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" Singing of Peleus' Bridal of Delight, which all the blest Immortals brought to pass by Pelion's crests sang of the ambrosial feast when the swift Horai (Horae, Seasons) brought in immortal hands meats not of earth, and heaped in golden maunds sang how the silver tables were set forth in haste by Themis blithely laughing sang how breathed Hephaistos (Hephaestus) purest flame of fire sang how the Nymphai (Nymphs) in golden chalices mingled ambrosia." " There are also represented Nymphai (Nymphs) bestowing upon Perseus, who is starting on his enterprise against Medousa (Medusa) in Libya, a cap and the shoes by which he was carried through the air."
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"Herakles continued by foot through the Illyrians' land and hurried on to the Eridanos (Eridanus) river where he found the Nymphai (Nymphs) who were daughters of Zeus and Themis. Hermes returned the aforementioned articles the the Nymphai (Nymphs)." " gave the sandals, kibisis, and helmet back to Hermes, and the Gorgon's head to Athena. With the helmet on he could see whomever he cared to look at, but was invisible to others." When the daughters of Phorkys had led Perseus to the Nymphai, he returned them their tooth and eye.Īpproaching the Nymphai he received what he had come for, and he flung on the kibisis, tied the sandals on his ankles, and placed the helmet on his head. These Nymphai had in their possession winged sandals and the kibisis, which they say was a knapsack. "Perseus said he would return them after they had directed him to the Nymphai (Nymphs). Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Their role and designation as "nymph daughters of Themis" is rather vague. The Themeides were perhaps also identified with the Horai (Horae), the Dodonides nymphs of Dodona, the prophetic Thriai (Thriae) of Mount Parnassos, the Nymphai Hesperiai (Hesperian nymphs) of the River Eridanos, and the three Hesperides. Their mother Themis certainly possessed a temple in the sanctuary. They may have been goddesses of the oracle of Dodona, divine counterparts of the Peleiades-the three elderly prophetesses of the shrine. THE THEMEIDES were three nymph daughters of the goddess Themis who were the keepers of certain artifacts of the gods. Daughters of Themis Themis and the three Nymphs, Athenian black-figure dinos C6th B.C., British Museum