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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddess of the hearth, from Greek hestia "hearth, house, home, family" (see vestal).
Wikipedia
In Ancient Greek religion, Hestia (; , "hearth" or "fireside") is a virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family, and the state. In Greek mythology, she is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the eldest of the Olympian Gods.
Hestia received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household. In the public domain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary. With the establishment of a new colony, flame from Hestia's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. Her Roman equivalent is Vesta.
Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth.
Hestia may also refer to:
- 46 Hestia, an asteroid
- Hestia (novel), a 1979 science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh
- Hestia (character), a fictional character in the light novel series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and its derived works.
- Hestia, the "tenth planet" in the comic series Judge Dredd
- Hestia, an informal name used from 1955 to 1975 for Himalia, a moon of Jupiter.
- Hestia longifolia a plant species from Southeast Asia
Hestia is a 1979 science fiction novel by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It is an early Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with the young native cat-woman in scanty clothing on the cover.
Major themes in this novel include sexual liberation, sexual aberration, relevance of social mores, hypocrisy of social mores, personal work ethic, personal responsibility, ecological responsibility, blame-shifting, bureaucratic inertia, administrative reflex reactions, the mindset of the engineering profession, and responsibility toward indigenous peoples. Many other characters and the world itself are not developed with as much depth as those in some of Cherryh's other early works, such as Gate of Ivrel, The Pride of Chanur, Merchanter's Luck, and The Dreamstone. Notably, the alien cat-people in this novel are entirely different from the hani of the Chanur novels, being in temperament and culture somewhat more like housecats than lions.
is a fictional character who appears in the light novel, anime, and manga series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? by Fujino Ōmori, or DanMachi for short. The series is set in the fictional world of Orario, where people join groups called Familia run by gods and goddesses, who serve a range of functions from dungeon crawling to crafting items. Hestia herself is the head and resident deity of the , a small and initially lowly group whom at first contained only herself and protagonist dungeon explorer Bell. After failing to recruit anyone into her group, and Bell being unable to join any of the larger, more reputable Familias, the two join forces thus beginning their adventures in the series.
Hestia has become an extremely popular and somewhat of a breakout character in anime and manga fandom. She has also appeared in several official DanMachi related merchandise, and has been the subject of positive reception, with critics focusing on her relationship with Bell, attractiveness, and role in the series. She has also become a popular subject of cosplay, causing a trend in Japan where women attempted to replicate her iconic costume.
Usage examples of "hestia".
You want to understand Hestia, friend outsider, well, understand that old man.
The eastern valley would be destroyed, almost totally inundated up to the steep slopes of its wooded mountains, but men on Hestia had a great deal of land from which to choose.
The light red-brown of her hair and the flush of her cheeks and the slight freckling from the sun were the colors of Hestia itself.
To be on Hestia under the best of circumstances was a trial of patience.
Male relatives and those who had been present at the accident washed the dead, wrapped them in clean sheets for burial, cleaned up Harper and set and splinted the broken arm, all without benefit of anesthetic: the only surgeon on Hestia was apprentice-taught and resident downriver.
The two moons, Hestia and Styx, when aligned, created a period when access to power was far, far easier.
All the deities were to be represented, Hestia and Bacchus, divinities of the hearth and of the orgy, the gods of the heavens and those of the underworld.
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Kingsley Shacklebolt and Sturgis Podmore were examining the microwave and Hestia Jones was laughing at a potato peeler she had come across while rummaging in the drawers.