ABSTRACT
Themis is a hidden goddess. She is not one of the twelve Olympians who sit on their golden thrones and carry the very definition of the gods of the Greeks. But in a sense she is below and above them all. Born a Titan, of an older race than they, she is often hailed as the incarnation of eternal, inexhaustible Earth herself, and she brings an ancient wisdom to their ordering of the world of gods and humans. Some say she is the first wife of Zeus, some the second, drawing on her prophetic powers as the original Delphic oracle to whisper her counsel in his ear. On Olympus, she brings together the goddesses and gods, and commands their feasts. On Earth, she draws together human beings, both individually and in social assembly. Her very name means an ancient, divine law, a right order established by nature itself for the living together of gods and humans.1
