Hestia

Essegui Harn, cousin of Hestia, is the eldest daughter to a family, one with high ambitions and terrible secrets.

Winterstrike by Liz Williams Mark 2008

While Hestia is attempting to return to Winterstrike, Essegui chases her sister who has escaped her confinement and is now on the run.

Winterstrike by Liz Williams Mark 2008

What may we suppose him to have meant who gave the name Hestia?

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

The name Hestia embodies not the divinization of a concrete object, but the recognition of the divine person presiding over the object in question.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

In Rome, the day was dedicated to Vesta, also known as Hestia in Greece.

Donna Henes: Celebrating the Solstice: Fiery Fetes of Summer 2010

[Greek name Hestia] The Roman and Greek goddess of the hearth and home.

Vesta 2002

The so-called Hestia (Vesta) which formerly belonged to the

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

We must conclude, then, that every part and member of the earth carries its vestige of this principle of growth, an under-phase of that entire principle which belongs not to this or that member but to the earth as a whole: next in order is the nature [the soul-phase], concerned with sensation, this not interfused [like the vegetal principle] but in contact from above: then the higher soul and the Intellectual-Principle, constituting together the being known as Hestia [Earth-Mind] and Demeter [Earth-Soul] — a nomenclature indicating the human intuition of these truths, asserted in the attribution of a divine name and nature.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

He heard Sirius walking down the hall, then the clattering of the chain on the front door, and then a deep voice he recognised as Kingsley Shacklebolt's saying, 'Hestia's just relieved me, so she's got Moody's Cloak now, thought I'd leave a report for Dumbledore ...'

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

_ See also the article "Hestia" in Roscher's _Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie_.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891