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... father - will you not hear me and punish your father for this wicked ill - doing ? He was the first who ever devised a shameful deed ! " They were all afraid , and none opened his mouth . Only great Kronos , the tortuous thinker , took ...
... father - will you not hear me and punish your father for this wicked ill - doing ? He was the first who ever devised a shameful deed ! " They were all afraid , and none opened his mouth . Only great Kronos , the tortuous thinker , took ...
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... Father's daughter : a warlike virgin at whose birth the Father played a more impor tant part than the mother . In our religion she took , at least since Homer , second place after her father Zeus . I have already mentioned , in my ...
... Father's daughter : a warlike virgin at whose birth the Father played a more impor tant part than the mother . In our religion she took , at least since Homer , second place after her father Zeus . I have already mentioned , in my ...
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... father - for he could also be called simply Pater , 560 " Father " -he came somewhere between the two sorts of male god : those , on the one hand , who served the Great Mother ; and , on the other hand , the Olympian Father — who ...
... father - for he could also be called simply Pater , 560 " Father " -he came somewhere between the two sorts of male god : those , on the one hand , who served the Great Mother ; and , on the other hand , the Olympian Father — who ...
Contents
THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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According Adonis already amongst ancient Aphrodite Apollon appeared Ariadne Artemis Asia Minor beautiful begat birth Boeotia bore born brother called cave chariot child cows Cretan Crete Daktyloi dark daughter deities Delos Delphi Demeter Dionysos divine earth Erinyes Eros father female Gaia gave giant goddess gods golden Gorgons Greek Hades hand Harpies Heaven Hekate Helios Hephaistos Hera Herakles Hermes hero heroic saga Hesiod Hesperides Homer husband immortal island Kabeiroi King Korybantes Kouretes Kronos later Leto Maia maiden male mankind marriage means mentioned Moirai moon mortal mother Mount Muses mythology Nereids Nereus Night nymphs Okeanos Olympian Olympus original Orion Orpheus Ouranos Pallas Athene Persephone Phaethon phallic Phorkys Poseidon primordial Prometheus Rhea sacred Selene Semele serpent shape Sirens sister Skylla sons spring stories concerning surname tale Telchines tell Tethys Themis thou Titans told took Underworld vase vase-painting wife winged women word worshipped Zeus Zeus's