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Io, Exalted-Moon.
EO
Alternate meanings: Moon, Exalted-One.
[to Whom the fifth day of November, day 309, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Ionian, Peloponesus: Danaan (at Argos, She was worshipped there at least as early as 1225 B.C.).
Description: White Goddess of barley, and tree calendar writing script; She Who brought the writing script to Egypt; She Who wanders across the earth; Divine White Cow; the Moon amidst the stars; the Moon as rain-bringer; Horned Maiden; Orgiastic Nymph of summer; Eponymou ancestress of the Ionians (`Children of Io'); Eponym of the Ionian Sea.
{Note: with regard to Her bringing of the script: the Egyptians were using their hieroglyphic script as early as 3000 BCE. It's thought possible they adopted the idea, but not the script itself, from the Sumerians.}
She may have been a deity Who was worshipped in primitive times as a cow.
To Whom Sacred: alder (which in Ireland is sometimes called 'Gaurdian-of-milk' -- milk pails were made of it); pear-tree (She is called the Daughter of Peiren who made the first image of Hera out of a pear-tree at Tiryns); willow; violet, plant and flower (in Greek ion); wryneck (the messenger who attracted Zeus to Her arms); woodpecker; crane; white-heifer (and cattle in general); gadfly; gadfly-dance; horned altars; the 5 vowels and the consonants 'B' and 'T' (She invented them); the number 7; cornucopia; the colours white, violet-red, black (as cow, She changed Her colours as the moon changes).
Male Associates: son, (by Zeus), Epaphus, ----, the supposed founder of Memphis, identified with Apis. Son, some say Dionysus (others say She was his nurse). Some say Io, Exalted-Moon, was nurse to the infant Zeus! Consort, Telegonus.
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Perhaps sometimes Nymph in triple Goddess form with:
Maiden: Amaltheia, Tender, Who is linked with Aega, Wild-Goat.
and Crone: Adrasteia, Inescapable-One, Who is linked with Nemesis, Inescapable-One.
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- Alphito, White-Goddess, is said to be the same Goddess in another aspect.
- And see Anteia, Flowering, (below ), perhaps an alternate name for Io, Exalted-Moon.
- The Roman sometimes identified Io with their Anna-Perenna, Everlasting-Queen, Who is linked with Annona, Fruitful-Year.
- Title: Bouceros, {Cow-Eyes}, below.
- Under the name Callithyia, ----, (below), She is known as the first priestess of Hera, Our-Lady, at the Heraion.
- She has the title: Choere, Sow, as does Marpessa, Snatcher, with Whom Choere is linked .
- Title Cyrianessa, Queen-of-Chieftans, below.
- Equivalent to, or called in Ireland:
Glas-Gabhnack
, The-Green-Stripper. {Compiler's Note: re: fopho -- I can't make an intelligent guess at the pronunciation of Irish Gaelic},
- Perhaps the Goddess Who was superceded by Hera Our-Lady, since Her name, Io, Exalted-Moon, became the title of Hera's priestesses.
- Title: Hipponoe, Horse-Wisdom.
- Title Iphianassa, Mighty-Queen.
- Title: Iphinoe, Mighty-Intelligence.
- Her name is perhaps cognate with Iahu, Exalted-Dove, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
- She became, (or was identified with), Isis, {Lap-of-Power}, upon Her arrival in Egypt.
- Some say Mother of Libya, Dripping-Rain, Who is linked with Neith, World-Weaver.
- Perhaps title: Lynx, Wryneck, Who is linked with Echo, Ringing-in-the-Ears.
- Title Lysippe, LÜSYPA, She-Who-Lets-Loose-the-Horses.
- Io, Exalted-Moon, was One of the Meliai, Those-of-the-Ash-Trees, Who are linked with Melia, She-of-the-Ash-Tree.
- She is also called: Stheneboea, S3]N]BO]1, Strength-of-Cattle.
Source: Davies EH 10, 40; Graves GMv1 40, 42, 56-7, 182-3, 191-2, 236-7; Graves WG50, 62, 67, 170-1, 173, 233, 239, 441; Kravitz WWGRM 128.
Amazons, Without-Breasts.
1M6Z0NZ
Geography/Culture: Asia Minor.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Daughters of Lysippe, She-Who-Lets-Loose-the-Horses, below.
Anteia, {Flowering}.
*NTA1
Geography/Culture: Greek?
Linguistic Note: perhaps from antheia, 'flowering'.
Description: Her Daughters, said to have been divinely afflicted with madness and Who went raging on the mountains assualting travellers, were probably a destructive triad aspect of Herself. Their madness spread to the Argive women.
Male Associates: Bellerophon. Consort, Proteus, (which seems to be another name for Orphion, the demiurge) King of Tiryns.
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Perhaps the triad form of Anteia:
Lysippe, She-Who-Lets-Loose-the-Horses, Eldest Daughter, Mother of Amazons.
Iphinoe, Mighty-Intelligence, (variant: Hipponoe, Horse-Wisdom).
Iphianassa, Mighty-Queen (also called Cyrianassa, Queen-of-Chieftans), Youngest Daughter.
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- If Flowery is a correct reading of Her name this would certainly align Her with Hera, Our-Lady, Who has a Maiden aspect called Antheia, Flowery-One.
- Since the names of Her Daughters are all titles of Io, Exalted-Moon, (above), it seems possible Anteia, Flowering, is an alternate name for Io.
- Anteia is also called:
Stheneboea
, Strength-of-Cattle, that is the moon-Goddess as cow, namely Io. This alternate name strengthens to possibility that Anteia is an alternate name for Io, Exalted-Moon, since Io too, bears the title Stheneboea.
Source: Graves GMv1 234, 252.
Bouceros, {Cow-Eyes}.
BWK]ROS
Geography/Culture: Greek?
Titles/Variants, etc:
- How similar this is to the title Boopis, Ox-Eyed, Who is linked with Hera, Our-Lady.
- A title of Io, Exalted-Moon, above
Callithyia, ----.
K*LY3ÜY1
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- When the worship of Hera, Our-Lady, superceded that of Io, Exalted-Moon, Hera's priestess was known by this name.
- Or the mortal incarnation of Io was known, under this name, as the first priestess of Hera, Our-Lady.
Cyrianessa, Queen-of-Chieftans.
KÜRY1N]S1
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Title of Io, Exalted-Moon, above.
worked on: October, September, June 1995; August 1991; June, July 1990.
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