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Themis
Themis is one of the daughters of Uranus and Gaia. She is the personification
of divine right order of things as sanctioned by custom and law. She has
oracular powers and it is said that she build the oracle at Delphi. By Zeus she
is the mother of the Horae and the Moirae.
Themis is depicted as a stern looking woman, blindfolded and holding a pair of
scales and a cornucopia. The Romans called her Justitia.
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