Goddess Harmonia

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"HARMONIA", THE GREEK GODDESS OF MUSIC, DANCE, AND POETRY, WAS DEPICTED AS A GOOD NATURED SILVER-HAIRED GODDESS WHO WAS VERY MUCH LOVED BY THE ALL OF THE OTHER GODS AND GODDESSES. HER NAME MEANS "COMING TOGETHER" OR" JOINING". SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER CONCEIVED IN THE ADULTEROUS AFFAIR OF "ARES", THE GOD OF WAR, AND "APHRODITE, "THE GODDESS OF LOVE. "HARMONIA" SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A GODDESS OF LOVE AND THE HARMONIZING POWER OF NATURE. SHE BRINGS HARMONY TO LIFE AS WELL AS THE GODDESS OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AND CONCORD.

SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE THEBAN RULER, "CADMUS", AND AS SUCH WAS BELOVED BY THE THEBANS. THE OFFSPRING OF THIS MARRIAGE WOULD BE ONE SON, NAMED POLYDORUS, AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, "SEMELE, INO, AUTONOE," AND "AGAVE". AT "HARMONIA'S" MARRIAGE CEREMONY, ALL THE OLYMPIANS CAME DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS AND BORE MAGICAL GIFTS, INCLUDING A A MAGNIFICENT ROBE WHICH WAS WOVEN BY THE GRACES AND A FATAL NECKLACE WHICH CAUSED MISCHIEF AND MISFORTUNE TO EVERYONE WHO POSSESSED IT WAS BESTOWED BY "HEPHAESTUS, "STILL FURIOUS OVER HIS WIFE," APHRODITE'S "AFFAIR", "THAT GAVE IRRESISTIBLE SEXUALITY TO ITS WEARER. THIS SAME ROBE AND NECKLACE WOULD EVENTUALLY CAUSE "HARMONI"A TO BE UNFAITHFUL TO "CADMUS "AND DOOM THEIR DESCENDANTS TO ENDLESS TRAGEDY.

Later, BOTH "HARMONIA" AND "CADMUS" WERE TURNED INTO SERPENTS BY THE GODSAND TRANSFERRED TO THE ISLANDS OF THE BLEST, TO LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY.

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