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Aurora | Goddess of the dawn, brings light of day in her chariot |
Cupid | god of desire, affection, and erotic love; married to Psyche |
Dryads | a nympth or tree spirit who lives in trees and takes the from of a beautiful young woman |
Faunus | horned god of the forest, plains, and fields; he made cattle fertile |
Hecate | goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, and necromancy |
Iris | goddess of the rainbow and messanger of the Olympian gods |
Janus | god of beginnings and transitions, also of gates, doors, endings, and time |
Lares | originally gods of the cultivated fields; worshipped at the crossroads |
Leda | princess in Greek mythology; daughter of Thestius and wife of King Tyndareus |
Muses | deities that gave artists, philosophers and individuals the necessary inspiration for creation |
Naiads | the nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs |
Nymph | a young female deity typically identified with natural features |
Oreads | the patrons of travelers, who they helped through dangerous mountain passes and hills |
Penates | household gods of the Romans and other Latin peoples |
Quirinus | an early god of the Roman state; name derived from the Sabine word quiris "spear" |
Saturnus | god of agriculture, liberation, and time |