Nane (goddess) supreme God. Before Christianity came to Armenia, the cross was already an important symbol. The Arevkhatch, had four sections, each twisting in a direction of the cross. Eventually it came to represent war and disruption. Nane (goddess) Nane (, "Nanė") was an Armenian mother goddess, as well as the goddess of war and wisdom. Nane was depicted as a young beautiful woman in the clothing of a warrior, with spear and shield in hand, like the Greek Athena, with whom she identified in the Hellenic period. She has also been referred to as "Hanea, Hanea, Babylonian Nana, Sumerian Nanai or
Greek mythology in popular culture Lord Tennyson's "Oenone" is her lament that Paris deserted her for Helen. When poets of the German Romantic tradition, such as Friedrich Schiller, wrote about the Greek gods, their works were frequently "erotically charged", "openly sensual and hedonistic". In his poem "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot incorporates a range of elements and inspirations from Greek mythology to pop music to Elizabethan history to create a ""tour-de-force" exposition of Western culture, from the elite to the folk to the utterly primitive". The Indian poet Henry Louis Vivian Derozio's work was heavily influenced by Greek mythology. Nina Kosman published a book