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• However the subject of a son castrating his own father, or simply castration in general, was so repudiated by the Greek mythographers of that time that they suppressed it from their accounts until the Christian era ( when Tzetzes wrote ).
• The understanding in the Philomela myth that pattern and design convey myth and ritual has been of great use to modern mythographers : Jane Ellen Harrison led the way, interpreting the more permanent patterns of vase-painting, since the patterned textiles had not survived.
• The first included the mythographers and the most ancient historians ( authors 1-63 ); the second, the historians proper ( authors 64 261 ); the third, the autobiographies, local histories and works on foreign countries ( authors 262-856 ).
• Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
• In fact, the story was often " heterosexualized . " Moreover, the neoplatonic interpretation of the myth, so common in the Italian Renaissance, in which the rape of Ganymede represented the ascent to spiritual perfection, seemed to be of no interest to Enlightenment philosophers and mythographers.
• Whether or not providing a father even for the Moirai was a symptom of how far Greek mythographers were willing to go, in order to modify the old myths to suit the patrilineal Olympic order, the claim of a paternity was certainly not acceptable to Aeschylus, Herodotus, or Plato.
• Melisseus is simply another form of "'Melissus "', also a Cretan " honey-man, " remembered by later mythographers as a " king of Crete . " Fermented honey, an entheogen that was the gift of the Goddess, preceded the knowledge of wine in Aegean culture.
• The Second and Third Vatican Mythographers, note that the three brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades each have tripartite insignia, associating Hades'three headed Cerberus, with Zeus'three-forked thunderbolt, and Poseidon's three-pronged trident, while the Third Vatican Mythographer adds that " some philosophers think of Cerberus as the tripartite earth : Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• On Hermes'caduceus, the snakes were not merely duplicated for symmetry, they were paired opposites . ( This motif is congruent with the phurba . ) The wings at the head of the staff identified it as belonging to the winged messenger, Hermes, the Roman Mercury, who was the god of magic, diplomacy and rhetoric, of inventions and discoveries, the protector both of merchants and that allied occupation, to the mythographers'view, of thieves.
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  tinanna ), half the year ! " This newly recovered final line upset Samuel Noah Kramer's former interpretation, as he allowed : " my conclusion that Dumuzi dies and " stays dead " forever ( cf e . g . " Mythologies of the Ancient World " p . 10 ) was quite erroneous : Dumuzi according to the Sumerian mythographers rises from the dead annually and, after staying on earth for half the year, descends to the Nether World for the other half ".