CLA204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Birthstone, Triptolemus, Enki
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According to greek myth many things sprang from/are responsible because of a female source, including the origin of the world but most importantly in this chapter: The goddesses of fertility influenced much of the ancient world, and some of the mod- ern as well. Since there are so many goddesses with similar competencies scholars call them: Greek myth never acknowledged a single great goddess. > always divided the power among a group. The goddess who most closely relates as a mother-goddess is demeter. > egypt and mesopotamia myth closely related. > in all these stories there is a close association between the female, the underworld, the death of the male and a focus on the cyclical process of life forms, which die only to be born again. > she is often called kor which means daughter" or girl". > she is a parathions - an unmarried virgin.
