TAILIEUCHUNG - New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Introduction Phần 3

Nhiệm vụ của các nhà nghiên cứu là tìm ra những ý nghĩa ban đầu được ẩn giấu trên các hình vẽ trên các bình gốm sứ, các bức họa,. hoặc đằng sau những nghi lễ tôn giáo còn tồn tại đến ngày nay. | tree receiving from her priestesses the first fruits and flowers be the same as the sea-goddess who is carried across the waves in a boat or the earth-goddess around whom serpents intertwine What was the name of the mother-goddess of the Aegeans Here again in the absence of documentation we are left to conjecture. It seems that she was worshipped in Crete under the vocable Rhea. At least this was the name later associated with the ancient Cretan divinity in the cult of Zeus. Zeus was made her son a tradition revived as we shall see by Hesiod in his Theogony. Two other names of Cretan goddesses have been preserved Dictynna and Britomartis. In their legends the Greeks applied the two names to the same divinity. Dictynna whom the Greeks called the goddess of the nets was perhaps the goddess of Mount Dicte a mountain in Crete which was later said to be the birthplace of Zeus. She would then be the mother-goddess. Britomartis means the sweet virgin a denomination which could not very well be applied to the Great Mother of the universe. j According to the Greek legend Britomartis was a young virgin . . huntress who pursued wild beasts in the forests of Crete. She was said to be the daughter of Zeus. Minos saw her and was captivated . by her beauty. He offered her his love but was refused. He then attempted violence but Britomartis fled and after a race which j lasted no less than nine months in order finally to escape Minos - she flung herself off a high rock into the sea. She fell into the nets of a fisherman and for that reason received the name Dictynna. Artemis in reward for her chastity raised her to the rank of the immortals and thenceforth she appeared during the night to navigators. The Greeks made the assimilation even closer and called Dictynna-Britomartis the Cretan Artemis. The God. With the Great Goddess the Aegeans associated a god. It would seem that this god at least originally was in imitation of the cults of Western Asia subordinate to the goddess but

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