Eir (Norse)

Eir

[Norse] A goddess of healing, considered the best doctor. She taught her art to women who were the only physicians in ancient Scandinavia.

Deities of health and healing

Deities by association (gods or goddesses of health and healing)

Aceso	Greek	♀	Aceso was the Greek goddess of the healing process. She was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
Asclepius	Greek	♂	a god of healing
Ataegina	Lusitanian	♀	Ataegina (Portuguese: Atégina) was the goddess of rebirth (spring), fertility, nature, and healing in the Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Lusitania.
Eir	Norse	♀	a goddess of healing

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Asclepius (Greek)

Asclepius

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A god of healing. His symbol is a snake. His parents were Apollo and Coronis. His birth was accompanied by scandal. While carrying him Coronis slept with Ischys. This was considered an insult. The act was reported to Apollo by a crow. Apollo turned all crows, until then white, to black to mark that they were untrustworthy. Apollo then felt compelled to slay Coronis with his arrows. He rescued Asclepius from her funeral pyre.

Asclepius was raised by Chiron. Chiron taught him healing which he went on to perfect. Athena gave him two vials of Gorgon's blood. Blood from the right side of the Gorgon revived life. Blood from the left killed. Asclepius started using the blood to raise dead mortals. For this overstepping of bounds Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt.

Apollo could not take revenge on Zeus himself. So he killed the Cyclopes that forged the thunderbolt.

Apollon (Greek)

Apollon

Alternative Names:
Apollo, 아폴론, 아폴로, Phoebus, 포에부스, Phoibos, 포이부스

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Apollon is the son of Zeus and Leto. His twin sister is Artemis. He is the god of music, playing a golden lyre. The Archer, far shooting with a silver bow. The god of healing who taught man medicine. The god of light. The god of truth, who can not speak a lie.

One of Apollon's more important daily tasks is to harness his chariot with four horses an drive the Sun across the sky.

He is famous for his oracle at Delphi. People traveled to it from all over the Greek world to divine the future.

His tree was the laurel. The crow was his bird. The dolphin was his animal.

Apollo and Aurora by Gérard de Lairesse