In Greek mythology, Angelos is the goddess of the purification rite and a chthonic goddess and is a daughter of Zeus and Hera.
Mythology[]
Angelos is only mentioned in one myth of Theocritus' Idyll 2:
Angelos was raised by nymphs to whose care her father had entrusted her. One day she stole her mother Hera's anointments and gave them away to Europa. To escape Hera's wrath, she had to hide first in the house of a woman in labor, and next among people who were carrying a dead man. Hera eventually ceased from prosecuting her, and Zeus ordered the Cabeiroi to cleanse Angelos. They performed the purification rite in the waters of the Acherusia Lake in the Underworld. Consequently, she received the world of the dead as her realm of influence, and was assigned an epithet katachthonia ("she of the underworld").
The legend of Angelos is cited by the scholiast in a arrangement of uncommon myths concerning the birth of Hecate, which makes it conceivable to think that Angelos was basically the goddess Hecate. This is often to a few degree affirmed by the reality that, concurring to Hesychius, Angelos was a surname of Artemis in Syracuse, being that Artemis as goddess of the moon was distinguished with Hecate. Angelos may be an early adaptation of Hecate, the one that related both to the upper world and the underworld, comparable to the position of Persephone.
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| Chthonic deities in Greek mythology | |
|---|---|
| Theoi Chthonioi | Angelos • Gaia • Hades • Hecate • The Lampades • Macaria • Melinoë • Persephone • Zagreus |
| Erinyes (Furies) | Alecto • Megaera • Tisiphone |
| Earthborn | Cyclopes • Gigantes • Hecatoncheires • Kouretes • Meliae • Telchines • Typhon |
| Apotheothenai | Aecus • Amphiarus • Minos • Rhadamanthus • Trophonius • Triptolemus • Orpheus |
| Geographic deities | Acheron • Alpheus • Eridanos • Erebus • Kokytos • Lethe • Mnemosyne • Phlegethon • Styx • Tartarus |
| Other deities | Ascalaphus • Charon • Cerberus • Keuthonymos • Menoetes (son of Keuthonymos) • Nyx • Thanatos |