Domains
Sacred order, justice, right custom
Titan
Themis
Divine law
Themis personifies divine order beyond human legislation. She underpins lawful assembly, right ritual, and prophetic legitimacy.
Lineage
Titan daughter of Gaia and Uranus; associated with Zeus as advisor/consort in some traditions.
Symbols
- Scales
- Council
- Oracle
Core Myths
- Attends Zeus as counselor of cosmic order.
- Mother of the Horae and, in some genealogies, the Moirai.
- Connected to Delphi's pre-Apollonian oracular strata.
Worship & Cult Context
- Honored in sanctuaries associated with justice and assembly.
- Invoked in civic oaths and legal rhetoric.
- Appears in philosophical discussions of natural law.
Interpretive Themes
Order
Law
Legitimacy
Roman Counterpart
Iustitia/Themis analogues