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Leucippe, White-Mare.
LYWKYPA
[to Whom the twenty-eighth day of August, day 240, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek: perhaps especially Mount Teuthras.
Linguistic Note: Greek lambda-epsilon-upsilon-kappa-iota-pi-pi-eta, (Leukippe).
Description: The Mare-headed Mother; Goddess of the moon; [Provoker of lunacy]; She Who strikes forth inspirational springs with Her moon-shaped hoof; Healer of leprosy; [perhaps bestower of sovereignty].
To Whom Sacred: bat (into which a mortal incarnation of Her was turned); horse, its moon-shaped foot-print, its shoe; [all moon-shaped, horse-shoe-like geographical formations]; the Hippocrene and the Aganippe, (two spring's which She created on Mount Helicon); the leprosy curing stone Antipathes; golden mechanical boar.
Festival: Agrionia 'Provocation to savagery'. Annual atonment for the death of Hippasus, in which women pretend to seek Dionysus, and then, having agreed he must be away with the Mousae, Inspirers, sit in a circle and ask riddles.
Male Associates: son, Hippasus, Horseman.
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She seems to be triple with:
Alcithoe, Impetuous-Might and Arsippe, She-Who-Raises-the-Foot.
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- See also Aganippe, Mercifully-Destructive-Mare, Who is linked with the Mousae, Inspirers.
- Leucippe, White-Mare, is associated with Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, of Orthosia.
- Demeter, Barley-Mother, had a Mare-headed form as Erinys, Spirit-of-Anger-and-Revenge, Who is linked with the Erinyes, Spirits-of-Anger-and-Revenge.
- Perhaps the name, or title, for priestess incarnations of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, see the Leucippedes, White-Fillies, below.
- See also Egyptian Mut, Mother, to Whom a horse-shoe shaped lake is sacred.
- For Her connection with leprosy, see also Orthia, Upright.
- Some say Leucippe, White-Mare, is the Mother of Strymo, Harsh, below.
- Perhaps She is also called: Thoosa, Impetuous-Being.
- Perhaps also called: Zeuxippe, She-Who-Yokes-Horses, below.
Source: Graves GMv1 105, 110, 246, 251; Graves GMv2 188-9, 109, 262; Graves WG 383-4; Kravitz WWGRM 141.
Arsinoë Male-Minded.
*SYNOA
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Note: the Egyptian city Crocodilopolis, opposite the Egyptian Labyrinth of the 12 nomes and the Lake Moeris, was at some time apparently called Arsino&eUML;.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Variant: Arsinoe.
- Daughter of Philodice, {Wise-Justice}, below.
Source: Matthews MLHD 13.
Hilaeiro, Shining.
HYL=RYO
Alternate meanings: Mild-One, Gracious-One.
Geography/Culture: Greek: Sparta.
Description: Goddess of the Full Moon; or Goddess of the spring and summer moons.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Originally Hilaeiro, Shining, was a title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, later said to have been the name of a priestess of Artemis.
- Variant: Hilaera.
- This name was also a title of Selene, Moon, (Who is linked with Phoebe, Full-Moon), as the Full Moon.
Source: Graves GMv1 251; GMv2 index.
Leucippedes, White-Fillies
LWKYP]DAS
Geography/Culture: Spartan.
Description: Triple Goddess of the moon.
Title of moon-priestesses.
Note: the moon in three rather than two phases is related to healing.
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Composed of:
Phoebe, Moonlight --- Hilaeiro, Shining --- Arsinoë, Malel-Minded
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Titles/Variants, etc:
- Perhaps a form of the Chariteae, Graceful-Ones.
- Daughters of Philodice, {Wise-Justice}, below.
Philodice, {Wise-Justice}.
FELODEKA
Male Associates: Consort: Leucippus, {white-Stallion}.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Mother of Arsinoë, Male-Minded.
- Mother of Hilaeiro, Shining
- Mother of Phoebe, Moonlight.
Strymo, Harsh.
STRÜMO
Alternate meanings: Harsh-One.
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Male Associates: Consort: Laomedon.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Some say Daughter of Idaia, She-of-Mount-Ida, Who is linked with Hindustani Ida, Benediction.
- Some say Daughter of Leucippe, White-Mare, above.
Source: Kravitz WWGRM 217 (and see for more info.)
Zeuxippe, She-Who-Yokes-Horses.
ZYWKSYPA
Titles/Variants, etc:
- This may have been a title of Hera, Our-Lady.
- Perhaps title of Leucippe, White-Mare, above.
worked on: July 1995; August, February 1991; June, 1990.
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