Re: [tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy

Dionysos? I know the versions of Hephaistos and Prometheus.

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Subject: [tied] Re: Creation > IE Astronomy


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