Daimon
Lesser divinity or personified abstract concept in classical Greek mythology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the semi-divine beings of Classical Greek mythology. For the evil beings associated with the word today, see Demon. For other uses, see Demon (disambiguation) (includes daemon disambiguation) or Daimon (disambiguation).
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"),[1][2] originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.[3] The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European daimon "provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies)," from the root *da- "to divide".[4] Daimons were possibly seen as the souls of men of the golden age acting as tutelary deities, according to entry δαίμων at Liddell & Scott.[5] See also daimonic: a religious, philosophical, literary and psychological concept.