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Of the (female) goddesses there is only one, Nemesis, originally the name of the goddess of retribution. Being someone's nemesis still means in English: being the person who brings about somebody's downfall.


Most other words directly derived from the names of Greek gods have their origin in the name of male Greek gods: Typhon (the storm god), Aether (the air god), Uranus (the sky god), Oceanus (the ocean god), Atlas (the god who carries the globe), Eros (the god of physical love), Hermaphroditus (the god with male and female genitalia) and - in a way - Chaos, the breeding ground that created the Greek gods.
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