Hazis (Ha′zis). The Syrian war-god.
Health, see Hygeia and Salus.
Heaven, Queen of, (Hea′ven) see Belisama. God of, see Coelus.
Hebe (He′be), daughter of Zeus (Jupiter) and Hera (Juno), was the goddess of youth. She was cup-bearer to Jupiter and the gods, until she had an awkward fall at a festival, causing her to alight in an indecent posture, which so displeased Jupiter that she was deprived of her office, and Ganymede was appointed in her stead.
“Wreathed smiles,
Such as hung on Hebe’s cheek,
And love to live in dimples sleek.”
Milton.
“Bright Hebe waits; by Hebe ever young
The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung.”
Pope.
Hecate (Hec′ate). There were two goddesses known by this name, but the one generally referred to in modern literature is Hecate, or Proserpine, the name by which Diana was known in the infernal regions. In heaven her name was Luna, and her terrestrial name was Diana. She was a moon-goddess, and is generally represented in art with three bodies, standing back to back, a torch, a sword, and a lance in each right hand.
Hecuba (Hec′uba). The wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Paris. Taken captive in the Trojan war, she fell to the lot of Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, and was afterwards changed into a hound.
“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?”
Shakespeare.
Heifer, see Ino.