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... goddesses play the part of Mother of the World : the sea - goddess Tethys , the goddess Night , and Mother Earth . They constitute a Trinity ; but this may well be a chance result of the fact that only three tales of such a Mother have ...
... goddesses play the part of Mother of the World : the sea - goddess Tethys , the goddess Night , and Mother Earth . They constitute a Trinity ; but this may well be a chance result of the fact that only three tales of such a Mother have ...
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... goddess Night.39 According to the tales of the disciples of Orpheus , an account of which I shall postpone until later , Nyx was herself a threefold goddess.40 Amongst the Children of Night were the goddesses of Fate , the Moirai . This ...
... goddess Night.39 According to the tales of the disciples of Orpheus , an account of which I shall postpone until later , Nyx was herself a threefold goddess.40 Amongst the Children of Night were the goddesses of Fate , the Moirai . This ...
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... goddess for all time with the sea . For us she was the Anadyomene , the goddess who " emerges " from the salt waves ; and she also had the additional name of Pelagia , " she of the sea " . Two other of her surnames afforded an ...
... goddess for all time with the sea . For us she was the Anadyomene , the goddess who " emerges " from the salt waves ; and she also had the additional name of Pelagia , " she of the sea " . Two other of her surnames afforded an ...
Contents
THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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