Goddess of Justice and Divine Law
The goddess of order who holds the scales — the blindfolded statue of Justice outside courthouses is her Roman form. A Titan who nonetheless stood with Zeus throughout, she was his second wife and bore the Horae (the Seasons) and the Moirai (the Fates). She held the Delphic oracle before Apollo.
After Zeus destroyed the world by flood, the righteous couple Deucalion and Pyrrha grounded their ark on a mountaintop. Themis’s oracle told them to "throw the bones of your mother behind you" — that is, the stones of Mother Earth. The stones they cast fell and became people, and humanity was reborn.
Below are how modern works borrow or reinterpret this name or story — not the original material. The two differ, so keep them apart.
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