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Oreithyia, She-Who-Rages-Upon-the-Mountains.
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[to Whom the seventeenth day of July, day 198, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek: Athenian.
Description: Goddess of mountains, the north wind, the passion of love and compulsive behaviors.
To Whom Sacred: snake; horse; north-wind; whirling dance; basket (containing phallic objects).
Male Associate: rapist/consort, Boreas, ----.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Mother of Chione, XYONA, Snow-Queen.
- Some say Mother of, though some say Daughter of, and some alternate name for, Cleopatra, Glory-of-Her-Father, 1., below.
- Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, has been called Oreithyia, She-Who-Rages-Upon-the-Mountains.
- Her predecessor was Herse, Sprinkling-Dew, Who is linked with the Augralides, Rustic-Ones.
- She is one of the Nereides, Wet-Ones, Who are linked with Thetis, Disposer.
- Transliteration variant: Orithyia.
Source: Graves GMv1&2; Howe 65.
Cleopatra, Glory-of-Her-Father.
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Geography/Culture: Greek.
Her numerous epiphanies:
- Mother of, or alternate name for, or Daughter of Oreithyia, She-Who-Rages-Upon-the-Mountains, above.
- Daughter of Marpessa, Snatcher, and Idas, ----. In this manifestation Her consort is Meleager, ----, by whom She is Mother of Polydora, {Many-Gifts}.
- One of the Danaides, Those-Who-Judge, Who are linked with the Telchines, Enchanters.
- Daughter of Callirrhoe, Fair-Flowing, (Who is linked with Bendis, {Wave-of-the-Deep}) and Tros, ----.
- The name of seven Queens of Egypt.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Alcyone, Queen-of-Who-Wards-Off-Evil, is a title of Cleopatra 2.
Source: Graves GMv1 45.2; Howe HCM 64; Kravitz WWGRM 62.
worked on: July 1990; August 1991; June, July 1995.
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