The Goddess Theia

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Theia, Divine-One.
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Theia, Divine-One.
Alternate meaning: The-Divine.
[to Whom the tenth day of July, day 191, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: Pre-Hellenic Greek: Ionia.
Linguistic Note: Her name is a word for precisely that quality by virtue of which divinities were divinities. Perhaps from theiazo 'to practise divinations'. See also below under Thea Linguistic Note.
Description: Many-named cow-eyed Goddess of light; Titanis; Mother of the moon, dawn and the sun; She for Whose sake men esteem gold; She Who is entitled to golden gifts.
To Whom Sacred: sacred: gold.
Male Associates: son, Helios, ----, by brother/consort Hyperion, ----; son Cecropes, ----, by lover Oceanus, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Some say Daughter of Chariclo, qv below.
By Her association with gold, She would seem to be related to Chryse, qv.
Also called Deione.
Mother of Eos, qv.
Also called: Euryphaessa, below.
Most say She is a Daughter of Gaia, qv.
Title: Perse, below.
Mother of Selene, qv Phoebe.
It maybe Her name which is sometimes transcribed as Thea, qv below.
She is a Titanis, Who is linked with Fata-Morgana.

Source: GG.CK/192; Graves GMv1 27, 149, 154; IGEL 360; New Larousse EM 88, 90, 139; Kravitz WWGRM 124.

Chariclo, ----.
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Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Nymph Goddess.
Male Associates: consort, Cheiron, ----. Son, Teiresias, ----, by Everes, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Perhaps a title of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replicaation.
She is a favourite of Athene, I-Have-Come-From-Myself.
Mother of Theia, above.
Mother of Endeis, Who is linked with Thetis.
Mother of Ocyrrhoe, below.

{Note: it does not seem likely that a nymph Goddess would be the Mother of a Great Goddess: this is perhaps a patriachal diminuition of the Mother of the moon, the dawn and the sun.}

Euryphaessa, Wide-Shining.
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Alternate meanings: The-Widely-Shining.
Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Alternate name of Theia, above.

Ocyrrhoe, ----.
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Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of prophesy.
Male Associates: son, Phasis, ----, by seducer Apollo, -----. She was raped by Aeolus, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:

She became known as Menalippe, M]N1LYPA, Strong-Mare, after being raped.

Perse, She-Who-Bestows-Golden-Value.
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Alternate meanings: Destroyer.
Linguistic Note: {the first meaning sounds like Graves, but I believe it must be a mistake of mine, and that it is actually the meaning of some other name. Check up sometime.}
Male Associates: Helios, ----, is the father of Circe and Pasiphae {but what if anything to do with Perse? consort?}.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Mother of Aega, qv.
Hecate, is also called Perseis, or Daughter of Perses the Titan.
Mother of Circe, Circling-One.
Perseis is listed as one of the Oceanides, qv Thetis.
Mother Pasiphae, She-who-shines-for-all, qv Daphoine.
{It looks as though Perseis is a variant of Perse.}
Title of Theia, above.

Thea, Goddess.
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Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: (Masculine form: Theos, 'God'). In addition to Thea, 'Goddess', there is thea, 'a seeing, looking at, view or aspect' with the additional meanings of 'that which is seen, a sight, spectacle' and 'the place for seeing from, a seat in the theatre'. It does not seem impossible that the two theas are related for the theatre was originally the place for seeing the Divinities. Derived English word: theatre.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Persephoneia, qv, is also called Thea.
A title of Demeter and Persephone together is: Ta-Thea, see below.
A title of Demeter is Thea-Meter, 3Yī-M]T6, Mother-Goddess.
Title of Thetis, qv.
Perhaps a variant of Theia, above.
Variant: Theaina, 3AIN1, ----.

Source: HCM.GH/269; IGEL/359-60.

Ta-Thea, The-Two-Goddesses.
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Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:

Title of Demeter, Barley-Mother, (qv), and Persephoneia, Bringer-of-Destruction, as dual Goddess of the corn mysteries.
See also Egyptian Neb-Ti, qv Nekhebet.

Source: IGEL/359

worked on: June, July 1990; July, August 1991; May, June 1995.
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