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Electra, Bright-One.
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Alternate meanings: Amber, Beaming, Unmarried.
[to Whom the seventh day of October, day 280, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek, especially Samothrace, where She is generally thought to dwell.
Linguistic Note: feminine of Elector which in Homer is a name for Helios. Related English words: electricity (and derived words), electron.
Description: Maiden Goddess of the sun, the stars and the sea; She Who as the sea is provider of that anciently highly valued product, amber; Mother of tempests, gusts of wind and rainbows; Eponym of the Electra Gate at Thebes, and the fabulous island Electris; {Queen of electricity and magnetism; Matron of electricians}.
She is closely connected with the old constellation worship and the Cabeiri.
To Whom Sacred: dove; amber; the faintest star in the Pleiades constellation (it is said She lost Her brilliance after the fall of Troy); {friction}; {electricity}; {static electricity}; {hair -- because it generates static electricity}; comet.
Male Associates: consort, Thaumas; sons, Dardanus and Iasion, Healing-Moon-Man (Iasios, identified with Eetion, was probably a very old godling of agriculture) by violator Zeus, or by consort Corythus. In some traditions these were names of the Cabeiri.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Perhaps a variant:
Alectrona
, Queen-of-Amber. No beast of burden can enter the sanctuary of Alectrona.
- Associated in some way with Athene, Immortal-One, either as having tried to take refuge behind the Palladium when attacked by Zeus, or as having defiled it by Her touch during the event, or as having given it to Her son Dardanus.
- Associated with Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication, (in so far as both are said to be Mother of Harmonia, Concord-of-Sound).
- As a mortal, Daughter of Clytemnestra, Clytemnestra, Who is linked with Leto, Lady.
- Variant:
Electre
.
- Perhaps variant: Electryo, The-Brilliant, below.
- Also called Eudora, YWD4R1, Generous, which name is perhaps itself a variant of Eudore, Generous, Who is linked with the Hyades, Rainy-Ones.
- A sea-title of Eurybia, Wide-Strength, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
- Mother of Harmonia, Concord-of-Sound, Who is linked with Concordia, Synthesis-of-Minds.
- By Thaumas, Electra, Bright-One, is Mother of the Multiple Goddess Harpyiai, Swift-Robbers.
- Maiden aspect of Triple Hecate, She-Who-Works-from-Afar.
- One of the attendants of Helene, Bright-Moon, bears Her name.
- Mother of Iris, Iridescence.
- As mortal Daughter of Clytemnestra, {Praiseworthy-Wooing, She is also called
Laodice
, L*ODEKA, Justice-of-the-People.
- She is an Oceanid, {Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen}, the Oceanides, Daughters-of-the-Swift-Queen, are linked with Thetis, Disposer.
- She is sometimes counted as One of the sevenfold Pleiades, Sailing-Ones.
- Also called Strategis, {War-Leader}, below.
- Daughter of Telephassa, Far-Shiner, Who is linked with Europe, She-of-the-Broad-Face.
- Also called Daughter of Tethys, Disposer, Who is linked with Thetis, Disposer.
Source: BT.AF/210; GF.GM/25, 91; Graves GMv1 128; ibid GMv2 262; 154; Kravitz WWGRM/41, 94; KK.GG/40, 61; KK.GSM/4; RHJ.HGM/53, 94, 250.
Electryo, The-Brilliant.
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Geography/Culture: Greek?
Description: {Emphasize connection with the sun, and the idea of electricity made from the sun's light}
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Danae, She-Who-Judges, may be identified with Her.
- Probably etymologically related to Electra, Bright-One, above.
- Variant:
Electryone
, Beaming.
- One of the Heliades, Daughter's-of-the-Sun.
- Daughter of
Rhode
, HRODA, Rosy, by Helios.
- Rhode, Rosy, may be a variant of Rhodos, Rose, below.
Source: GM.FG/85, 130; GMv1/157.
Rhodos, Rose.
HrOD0S,
Geography/Culture: Rhodes.
Description: Eponym Goddess of the island of Rhodes.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Title, or Daughter, of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication.
- Could Rhode, Rosy, above, be a variant of Rhodos, Rose?
Strategis, {War-Leader}.
STR*TAGYS
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: strate(ta)gis, of the general. Strate(ta)gos, 'the leader or commander of an army'. Related English word: strategy, etc.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Alternate name for Electra, Amber, above.
worked on: September, May 1995; August 1991; June, July 1990.
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