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... SEMELE In addition to the son of the goddess of the Underworld — the horned son whom the daughter and subterranean double of the Great Mother had borne to Zeus - our mythology also told of a second Dionysos , the son of Semele , who was ...
... SEMELE In addition to the son of the goddess of the Underworld — the horned son whom the daughter and subterranean double of the Great Mother had borne to Zeus - our mythology also told of a second Dionysos , the son of Semele , who was ...
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... Semele - that is to say , of Dionysos as he was reintroduced to us later . It was told 848 that when Zeus came to Semele , this was not a divine mating . He had prepared a potion from the heart of Dionysos , and this he gave Semele to ...
... Semele - that is to say , of Dionysos as he was reintroduced to us later . It was told 848 that when Zeus came to Semele , this was not a divine mating . He had prepared a potion from the heart of Dionysos , and this he gave Semele to ...
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... Semele , and the two of them suffered together in much the same fashion . This story has been preserved 876 by the people of Brasiai , a small coastal town in Laconia . Semele , they say , secretly carried Dionysos in her womb whilst ...
... Semele , and the two of them suffered together in much the same fashion . This story has been preserved 876 by the people of Brasiai , a small coastal town in Laconia . Semele , they say , secretly carried Dionysos in her womb whilst ...
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THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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