Are there any Virgin gods?

Hestia, Artemis and Iphigeneia, and Athena. Greek goddesses virgin in the sense of sexual abstinence by an adult woman were Hestia, Artemis, and Athena.

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Who was the virgin goddess?

Artemis, the virgin goddess of the wilderness and hunting, was one of the most highly venerated Greek gods. Artemis was the oldest twin born to Zeus and Leto. The ancients believed that as soon as she was born, she assisted her mother in bringing her brother, Apollo, into the world.

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Is Athena a virgin?

In her aspect as a warrior maiden, Athena was known as Parthenos (Παρθένος "virgin"), because, like her fellow goddesses Artemis and Hestia, she was believed to remain perpetually a virgin. Athena's most famous temple, the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, takes its name from this title.

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Which Greek gods were virgins?

Artemis is the Greek virgin goddess of the moon and the hunt; she protects women in labor, small children and wild animals. Hestia is the Greek virgin goddess of the hearth. She never takes part in the struggle between men and gods.

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Is there a god of virginity?

Not only was Artemis the goddess of the hunt, she was also known as the goddess of wild animals, wilderness, childbirth and virginity.

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Was there ever a virgin birth?

Indeed, that appeared to be the case for some women. The researchers found 0.8 percent of responders gave birth despite being virgins, without the use of any assisted reproductive technology like IVF.

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Why did Athena stay a virgin?

One of the reasons she became a virgin was to avoid having a fate similar to her mother, Metis. Even though she is a virgin goddess, Athena has demigod children, who are born from her own thoughts combined with the thoughts of mortal men she loves. These children are "gifts" to the men she favors.

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Why is Artemis a virgin?

Being associated with chastity, Artemis at an early age asked her father Zeus to grant her eternal virginity. Also, all her companions were virgins. Artemis was very protective of her purity, and gave grave punishment to any man who attempted to dishonor her in any form.

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Which gods slept with Aphrodite?

Her lovers included Ares, the god of war, and the mortal Anchises, a Trojan prince with whom she had a famous son, Aeneas. Her most famous lover, however, was the handsome and youthful mortal Adonis.

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Is Thanatos a virgin god?

Thanatos is properly translated to Mors on many Greek to Latin translators. Thanatos is a virgin god. Even if he is described to be the God of Peaceful Death, Thanatos is actually the God of Death itself, as when he is stuck, people stop dying, even if said people die in a violent way.

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How did Zeus get pregnant with Athena?

Athena began growing inside Zeus's head. When Haphaestus cut open Zeus's head, and Athena was born, she was not born an infant. Instead, Athena was born a fully grown warrior, dressed in armor and ready for war. This is how Athena became the goddess of war and wisdom.

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Is Artemis a virgin?

Artemis was a virgin goddess, and she was accompanied by nymphs, who also were expected to remain virgins. If any of these nymphs slipped up and lost their virginity, Artemis treated them very harshly. One such attendant was Callisto, whom Zeus raped.

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Is Persephone a virgin goddess?

The only daughter of Zeus and Demeter (the goddess of grain, agriculture, and fertility), Persephone was an innocent maiden, a virgin who loved to play in the fields where eternal springtime reigned.

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Which goddess slept with her son?

Mother-Son Couples

In Greek mythology, Gaia (earth) mated with her own son Uranus (sky). In Egyptian mythology, Horus, the grandson of Geb, had his own mother, Isis, become his imperial consort. The goddess Hathor was simultaneously considered to be the mother and wife of the sun god Ra.

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Which Greek god slept with his daughter?

Zeus slept with his own daughter, Persephone, because she was there.

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How many girls was Zeus with?

Zeus mated with several nymphs and was seen as the father of many mythical mortal progenitors of Hellenic dynasties. Aside from his seven wives, relationships with immortals included Dione and Maia.

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Which Greek god had the most affairs?

Zeus and his many lovers

He was definitely the most adulterous god, though, with his list of consorts and children being the most expansive in Greek mythology.

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Did Aphrodite fall in love a with a human?

Of Aphrodite's mortal lovers, the most important were the Trojan shepherd Anchises, by whom she became the mother of Aeneas, and the handsome youth Adonis (in origin a Semitic nature deity and the consort of Ishtar-Astarte), who was killed by a boar while hunting and was lamented by women at the festival of Adonia.

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Which Greek god slept with his mother?

Years passed, during which Oedipus had four children with Jocasta. Oedipus found out that he killed Laius, his father, and married his mother, Jocasta.

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Why is Hestia a virgin?

Hestia was one of the original 12 Olympian gods and vowed to keep peace at Olympus. Innocent and pure, Hestia made a promise to Zeus that she would never marry. As both Poseidon and Apollo wanted to marry her, Hestia chose to remain a virgin for eternity to prevent a war between the two.

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Did Zeus and Artemis have a child?

She loved to hunt and spent much of her time in the forest. The god Zeus was Artemis' father and the Titan Leto was her mother. Artemis had a twin brother named Apollo. Artemis never married and remained a virgin.

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Who is Ares in love with?

Ares, not always a warrior, was a lover as well. He was known for being the lover of Aphrodite aka Venus, shown with him here, who was married to Hephaestus aka Vulcan, the God of Fire. Seen here with his shield on the ground, Ares is embracing Aphrodite.

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Who was pregnant with Athena?

She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus.

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Who did Athena fall in love with?

She never had a true lover or someone to hug and hold her; all she had was her loving mother, caring father and most of all her brothers and sisters. For some very strange reason it was hopeless that she would fall in love; Hephaestus tried once, yet failed. Athena was well known for giving advice/mentoring heroes.

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Was Athena originally a male?

First, she was born as a female. Second, Athena is also the goddess of weaving, and we sometimes will see an image of Athena holding a distaff.

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