Hestia

Goddess of the Hearth and the sacred fire that unites a family and a community.

Blessings

Hestia’s blessings are simple ones. She teaches the virtues of home and family life, the sweet rewards of labor, and the value of good food and good rest. Where there is anger, she cools it. Where there is strife, she ends it. The bonds of family and friendship are of foremost concern to her.

God Of

  • Hearth and Sacred Fire

Primary Cult Centers

  • Pan-Hellenic

Epithets

  • Boulaia – of the Council
  • Prytaneia – of the Prytanis

Symbols

Fire, the hearth

Animals

None

Sacrifices

Aromatic herbs; libations

Festivals

  • Daily Sacrifices (Daily) Daily sacrifices made at every meal

Ways to honor

Make your home as inviting and comfortable as possible. Show hospitality. Invite others into your home and share your food and comforts with them. Never let a chance go by without showing your family and friends how important they are to you. Pour libations to her at every meal. Keep a lamp, candle, or hearth fire burning in her honor.

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Primary Sources

  • Hesiod’s Theogony 453-506
  • Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 5.21-32
  • Homeric Hymn to Hestia 24, 29
  • Pausanias’ Description of Greece 5.14.4
  • Virgil’s Georgics 1408

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Hestia