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EOS
(EE-ahss)
From
Greek mythology, the Titan Goddess of the dawn
Common
clues: Dawn goddess; Canon camera; Canon model; Daughter of
Hyperion; Aurora's Greek counterpart; Dawn personified
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Eos
("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan Goddess of
the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the
Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the
sun. As the dawn goddess, she opened the gates of heaven (with
"rosy fingers") so that Helios could ride his chariot
across the sky every day. In Homer (Iliad
viii.1; xxiv.695), her yellow robe is embroidered or woven with
flowers (Odyssey
vi:48 etc); rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured
on Attic vases as a supernaturally beautiful woman, crowned with
a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a
bird. The worship of the dawn as a goddess is inherited from
Indo-European times; Eos is cognate to Latin Aurora and to Vedic
Ushas.
Evelyn
De Morgan (British, 1850-1919) Eos Painting Date: 1895 Medium:
Oil on canvas Location: Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South
Carolina, USA
She
is most often associated with her Homeric epithet "rosy-fingered"
(rhododactylos),
but Homer also calls her Eos
Erigeneia:
"That
brightest of stars appeared, Eosphoros,
that most often heralds the light of early-rising Dawn (Eos
Erigeneia)."
—Odyssey
13.93
And
Hesiod: "And after these Erigeneia ["Early-born"]
bore the star Eosphorus ("Dawn-bringer"), and the
gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned."
—Theogony
378-382
Thus
Eos, preceded by the Morning Star, is seen as the genetrix of all
the stars.
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EOS
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We+ >1 08 Canon camera
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We+ >1 09 Dawn deity
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Tu+ >1 05 Goddess of the dawn
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We- >1 05 Greek goddess of the dawn
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Th >1 07 Daughter of Hyperion
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Th- >1 06 Aurora's Greek counterpart
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Th- >1 03 Aurora's counterpart
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We >1 08 Canon camera model
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Fr- >1 04 Sister of Selene
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Tu+ >1 08 Daybreak deity
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Th WSJ 02 Canon camera brand
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Th >1 08 Sister of Helios
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Th WaP 07 Canon model
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Greek Aurora
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>1 06 Greek dawn goddess
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We+ >1 08 Greek goddess of dawn
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Fr+ NYT 00 Selene's sister
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Th >1 07 "Rosy-fingered" goddess
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We- >1 02 Aurora, to Ajax
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Th WaP 01 Dawn of Greece
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Th- >1 05 Dawn's divinity
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Fr NYT 91 Lover of Cephalus
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Fr >1 08 Mother of Zephyrus
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Orion's lover
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