ORIGIN: Greco-Roman
TYPE: Goddess of justice and order
INFORMATION: A daughter of the sky god Ouranos aand earth mother Gaia, though not classed as one of the Titans. A consort of Zeus and the mother of the Horae and Moires. She is the impartial deity who sits blindfolded in Hades and judges the souls of the dead to determine whether they will pass to the Elysian fields of to the fires of Tartarus. Attended by three lesser judgment deities, Aeacos, Minos, and Radhamanthos. The guilty are handed over to the Furies—the Dirae, Erinyes or Eumenides. At Rhamnus in Attica, Themis was accorded a sanctuary built in the sixth century BCE beside which that of Nemesis, goddess of indignation, was built in the fifth century.