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=== Goddess of marriage and bride === {{div col begin}} * Γαμήλιος ('''Gamēlios'''), 'preciding over marriage'. A sacrifice to Hera ensured a happy married life.<ref name=Farnell194>Farnell Cults I, 194-197</ref> * Γαμηστόλος ('''Gamēstόlos'''), 'leading the troop of marriage'.<ref name=Nilsson429/> * Νυμφευομένη ('''Nymphevomenē'''), 'led as a bride' at [[Plataea]], in relation to her festival [[Daedala]].<ref name=Pausanias927>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'':[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D7 9.2.7-9.3.2]</ref><ref name=Farnell241>Farnell Cults I, 241-243</ref> * Νυμφη ('''Nymphē'''), 'bride'.<ref name=Nilsson429/> * Παρθένος ('''Parthénos''') 'Virgin'<ref name=Nilsson429/> * Παρθενία ('''Parthenia'''),<ref name=Farnell249>Farnell Cults I, 249-254</ref> * Παῖς ('''Pais''') 'Child' (in her role as virgin) at [[Stymphalus]].<ref name=Paus8222>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D22%3Asection%3D2 Pausanias 8.22.2]</ref><ref name=Nilsson429/> * Συζύγιος ('''Syzygios''') 'patroness of marriage' <ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=suzugi%2Fa&la=greek#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=suzu/gios-contents συζύγιος]</ref><ref name=Nilsson429/> * Τελεία ('''Teleia''') 'bringing the fulfillement of marriage'.<ref name=Paus8222/><ref name=Farnell241/> * Ζυγία ('''Zygia'''), 'yoke of marriage'. Her husband Zeus had also the epithet Zygius (Ζυγίος).<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=zygia-bio-1 A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Zygia and Zygius]</ref> * Χήρα ('''Chḗrα''') 'Widowed' at [[Stymphalus]].<ref name=Paus8222/> {{div col end}}
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