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Iris

angelic sky Greek single tradition · 13

Iris is the messenger goddess. She was sent to fetch Eileithyia and persuaded her with a necklace to come to Delos, so that Apollo could be born.

↻ synthesized from 13 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Referenced in Homeric Hymns.

Relationships

allied with
Fenris, Zeus, Ares, Lyssa
co occurs with
Leto, Dione, Ichnaea, Asteria, Boreas, Nike, Arke, Quirinus, Hersilia, Menelaus, Priam, Hypnos, Jove, Narcissus, Pheme, Echo, Zephyrus, Pothos, Carpus, Astraeus, Notus, Rhea, Eileithyia, Themis, Hecate, Hermes, Dionysus, Cerberus, Persephone, Adonis, Enodia, Charon, Alexiares, Anicetus, Python, Hades, Aphrodite, Heracles, Athena, Hebe, Achilles, Thetis, Hector, Helen, Castor, harpies, Apollo, Sol, Helios, Cronus, Oceanus, Styx, Pallas, Calypso, Artemis (Diana), Phaethon, Isis, Tethys, Amphitrite, Poseidon, Demeter, Nemesis, Hestia, Psyche, Aeolus
sibling of
Arke, Podarge, Sara Irine, Ocypete, Hydaspes
enemy of
Titans, Pisetaerus
serves
Hera, Juno, Zeus
consort of
Zephyrus
manifests as
winged young woman
parent of
Eros, Pothos
child of
Thaumas, Electra

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Mentioned by

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Sources

wikipedia (13)
  1. Ragnarok (manhwa)
  2. Leto
  3. Arke
  4. Asteria
  5. Dione (Titaness)
  6. Hebe (mythology)
  7. Iris (mythology)
  8. Liminal deity
  9. Styx
  10. Teichoscopy
  11. Phaethon (play)
  12. The Goddess Girls
  13. Zephyrus

Source passages

“When the forces of Himmelmez attack the city, he takes Fenris and Iris to the fragment of the Heart of Ymir. He becomes critically wounded but is stabilized in time.”

#15247 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Callimachus states that not only did every place on earth refuse to give sanctuary to Leto out of fear of Hera, but the queen of gods had also deployed Ares and Iris to drive Leto away from anywhere she tried to settle in, so she would not give birth to her twins.”

#22725 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“She and her sister Iris were both messenger deities; Iris is notably also the goddess of the rainbow, but unlike her, Arke has no established connection to rainbows. Like Iris however Arke also sported wings which might be a nod to some primeval force or element she represented”

#27650 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Hera had forbidden all places on earth to allow Leto to give birth on them, and sent Ares and Iris to enforce her command.”

#27820 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Escorted by Iris to Ares, she borrows his horses and returns to Olympus.”

#28099 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5