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==Wikipedia EN== | |||
Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, in Hellenistic religion, is a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold. He is one of the winged love gods, Erotes. Hymen is the son of Apollo and one of the muses, Clio or Calliope or Urania or Terpsichore. | |||
Hymen's name is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *syuh₁-men-, "to sew together," hence, "joiner;" it is also recorded in Doric Greek as Ῡ̔μᾱ́ν (Hyman). The term hymen was also used for a thin skin or membrane, such as the hymen that covers the vaginal opening and was traditionally supposed to be broken by sexual intercourse following a woman's (first) marriage. So, the membrane's name was not directly connected to that of the god, but they shared the same root and in folk etymology were sometimes supposed to be related. | |||
==Translations== | |||
ar: هيمين; be: Гіменей; br: Hymen; bs: Himen; ca: Himeneu; cs: Hymén; de: Hymenaios; el: Υμέναιος; eml: Imenéo; en: Hymen; eo: Himeno; es: Himeneo; fa: هایمن; fi: Hymen; fr: Hymen; gl: Himeneo; hu: Hümenaiosz; hy: Հիմենևս; id: Himenaios; it: Imene; ja: ヒュメナイオス; la: Hymen; lt: Himenajas; mk: Химен; nl: Hymenaeus; no: Hymenaios; pl: Hymen; pt: Himeneu; ru: Гименей; sl: Himen; sr: Химен; sv: Hymenaios; th: ไฮเมเนียส; uk: Гіменей; zh: 海曼 | |||
