Re: [tied] Nepot's wife...

Well, about the the wife of Nepo:t -
Neptunus had two female partners: Salacia and Venilia.
Poseidon had many women, but there are many mare-women: Demeter, Medousa,
Hippe, beside Amphitrite, Athena, Aithra, etc
Nechtan was husband of Boand, a river-goddess.

About Nepo:t 's brother, Fire-Born. The Earth burnt by Lightning giving
birth to a Fire-Born. Remembering: Zeus (Sky or Thunder) and Semele (Earth,
cf Slavic zem-), parents of Dionysos, called Pyrisporos (Fire-Seed).

Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Joao's "Achille's Heel"


>
>
> Joao:
> >For example, you proposes the pair *Nepot/Pexwrgnnos. OK, Fire and
>Water.
> >A good opposition, but this equivalence is present in IE >mythologies?
> >Parjanya and Fjorgunn, good link, but Parjanya was a god >of Rain, not
Fire
> >or Lightning.
>
> Well, I'll think some more there.
>
> >Other example: *Xedhnos/Xereghnis. [...]
>
> I'm starting to question this myself. It is partially under the assumption
> that the three realm-function deity pairs should have been married off. I
> now see that only half of these pairs are married off, the others may
simply
> be realm deities who sit there and look pretty, representing formless
> concepts afterall (sky, earth, waters). Thus, Fire-Born and Venus, Sky and
> Cow Mother, Man and whatever his wife may have been (Logically, he _must_
> have been connected with a female if he were to be the originator of
> mankind!). Affirmation of this half-married view would be that Venus and
> Aphrodite seem like mirror images of a single goddess.
>
> Who could Neptune be married to? Suggestions? Recap: My theory so far is
> that Grandson only represents an inanimate and formless realm (waters) and
> therefore is unattached.
>
> Please, continue to be my devil's advocate. :)
>
> - gLeN
>
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