Hestia

The Greek Goddess of the Hearth, daughter of Kronos and Rhea and older sister to Hera, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. She swore never to marry and is one of the three Virgin Goddesses.

= Myths = Being the oldest of the children of Kronos and Rhea, she was a quiet and timid goddess and keeps the fire in people's hearth's warm and nice. From Rhea, she inherited her kindness. After the Titanomachy, Poseidon, her brother and Apollo, her nephew both wanted to marry her. When Zeus asked Hestia who did she want to marry, she told Zeus she wanted to be a Virgin Goddess and to marry no one. Some myths say she gave her Olympian seat of power to Dionysus, the last Olympian.

= Trivia =


 * Some myths say Hestia is the youngest because she was first to be swallowed and the last to be puked out from Kronos.