Who is Iris?

WHo is she, what does she do , what is her importance?

Who is Iris?
Iris (mythology), in Greek mythology, goddess of the rainbow, the daughter of the Titan Thaumas and Electra, daughter of the Titan Oceanus. As messenger of the god Zeus and his wife, Hera, Iris left Olympus only to convey the divine commands to humankind, by whom she was regarded as an adviser and guide. Traveling with the speed of the wind, she could go from one end of the earth to the other, and to the bottom of the sea or to the depths of the underworld. Although she was a sister of the winged monsters, the Harpies, Iris was represented as a beautiful maiden, with wings and robes of bright colors and a halo of light on her head, trailing across the sky with a rainbow in her wake.
Reply:IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow, a messenger of the Olympian gods. She was later described as a handmaiden and personal messenger of the goddess Hera. Iris was a goddess of both the sea and sky - her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a sea god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a shining cloud godddess. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning between cloud and sea. Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own. In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess. Iris was depicted in ancient Greek vase painting as a beautiful young woman with golden wings holding a herald's rod (kerykeion), and sometimes a water-pitcher (oinochoe), in her hand. She was usually shown standing beside Zeus or Hera, often serving nectar from a jug. As nectar-pourer Iris was indistinguishable from Hebe.Her name had a clever double meaning, being connected with both iris, the rainbow, and eiris, a messenger.
Reply:In Greek mythology, Iris was the goddess of the rainbow. She primarily acted as the messenger of the Olympian gods and goddesses, especially Hera. Scholars have suggested that Iris, as the personification of the rainbow, represented an example of a brief union of earth and sky. The qualities of this natural phenomenon in turn influenced her role in myth as the goddess who delivered messages between the heavens and earth.
Reply:I agree with StellaMatuTina. Iris is my Patron Goddess. Her Consort is Zephyrus, God of the West Wind.