Eos
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Eos

In Greek mythology, Eos (; Ionic and Homeric Greek "Ēōs", Attic "Éōs", "dawn", or ; Aeolic "Aúōs", Doric "Āṓs") is a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the Oceanus.

Eos had a brother and a sister, Helios, god of the sun, and Selene, goddess of the moon.

Eos is cognate to the Vedic goddess "Ushas", Lithuanian goddess "Aušrinė", and Roman goddess "Aurora" (Old Latin "Ausosa"), all three of whom are also goddesses of the dawn. All four are considered derivatives of the Proto-Indo-European stem "*h₂ewsṓs" (later *"Ausṓs"), "dawn", a stem that also gave rise to Proto-Germanic "*Austrō", Old Germanic "*Ōstara" and Old English "Ēostre / Ēastre". This agreement leads to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess.

There are no known temples, shrines or altars to Eos. However, Ovid seems to allude to the existence of at least two shrines of Eos, as he describes them in plural, albeit few, in the lines: 
Ovid may therefore have known of at least two such shrines.

The dawn goddess Eos was almost always described with rosy fingers (ῥοδοδάκτυλος, "rhododáktylos") or rosy forearms (ῥοδόπηχυς, "rhodópēkhys") as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise. In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

From "The Iliad":

Quintus Smyrnaeus pictured her exulting in her heart over the radiant horses (Lampus and Phaëton) that drew her chariot, amidst the bright-haired Horae, the feminine Hours, climbing the arc of heaven and scattering sparks of fire.

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet "rosy-fingered" ("rhododactylos"), bu...