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- From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: Christian and Greek Threads
- Message-ID: <l6ou2rINNg4s@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:49:31 GMT
- References: <53848@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In-reply-to: phi@sage.cc.purdue.edu's message of 13 Jul 92 02:37:33 GMT
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- In article <53848@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> phi@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Patrick) writes:
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- And by the way, in the thread of the 'Athena's Owl':
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- According to my grandfather (RIP), who taught me most of my religion
- from oral tradition, the owl was NOT a pet, nor was it a companion.
- The owl was supposedly the creature that Athena, (GODDESS, NOT GOD)
- mostly identified with. (If it can be said that a goddess identifies
- with an animal and Not the other way around) So, whenever Athena had
- earthly business with mortals, the owl was what was either seen or
- dealt with.
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- Not always. Athena has a number of guises she appears in, in _The
- Odyssey_. Her association with the owl may go back to
- Minoan/Mycenaean days, since various researchers infer that deities in
- the M/M religion appeared or were worshipped in the form of birds.
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- Bob
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