{"id":1194,"date":"2019-10-21T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/?post_type=goddesses&#038;p=1194"},"modified":"2021-12-23T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:17:34","slug":"hygea-goddess-of-hygiene","status":"publish","type":"goddesses","link":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/goddesses\/hygea-goddess-of-hygiene\/","title":{"rendered":"Hygea &#8211; Goddess of Hygiene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hygea was the goddess of health, sanitation, and hygiene. Modern medicine has its roots in ancient Greece, and first Oath of Hippokrates even mentions swearing by the healer Hygea. Hygea is the daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/gods\/asclepius\/\">Asclepius<\/a>, god of medicine, and Epione. She also played an important role in the cult of her father.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Hygea Facts<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea was a minor diety and classical mythology doesn\u2019t contain much written about her. She is often eclipsed by her father, Asclepius. While he was mostly associated with healing, Hygea was associated with preventing disease and maintaining good health.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea was worshipped as an independent goddess after the Plague of Athens (430-427 BC). The cult of Hygea\u2019s temples often contained statues of the goddess covered in women\u2019s hair and pieces of clothing. Her cult became a very important healing cult that led to many discoveries in disease prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea is often depicted as a woman with a snake wrapped around her body. She holds the large snake with one hand and allows it to drink from a bowl in her other hand. In modern medicine, you can see Hygea\u2019s snake in the symbol of medicine. The snake is wrapped around Asclepius\u2019 rod. Hygea\u2019s bowl is also the symbol for pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea\u2019s sisters were also gifted in healing like their father. Panacea was the goddess of universal remedy. Iaso was the goddess of recuperation. Aceso was the goddess of the healing process. Aglaea was the goddess of splendor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea also had a brother who always accompanied her. His name was Telesphorus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hygea\u2019s name is the source of the word \u201chygiene\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hygea was the goddess of health, sanitation, and hygiene. Modern medicine has its roots in ancient Greece, and first Oath of Hippokrates even mentions swearing by the healer Hygea. Hygea is the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine, and Epione. She also played an important role in the cult of her father. Hygea Facts \u2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/goddesses\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/goddesses"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/goddesses"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/goddesses\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/goddesses\/1194\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}