Brimo

deity underworld Greek single tradition · 1

Brimo is an epithet applied to several goddesses with a dreaded and vengeful aspect linked to the land of the Dead. She is the "furious" aspect of the Furies. In the solemn moment when Medea picks the dire underworld root for Jason, she calls seven times upon Brimo, "she who haunts the night, the Nursing Mother [Kourotrophos].

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 200
Historical notes
Attested from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity.

Relationships

co occurs with
Brimo-Hecate
syncretized with
Hecate, Persephone, Demeter Erinyes, Cybele
child of
Persephone

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“In ancient Greek religion and myth, the epithet Brimo (Ancient Greek: Βριμώ Brimṓ; "angry" or "terrifying") may be applied to any of several goddesses with an inexorable, dreaded and vengeful aspect that is linked to the land of the Dead: Hecate, Persephone, Demeter Erinyes”

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