Who was the Goddess of depression?

In this writing, we will discuss the goddess of depression, a brief introduction of depression, Greek Mythology, the widely known Greek God and Goddess, the goddess of depression: Oizys, the character of the god of depression and finally some FAQs related to the topic.

Who was the Goddess of depression?

Goddess of Depression was believed to be Oizys:

• The goddess signifies the miserable conditions of humanity
• Depicts suffering and inevitability
• Cause great distress and pain
• Has an evil intention to humanity
• Serves to cause grief, pain and sufferings in human
• Was one of the goddesses that have the wicked and ungodly intention to humanity
• Represents great unhappiness

Depression

It is a mood disorder that is often called Unipolar Depression or Major Depressive Disorder. It is one of the most common and prevalent mental disorders. Depression if remains untreated gets worse and takes a toll on one’s life in some cases.

The three main symptoms of an individual battling with Depression are:

• Anhedonia: Loss of interest in all pleasurable activities.
• Fatigability: low energy and get tired easily.
• Depressed mood: low mood and depressed mood for a prolonged time.

Depressive Symptoms

Some of the symptoms experienced by people suffering from depression are:

• Aggressiveness and Irritability
• Restlessness
• Hopeless feeling
• Loss of Interest, Anhedonia
• Get tired easily, fatigability
• Lack of sexual desire
• Recurrent thoughts on suicide
• Difficulty in communication and interaction
• Disruption in the sleepy cycle: Insomnia and Hypersomnia
• Inability to concentrate
• Pain and Headache
• Change in appetite
• Excessive and Inappropriate guilt
• Diminished ability to concentrate
• Psychomotor agitation
• Significant weight loss
• Impairment in social and other major functioning.

Goddess

Goddess is defined as the female deity. Goddesses are adorned with great charm and admiration. They are also believed to have power over otherworldly nature and the world.

Some of the goddesses are Diana, the goddess of war, Athena, Aurora, flora luna etc.

Greek Mythology

It is a body of stories and tales concerning the heroes, gods and rituals that were performed and present in the ancient Greek. These myths contained a considerable amount of fiction that were recognized by some critical Greeks like Plato. 

However, Greek Mythologies and myths were considered to be a true account and had subsequently placed a major influence on the literature as well as the art of most of western civilization. 

Greek mythologies were difficult to trace down to the initial stage of its emergence and development, however, it was believed widely that the Greek Myths evolved through stories told and narrated in Minion civilization of Crete and then expanded and flourished from 3000-1100 BCE.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

There are different well-known god and goddesses, some of the well-known are:

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is believed to be the goddess of love and beauty. Birth of Venus depicts Roman Counterpart of Aphrodite. 

Athena

Athena is the goddess of wisdom, reasons and war. Parthenon in Athens was her chief temple and is also named in her honour. The equivalent of Athena in Roman was Minerva. With her wisdom, she guided and led a major figure in Odyssey, Odysseus, along with that, she guided Perseus and Heracles in their trial as well.

Artemis

She was the goddess of the hunt, often symbolised in painting as well as sculpture along with deer and dog. Artemis is believed to be both huntresses and as protectress in the living world. Diana was her Roman equivalent.

Ares

Ares is the god of bloodlust. Athena, his half-sister was a nobler aspect of civil conduct at the time of war. Mars was the Roman Equivalent of Ares. 

Apollo

Apollo was believed to be the most important among all the gods. He was the twin brother of Artemis. His mouthpiece was Oracle of Delphi, he disseminates the will of divinity through means basically oracles. 

Demeter

He was the agricultural goddess, mother to Persephone tortured and abducted by Hades, an underworld god. Her teaching was Eleusinian Mysteries, which was perhaps the most important religious ritual in Ancient Greece. The Roman equivalent of Demeter was Ceres.

Dionysus

Zeus’ son, Dionysus born to a mortal mother. The group of Dionysus was centred around sex, intoxication and ritual sacrifice. In most of the painting and sculpture, Dionysus was symbolized with a bull because of his association and interaction with sacrificial animals. Much of his characters and elements were seen in Bacchus, the god of wine.

Hades

Hades is believed to be the god of the dead world. Along with other gods that came across the world as dispassionate, the lord of the underworld or the death world was considered of that group too. The god was believed to be cunning where he was not believed to be the best judge for the soul that wandered nor was believed to mete the punishments for the sins that were committed in their mortal lives.

Hera

Hera was the goddess of Olympus, sister and the wife to Zeus. She was believed to be reserved and austere, often revengeful to her husband’s extramarital affairs. 

Thus, for Zeus’s object of affections, Hera has developed tremendous hatred and tends to torment those and other women than to him, Zeus. Juno is the Roman equivalent of Hera, the goddess of Olympus.

Hermes

He was seen as a pastoral figure with the responsibility of protecting the livestock and was often associated and linked with music, luck and deception. He was depicted as the messenger of god in the Odyssey. Mercury was believed to be the Roman Equivalent. 

Like other gods of Greek Pantheon who presided over the multiple spheres, Hermes was also believed to be the one.

Poseidon

Poseidon was known to be the Greek sea god, however, was often known for the god of horses as well as earthquakes.  Owing to that, many of his temples were inland. Neptune was believed to be the Roman Equivalent of Poseidon.

Zeus

With the help and assistance of Hades and Poseidon, Zeus managed to overthrow his father, the king of titan and subsequently became the chief deity in the new pantheon with his siblings and children. He was also known for his infidelity with his sister-wife, Hera. The roman equivalent of Zeus was Jupiter.

So, the well known and the widely recognized Greek god and goddess are mentioned above. 

Oizys, Goddess of Depression

Oizys is believed to be the ancient goddess of anxiety, grief and depression. Miseria is her Roman name from where the term Misery derived from. 

She characterised the miserable human condition known by deep sadness and gloominess. 

Oizys is the daughter of the Nyx, the goddess of night. She also has a twin sister, Momus. It was god Erebus who fathered Oizys and Nyx. Oizys also has sisters, Goddess Philotes and Nemesis, both commonly known as Envy. Her twin brothers are Geras, Mors and Somnia.

Of all the children of Nyx, Oizys was believed to be the goddess who shows up or is disguised as a spirit in mythologies, rest of her children were all helpful and came for the benefit of humanities. 

Oizys, the goddess of Depression was believed to be a malevolent spirit, who is ready to harm and cause destruction to the humankind.

Despite Oizys being the goddess of depression, anxiety and sadness, her twin sister is a god of mockery and satire.

Oizys was a goddess who is less known to the people and to ancient greek. She didn’t earn a large number of followers compared to other goddesses like Iris and Hera. Her sole intention was to harm humanity and bring in evil acts at the same time, causing distress and woe to humanity in the world.

Oizys, being the sister of dark gods of night, underworld and death, she personified misery, anxiety, worry as well as distress.

Character of Oizys, Goddess of Depression

Some of the characters of the Goddess of Depression are:

• Represents great unhappiness
• Encompass extreme pain in the body as well as mind.
• Associated with miseries and inevitability
• Known by evil intention. 
• Cause great distress and woe to humanity.
• Represents unhappiness in human
• Symbolise the wretchedness of the earth.

FAQs: Goddess of depression

Conclusion

In this writing, we had discussed the goddess of depression, a brief introduction of depression, Greek Mythology, the widely known Greek God and Goddess, the goddess of depression: Oizys, the character of the god of depression and finally some FAQs related to the topic.

Some more details and in-depth information can be browsed through:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-mythology

https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Oizys.html

https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Oizys/oizys.html

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Greek Gods Goddesses. (2019). Oizys – Goddess of Grief, Anxiety, and Depression. Greek God & Goddesses. https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/oizys-goddess-of-grief-anxiety-and-depression/

Pallardy, R. (2010). 12 Greek Gods and Goddesses. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/list/12-greek-gods-and-goddesses