on a different note, I got this book from the library called Lost Goddesses of Early Greece written by Charlene Spretnak and basically every chapter is about a different goddess. These myths are the stories before the Ionians and Dorians who brought them to Greece and skewed them with "patriarchal social order and their thunderbolt God, Zeus", which slanted adored Goddesses into symbols for jealousy, sneakiness, craziness, and shrill creatures. My favorite is Pandora, who usually is portrayed as the one who brought all the bad things like death and misery and pain by opening a box. But in this she is the giver of all gifts, and it wasn't a box, it was a pithos!
She lifted the lid from the large jar.From it She took a pomegranate, which became an apple, which became a lemon, which became a pear. ...She reached into the jar for a handful of seeds and sprinkled them over the hillside. 'I bring you plants for hunger and illness, for weaving and dyeing'...Then she turned the jar on its side, inundating the hillside with Her flowering grace. The mortals were bathed in the changing colors of her aura. 'I bring you wonder, curiosity, memory, I bring you wisdom. I bring you justice with mercy, I bring you caring and communal bonds. I bring you courage, strength, endurance. I bring you loving kindness for all beings. I bring you the seeds of peace.'
Here's to a good week!
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