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- GOAT see also IBEX[?c:\gds\symbols\i]
- goat (Greek) -- sacred to Aega.
- goat (Greek) -- sacred to Aphrodite, as symbol of wantoness.
- goat (Greek) -- sacred to Boetis (qv Aega) because She was a goat.
- goat (Greek) -- sacred to Aegeia (qv Aega).
- she-goat (Greek) -- sacred to Amalathea (qv Aega) because She was a goat, wet-
nurse to Zeus.
- goat-skin clothing (Greek) -- sacred to Aegeia (qv Aega).
- goat-horn (Greek) -- sacred to Amalthea (qv Aega). Having been broken off by
Zeus it became a symbol of plenty called the CORNUCOPIA
- goat-skin apron (Syria) -- sacred to Anath, hung with shorn penises (or some
say hands) which became Athene's aegis.
- GOBLET see CAULDRON.
- GOLD
- gold (Persia) -- sacred to Anahita. She wears a gold crown and a
gold-embroidered cloak.
- GOLD-CRESTED WREN
- gold-crested wren -- sacred to Druantia.
- GOOSE
- Goose (Egyptian) -- sacred to Seb, God of earth, who as a goose, laid the
great cosmic egg, 122.
- wild-geese (Greek) -- sacred to Hesperides.
- GRAIN
- grain (Egyptian) -- sacred to Heket.
- grains, all kinds (European) -- sacred to Baba
- grain (Syria) -- sacred to Anath.
- GROVE
- grove -- sacred to Dam-kina.
- GYPSUM
- {AHDEL def:} n. JYPS6M. A white mineral, used in the manufacture of plaster of
Paris, gypsum plaster and plaster board, Portland cement, wallboards, and
fertilizers. Latin, from Greek, from Semitic, akin to Hebrew gephes,
'plaster'.
- sciras, a type of gypsum (Greek) -- sacred to Demeter.
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