Hestia is the virgin goddess of the hearth (both private and municipal), architecture, home, the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state.
Hestia is also the goddess of the sacrificial flame and received a share of every sacrifice to the gods.
The cooking of the communal feast of sacrificial meat was naturally a part of her domain.
The legends say that Hestia was the first born child of Kronos and Rhea who was swallowed by her father at birth.
Zeus later forced the old Titan to disgorge Hestia and her siblings.
As the first to be swallowed she was also the last to be disgorged, and so was named as both the eldest and youngest of the six Kronides.
When the gods Apollon and Poseidon sought for her hand in marriage, Hestia refused and asked Zeus to let her remain an eternal virgin.
He agreed and she took her place at his royal hearth...
Hestia was originally one of the twelve supreme gods on Mount Olympus, but she grew tired of the petty intrigues and wrangling that went on amongst the Olympians...
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