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Phaedra, Bright-One.
FIJR1,
Alternate meaning: The-Bright.
[to Whom the twenty-seventh day of January, day 026, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Cretan.[?\gds\gazeteer\gazeteer.2]. (35 15 n x 24 30 e). Her tomb, along with that of Hippolytos' are shown in a temple enclosure at Troezen.
Linguistic Note: Greek phi-alpha-iota-delta-rho-alpha.
Description: Goddess of the moon, rain-making, barley and death; Siren-like Enchantress; She Who grants poetic immortality to those who succumb to Her love-charms; She Who decks Herself with garlands.
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Triple Goddess of the Moon, composed of
Phaedra, The-Bright
Ariadne, Most-Holy
Catarrhoa, Down-Flowing.
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To Whom Sacred: myrtle (She pierced its leaves with Her jewelled hair-pin -- myrtle stood for the last month of the king's reign in the tree calendar); fruit-trees, and fruit-laden boughs; grape-vine; barley; ivy; toadstools; horse; bull; hen-partridge; island or grotto to which She takes Her lovers and maroons them; {rope (with which She hung Herself when scorned by Hippolytus)}.
Male Associates: as a literary mortal (probably with mythological connections), sons, Demophoon, Voice-of-the-People, Light-of-the-People, and Acamus, Unwearying, by consort Theseus. The story of Her thwarted attempt to seduce Hippolytos, Of-the-Stampeding-Horses, Her step-son is perhaps a reference to sacred king sacrifice.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Hippolytos' Mother was Antiope, Confronting.
- Sister and rival of the mortal form of Ariadne, Most-Holy, Who is linked with Erigone, Plentiful-Offspring.
- A South Palestinian inscriptions --
Pdri, PDRE, ----, may be a form of Her name.
- Daughter of Pasiphae, She-Who-Shines-For-All, Who is linked with Daphoine, Bloody-One.
- Variant transcription
Phaidra.
- Sister: Xenodice, {Justice-for-Strangers}, Who is linked with Daphoine, Bloody-One
Source: EBv21 341; Graves GMv1 90.b, 101.a,b,c,d,e,h, 101.1; Graves WG 429, 432; IGEL 854; Kerenyi GG 269-70, 295; Kravitz WWGRM 186; Monaghan BGH 241; Rose HGM 266.
Catarrhoa, Down-Flowing.
K*T*HRO1
Geography/Culture: Cretan.
Linguistic Note: Related English word: catarrh.
Description: Goddess of the moon as rain-maker.
Male Associate: Catreus, from catarrhos, down-flowing, seems to be a masculine form of Her.
Source: Graves GMv1 90.1; GMv2 index.
THERE IS STILL A LOT OF CONFUSION AND INACCURACY IN THIS INFORMATION -- TRY AND CLARIFY.
worked on: Deceber, June 1995; April 1992; January, August 1991.
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