Interesting yes. To me it's as plain as day but no doubt controversy will rage for decades. Dione is Aphrodite's mother because they are both archaic sun goddesses - mother to daughter - rapidly fading from view as solar deities by Homeric times and demoted here as you say to an Oceanid subsequently. Nothing incongruous here btw, solar deities have a habit of setting into the western waves, where available.
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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