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Danae, She-Who-Judges.
D*NI
Alternate meanings: Dawn, Parched.
[To Whom the twenty-fourth day of April, day 114, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek: Pre-Achean -- Argos ('83 Rand McNally 37.38 n by 22.45 e) to Thessaly ('83 Rand McNally 39.50 by 22.09 e), associated with the Island of Seriphus.
Linguistic Note: Her name was masculinized as Dan, and as Danaus (father of the fifty Danaides, She Herself being Eris own Great-Grand-Daughter!
Description: Goddess of the earth, moon, water and agriculture, especially barley; Inspirer of the inventions of irrigation and well-digging; Mother of people; Earth suffering from drought; Ancestress of the Rutulians.
To Whom Sacred: {milkweed (beloved by monarch butterflies); monarch butterfly (because their latin name is danaidae); the colours yellow, black, white, green, gold]; barley ("shower of gold" -- ie. the riches of the harvest -- or it may refer to rain as necessary to the harvest -- or may refer to a ritual marriage between moon and sun); brazen tower (or dungeon with brazen doors); sieve (for rain-making magic).
Male Associates: Son Perseus, Destroyer, by Zeus, or by Proteus.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Daughter of Aganippe, Mercifully-Destructive-Mare, Who is linked with the Mousae, Inspirers.
- As harvest Goddess She is titled Alphito, White-Goddess.
- Amphictyonis, President-of-Neighbors, may have been a title of Hers, or even an aspect of Her.
- She is the Daughter of Belili, Great-Lady, Who is linked with Zarpanit, Silver-Shining.
- Danae, ,She-Who-Judges may have originally been Dam-Kina, Earth-Mother.
- Mother of the Danaides, Those-Who-Judge, Who are linked with the Telchines, Enchanters.
- Perhaps Hebrew form of Her name Dinah, , below.
- Electryo, , (Who is linked with Electra, ), may be identified with Her.
- Does the fact that the Danaides are said to be the Daughters of Europe, , suggest that Europe and Danae are one and the same Goddess?
- Danae, She-Who-Judges, may be identified with Halia, Who is linked with Ino, She-Who-Makes-Sinewy.
- Title Lamia, Greedy-One, Who is linked with Lamashtu, .
- She may be identified with Leucothea, White-Goddess, Who is linked with Ino, Goddess.
Source: Graves GMv1 204, 238, 244; Graves WG.RG 58-9; 67.
Dinah, ----.
DEN*
Geography/Culture: Semitic? Hebraic?
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Also masculinised as Dan.
- Hebrew form of Danae, She-Who-Judges, above.
Source: Graves GMv1/204.
worked on: December, July 1995; July 1991.
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