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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
ana, Athena or Minerva, Aphrodite or Venus, Hera or Juno, Demeter or Ceres, and Hestia or Vesta. First comes the epoch of free girlhood, symbolized by Artemis, theust be finally one which shall comprise all of these, and may outlast them all. Hestia, or Vesta, is the sister of Zeus, but not his wife like Hera, nor his symbolicaer sake. On the eighth day of the Greek baby's life comes its baptism before Hestia, not with water but with fire,the ceremony of the Amphidromia, when the nurse avered purity,--they pass in procession round the central flame, and thenceforth Hestia is the protectress of the child. And observe how beautifully this sublime prforth, the emigrants take coals from the public hearth of the town they leave. Hestia's fire must never go out; if it does, it must only be rekindled from the sun. emeter, the mother, will sacrifice the whole human race for her child; and even Hestia is pitiless to those who profane the sacred altar of home. Each of these quali