guardian-intervention

Anito · salience 0.8

“Anito are approached through ritual specialists — commonly women — with offerings, and they are understood to attend to the health, harvest and safety of the people who maintain the relationship.”

Jan · salience 0.8

“The village head, rather than an individual householder, makes the offering — food and drink — and the request is for protection over the settlement.”

Venus · salience 0.75

“With Aphrodite's stories folded in, Venus is given the sea-birth, the judgment of Paris that names her most beautiful and sets the Trojan War in motion, marriage to the lame smith-god Vulcan alongside a love affair with Mars that ends with the pair caught in a net and displayed to the other gods' laughter, and motherhood of Aeneas by the mortal Anchises, whom she protects through the Trojan War and the journey that founds the Roman line.”

Achiyalabopa · salience 0.7

“It is believed to be a guardian spirit, watching over the people and intervening in times of great need.”

Nephele

“Athamas, pressured by his people, brings his son to the altar, but accounts agree that Nephele intervenes at the critical moment, snatching up both Phrixus and Helle and providing them with a ram bearing a fleece of gold, a gift she is said to have received from Hermes, which carries the two children through the sky to escape the sacrifice and the famine alike.”