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Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
YWRÜNOMA,
Alternate meanings: Wide-Rule, Wide-Ruling, With-Broad-Pastures.
[to Whom the twenty-fourth day of October, day 297, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek. Arcadia. Pelasgian. Orphic.
Linguistic Note: a Greek rendering of an original [unknown] Pelasgain name.
Description: Very ancient Great Goddess of all; Creatrix of the universe; Queen of the circling Universe; Ruler of heaven, earth, and sea; She Who is the visible moon; perhaps originally a Dragoness.
To Whom Sacred: dove.
Iconography: At Phigalia in Arcadia, She was represented as half-woman, half-fish.
Male Associates: Consort Orphion, (before Cronos). Son: Atabyrius, Spirit-of-the-Year, (though some say he is the son of Althaia).
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Triple Eurynome
first person (Herself), Eurynome, Wide-Wandering
second person, Eurybia, Wide-Strength
third person, Eurydice, Wide-Justice
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, is also called, or is Mother of: Althaia, She-Who-Makes-Grow, below
- Her name is perhaps sometimes used as a title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.
- She is also called: Asterie, She-of-the-Sun, below.
- Perhaps also called Charis, Graceful-One, (Who is linked with Her Daughters, the Triple Chariteae, Graceful-Ones), since Eurynome is sometimes said to be the Mother of the Chariteae.
- Second person of the Eurynome triad is Eurybia, Wide-Strength, below.
- The Third person of the Eurynome triad is Eurydice, Wide-Justice, Who is linked with Persephoneia, Bringer-of-Destruction.
- Her original Sumerian form may have been Iahu, Exalted-Dove, below.
- In late times She is reduced to an Oceanid, Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen, Who are linked with Thetis, Disposer.
- Also called: Oreithyia, She-Who-Rages-Upon-the-Mountains.
- Mother of Phoebe, Moonlight, by Ophion.
- Perhaps also called:
Protogonia
, PROTOGONY1, First-Born.
- She is said by some to be identical with Rhea, Earth, (Who is linked with Pandora, All-Giving) of Crete.
- It is said that in Polynesia Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, is called: Tangaroa, ----, Who is linked with Papa, Foundation.
- Some say She is Mother of Tethys, Disposer, (Who is linked with Thetis, Disposer), by Titan {is this as the sun god?}.
Source: GR.GMv1/128; GR.WG/62, 179, 333; KD.WWGRM/98.
Althaia, She-Who-Makes-Grow.
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Alternate meanings: Healer, Marshmallow.
Geography/Culture: Greek: Calydonia, Aetolia.
Linguistic Note: from Greek alpha-lambda-theta-eta-tau-omicron, (altheto), 'to make whole and sound'. Or from Greek althaia, 'marshmallow', from althainein, 'to cure', since the Greeks credited the marshmallow with healing virtue.
Description: Goddess of the moon and birth.
To Whom Sacred: marshmallow (the first flower of spring from which bees suck honey); vine; blue-wattled guinea-hen, it's clucking sounds were taken to be sounds of mourning (into which Artemis is said to have turned all but two of Althaia's Daughters); fire-brand (the Moirae foretold Meleager's death as the fire-brand burned away).
Male Associates: sons, Toxeus, Meleager, Guinea-Fowl, by consort Oeneous, Vinous, or some say by Mars. Lover: Dionysus.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Variant:
Althea
.
- Roman transliteration variant:
Altheae
.
- In the island of Leros Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, is worshipped as a meleagris, a guinea-hen.
- Mother of Deianeira, Stringer-Together-of-Spoil, (She is linked with Artemis, High-Source-of-Water), by Dionysus.
- Daughter, or some say alternate name, of Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, above.
- Some say Daughter of Eurythemis, Wide-Order, Who is linked with Leto, Lady.
- Mother of Gorge, Grim-One. Gorge may be an aspect or title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.
{Note: Since in one form or another Althaia, She-Who-Makes-Grow, is
often related to Artemis, is it possible that Althaia was an older Goddess absorbed into Artemis? When Artemis came to Greece?}.
Source: Graves WG 237, 333-4; New Larousse EM 126.
Asterie, She-of-the-Sun.
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Alternate meaning: She-of-Sun-and-the-Starry-Sky.
Geography/Culture: Greek: Delos.
Linguistic Note: from Greek alpha-sigma-tau-epsilon-rho-omicron-epsilon-iota-sigma, 'starry, like a star'.
Description: Goddess of the sky, stars and sun; Queen of heaven; Creatrix of the planetary powers; Eponym of the Island of Delos {presumably an earlier name}.
To Whom Sacred: quail; {astronomy}.
Male Associates: sons Oenomaus, Solitary-Bird-of-Omen by Mars; Diomedes, Godlike-Cunning-of-Argos by Atlas, He-Who-Dares (or He-Who-Suffers).
Titles/Variants, etc:
- The probable variant,
Asteria
, She-of-the-Starry-Sky, is a title of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication.
- Asterie, She-of-the-Sun, is the name of One of the Danaides, Those-Who-Judge. They are linked with the Telchines, Enchanters.
- A title of Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, above.
- In the form Asteria, She-of-the-Starry-Sky, She is the Sister of Leto, Lady.
- She is said to be one of the Pleiades, Flock-of-Doves.
- Daughter of Phoebe, Bright-Moon.
- Mother of Hecate, She-Who-Works-From-Afar, {or Hecate is the Mother of Asterie}.
Source: Graves GMv1 295; ibid GMv2 32, 122.
Eurybia, Wide-Strength.
YWRÜBY1,
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess and ruler of the sea.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- One of Her titles is Ceto, Sea-Monster, (Who is linked with Marpessa, Snatcher), while some say Ceto is the Sister of Eurybia, Wide-Strength.
- Also called, or title of Doris, Bountiful, Who is linked with Thetis, Disposer.
- Electra, Amber, may be a sea-title of Eurybia, Wide-Strength.
- Variant:
Eurybie
.
- Another form of Her was
Eurynassa
, ----, Moon Goddess, Whose consort was Tantalus, ----.
- Second person of the Eurynome triad, above
- She is also called Nereis, Wet-One, Who is linked with Thetis, Disposer.
- Some say also called
Thaumas
, 39M1S, Wonderful, {but see male associates of Electra}.
- Thetis, Disposer, Disposer, is also called Eurybia, Wide-Strength, or Eurybia may be a title of Thetis.
Source: Graves GMv1 128; Graves WG 333.
Iahu, Exalted-Dove.
E*HW
Geography/Culture: Sumerian.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- It has been suggested that Her name is cognate with the name of Io, Exalted-Moon,
- Apparently Isis, Lap-of-Power, was sometimes titled Iahu {surely not in Egypt?}.
- She may have been the original form of the Goddess Who later became known as Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, above.
worked on: October, September,June 1995; August 1991; July 1990.
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