn”, which we took as the epigraph /1/.

Witnessing to earth about heaven! This is the function of Dawn! To bear witness to the earthly, that is, the manifest, the material about the heavenly, about the unmanifested, about the heavenly fire, about the spirit. To be immaterial, but at the same time manifested, manifested in the light that it precedes.

“There is something in front of me that is unattainable and incomprehensible. And I am doomed to something in between,” the words of the operator in contact with the archetype of the goddess Eos. “I am a transition that should always be between day and night. I am the transition. I want to become something specific.”

The dawn archetype corresponds to a transitional, borderline state, borderline not in the sense of a diagnosis, but in the sense of a border. Like a control strip at an outpost. Here is “before”, and there is already “after”... “The sun will go away, the day will go away, I’m still here. Night will come." Without her, without Dawn, there cannot be a separate day or a separate night. “Nothing happens without transition. The transition is a very important point. The transition is self-sufficient.”

As it turned out, in our research this state of transition is simultaneously dynamic and hasty and spreading throughout space, intangible and dense, dancing and curling into golden spirals. “Spirals of darkness - light, shreds of light in darkness, shreds of darkness in light.”

Eos are horizontal rays from something that does not yet exist. This is density, physicality at the level of the etheric body.

In a woman’s appearance, this archetype can manifest itself as flexibility, grace, and sportiness. She attracts with her inner sparkle and multicoloredness, which is incomprehensibly read by others. Light red curls either develop in the wind or fall softly on the deep neckline. Slightly pinkish, white skin, sometimes cute freckles, wide-open eyes, mobility, lightness, dancing gait - make it possible to always look young, regardless of your actual age.

“I can be a golden whirlwind spreading across the clouds...” It is different, more often it is nourishing, filling with joy and enthusiasm, crystalline and iridescent, like morning dew. Remember, Dolsky: “Any outfit suits you, you are different every day...”. Maybe it's about her, about the woman - Eos?

State

The first impression of a cameraman immersed in the archetype of the Dawn goddess Eos? distracted from the case. She is busy with her own affairs and wonders who would need it. In this regard, slight irritation and slight anxiety arise.

She knows that she brings joy to others, but she herself seems to be missing something. “I’m doomed to something in between,” the words of the operator in contact with the archetype. - I am the transition. I want to become something specific.” When the transition has occurred, it is removed. Here we remember life situations when managers are appointed for the period of creation of an enterprise or its dissolution, for a period of transition. Anti-crisis manager, representative of external management.

Eos is always on the move and busy. She needs to be on time everywhere, be faster everywhere, move somewhere all the time, nothing can be missed. She is a transition. Its function is to ensure the birth, appearance of something, someone. There are such people. We call them by different names, often guides, pimps, matchmakers, etc.

Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night) give birth to Hemera (Day). It is this moment of birth that is the creative act of Eos. It is transition, as a kind of independent, separately identified state. And the transition itself can be different: short, long, fast, slow.

Eos prepares the appearance of the Sun. This is how protocol specialists, masters of ceremonies or directors of public events prepare the appearance of a significant figure in front of the people, this is how newcomers warm up the audience before the appearance of a star in a variety show, this is how a clown in the arena amuses the audience while uniform workers are preparing cages for lions. It is the goddess Eos who covers the grass with the morning silver dew and wakes up the birds so that they can greet the coming day with their overflows. It is Eos who leads people in white priestly robes to the altar for the mysterious greeting of the great Sun.

And here is an interesting point - she, the goddess Eos, instills joy in everything running, singing, hissing, growing, but for the most part those around her attribute this to the Sun. And she lacks recognition. And nothing can be done about it. That's how the world works. And women like Eos can only come to terms with the fact that others will get the applause, but she herself needs to run on.

Eos has an amazing quality - to nourish everything around. Birds, leaves, grass, animals, people. And at the same time it does not deplete itself at all.

“I feed them, but I don’t run out. Erebus feeds them through me.” We know such people, you exchange a few phrases with them, and you already feel more cheerful, and it’s not so boring to hang around in a traffic jam, and you no longer want to grumble at your colleagues. People of the Eos archetype are conductors of joy, conductors of the energy of life, the energy of creation.

Manifestation in family relationships

A girl like Eos deeply honors her ancestors, among whom there are probably outstanding personalities.

But she doesn’t seem to notice her parents. Self-sufficient and independent, she doesn’t really miss them. And eminent relatives are a completely different matter!

Deep respect for my grandfather - the great Uranus. For Eos, her grandfather is a powerful force that he gives to his granddaughter. She comes into contact with this force, she realizes it in the living space, “gives extension to this force.”

Our heroine, the charming Eos, most often has brothers and sisters. Relatives, cousins, many cousins... And with them, as sometimes happens among brothers and sisters, relationships are ambiguous. Lots of competition. Eos often feels undervalued. “I'm going to the Sun. The sun is incomprehensible and unattainable, like an older brother. I will never achieve it. This is my ideal. Something I constantly strive for. I appeared to strive for him.”

Maybe this is about women's immoderate desire for achievement? About animus possession?

Eos treats his leader, employer (Erebus) with great respect and gratitude. Perhaps he is also her distant influential relative “Erebus installed me. He is my master (operator bows). He commanded. I am".

Eos is a good mother. She has three sons from the titan Astraeus - the winds Boreas, Not, Zephyr and daughters - the stars. Yes, there is mutual understanding between mother and children, and even joint work is possible.

She loved very much her son Memnon from the mortal man Tithon. The son died in the battle of Troy in a battle with Achilles. This is how it is described in the myth.

“...He was the son of the beautiful goddess of the dawn Eos and Typhon and a relative of Priam. No mortal could match his beauty. Like the morning star, he shone among the Trojan army in his golden armor, forged by the god Hephaestus himself.

A worthy opponent for Achilles was Memnon, the mighty son of the goddess. A frantic battle began again under the walls of Troy. Memnon fought ahead of the Trojans, Achilles fought ahead of the Greeks. But he avoided meeting Memnon. The son of Thetis knew that if he killed Memnon, he himself would soon die from Apollo’s arrow...

Achilles wounded Memnon in the shoulder with a spear. Memnon did not pay attention to the wound; he himself wounded the son of Peleus in the hand. The heroes drew their swords and rushed at each other. Both of them were equal in strength to each other, both were sons of goddesses, both of them wore armor forged by the god Hephaestus. The heroes fought behind their shields. The gods watched this fight from high Olympus. The mothers of the heroes, the goddess Eos and the goddess Thetis, each prayed to Zeus for their son. Zeus took the golden scales, placed the heroes' lots on them and weighed them. Memnon's lot sank low, promising him the fate of falling at the hands of Achilles. The goddess Eos began to weep: she had to lose her dearly beloved son. Finally, Achilles swung his heavy spear and pierced Memnon’s chest. The goddess Eos covered herself with a dark cloud as a sign of sadness. She sent her sons, the gods of the wind, to the battlefield, and they brought the body of Memnon far to the banks of the Esepa River. There the young nymphs mourned him and built a tomb for him.

The Ethiopians were turned into birds by the gods. Since then, every year they fly to the shores of Esep to the tomb of Memnon and there they mourn their king” / 6 /.

It’s somehow even difficult to write about this, but it is possible that our heroine will have to endure such a bereavement. God grant that trouble passes her by!

Men in the life of Eos

Eos woke up in bed next to the beautiful Typhon

And she rose to bring light to both immortals and mortals.

So the rose-fingered Eos chose Orion for herself.

Cleitus was abducted from the earth by the golden-throned goddess Eos

Because of his beauty, so that he may live in the assembly of immortals.

Homer, "Odyssey", trans. Veresaeva

Eos's first husband was the Titanide Astraeus. Their sons were the gods of the winds: Boreas, Not, Zephyr, and their daughters were the stars in the vault of the sky. Astraeus rebelled against Zeus and was cast into the underworld. In our experience there was not a word about Astraea, for this reason we do not write anything about him.

But the Wind was mentioned often. “The wind is my friend, I understand it. I feel good with the Wind. I love birds because they are also with the Wind.” In this interaction there is a lot of play, dancing, light flirting, a kind of drive that every person needs to make life enjoyable. It seems that he is more of a dear friend, a like-minded person, but not a lover.

It seems that women of the Eos archetype have a friend, perhaps they work together. Someone with whom you can chat to your heart's content over a cup of coffee, consult, flirt in a new outfit, and even cry when your heart is heavy.

The myth describes several vivid love stories of the goddess Eos, to which we refer the interested reader.

The story of Aphrodite especially stands out. This is how R. Graves describes it.

“Once annoyed by the fact that she found Ares on the bed of Eos, Aphrodite instilled in Eos an eternal passion for mortal youths, whom she began to seduce one after another, shyly and doing everything in secret. First, Orion became her lover, then Cephalus, then her grandson Melampus Cleitus. Moreover, all this time she was the wife of the titan Astraeus, to whom she gave birth to the North, West and South winds, as well as the Morning Star and, according to some, all the other stars in the heavens /4/.

Perhaps this is an allegory, as R. Graves believes. At dawn, men often experience attraction.

Or you can look at it differently. There are many similar examples in real life.

Amorous woman Eos. The eroticism of Eos differs from the eroticism of Eurynome. Eurynome was driven by the creative need to be fertilized for creation, creation. The eroticism of Eos is more of an aesthetic nature. She falls in love with handsome men and realizes their mutual attraction. Some may condemn her numerous relationships, while others may understand that women can also fall in love with handsome men, just as public opinion allows men to fall in love with beautiful women.

The archetype of the goddess of Dawn is characterized by hobbies of different ages. We all know many examples when mature women are carried away by young men, perhaps not yet matured, who still belong to their mothers. These connections can be easy, short-lived, without any special mutual obligations.

Is there anyone who is without sin to judge Eos?

Advice- Giving people joy without being stingy.

In studies of the archetype of the goddess Eos, the method of focusing the archetype was used by V Lebedko and E. Naydenov /7/.

Literature:

3. R Graves. Myths of ancient Greece, - Ekaterinburg, U-Factoria, 2005.

4. Vladimir Shmakov. The Holy Book of Thoth. Great Arcana of the Tarot. Publishing house "Sofia", Kyiv, 1993.

5. Kun N.A. Legends and myths of ancient Greece. M.: State educational and pedagogical publishing house of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, 1954.

7. Lebedko V., Naydenov E. - Archetypotherapy./ “Golden Section”. Penza, 2010.

Place of Eos (Aurora) in the family tree

Initially, 12 divine beings lived on Olympus: 6 men and 6 women. They became the progenitors of the next generations of gods and goddesses. In one of the branches of the genealogy coming from the ancient gods, the goddess of the dawn Eos (or, according to the ancient Roman tradition, Aurora) was born. It is believed that all ancient goddesses are bearers of various feminine qualities and traditionally performed roles: mother, wife, daughter.

Eos (Aurora), the goddess of the dawn, is a representative of the third generation of Olympian gods. Her parents were the Titan Hyperion and the Titanide Theia. Aurora's name comes from the Latin word aura, which means "pre-dawn breeze". The goddess's brother is Helios, her sister is Selene.

From her marriage with the titan of the starry sky, Astraeus, all the night stars were born, as well as all the winds: the formidable and cold Boreas (northern), the fog-bearing Not (southern), the warm and rainy Zephyr (western) and the changeable Eurus (eastern).

Images of the goddess

The goddess of the dawn is called upon to bring daylight first to Olympus, then to earth, first to the gods, then to people. The Greeks believed that Eos lives in Ethiopia (on the eastern edge of the Ocean), and enters heaven through a silver gate.

As a rule, the goddess was depicted in a red and yellow (or “saffron”) robe and with wings behind her back. Often she flew across the sky in a chariot drawn by two or four white horses (sometimes winged, sometimes not). One of the horses was named Lampos, the other was Phaeton.

Homer called the goddess Eos “fine-haired” and “rosy-fingered.” The last epithet is explained by the fact that pink stripes appear in the sky before sunrise, similar to the fingers of a hand that Eos (Aurora) stretches forward. The goddess held vessels full of dew in her hands. A halo, a solar disk or a crown of rays shone above her head. In many images, the Roman goddess of the dawn appears holding a torch in her right hand and flying in front of the chariot of Sol (Helios) - the sun god - and leading him behind her.

Sometimes she is depicted flying through the sky riding Pegasus and scattering flowers around her. In paintings of Eos-Aurora you can often see a brightening morning horizon and receding night clouds. Ancient myths explain the scarlet or crimson light of dawn by the fact that the beautiful goddess was very passionate, and the sky was embarrassed by the nights she spent with her beloved young men.

Eos-Aurora and her lovers

The loveliness for which the goddess of the dawn was famous was manifested in her craving for earthly and mortal youths. This weakness was a consequence of the spell cast on her by another inhabitant of Olympus - the goddess of love Aphrodite, who was overcome by anger and jealousy after Eos shared a bed with Ares, Aphrodite's lover. Since then, under her spell, the goddess of the dawn fell in love only with mortals, whose youth and beauty inevitably faded over the years.

Eos and Tithon

The feeling of love and passion for earthly youths was both a blessing and a curse for the immortal Eos. The goddess fell in love, but was not always happy. The sad story is told in the myth of her and her lover Titon, the son of the Trojan king.

Inflamed with feelings for the beautiful young man, she kidnapped him and carried him on her heavenly chariot over the eastern edge of the Ocean, to Ethiopia. There Titon became king, as well as the husband of a beautiful goddess, who gave birth to his beloved son, the demigod Memnon.

Being immortal and wanting to prolong her happiness forever, Eos asked the supreme god Zeus to grant immortality to Tithon. However, due to the absent-mindedness characteristic of lovers, the pink-fingered goddess forgot to clarify that the young man should not only become immortal, but also remain forever young. Because of this fatal mistake, the happiness of Eos and Tithon did not last long.

The human age is short compared to the eternity of the life of a deity - soon the lover’s head was covered with gray hair, and yesterday’s youth turned into a decrepit old man. He could no longer be the husband of a goddess who was still young and beautiful. At first, Eos suffered greatly from the fact that she could not do anything: after all, she herself asked for eternal life, but not eternal youth for Tithon. Then she got tired of caring for the immortal old man, and she locked him in the bedroom so as not to see him.

According to one version of the myth, Tithon was subsequently turned into a cricket by the compassionate Zeus, according to another version - by Eos herself, and according to the third - he himself dried up over time, being locked away from sight, and turned into a cricket in order to live in old houses and sing creakingly voice your sad song.

Eos and Cephalus

Another myth tells of the love of a beautiful-haired goddess for the mortal youth Cephalus. At first this passion was not mutual, and Kephalus rejected Eos. Struck by his refusal, the goddess lost interest in everything and even stopped fulfilling her daily duty - to see the sun into the sky every morning. The world was ready to plunge into darkness and chaos, but everyone was saved by Cupid, who shot an arrow into the heart of Cephalus. So the goddess found the happiness of mutual love and took her lover to heaven.

Eos (Aurora) is a goddess from ancient mythology who brings the dawn and leads the sun. Without a doubt, morning in the minds of the ancient Greeks and Romans was considered a very beautiful and poetic time of day, since the goddess was portrayed as invariably beautiful and young, as well as amorous and passionate.

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Meaning of the word eos

eos in the crossword dictionary

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998

eos

in Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn. It corresponds to the Roman Aurora.

Mythological dictionary

eos

(Greek) - goddess of the dawn, daughter of the titan Hyperion and the titanide Theia (option: Helios and Nikta), sister of Helios and Selene. From Astraeus E. gave birth to the winds - Boreas, Zephyr and Note, as well as the stars. In the morning she rides out in a chariot drawn by two horses (option: flies on white wings), announcing the appearance of her brother Helios. Because E. shared a bed with Ares, Aphrodite took revenge on her by instilling in her a love for handsome young men. E. kidnapped Orion and Cephalus, then Tithon, the beautiful son of the Trojan king Laomedon, and gave birth to Memnon from him. E. begged Zeus for immortality for Tithon, but forgot to ask for eternal youth for him. Tithon became a decrepit, undying old man, and E. turned him into a cicada. When Memnon was killed by Achilles near Troy, E. buried her son and constantly mourned him, dropping copious tears (morning dew) onto the ground. E. was depicted as a young woman with long wavy hair, wearing a pink robe.

Eos

Wikipedia

Eos

Eos appeared early in the morning, emerging from the ocean, and ascended to heaven in a chariot drawn by beautiful horses. Poets, starting with Homer, described the beauty of Eos and her splendor, calling her “rose-fingered,” “beautiful-haired,” “golden-throned,” “dressed in saffron peplos,” etc. Her epithet is explained as follows: “Before sunrise, diverging the center has pink stripes that resemble outstretched fingers.”

The goddess with pink fingers, as Homer calls her, rises from her bed in the morning, swims out from the depths of the sea on her divine horses Lampos and Phaeton and illuminates the universe with light. Already in Homer, Aurora is called the goddess of the day and is identified.

The name Eos comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *haus-os-. In Roman mythology, Eos corresponds to Aurora, in Slavic mythology - Dennitsa, in Baltic mythology - Aushra, in Indo-Aryan - Ushas.

Eos (disambiguation)

Eos- can mean the following:

Eos - goddess of the dawn,
(221) Eos is an asteroid.

Examples of the use of the word eos in literature.

When did the twilight rose-fingered descend Eos and the evening dew refreshed the classical land, then we, sweetly memeing, headed home, reached the cave in complete darkness and settled there in a pleasant warmth on the velvet moss, some to suck the udder, some to chew the cud.

One day the rose-fingered goddess of the dawn saw the beautiful Cephalus Eos, kidnapped him and took him far from Athens, to the very ends of the earth.

So the morning dawn would have found them if the goddess Athena had not lengthened the nights and forbidden the rose-fingered goddess of the dawn to fly towards him. Eos.