Editing Brizo

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{{Short description|Ancient Greek goddess}}
'''Brizo''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|r|aɪ|z|oʊ}} ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: Βριζώ; derived from Ancient Greek word βρίζω meaning "to slumber") is an ancient [[Greek mythology|Greek goddess]] who was known as the protector of mariners, sailors, and fishermen.<ref name=dictclaan>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Classical Antiquities|url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/seyffert/0103.html|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605194132/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/seyffert/0103.html|archivedate=2011-06-05}}</ref><ref name=Harpers>{{Cite web| title = Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Brizo| accessdate = 2023-04-12| url = http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=brizo-harpers&highlight=brizo}}</ref> Brizo was also known as a [[prophet]]ic goddess specializing in the [[Dream interpretation|interpretation of dreams]],<ref name=grkdivi>{{cite web|title=Greek Divination|url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/divination/0145.html|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101130/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/divination/0145.html|archivedate=2015-04-02}}</ref>

One of the epithets that was used in ancient Greece for the seers who specialized at the interpretation of dreams was brizomantis (βριζόμαντις).<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=e)nupnio/mantis Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, enypniomantis]</ref><ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Brizo">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=brizo-bio-1 A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Brizo]</ref>

==Worship==
She was worshipped primarily by the women of [[Delos]], who set out food offerings in small boats. Brizo would accept anything but fish.<ref name=Harpers/> Along with the offerings, Lillian Lawler has suggested that a dance done by sailors at Delos was in honour of Brizo.<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2307/283307| issn = 0065-9711| volume = 75| pages = 20–33| last = Lawler| first = Lillian B.| title = The Dance of the Ancient Mariners| journal = Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association| date = 1944|url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/283307| jstor = 283307}}</ref>

Prayers were addressed to her to grant everything that was good, but especially to safeguard ships.<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Brizo"/>

==References==
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[[Category:Greek sea goddesses]]
[[Category:Mythological Greek seers]]
[[Category:Oracular goddesses]]
[[Category:Greek sleep deities]]

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