Flora (Roman)

Flora

In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring. While she was otherwise a relatively major figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddesses, her association with the spring gave her particular importance at the coming of springtime. Her festival, the Floralia, was held in April or early May and symbolized the renewal of the cycle of life, drinking, and flowers. Her Greek equivalent was Chloris. Flora was married to Favonius, the wind god, and her companion was Hercules. Her name is derived from the Latin word "flos" which means "flower." In modern English, "Flora" also means the plants of a particular region or period.

Flora achieved more prominence in the neo-pagan revival of Antiquity among Renaissance humanists than she had ever enjoyed in ancient Rome.

One of the fairies in the Sleeping Beauty is named Flora after this goddess.

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Roman goddesses | Fertility goddesses | Spring | Nature goddesses

Deities of winter

Deities by association (gods or goddesses of winter)

Skadi (스카디)	Norse	♀	Norse goddess
Uller (울레르)	Norse	♂	Norse god

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Deities of summer

Deities by association (gods or goddesses of summer)

Aestas	Roman	♀	Aestas ("summer", or "summer heat") is the Roman personification of summer.
Creiddylad	Celtic, Welsh	♀	Welsh goddess of Summer and Flowers

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Deities of spring

Deities by association (gods or goddesses of spring)

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.
Flora	Roman	♀	Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring.

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Creiddylad (Welsh)

Creiddylad
Goddess of Summer and Flowers

Pantheon: Celtic
Element: Fire
Sphere of Influence: Summer and Flowers
Preferred colors: Red, Yellow, Orange
Associated symbol: Flowers
Best day to work with: Sunday
Strongest around Beltane
Associated Planet: Sun

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Creiddylad is a figure from Welsh mythology known from the early medieval Welsh Arthurian tale of Culhwch ac Olwen, one of the tales of the Mabinogion. She is the daughter of Lludd Llaw Eraint. It is over her that Gwythyr ap Greidawl and Gwyn ap Nudd fight.

Originally betrothed to Gwythr ap Greidawl, Creiddylad is abducted by her other suitor, Gwyn ap Nudd, causing the two rivals to go to fight over her. King Arthur settles the feud by arranging for the two to engage in single combat every May Day until Doomsday; in the meantime Creiddylad will stay with her father.
The names of Creiddylad's and Gwyn's fathers, Lludd and Nudd, are likely cognate, and both seem to be variants of the pan-Celtic deity Nodons. The etymology of Creiddylad is uncertain.

Creiddylad's story is somewhat similar to Persephone's in Greek mythology. Some researchers equate her with Queen Cordelia in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin pseudo-history Historia Regum Britanniae, and therefore the source of Cordelia in William Shakespeare's play King Lear, but there are notable differences in the legends and the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia use the name Cordelia, not Creiddylad.

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Aestas (Roman)

Aestas (Roman)

Aestas ("summer", or "summer heat") is the Roman personification of summer. She is mentioned by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, and She may be his own invention. He describes Her as standing by the emerald throne of Phoebus (the Sun-god), with the other personifications of Time such as the Day, Month, Year, Century, and the Hours and the other Seasons, Spring, Autumn and Winter. She is naked except for a garland of grain or wheat-sheaves in Her hair.

According to Pliny the Elder, the Summer Solstice takes place when the Sun is in the eighth degree of Cancer. What the Romans thought of as the first day of Summer was considered to take place on the forty-eighth day after the vernal equinox, which Pliny states as the day when the Sun enters the 8th degree of Aries. (By modern figuring, the Sun enters the 1st degree of Aries on the vernal equinox). Using the current calendar, that puts the Romans' first day of Summer on the 7th of May. Silvius, though, considers the first day of Summer to be the 27th of June.

Ovid's depiction of Aestas may owe something to the Greek depiction of the Horai, the Goddesses of the Seasons. Their number varied with the place and time of their worship, there sometimes being two, three, or four of them, but they were generally shown as garlanded with the fruits or flowers of their respective seasons.

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