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over my motherle children: give my son a tender wife, my daughter a noble husband. Let them not die before their time like me, but enjoy life and happine ” (see Héra). Hesi. Egyptian. Hes, or Mau-hes “the lion Hes,” was a son of Ra and of Bast (see Bas) with a feline head. He carries a sword, and wears three plumes, with Uri or serpents (see As). Hesiod. The Greek poet of Boidtia born about 700 B.c. (Fisk, Reconstructed Hesiod), His father migrated from Kumé in Aiolia, to Boidtia, and Hesiod died at Orkhomenos, being born at Askra near Mt. Helikon. His poems are among the earliest sources for Greek mythology, with some sprinkling of myths from Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and Babylon. They include the Theogony or “ birth of gods”; and the ‘“‘ Works and Days” describing the year. But the one is said to be in the sacred dialect of Delphi, and the other in the Aiolik of Kamé. He also wrote on “Justice,” and the “Five Ages.” His work was edited by later Ionians of the 6th century 8.c. He is said to have claimed descent from Apollo, through Orpheus, and Linos; and his bones were worshiped and wrought miracles. In “ Works and Days” we read— “© kings who bribes devour, Make straight your edicts in a timely hour, For Zeus’ all-seeing, and all-knowing eye, Beholds at pleasure things that hidden lie, Pierces the walls which gird the city in, And on the seat of judgment blasts the sin.” Hesperides. The garden, in the west, of the four daughters of Hesperos (Vesper us) or “sunset,” who were called the Hesperides. They were sweet singers, watching the tree with golden apples guarded by the serpent, or dragon, Ladén (“the hider”), The garden lay near Libya and Atlas, in the extreme west. To the Greeks Italy was Hesperia, and to the Latins Spain (see Apples, Héraklés, Trees), Hesperos was the star of sunset and of the west, a child of Phoibos (“bright ”), and brother of Eos (“dawn ”). The Hesperides were also daughters of Atlas and Hesperis. Their garden was an Eden “ where were the springs of nectar which flowed by the couch of Zeus.” Hestia. Greek. The Latin Vesta (from the Aryan root us or was “to shine,” “burn”), she is the gode of the hearth-fire, said to have been the first born of Rhwa—the earth (see Agora). Her fire was sacred, and must never be allowed to go out. 261