Polyhymnia
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Polyhymnia
Polyhymnia (pŏlˌĭhĭmˈnēə): see Muses.
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Polyhymnia
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)Polyhymnia, asteroid 33 (the 33rd asteroid to be discovered, on October 28, 1854), is approximately 62 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.8 years. Polyhymnia is named after the Greek muse of singing, mime, rhetoric, and sacred dance, who was a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne and whose symbol is the veil. Like its mythological namesake, the asteroid Polyhymnia confers talent in singing, dance, mime, and rhetoric to natives in whose chart it is prominent.
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Polyhymnia
in Greek mythology, one of the nine Muses, the patroness of sacred hymns and of music.
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Polyhymnia
muse of lyric poetry; presided over singing. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 849]
See: Harmony
Polyhymnia
Muse of sacred song. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 172]
See: Music
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Polyhymnia
Greek myth the Muse of singing, mime, and sacred dance
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