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Eos

Eos is the Greek goddess of the dawn, often depicted as a beautiful woman with rosy fingers and saffron-colored robes, driving her chariot across the sky to announce the arrival of the sun. In Greek, her name is written as Ἠώς (transliterated as Ēōs). The equivalent Roman goddess is Aurora, and in Latin, her name is written as Aurora. In Hebrew, Eos can be translated as עשרת השחר (transliterated as Osheret Hashachar), which means "the bringer of dawn." Eos is a Titaness in Greek mythology, the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the moon goddess Selene. She is often associated with the renewal of light and life, symbolizing the hope and promise of each new day. Eos is also known for her numerous love affairs with both mortal and immortal beings, which often resulted in significant consequences in Greek mythology.

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Eos
Greek goddess of the dawn
Eos
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the night. In Greek tradition and poetry, she is characterized as a goddess with a great sexual appetite, who took numerous human lovers for her own satisfaction and bore them several children. Like her Roman counterpart Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, or her earlier Proto-Indo-European (PIE) ancestor, also shares several elements with the love goddess Aphrodite, perhaps signifying Eos's influence on her or otherwise a common origin for the two goddesses. In surviving tradition, Aphrodite is the culprit behind Eos's numerous love affairs, having cursed the goddess with insatiable lust for mortal men.
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