Psyche
deity sky Greek single tradition · 3
Greek goddess associated with the soul. Psyche is the mother of the Psychai, butterfly-winged nymphs.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Greek deity documented as mother of the Psychai.
Relationships
- parent of
- Psychai
- co occurs with
- Glaucus, Asclepius, Ariadne, Tithonus, Aristaeus, Demeter, Aeolus, Iris, Astraeus, Boreas, Notus, Zephyrus, Pishacha, Preta, Pan, Penghou, Paasselkä devils, Pakhangba, Pamola, Panis, Patupairehe, Pegaeae, Pelesit, Perchta, Phi Tai Hong, Pillan, Pim-skwa-wagen-owad, Piru, Pita-skog, Pixie, Plakavac, Pok-wejee-men, Polevik, Pollo Maligno, Polong, Poltergeist, Pombero, Ponaturi, Pontianak, Poubi Lai, Pricolici, Psotnik, Heracles
- consort of
- Eros
Mentioned by
- Pishacha
- Preta
- Pan
- Penghou
- Paasselkä devils
- Pakhangba
- Pamola
- Panis
- Patupairehe
- Pegaeae
- Pelesit
- Perchta
- Phi Tai Hong
- Pillan
- Pim-skwa-wagen-owad
- Piru
and 15 more
Sources
Source passages
“Psychai (Greek) – Butterfly-winged nymphs, daughters of Psyche”
#5254 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example: Glaucus.”
#26245 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the mortal princess Psyche with his soft breeze from the cliff (where she had been left in an oracle's suggestion) to Eros's palace.”
#45118 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free