MrCaws:
> However, I think the dove makes sense for this version of the
>story, as doves are involved symbolically in the area
> I know that doves are connected with the 7 Pleiades, and that a
>black dove was sacrificed to Pelasgian goddess Dione-There's that
>blackbird you mentioned
Hmm. Perhaps the white doves have to do with rebirth... or with
the moon again (bull horns). Hmm. It does seem that "seven"
is somehow mythologically associated with this goddess figure. I
had mentioned before the idea of seven astral bodies being of
importance to early neolithic peoples... but no one bought that on
the List, sad to say, because most can't escape the common
contemporary belief that it was the Sumerians that invented
everything from writing to astrology, rather than this being an
influence from more northern peoples. As if the Sumerians were the
inventors of their own civilisation... hahahaha! :P
However, I don't know how else to explain "seven" except as
originally representing the seven most prominant astral
bodies in the sky:
Pole Star
Sun
Moon
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
In that respect, "seven" symbolically represents the totality of
creation, and hence, perhaps this is apt for a Supreme Goddess who
gave birth to the whole universe.
>BTW-I'm going to a lecture on the Cretan snake goddess in a couple
>weeks-Maybe that will give me some new ideas on that front.
That'll be interesting. I like the idea of a ritual dance and I
have to admit that this Eurynome myth has invoked that image in my
mind as well. Hmm, I wonder if anyone has bothered to reconstruct
IE music to go with these dances... ;)
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