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Hymen o Hymenee
Hymen o Hymenee is an 1889 painting by Filipino painter and revolutionary activist Juan Luna. The painting won a bronze medal during the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle in Paris, France.
and one of the muses, Clio or Calliope or Urania or Terpsichore.
Function and representation.
Hymen is supposed to attend every wedding. If he did not, then the marriage would supposedly prove disastrous, so the Greeks would run about calling his name aloud. He presided over many of the weddings in Greek mythology, for all the deities and their children.
Hymen is celebrated in the ancient marriage song of unknown origin (called a Hymenaios) "Hymen o Hymenae, Hymen" delivered by G. Valerius Catullus