Which Domestic Goddess Are You?

[Earth Walker]

I just got this from ivillage.com
by Peg Streep

For thousands of years, goddesses from all cultures
have inspired women to develop their inner strengths
and individuality. And ever since cave paintings, our
homes have been about so much more than just
shelter-- they are a reflection of our true selves.
What does your home have to say about your inner
goddess? Take this quiz to find out which goddess
you are most influenced by, and learn how to invite
all of the goddesses into your home for a more
harmonious balance.

http://quiz.ivillage.com/homeandgarden/tests/goddess.htm

One Can Never Have Too Many Cats! :D

[Hestia]

That was fun!:D Thanks for the link. My goddess ended up being equal parts Hera, Penelope and Hestia. Decorating is pretty much a religion for me (it was a 'professional hobby' in another life). My motto has always been 'Home, Garden and Witchery" :D

[Silverwitch]

I have just had a 'light bulb' moment. No wonder I never know whether I'm coming or going. It seems I have no less than six Goddesses vieing for me. Penelope, Athena, Hera, Kuan Yin, Artemis and Hestia are all trying to out bid each other, leaving me floundering somewhere in the middle. Add to that my gender test, which came up positively, definately male, is it any wonder that I'm so mixed up 8O

[sherry]

That turned out pretty good 35% Hestia 35%Penelope and 27% Aphrodite So I think of my home as my castle, I love to cook, can decorate with things I make and the romance is still there too!!

Thank You for the link, that was fun!!

[Elaine]

I'm a weirdo I think!!! :D I'm 36% Artemis, 18% Aphrodite, 18% Hestia, 9% Kuan Yin, 9% Hera, and 9% Penelope.......which means I'm completely disorganized, a pack rat, lazy and messy...but at least I like people, the outdoors, and animals!!!:D That's what I got from mine:eek: maybe I need to start meditating more...ya think:D :crazy: Thanks a lot for the self esteem kick Mystique....I appreciate it!:bad:

just kidding...that was fun.....but I do need to get my life in order!!!:p

[bluecat]

Domestic Goddess? Me?
Well, I'm a .... Oops, wrong room, nevermind ;).

Blue :cool: :D :eek:

[Earth Walker]

I did the quiz and my results.:eek:

Artemis 45.5%
Hestia 18.2%
Penelope 18.2%
Aphrodite 9.1%
Hera 9.1%
Athena 0%
Kwan Yin 0%

I'm so confused. hehehehe 8O :p


One Can Never Have Too Many Cats! :D

[Swanspirit]

Merry Merry ,
My score was :
Hestia 27.3%
Artemis 27.3%
Aphrodite 18.2%
Kuan Yin 18.2%
Penelope 9.1%

with no Athena or Hera. and I disagreed with some of the characterisations, and I noticed
that different qualities would be more in evidence at diferent times of our lives. My time for
being more like Athena and Hera was when my children were growing up. I live by myself,
so alone and quiet time is part of my life now, and goddess its wonderful,but I love having company. When my children were growing up, my house was the one full of kids, and noise and music
and that was when I had to FIND time for myself :>, so things and goddesses are more prevalent in my life at different stages of womens lives, which I think is how it should be :>.
Love and Thank you that was fun :>
Swannie

[MammaStar]

That was fun to do. Turns out my results were equal parts, Hestia, Artemis, & Hera and Aphrodite thrown in. Hmmm...., maybe my honey bear would want me to work on that Aphrodite socre.:p :heartthro

[SahuaDjet]

My score:
Aphrodite 27.3
Kuan Yin 27.3
Hera 18.2
Penelope 18.2
Artemis 9.1

I guess that means anything goes! :D I like clean, messy, simple, elaborate, eheheh. I am a bit of a naturalist I like cottons, flowers, greens and blues, lots of room, I love helping people and talking. I am mostly Kuan Yin. Maybe I should get to know her better. ;)

Sahu Djet

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

My Score:
36.4 Artemis
36.4 Hera
9.1 Kuan Yin
9.1 Hestia
9.1 Aphrodite
0 Athena
0 Penelope

:D

[Shy Hawk]

I'm 30 percent each Hestia and Kuan Yin (whom I know nothing about)....the rest are just thrown in. like 9 percent of each.
I guess that means I'm into Zen, peaceful and natural and homey. lol
Sometimes I can be wild though, don't let it fool ye.
:D
Shy Hawk

[Lisa McKay]

That was fun! I'm a Hestia-Hera mix with Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite tying for third. I am in dire need of getting in touch with my inner Kuan Yin.

[bluecat]

Did I post here????

Must be the residual effect from my design degree and all of that track lighting. ;) :cool: :eek:

Just kidding. This is a cool thread.

Blue :cool:

[cydira]

Hmm... how do you interpret this???

27.3% Hestia
27.3% Artemis
18.2% Aphrodite
18.2 % Kuan Yin
9.1 % Penelope

<grins> I think I'm a little confused. :)

[Lavender]

Hera 36.4
Kwan Yin 18.2
Penelope 18.1
Hestia 9.1
Aphrodite 9.1
Artemis 9.1

That was fun!

[Incendia]

Wow! That was a lot of fun! :) It turned out that Artemis and Hera were tied at 27.3%, Penelope at 18% and the rest 0%. Thank goodness (or shall I say goddess) for the Artemis side of me...my pet birdie is sitting on my shoulder and screaming in my ear right now! :eek:

[Dria El]

Ok, here's me...

You scored 45.5% Hestia
You scored 36.4% Hera
You scored 18.2% Artemis
You scored 0% Athena
You scored 0% Kuan Yin
You scored 0% Aphrodite
You scored 0% Penelope

Sheesh, not very 'centered' in this one. lol Oh well.

Off-centeredly,
Dria El

[BearDancing]

that was fun


I am Hestia 49.5%.............can you tell my moon is in Cancer or what.....ha ha

FairieSpirit

[Armitage]

I got mostly Artemis...I forgot the rest. It works though, I'm a pack rat, but not a slob, and I like cool things. ^_^

[Yvonne Belisle]

I finally got a chance to try it inbetween dishes. I have 5 of them the highest score being Penelope. No wonder I can't tell if I'm coming or going oh wait that could be the kids.:D Rough week the oldest starts his new school this week but not until Thursday and school ends for the summer next month! 3 months of entertain me! I'm saving craft stuff and getting creative I think it's time to pull out 3 pairs of pliers and set them to gathering broken glass from the woods here!

[Yvonne Belisle]

Bump there you go!

[Mairwen]

You scored 36.4% Hera
You scored 27.3% Aphrodite
You scored 18.2% Kuan Yin
You scored 9.1% Athena
You scored 9.1% Penelope
You scored 0% Artemis
You scored 0% Hestia

[loopy]

You scored 36.4% Hera
You scored 27.3% Artemis
You scored 18.2% Kuan Yin
You scored 9.1% Aphrodite
You scored 9.1% Penelope
You scored 0% Athena
You scored 0% Hestia

That was very fun. :) Wow, odd--Mairwen, I just realized I got the same percentage as you--not the same Goddesses in those percents, just the same numbers. ::goes searching for other matches:: cydira and SahuaDjet also got the same percents. Semi-interesting. :)

[Mairwen]

8O Reminds me of the "Can this be right" thread! 8O :crazy:

Now, can someone to G&G and tell me/anybody/us about these Goddesses? I don't know anthing about them!

[loopy]

Here is some information on them per www.pantheon.org (Mairwen, did you actually want it posted on the Gods and Goddesses forum? I'm a little slow today, but I didn't want to start a new thread and get in trouble or anything) ;)

Hera: The queen of the Olympian deities. She is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and wife and sister of Zeus. Hera was mainly worshipped as a goddess of marriage and birth. It is said that each year Hera's virginity returns by bathing in the well Canathus. The children of Hera and Zeus are the smith-god Hephaestus, the goddess of youth Hebe, and the god of war Ares. According to some sources, however, her children were conceived without the help of a man, either by slapping her hand on the ground or by eating lettuce: thus they were born, not out of love but out of lust and hatred.
Writers represented Hera as constantly being jealous of Zeus's various amorous affairs. She punished her rivals and their children, among both goddesses and mortals, with implacable fury. She placed two serpents in the cradle of Heracles; she had Io guarded by a hundred-eyed giant; she drove the foster-parents of Dionysus mad, and tried to prevent the birth of Apollo and Artemis. Even Zeus usually could not stand up to her. Sometimes when he got angry, he chained her to the mountain of Olympus by fastening anvils to her feet. However, most of the time Zeus resorted to stratagems: he either hid his illegitimate children, or he changed them into animals.

Hera's main sanctuary was at Argos in the Peloponnesus, where she was worshipped as the town goddess. Also, in this town the Heraia, public festivities, were celebrated. Other temples stood in Olympia, Mycene, Sparta, Paestum, Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora, and on the islands of Samos and Delos.

The peacock (the symbol of pride; her wagon was pulled by peacocks) and the cow (she was also known as Bopis, meaning "cow-eyed", which was later translated as "with big eyes") are her sacred animals. The crow and the pomegranate (symbol of marriage) are also dedicated to her. Other attributes include a diadem and a veil. Hera is portrayed as a majestic, solemn woman.

Her Roman counterpart is Juno.

Pronunciation
{hir'-uh}

Etymology
"haireo: chosen one"

Penelope: Penelope was the daughter of Icarius and a first cousin of Helen of Troy. She was the wife of Odysseus and was famous for her cleverness and for her faithfulness to her husband.

When Odysseus failed to return from the Trojan War (he was delayed for ten years on his way home), Penelope was beset by suitors who wanted her to remarry. In order to delay them, she insisted that she could not remarry until she had finished weaving a shroud for Odysseus' father, Laertes. She worked each day at her loom, and then unravelled the cloth each night. After three years of successful delay, one of her servants revealed her deception, and the impatient suitors angrily demanded that she choose one of them for her husband immediately. At the prompting of Athene, Penelope said that she would marry the man who could string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axes. By this time, Odysseus himself had secretly returned, disguised as a beggar; he passed the test of the bow, and then proceeded to slaughter the suitors who had tormented his wife.

Pronunciation
{puh-nel'-uh-pee}

Etymology
"Duck"

Hestia:
Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth fire, hence presiding over domestic life. She is the eldest sister of Zeus and the oldest daughter of Rhea and Cronus.
She was a virgin-goddess, and when wooed by Poseidon and Apollo, swore by the head of Zeus to remain a virgin. She had no throne, but tended the sacred fire in the hall on the Olympus and every hearth on Earth was her altar. She is the gentlest of all the Olympians.

Hestia also symbolized the alliance of the Metropolis ("mother-city") with the smaller settlements which were founded in the colonies. The colonists took fire from the hearth in the prytaneion and kept it burning in their new towns. The Romans called her Vesta, and build a temple for her in the Forum.

Pronunciation
{hes'-tee-uh}

Athena:
Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. She was the favorite child of Zeus. She had sprung fully grown out of her father's head. Her mother was Metis, goddess of wisdom and Zeus' first wife. In fear that Metis would bear a son mightier than himself. Zeus swallowed her and she began to make a robe and helmet for her daughter. The hammering of the helmet caused Zeus great pain in the form of headaches and he cried out in agony. Skilled Hephaestus ran to his father and split his skull open and from it emerged Athena, fully grown and wearing her mother's robe and helmet. She is the virgin mother of Erichthnonius.

Athena and her uncle Poseidon were both very fond of a certain city in Greece. Both of them claimed the city and it was decided that the one that could give the finest gift should have it. Leading a procession of citizens, the two gods mounted the Acropolis. Poseidon struck the side of the cliff with his trident and a spring welled up. The people marveled, but the water was as salty as Poseidon's sea and it was not very useful. Athena's gift was an olive tree, which was better because it gave the people food, oil and wood. Athena named her city Athens.

Athena's companion was the goddess of victory, Nike, and her usual attribute is the owl. Athena possessed the Aegis.

Other names
Pallas Athena
Athene

Pronunciation
{a-thee'na}

Etymology
"Protectress"

Aphrodite:
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione.
After her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus, the steadiest of the gods. He could hardly believe his good luck and used all his skills to make the most lavish jewels for her. He made her a girdle of finely wrought gold and wove magic into the filigree work. That was not very wise of him, for when she wore her magic girdle no one could resist her, and she was all too irresistible already. She loved gaiety and glamour and was not at all pleased at being the wife of sooty, hard-working Hephaestus.

Aphrodite loved and was loved by many gods and mortals. Among her mortal lovers, the most famous was perhaps Adonis. Some of her sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios and Aeneas (with her Trojan lover Anchises). She is accompanied by the Graces.

Her festival is the Aphrodisiac which was celebrated in various centers of Greece and especially in Athens and Corinth. Her priestesses were not prostitutes but women who represented the goddess and sexual intercourse with them was considered just one of the methods of worship. Aphrodite was originally an old-Asian goddess, similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro-Palestinian goddess Ashtart. Her attributes are a.o. the dolphin, the dove, the swan, the pomegranate and the lime tree.

In Roman mythology Venus is the goddess of love and beauty and Cupid is love's messenger.

Other names
Aphrodite Pandemos
Cerigo

Pronunciation
{af-roh-dy'-tee}

Etymology
"Foam-born"

(Artemis and Kuan Yin weren't at this website--I'm running upstairs to grab a book on the Goddesses, one second...Interestingly, there was a God Guan Yin.)

Ok, here's paraphrasing from Linda Barker-Revell's The Goddess, Myths and Stories

Artemis:

Roman form: Diana
Depicted in Western as The Huntress, guardian of animals and her own virginity. Is the triple goddess of old. The name has no meaning in any language; rather, is a collaboration of names, as the Goddess herself is thought to be a collaboration of many divinities. Artemis is the personification of natural law, and is nurturing as well as fiercely protective of all that is wild.

The myth goes that Artemis' mother Leto gave a painless birth to Artemis, who then assisted her mother in the delivery of Apollo. Leto named her daughter Artemis, goddess of the moon, and her son Apollo, god of the sun. A premonition told Leto that neither of her children would ever find true love. Artemis grew up shy, only requesting of her father Zeus (Jupiter) a hunting tunic, a bow, and arrows. Then she requested the gift of eternal virginity, which was also granted. Artemis lived in the wood, protecting the same creatures she hunted. Others who sought to follow her lead must pledge eternal chastity as she had done.

At each phase of the moon, Artemis would tell her followers, who had become wild, forest-living folk, of her days as mother to all nature and the wise Hecate. She also told of one instance where a man shamelessly watched her bathe--outraged, Artemis turned him into a stag and herself to a hound, and then watched as the former man's own dogs tore him to pieces.

Kuan Yin: Chinese Goddess of compassion and mercy. Was the most popular Goddess in China and surrounding countries. Japanese manisestation is called Kwannon. Portrayed as extremely lovely, free of pride, ambition, or vengefulness, and thought to be reluctant to punish even the wicked. When Buddhism entered China, and worship of the Mother was fading, Kuan Yin survived and was absorbed into the Buddhist belief system, where she was said to be actually a perfected male Buddha who chose to manifest himself as a woman to become a great spiritual teacher.

The myth goes that the gentle mortal Mioa Shan grew up gentle and beautiful and kind. Her father, fearing for her safety, practically imprisoned her in her own home. Her fascination with the nearby monestary grew until she was so overwhelmed with curiosity that she snuck out of her home and entered it. She was overcome with a feeling of protection and felt safe to wander around, not knowing that the monestary had been filled with immoral people. She was overtaken by men who stifled her screams and dragged her away. Meanwhile, her father, upon hearing that she'd entered the monestary, assumed the worst and ordered that the monestary be destroyed. It was burned. Later, the governer was walking along a forest path when Mioa Shan appeared before him and told him that she was now a deity. She decreed that because he had held her prisoner when she was alive, he would remain childless for the rest of his years. She would be known from then on as Kuan-Shi-Yin, and would protect those who did not give in to rage, who lived in kindness and love.

[Yvonne Belisle]

I guess my test was fairly accurate then. Thank-you for the info.