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Answer : EOS
Eos “dawn”, pronounced is a Titaness and the goddess of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the Oceanus. Like Roman Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, or her earlier PIE ancestor, also shares several elements with the love goddess Aphrodite, perhaps signifying Eos’s influence on her or otherwise a common origin for the two. In surviving tradition, Aphrodite is the cause behind Eos’ numerous love affairs, having cursed the goddess with insatiable lust for mortal men.
Eos is presented as a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, the sister of the sun god Helios and the moon goddess Selene. In rarer traditions, she is the daughter of the Titan Pallas. Each day she drives her two-horse chariot, heralding the breaking of the new day and her brother’s arrival. Thus, her most common epithet of the goddess in the Homeric epics is Rhododactylos, or “rosy-fingered”, a reference to the sky’s colours at dawn, and Erigeneia, “early-born”.
Eos fell in love with mortal men several times, and would abduct them in similar manner to how male gods did mortal women. Her most notable mortal lover is the Trojan prince Tithonus, for whom she ensured the gift of immortality, but not eternal youth, leading to him aging without dying for an eternity.
Eos was the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia: Hyperion, a bringer of light, the One Above, Who Travels High Above the Earth and Theia, The Divine, also called Euryphaessa, “wide-shining” and Aethra, “bright sky”. Eos was the sister of Helios, god of the sun, and Selene, goddess of the moon, “who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven”.
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