Pantheon: Olympian
Element: Water
Sphere of Influence: Protection and Luck
Preferred colors: Red, Sky-Blue
Associated symbol: Red Pentagram
Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, Goddess of Luck, she teaches that every situation's outcome is determined by chance. She is the Goddess of gamblers and protector of those that take desperate chances in a good cause.
In Greek mythology, Tyche ("luck") (Roman mythology|Roman equivalent: Fortuna (luck)|Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. Increasingly during the Hellenistic period cities had their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown, that is a crown like the walls of the city. In literature, she might be given various genealogies, as a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, or considered as one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys (mythology)|Tethys or Zeus Pindar. She was connected with Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").
Tyche appears on many numismatics|coins of the Hellenistic period in the three centuries before the Christian era, especially from cities in the Aegean.
In medieval art, she was depicted as carrying a cornucopia, an emblemmatic ships rudder and the wheel of fortune, or she may stand on the wheel, presiding over the entire circle of fate.
