From: megalith6
Message: 66664
Date: 2010-09-30
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>Problem is Greek culture was appropriating gods and goddesses right left and centre, and then 'tweaking' their myths to make them fit into the Olympic pantheon. Athena is possibly a Minoan deity from Crete - her origins were truncated - hence her 'birth' as an adult directly from the head of Zeus.
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> It's interesting that in Hesiodic Theogony many of the wives of Zeus begot sets
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> own mothers: Demeter-Persephone, Eurynome-Kharites, Themis-Horai,
> Hera-Hebe/Illithyia, Metis/Athena, Mnemosyne/Mousai.
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> JS Lopes
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