Peretite is a big fat Goddess. 
    She really is fat, great folds of fat. She has a massive round face, and a smile that stretches right across. She has mid brown colour hair and it is impossible to tell how old she is, she looks neither old nor young, perhaps somewhere in her 30s or 40s. She is very jolly, with huge fat cheeks:

"I am the Goddess of happiness, unknown, have never been worshipped and yet all mortals pray for happiness."

This great Goddess visited us many times, her name is Peretite. By the second time she visited I had tried to sketch what she looked like, and I realised then that my attempt wasn't nearly fat enough. 
    She laughed, a deep chuckle, not as deep as Silenus, but it is a real chuckle. She seems to laugh from her belly and she wobbles. In fact she has about six or eight chins and they all wobble when she laughs. 
    She is SO huge and SO happy.
    "What a lovely picture you made of my face. Just like me." And she roared with laughter again. "You cheated, someone helped you," and she chuckled again as if it was a huge joke. "I am off now to find something else to laugh at and I give you the gift of laughter, especially when things go a little wrong. Laugh and your troubles will disappear."

Third time the Goddess of happiness appeared she held my hand. 
    “I am back again,” and she laughed. “You are such lovely mortals.” 
    She led me into a field of daisies, hardly any grass to be seen. She is so big but somehow she lumbered over the daisies and did not crush a single one, she was laughing. 
    “You priestess deserve some happiness and laughter. It is better for mortals than any physics.” 

I saw a group of children, little girls sitting on the ground making daisy chains and hanging them round each other’s necks. Twelve children of five years of age or so. They all were laughing and very happy but they did not see us. 
    “All mortals should be happy and laugh like the children, simple pleasures are the best. I know it is difficult, but when things go wrong turn anger into laughter. That is my gift to you both, laugh at your world. Laugh at those who anger you.” And she just doubled up with laughter. “Bless you.”

The next time she visited I heard that unmistakeable chuckle, faint at first but then louder. Her laughter is contagious, you just can't help but laugh along with her.
    Then she appeared. Her lovely fat laughing face.
     “You know who I am priestess, the Goddess of happiness and laughter. Thank you for the work that you do. Laughter has not been around you much lately, but let it come. That is the main gift I give you. Many lovely things will happen. I know it is hard for mortals to be patient but I promise it will all come. Go now with my loving blessings and my gift, of course, happiness and laughter.”
    Then she vanished. 
    It had been a difficult time, for we had started to establish contact with some seriously fierce deities during that period. It was intense, we were encountering deities of nature furious at humankind's damage to their work, and when a human willingly steps into their grasp, their first reaction was angry and would make me suffer what it was like for the earth. No harm had come to either of us, sure the experience was unpleasant, but it was often so harrowing and upsetting to see, that nothing seemed remotely funny afterward.
    But when Peretite appears, her laughter is so infectious...
    I could imagine her getting on well with Silenus, they both have such lovely chuckles. 

Her arrival always is with the sound of deep chuckling laughter.
    "Yes, I am back with you. You recognise me. I bring happiness wherever I go."
    Then she appeared. All her chins were wobbling with laughter. She wore a very loose-fitting flowing robe, blue and mauve colour, sleeveless with a cowl neckline, down to the ground. Great big fat arms and I saw on her right wrist she wore a wide silver bracelet studded all over with different coloured jewels. There were diamonds, rubies and emeralds, all sparkling. 
     She held out her arms, she didn't touch us but surrounded us in her embrace.
    "You two dear mortals."
    Suddenly I realised I was standing in an old-fashioned fairground. I saw swings and roundabouts and tents and test-your-strength attractions and sideshows of all kinds. There was noise and people and different kinds of music coming from the roundabouts and lots and lots of excitement and laughter. Men, women and children all happy and laughing.
    "I have been considered important enough to have my special day and when I do it is always at a place like this."
    She laughs as she talks.
    "I am Peretite, Goddess of Happiness and Laughter. As I consider myself very important I tend to push myself forward to come into your temple when three of us are honoured together."

We walked through the crowds, well I walked, she floated and the sense of fairground excitement and noise was exhilarating.
    "Sadness is not part of my nature. Laughter is like gold. All mortals make mistakes, do stupid things. Sometimes wish they hadn't, have bad thoughts.
Your lives are not perfect. You do not have all you wish for. There are few mortals who walk your earth who have a perfect life. Some of the richest souls are unhappy. I am pleased to see you a little happier than you were.

You have your days when nothing seems to go right. All mortals experience this. Learn to laugh. Happiness is a state of mind. Anyone can find it if they want to. Remember this at all times. 
    There is always something to celebrate. Today I celebrate. Tonight the great God Kyron and tomorrow another day of festivities."
    And suddenly I had stepped back into the temple and this huge Goddess filled the space. She towered above us and smiled:
    "Nothing matters except love, laughter and the Olympian faith. I leave you now with my blessings, loving blessings. But I shall be around. I shall not leave you for long. Take the gifts of great optimism and happiness. What else could I give you?"

And in a huge chuckle of laughter, she was gone.
    Then a very strange thing happened...

..A silvery light appeared above the altar and right in its centre was a tiny speck of gold. Then a female voice and without hesitation I found myself walking toward the speck of gold.
    I saw her, but only a shadowy figure, but I could tell she has long hair.
    "I am the daughter of the Goddess of Happiness. A Goddess myself. Not of laughter, like she. I dry the tears of children, turning their tears into smiles. So you can call me the Goddess of Smiles."
    From the sound of her voice I would say she is quite young. 
    "When adults cry it is harder to turn their tears into smiles but I succeed sometimes. I am young and pretty, but not as beautiful as some great ones. This is the first time I ever have had homage paid to me. It pleases me and I do thank you."

The speck of gold and the figure grew larger and closer.
    "You priestess were badly injured this morning. Let me take you to where you will be healed."
    She led me so gently and I was standing in countryside. Grassland but no sign of trees or bushes, only different shades and hues of green that grew in patches. It looked very pretty. I saw movement, some young nymphs picking from the larger strands of grass. Four of them and each had gathered a big bunch. I watched them as they took the bunches and presented these to the shadowy figure who stood in the distance. 
    She accepted the grasses from the nymphs, gave each a friendly pat on the head as they bowed toward her. Then each and every one vanished as she came up to me, still very shadowy, only her hair could I see for certain. She threw the bunch of grasses into the air and it all came down over me. It was so light, so pleasant and soothing and I realised I was really grinning from ear to ear.
    "Now you are healed. Go. And take my blessings, and may life bring you more smiles than sadness. There is no need for sadness. Smile with my blessings."

And then she was gone.

* 

It was two months before she returned, and this time she showed herself.
    In place of the speck of gold, on this second occasion the temple filled with brilliant multicoloured light and I heard her voice.

"Yes. We have met before and I thank you for paying homage to me, the Goddess of Smiles. A smile brings everything positive toward you. Life may not always go the way you wish for it, but better with a smile than a frown. A frown brings all the wrong and negative vibrations and mortals toward you.
    I work well beside the Goddess of Happiness."
    And then I saw her. She was entirely clothed in a BRILLIANT shimmering green. I could not see her hair for the garment was one-piece with a hood which covered her hair. But I could see she has very large brilliant green eyes and her face is one big smile.
    She was dancing, doing her own thing and singing, obviously very happy. Then I noticed we were in open country, lots of grass. Clumps of very long feathery grass. Eventually she stopped dancing and drew closer to me.
    "It's time for someone else, so I must go. I give you my blessings and my gift that everyone smiles upon you today."

Festival of Peretite & Hebe
 - 30th November