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Hestia the Asexual
Hestia is the Goddess of the Hearth.
She was the first born child of Kronos and Rheia, and the first to be eaten by the Crooked Kronos. Once Zeus claimed the celestial throne for himself, she and the other Kronian Gods were regurgitated and took up their new roles on Olympus.
Rather than be married to anyone, Hestia strongly declared her refusal to marry, and Zeus granted her the 'opposite of marriage'.
So Hestia became the Goddess of the Hearth, who tends the hearth on Olympus as well as overseeing the sacred eternal flame in every Greek and Roman town, and the fires of each individual…
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