Mother Goddess
Worshiped in Neolithic Europe.
She was seen as omnipotent.
She took her lovers for erotic pleasure and not to supply her children with fathers, for at this early stage the concept of fatherhood had yet to be introduced into religious thought.
Triple Goddess
Phase One, Phase Two, Phase Three
Phase One
New moon, virgin, spring, upper air, selene
Phase Two
Full moon, mother (nymph), summer, earth, Aphrodite
Phase Three
Old moon, crone, winter, underworld, hekate
Tribal Nymph
Chooses a lover.
He will become a symbol of fertility (he is after all the seed) rather than simply erotic pleasure. He, like the fertile fields that he represents (and the seed), must die at the conclusion of his year-long association with the "goddess.
post hoc ergo propter hoc
After this;therefore, because of this
Mana
Magical or mystical force resides in every living being
Tanistry
System of co-rulership.
Lunar year
thirteen months
female society dominated by the rhythms of the moon
solar year
Twelve month year.
Pronounce patriarchal.
Interrex
one who rules during a time between rulers; regent.
Great Year
The year of 100 lunnations, referred by Pluto.
The time when a boy king substituted for the adult.
Ultimogeniture
Assigning power and preference to the youngest nubile daughter of the junior branch of a family.
Nubile
sexually capable
Primogeniture
Right of the first born son
Matrifocal World
Agricultural
Mother Right (mutterrecht)
Great Goddess
Titan Worship
Pre-Hellenes or
Pelasgians
Patrifocal World
Pastoral
Father right
Male Sky Deities
Olympian Worship
Hellenes
Indo-Europeans or Aryans
Pelasgian
Euripides referred to them as Danaans
Hellene
Greek
Male Olympus Gods
Zeus
Poseidon
Apollo
Ares
Hermes
Hephaestus
Female Olympian Goddesses
Hera
Demeter
Hestia
Artemis
Aphrodite
Athena
Mythic Defamation
Devaluing or denigrating of a people's myths in order to advance one's own.
Ex: Zeus swallows Metis, who's pregnant with Athena. Prometheus and Epimethius use a hammer to open Zeus's head because he had a strong headache. Athena is born and supports Zeus,
People who spoke Proto-Indo-European
1. They observed patrilineal succession, inheriting their rights and duties through the father's bloodline
2. They practiced Patrilocation, living with the husband's family after marriage
3. They recognized the authority of chiefs who acted as patrons and
Pelasgian Creation Myth
The chief characters in this myth are the All-goddess named Eurynome and her consort Ophion. She divided sea from sky and danced on the waves of that sea. She danced to the South and in doing so created wind in her track. She turned and caught the wind, t
Moon
Phoebe
Sun
Theia
Mars
Dione
Mercury
Metis
Jupiter
Themis
Venus
Thethys
Saturn
Rhea
Atlas
Enchantment
Hyperion
Illumination
Crius
Growth
Koios
Wisdom
Eurymedon
Law
Oceanus
Love
Cronus
Peace
Eurynome
Ruler of heaven and earth.
Eurybia
Goddess of the sea.
Eurydice
Goddess of death.
Pelasgian
All pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece
Ophion
Boreas or the North Wind
Demi-urge
Autonomous creative force or decisive power
Mary
Female as envisioned by the male mind, a kind of patriarchalized female
Homeric Myth
Retelling of the Pelasgian myth with one major, important, exception: in place of Eurynome, Homer substitutes Tethys; and in place of Ophion, he substitutes Oceanus
Orphic Creation Myth
Night was courted by the Wind and laid a silver egg in the womb of Darkness. Phanes, also called Eros, was hatched from this egg and set the universe in motion. Phanes is the principle of love in Orphic theology.
Eros will evolve into the little winged fi
scepter
Symbol of office, favored sign of a patriarchal ruler.
Ionian tradition
Tradition of Homer, who was reputed to have lived for a time on the island of Chios, a major island in the chain. Epic, treating of romantic subjects intended for an aristocratic audience, rises here.
Boeotian poetry
moral and practical maxims, subjects long indigenous to Boeotian poetry, in information on technical subjects, in matters of religion, handbooks on divination, astronomy, and in tracing the genealogies of men. Hesiod worked in the Boeotian tradition.
Theogony
Poem about divine succession, marked by violence, culminating in the triumph of Zeus. It represents the earliest written source material for Greek mythology.
Hesiod is the first Greek poet to use the pronoun "I," to speak of himself in the context of his
Fates
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Respectively they spin the thread of life (Clotho), measure it (Lachesis), and cut it (Atropos).
Mother Earth
Gaia
Furies
Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone
Prometheus
fashions man from water and clay in the likeness of the gods.
The Five Ages of Man
The Golden Age was the age of Cronus (or Saturn)
The Second Age was the Silver Age, "when men were utterly subject to their mothers and dared not disobey them," as Hesiod himself explains.
The Third Age was an Age of Bronze, when as numerous as the fruits
Metamorphoses
It is a manual of classical mythology and the primary source of the myths for all writers who come after Ovid;
Shakespeare's as well as Chaucer's mythology is Ovidian. The poem was available in English translation in 1567.
It is a manual of classical myth
Aeneid
Virgil's concern in the Aeneid was the establishment of rational order. Ovid's thematic concern seems to be with causeless, ceaseless flux as a promoter of change.
Quintus Ennius
adopted the rationalist theory of Euhemerus. It came to be known as Euhemerism, the belief that gods were not at all gods but simply glorified and exalted humans.
Minotaur Myth
myth about a half-man, half-bull creature that lived in a maze on Crete by king Minos.