The Meaning of Greek Gods’ Names

Do you know what the names of the Greek Gods mean? The answers are sourced from each of the gods’ Wikipedia pages. Please comment on how/what you answered or to suggest type-ins. Also, the Wiki article did not give an etymology for Hephaestus’ name. Do you know of one?

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Hera

the hour/the one who is ripe for marriage/the ripe for marriage/the beloved/the air/the mistress/the hero/the young cow/the heifer/the female who is attached/the attached/the female who is coupled/the coupled/the female who attaches herself

Artemis

the bear/the royal/the great/the excellent/the holy/to shake/the shaker/the butcher/the safe/the unharmed/the uninjured/the pure/the stainless/the unstained/the maiden

Apollo

he that walks on high/the walker on high/the god above/the initiation/the coming of age/the wall/the fence/the fence for animals/the assembly/to destroy/the destruction/the destroyer/the redemption/the redeemer/the purification/the purifier/the simple/the ever-shooting/the shooter/the fold/the stone/the one of entrapment/the entrapper/the hunter

Zeus

the sky/to shine/the shining/the shiner/the sky/the heaven/the god/the cause of life/the giver of life/life

Poseidon

the husband/the lord/the earth/the earth-shaker/the shaker/the water/to run/the runner/to flow/the flower/the fluid/the drop/the dew/the foot band/the restrained/the knower

Aphrodite

the sea-foam/risen from the foam/she who rises from the foam/the foam/the wanderer/the bright/the very shining/the shining up from the mist/the shining from the mist/the shining up from the foam/the shining from the foam/the shiner from the foam/the shiner from the mist/the star/she of the villages/the lady of the villages/the unique/the excellent/the sublime/the lady/she who lives delicately/the delicate

Athena

Athens/the mind/the intelligence/the intelligent/the divine intelligence/the divinely intelligent/she who knows divine/she who knows divine things/the knower of divine/the knower of divine things/the knower of divinity/the moral intelligence/the morally intelligent/the aether/the air/the earth/the moon

Ares

the bane/the ruin/the curse/the imprecation/the throng of battle/the throng of war/the battle/the war/the warrior/the warlike

Dionysus

the god/the divine/the tree/the son/the young/the god’s limp/the divine limp/the divine limp/the accomplisher/the provider

Demeter

the household/the housekeeper/the mistress/the lady/the mother/the mother of the house/the earth/the emmer/the spelt/the rye/the grain

Hermes

the stone/the stone heap/the heap of stones/to bind/the binder/to put together/the combiner/the protector/the shepherd/the boundary/the boundary marks/the boundaries

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