Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

132 HygieiaAPOLLO who perversely kills him with a discus andchanges him into a flower. At Amyklai the bronzeof Apollo stands upon an altar-like pedestal said tobe the grave of Hyakinthos and, prior to sacrificebeing made to Apollo, offerings to Hyakinthoswere passed through a bronze door in the pedestal.HygieiaGoddess of health. Greek. The daughter ofASKLEPIOS, the physician god of healing. Hygieiawas also a remedial drink made from wheat, oiland honey. She is depicted as Hygieia-Salus in amarble group sculpture in the Vatican, withAsclepius (the Roman god of healing) and thesnake, which she is touching.HymenaiosGod of marriage. Greco-Roman. Member of theOlympian pantheon and attendant on APHRODITE(VENUS). Depicted with wings and carrying atorch, and invoked at the wedding ceremony.HyperionGod of primordial light. Greek. A pre-Homericdeity, one of the race of TITANS whose consort is,according to some texts, THEA and who is thefather of HELIOS and SELENE.HypnosGod of sleep. Greek. One of the sons of the goddessof the night NYX and the brother ofTHANATOS.HypsistosLocal tutelary god. Greco-Roman. Known fromthe region of the Bosphorus circa 150 BC until AD250. As late as the fourth century AD there arementions in texts of hypsistarii in Cappadocia, whoseem to have been unorthodox, Greek-speaking,Jewish fringe sectarians. The word hypsistos occursin the Septuagint version of the Vetus Testamentumand means “almighty.”