There she prayed Jupiter either to restore her to her original form, or to terminate her misfortunes by death. […] In her right hand she holds a sceptre, and in her left, a key. […] She holds her fore-finger to her lips, or carries a scroll. […] Ulysses bade her act according to her inclination, saying that she was free to remain, if such was her desire. Penelope made no reply, but dropped her veil over her face.

She has keys in her hand, to signify her keeping, locked up in her bosom, the seeds of every sort of fruit. […] Near her was generally placed her favourite bird, the peacock. […] The cow was her symbol. […] To her was dedicated a city in the Thebaid, called after her name. […] Here resided Hela, the dreadful Goddess of death, daughter of the evil genius Loke, and the giantess Angherbode, or messenger of ill she was described as occupying an immense palace; where her hall was Sorrow; her table, Famine; her knife, Hunger; her Servants, Slowness and Delay; her gate, Precipice; her vestibule, Languor; her bed, Malady and Leanness; her tent, Malediction.