alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> > try to find out what about Artemis before she was considered to be the
> > godess of the huntress.. so far I remember, she was a deity of the
> > storm;
> > Alex
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> Homer Iliad XXI, 470
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> potnia th�r�n, Artemis
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> "the queen of the wild beasts, Artemis of the wild wood"
actually, this is what everyone normally should know.
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> so no storm here....and before Homer ....'was nobody'.....
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> Marius
See pls the following text from Tomaschek "Die Alten Thraker II, pg 176
when discussing the name of Zerunthia:
"... Artemis-Hekate war, ehe sie von den Dichtern zur Jägerin
umgestaltet wurde, eine Sturmgöttin, hinter der eine Koppel bellender
Hunde, d.i. die Schaar der dahingerafften Seelen einherzog; der
Volksglaube erkennt in des Hundes Gebell den Eintritt oder Austritt
einer Seele; zur Wahrung des Lebens wurden daher der Götting Hunde
geopfert, wie der Genetyllis-Eileithyia und der Hekate "fusforos"..."
I try to translate it in english as such:
"... before the poets remodeled her into a hunter, Artemis-Hekate was a
deity of storm havingand behind her a pride of barking dogs which caught
the souls of the deads; the popular belief recognises in the barking of
the dog the entrance or the exit of a soul; for the keeping the life,
people sacrificed dogs to the godess , the same for
Genetyllis-Eileithyia and for the Hekater "fusforos"
I am sorry I don't have the time to go deeper into this, I did not
intended to make a big deal of this story with this, I just got
contraried by the Semele-Gebele-Himel and that is all. Unfortunately,
right now I don't have the neccessary time to develop more this matter
thus I have to step out by now:-)
Alex