[tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

--- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:

>

Okay, other than Athena popping out of

> Zeus' skull, split by an axe, what do we have to link with this
> imagery? Are butterflies or axes associated with Athena? No. How
> about the insect goddess being swapped out of this myth for Zeus?
> Unlikely, IMO.
>

PS: In one version of the Birth of Athena, it is _Dionysus_ that
cracks Zeus over the head with an axe. I used to wonder why HE was
the one that got to do this, and also where he got the axe. Now I
know!

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