Hestia silver

HESTIA rigged mesh toga dress from Burnstein Azalee Fashion
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* silk, brocade, flowers & gold plated chain
* genuine design, original textures
* rigged mesh dress (long skirt & bodysuit)
* sizes: [XS], S, M, L, XL (add to worn) & different alpha layers for dress for perfect fitting
* conforms to the natural movement of your avi, just like in RL (rigged meshes)
* resizable flexi: skirt, silk top & flowers top

Perms: copy

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HESTIA (ΕΣΤΙΑ, Ion. Histiê), the goddess of the hearth, or rather the fire burning on the hearth, was regarded as one of the twelve great gods, and accordingly as a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. According to the common tradition, she was the first-born daughter of Rhea, and was therefore the first of the children that was swallowed by Cronus. She was a maiden divinity, and when Apollo and Poseidon sued for her hand, she swore by the head of Zeus to remain a virgin for ever, and in this character it was that her sacrifices consisted of cows which were only one year old.

The connection between Hestia and Apollo and Poseidon, which is thus alluded to in the legend, appears also in the temple of Delphi, where the three divinities were worshipped in common, and Hestia and Poseidon appeared together also at Olympia. As the hearth was looked upon as the sacred centre of domestic life, so Hestia was the goddess of domestic life and the giver of all domestic happiness and blessings, and as such she was believed to dwell in the inner part of every house, and to have invented the art of building houses. In this respect she appears often together with Hermes, who was likewise a deus penetralis, as protecting the works of man.

As the hearth of a house is at the same time the altar on which sacrifices are offered to the domestic gods (hestiouchoi or ephestioi), Hestia was looked upon as presiding at all sacrifices, and, as the goddess of the sacred fire of the altar, she had a share in the sacrifices in all the temples of the gods. Hence when sacrifices were offered, she was invoked first, and the first part of the sacrifice was offered to her. Solemn oaths were sworn by the goddess of the hearth, and the hearth itself was the sacred asylum where suppliants implored the protection of the inhabitants of the house.

The mystical speculations of later times proceeded from tile simple ideas of the ancients, and assumed a sacred hearth not only in the centre of the earth, but even in that of the universe, and confounded Hestia in various ways with other divinities, such as Cybele, Gaea, Demeter, Persephone, and Artemis. The Romans worshipped the same goddess, or rather the same ideas embodied in her, under the name of Vesta.

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