Editing Themis (section)

==Name==
''Themis'' means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the Greek verb ''títhēmi'' ([[wikt:τίθημι|τίθημι]]), meaning "to put."<ref>[[LSJ]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*q%3Aentry+group%3D9%3Aentry%3Dqe%2Fmis s.v. θέμις].</ref>

To the ancient Greeks she was originally the organizer of the "communal affairs of humans, particularly assemblies."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/themis.html |title=(University of Washington School of Law) Themis, Goddess of Justice |access-date=2008-07-16 |archive-date=2008-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725032608/http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/themis.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>  [[Moses Finley]] remarked of ''themis'', as the word was used by [[Homer]] in the 8th century BCE, to evoke the social order of the 10th- and 9th-century [[Greek Dark Ages]]:

{{blockquote|Themis is untranslatable. A gift of the gods and a mark of civilized existence, sometimes it means right custom, proper procedure, social order, and sometimes merely the will of the gods (as revealed by an [[omen]], for example) with little of the idea of right.<ref>Finley, ''The World of Odysseus'', rev. ed. (New York: Viking Press), 1978: 78, note.</ref>}}

Finley adds, "There was ''themis''—custom, tradition, [[Folkways (sociology)|folk-ways]], ''[[mores]]'', whatever we may call it, the enormous power of 'it is (or is not) done'."<ref>Finley, ''The World of Odysseus''. p. 82.</ref>

In the ''[[Homeric Hymns|Hymn]] to Apollo'', Themis is referred to as "[[Ichnaea]]", meaning "Tracker".<ref>''[[Homeric Hymn]]'' 3 ''to Apollo'', [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D3%3Acard%3D89 96]; Gantz, p. 52.</ref>