Fortune Telling Collection - Zodiac Analysis - History of Western Art: I once saw a sculpture of a goddess. She was blindfolded, with a balance in her right hand and a sword in her left. What goddess is she?

History of Western Art: I once saw a sculpture of a goddess. She was blindfolded, with a balance in her right hand and a sword in her left. What goddess is she?

Simis, the goddess of justice and order. According to the chronology of the gods, she was the daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth), and later became the second wife of Zeus, the god of Olympus. The original meaning of her name is "the earth", but it is escaped as "creation", "stability" and "firmness", so it is related to the law. In early mythology, Simis was the god who explained the prophecy. It is said that she was in charge of the temple of Delphi and explained divination, which was later handed over to Apollo. She is also responsible for maintaining the order of Mount Olympus and supervising the execution of the ceremony. In ancient Greek sculpture, her image is a woman with a serious expression and a balance in her hand. Her daughters with Zeus include Hera (goddess of time sequence), Omiya (goddess of order), Dick (goddess of justice), Eris (goddess of peace) and Mo Yi (goddess of fate). Share the responsibility for her. Among them, dice has the closest relationship with law. It is said that the goddess of justice holds the key to the door of day and night, monitors human life, and upholds justice when the soul circulates. She often chased criminals with swords and assassinated blasphemers. Her figure is usually a formidable woman with a sword or stick. Another goddess of justice often mentioned in ancient Greek mythology is the righteous god star, who presided over justice on the ground and rose to the sky as the main star of Virgo, pure and flawless. Her style is a pure girl, much more tolerant than the above two. The ancient Romans accepted the ancient Greek gods and mixed them with the Roman gods. During the Roman Empire, some concepts were personified, and many gods were "created", including justice Tia, the goddess of justice, whose modeling mixed the images of Greek goddesses such as themis, Dyke and Yi Shen Xing, usually holding scales and swords, and all the gods closed their eyes or covered their eyes with cloth. In the Renaissance era at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, while the art of ancient Greece and Rome was revived, Roman law was also revived, and statues of Justicia, the goddess of justice, began to appear in various city courts. The goddess still follows the shape of ancient Rome, holding a sword in one hand and a balance in the other. The balance means "fairness", the sword means "justice", and closing your eyes means "observing with your heart". The back of the statue is often engraved with the ancient Roman proverb: "In order to achieve justice, even if the sky falls (Fiatjustitia? ruat caelum)