#dike goddess

[diana-thyme]

Greek Gods 101: Dike

Dike is a Goddess of justice, fair judgements, and rights. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Scales Imagery or Figurines

Court Documents

Sword Imagery or Figurines

Blindfolds

Courthouse Imagery or Figurines

Gavel

Laurel Leaves

Laurel Wreaths

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for her include:

Watching or Reading Court Proceedings

Reading Through Court Records

Judging People Fairly

Learning About the Justice System

Learning About the Law

Learning About the Law-Making Process

Researching Your Local Laws

She is celebrated in 1 Athenian holiday.

Demokratia

[aceofcupsbiggestfan]

Horae

Horae (or Horai) are the seasons of Hellenism. They are often seen as a group of three goddesses, however in reality there are many variations on which goddesses they are, or even if they are epithets of each other.

Most commonly the three Seasons are seen as Dike (personification and goddess of divine justice), Eunomia (goddess of good order and lawful conduct), and Eirene (goddess of peace). This, however, is their later interpretation. Slowly across the Classical and Hellenistic Periods the Horae changed from season deities to goddesses of order and justice.

So while Lady Dike, Lady Eunomia and Lady Eirene are correctly the Horae, they are also correctly Thallo (goddess of "green-shoots" and blooming), Auxo (goddess of vegetation and growth at full bloom), and Karpo (goddess of ripening plants and fruits of the earth).

It's good to note that each Goddess here is also a Daimon, a personification, of their respected rulings. For example, you may find confusion while speaking of Karpo as the personification of Autumn, due to her also being the goddess of ripe fruit. This could easily be meshed in one's mind with Lady Demeter, goddess of the Harvest, who is commonly associated with autumn. However, Lady Demeter is not a personification, and is an Olympian Deity, marking her vastly different from Lady Karpo as the Daimon and Goddess of Autumn itself.

In the Iliad, the Horae were keepers of Zeus's gate on Olympus. This is thought to be their earliest written record. Here the Horae were said to be born of Zeus and Themis, meaning they would be the later goddesses.

Primarily, the earlier variation of the goddesses were worshipped in rural Greece. The later were also adopted in rural areas, but less as nature deities and more of goddesses that represent farming prosperity. The earlier goddesses are often seen with Chione (goddess of snow) and Orithyia (goddess of cold mountain winds). Together, Thallo, Auxo, Karpo, Chione and Orithyia were seen as handmaidens/entourage to Persephone as the goddess of the turn of seasons.

Nonnus described the Horae as four daimons, the daughters of Helios (And sometimes Selene) and handmaidens of Queen Hera. These daimons are different from the previous group due to them not only being seen occasionally as winged children, but also being not goddesses but personifications. These daimons are Eiar (personification of spring), Theros (personification of summer), Phthinoporon (personification of autumn), and Cheimon (personification of winter). However, this variation of the Horae are from a Greek poet living in Imperial Rome, so take it with a very large grain of salt as a Hellenist. But if you worship the Roman pantheon, you might want to look more into this variation than others!

Personally, as a Hellenist myself, I look more towards the first two variations of the Horae. Not one is wrong in their claim to their sisterhood of the Horae. With Cronus's wheel of time comes change, and it is only natural for it change as such. I worship both trios (and Chione + Orithyia) as the Horae, because they both are! They are goddesses of time in their own respect, and all eight deserve reverence, worship, and devotion as goddesses that aid us in every turn of life.

HELPFUL LINKS:

[sarafangirlart]

Eirene and Dike

No Peace without Justice

[artbyanca]

Dike, Eunomia, and Eirene by the gates of Olympus.

This was a commission for @percymmon

[quantummindclassicalheart]

Still thinking about the fact that Cassandra, a goddess of mystery and doubt, was married to Ankarna, who originally included justice in their domains. It's easy to think of justice as being about knowledge and certainty-- a wrongdoer was identified, and justice was done.

But thinking about justice in the context of the courts, seeking justice also relies upon us being willing to entertain uncertainty, to acknowledge that the process of finding the truth matters. Justice cannot be predetermined, or it is not justice at all-- it cannot exist without doubt.

[sorceryundone]

im extremely interested in working with the goddess dike, but there's very little information on her. while im not new to building spiritual relationships from the ground up, im still really curious if there's anyone who works with dike and has any information to share (including upg)

[iwanthermidnightz]

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[gotstabbedbyapen]

Alright Virgos / mythology nerds / zodiac signs enthusiasts, pick your goddesses!

Which one represents the Virgo constellation?

[thesummerstorms]

Just idly realized that Hazel Levesque is the daughter of the the God whose two domains most define the existence of Batman- Pluto, God of Wealth and the Lord of the Dead.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do, if anything, with this connection. But still.

[wwyptt]

I've been quietly working on a series of three drawings for a long time now. Why are there seven? That's why it's been taking so long! Since these are personal works I've been able to start over if I decide a nearly-finished piece isn't where I want it to be -- which I have to do when working traditionally. Nemesis, Dike, and Themis will be available for full viewing soon! For being my decade-enduring Tumblr audience you also get a WIP preview of the last piece, Themis, that other platforms don't get. Thanks for sticking with me.

[its-maemain]

Time to write about Dike being in love with Bruce like I've been daydreaming about for the past three weeks 💞

[luckyluckyjesse]

Justice

[literallyjusttoa]

So usually I only post about my Au's when I've thought them through and they make logical sense and whatnot, but trust me, there are dozens more that I never share. For example, this is an au where Apollo defeats his father in a revolution (He does this alone, so nobody knows exactly how the battle went down, only that Apollo was majorly injured and Zeus never returned) and Athena re-organized the structure of Olympus so that it was reminiscent of Athenian democracy. This means that every "citizen" of Olympus can put there name in a lottery, and 24 of them are pulled to serve as senators for ten years (in Athens you only served for 1 year, but like, these are immortals they can get a longer term) The rest of the citizens could show up during votes if they chose and take part in major decisions.

Outside of the main assembly and the boule (the group of 24) there is a group of Archontes. They reside over the more ceremonial affairs of Olympus, alongside reviewing the affairs of the elected officials in the boule. Apollo is against taking part in the new government at first, but Athena convinces him to become and Archon, alongside four other immortals. Elpis, the spirit of Hope, Theia, the titaness of Sight, Dike, the goddess of Justice, and Sykeus, a Giant.

Idk what happens after that I came up with all of this in like a day. This is y'all's look behind the curtain random shit like this just races through my head and then leaves again and I never know what to do with it lmao.

[evermore-grimoire]

The Evermore Grimoire: Greek Mythology

Astraea (Ἀστραία, meaning 'star-maiden') was the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision in greek mythology. She was also associated with Dike (goddess of justice) but not to be confused with Asteria (goddess of the stars). Astraea, the celestial virgin, was the last of the immortals to live with humans during the Golden Age, one of the old Greek religion's five deteriorating Ages of Man. According to Ovid, she abandoned the earth during the Iron Age. Fleeing from the new wickedness of humanity, she ascended to heaven to become the constellation Virgo. The nearby constellation Libra reflected her symbolic association with Dike, who in Latin culture as Justitia is said to preside over the constellation. In the Tarot, the 8th card, Justice, with a figure of Justitia, can be considered related to the figure of Astraea on historical iconographic grounds. According to legend, Astraea will one day come back to Earth, bringing with her the return of the utopian Golden Age of which she was the ambassador.

[numberonecodwomenfan]

every time someone makes a cod percy jackson au it annoys me because they’re WRONG (/j). so here im doing it myself

ghost’s is at the end because it’s long

price is the son of athena. he’s a captain, he needs more than just ares’s war capabilities, he needs strategy and smarts.

soap is the son of hephaestus. i think this one is pretty universally agreed upon, because the forge, fire, explosions, you know.

gaz is the son of aphrodite and BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING hear me out. first of all, he’s gorgeous. obviously. he has the type of face that tells me he could talk his way out of anything if he bats his eyes enough lmao. plus, aphrodite isn’t all sunshine and rainbows and romance (in fact, she’s mostly not sunshine and rainbows). she’s a war goddess in her own right.

farah alex laswell ghost and some kortac folks under the cut

if artemis weren’t a maiden goddess, farah would be a daughter of artemis, but that can’t happen. she’s a daughter of dike (yes, pronounced exactly how you think it is) goddess of justice.

alex is the son of tyche, the goddess of luck and good fortune, because only a man who is literally the son of luck could purposely stay in a building rigged to explode and walk away with only an amputated leg.

laswell is a daughter of athena (suck it price x laswell shippers theyre SIBLINGS NOW) cause yk. cia. central intelligence agency.

im going boring for könig and say ares because i can’t think of anything else i fear. its a war game we need at least one child of ares

horangi is the son of nike, goddess of victory, dont ask me why it just really fits the vibe

hutch is a son of hephaestus (yet another reason i think he and soap would be BEST FRIENDS) because he’s a computer scientist/engineer so i think it makes sense. also imagine if this was an actual percy jackson au where they were all teenagers at chb, he and soap wreaking HAVOC together around camp.

for ghost, i kind of struggled. i didn’t want to go cliche and say hades, because it really just doesnt seem fitting. i thought about thanatos but he seems to be more of a spirit than a god. then, i thought of the keres, for more violent death, but again they seem to be more spirits (and there are three of them, none of whom are given individual names). then, finally, i landed on hecate, goddess of magic, ghosts, necromancy, and some aspects of the dead. “but robin” you’re saying, “isn’t hecate a virgin goddess?” and… not necessarily??? it’s kind of vague. unlike with athena (who yes is still a virgin goddess in the percy jackson universe. her children come from her head. she just finds a mortal she fucks with and sprouts a child), artemis and hestia, aphrodite does have power over her. she’s usually depicted as a maiden (meaning young beautiful woman) but that doesn’t mean she follows the technical meaning of a maiden goddess. so i rest my case.

[captain-daryn]

@writing-nothing-but-spilled-ink inspired me! I’m gonna make a post about who would be the Batfams godly parents if they were the Percy Jackson universe. (With minimal explanation and mostly based off of fanon content and my limited canon knowledge)

starting with Bruce: Athena. I think his intellect and strategy had to come from somewhere, and Athena is the goddess of strategic war. I could also see Themus, goddess of law and order, or Dike, the goddess of Justice.

Babs: Phoebe. Also referred to as the Oracle of Delphi, she sees all and knows all.

Dick: Harmonia. He is always trying to keep the peace with everyone and make them happy together it seems.

Cass: Eirene, the goddess of Peace. Also really good at keeping the peace and bringing people together.

Jason: Apollo. He is a reader and a writer, I would not put it past him to be a theater kid too. Do you see how dramatic he is?

Steph: Hermes. Child of mischief and she is witty. I could see an argument for Dionysus too.

Tim: I think Athena as well. If anyone can go head to head with Bruce’s intellect, I would say it would be Tim. Ironically I could see Hypnos or Charon and their relationship with dreams and sleep.

Duke: Apollo or Hyperion. Mostly with his powers of Light, but I could also see him being a son of Erebos because of their manipulation of the Darkness, or Nyx and her powers of the Night.

Damian: at first I would think Ares because of his arrogance and entitlement. But with his love of conservation and animals and nature I could also see him being a child of Demeter.

Alfred: even as a maiden goddess, I agree that Hestia would be Alfred’s godly parent. But I could also see a case for Ares as a wild card. He is fiercely protective of those he loves, and so is Ares. Also as a field medic for the army he could be a child of Asclepius.

some of these might be really off so I apologize! Feel free to share your thoughts as well:)