light-goddess

Updated: August 11, 2026

However this may be, she became a great goddess, in the later construction the wife of Jupiter, and was identified with Hera, to whom in fact she is nearly related in function and character. She was sky-goddess, but not, for that reason, necessarily light-goddess.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV