The Multiple Goddess Horai

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Horai, The-Seasons.
HOHrI
Alternate meanings: Hours.
[to Whom the ninth day of May, day 129, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: from H(is is really eta?)-omega-rho-alapha any time or period, whether of the year month or day. Latin hora, hour. Related English words: horology, hour, whore.
Description: Golden-diademed triple Goddesses of the weather; Those Who regulate the seasons; Gaurdians of the gates to heaven which They open or close by gathering or dispersing the clouds; Those Who send down or withold the fertilising dews and rain; Gaurdians of nature's order, and of the operations of agriculture; Administrators of justice and order; Securers of good laws, to Whom human morality is part of the natural law of the cosmos; Midwives to the Deities; Inspirers of sexual mysteries; Supervisors of the Olympic Games.
See also the Goddess Anthology under Horai.
To Whom Sacred: dancing; dancing places; ring-dances (as: the hora, a dance based on the zodiacal circling).
Festival: Horaea (at which protection was sought from the scorching heat and drought, and offerings were made of boiled meat).
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The Triple Horai Composed of:
Dice, Justice. Eirene, Peace. Eunomia, Good-Order.
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Athenian Dual Horai
Thallo, Sprouting. Carpo, Withering.
Athenian Triple Horai
included Auxo, Waxing-One.
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They became fourfold, and subsequently, twelve, when the day was divided into twelve equal parts, each of part taking the name of Hora.
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Titles/Variants, etc:

Attendants, or Triple aspect of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication
Daughters, or Triple aspect, of Themis, Steadfast-one , by Zeus. The Athenian Dual, or Triple, Horai are also Daughters of Themis.
Roman transcription variant: Horae.
They seem to be etymologically related to the Persian Houris linked under kilili-Mushritu.
Nurses to Hera, Our-Lady.
The Quadruple Horai are Daughters of Selene, linked under Phoebe, by Zeus.

Source: Encyc Brit:Horae; MA.PF/52, 58, 88; Walker WEMS; Kravitz WWGRM 122.

Carpo, Withering.
K*PO
Geography/Culture: Greek: Athenian.
Description: Goddess of Autumn and fruits; {Earth approaching Perihelion}.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Carpo may have the variant Carpho {or this may be a typo of mine, FW}.
One person of the Dual Horai.
Daughter of Themis.

Dice, `Justice'.
DEKA
Alternate meanings: Natural-Law.
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of justice; She Who is relable, repetitative, conservative, and predictable.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Also called Astraea, linked under Themis.
Transcripton variant: Dike.
Aspect of the Triple Horai, above.
Daughter of, and/or title of: Themis, Steadfast-One.

Eirene, Peace.
IR]NA
Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:

See also Norse Eri, linked under Eriu.
Aspect of the Triple Horai.
Tyche is identified with Eirene and the child Ploutos as equaling the Hora carrying the wealth of the year.

Eunomia, Good-Order.
YWNOMY1
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of lawfulness and good order.

Titles/Variants, etc:
One of the Triple Horai, above.

Source: WWGRM 95.

worked on: July 12, 1990; August 6, 1991; May 1995
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