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Eris

IPA(Pronunciation)

Greek

(Greek mythology) The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;

Japanese Meaning

ギリシャ神話における、混乱と争いの女神。 / 紛争と不和を象徴する存在で、その不和のりんごがトロイア戦争の火種となったとされる。 / ホメロスによって暴力的な戦争の女神エニョと同一視され、ローマ神話ではDiscordiaとしても知られている。

What is this buttons?

Eris tossed a golden apple into the wedding banquet, setting off events that eventually led to the Trojan War.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

不和と争いの女神が婚礼の祝宴に黄金のリンゴを投げ入れ、やがてトロイ戦争へとつながる一連の出来事を引き起こした。

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According to Homer, the Trojan war is, above all, an affair of the gods. It is about Eris, a sister of the god of war Ares, and about Eros, not directly named by Homer, but who in the figure of Aphrodite, the god of love, plays a central role on the side of the Trojans. Eris is the one who divides gods, mortals, and things from each other; Eros is the one who brings them together.

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Sense（2）

(religion, Discordianism) the same figure as principal deity of Discordianism, regarded as the goddess of disorder.

Sense（3）

(astronomy) The celestial body 136199 Eris, the most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the largest known object in the scattered disk; formerly nicknamed Xena.

Today, Xena is no longer Xena but has been officially renamed Eris, after the Greek goddess of strife and discord—which hints at the climate in planetary science at the time. Its moon has a similarly appropriate name, Dysnomia (lawlessness) in Greek mythology, the daughter of Eris. Observations of Eris and Dysnomia have confirmed that Eris is 27 per cent more massive than Pluto, though of a similar diameter.

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