Thanks for these! I would be interested to see the link you mention, but please don't go to too much trouble to dig it up!
My copy of Taliesin's Map arrived yesterday and I was starting to look through it today; he makes the same dawn-goddess association with Helene. Also in favor of this is that Eos is said to A) be extremely beautiful, B) have an outrageous sexual appetite, C) have married her Troian lover Tithonos. You're right that I don't like naturalistic interpretations, but there's certainly a lot to be said for them...
I'm not really certain, yet, what to make of Europe's necklace; in all sources, it is said to give eternal youth and beauty (interestingly, the flip side of poor Tithonos!), but some sources assign the necklace to Harmonia (Kadmos's wife, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares) and say it was cursed (by Hephaistos, still mad about his wife's liason with Ares) to bring strife (hence cursing the house of Kadmos in the same way the Troia myth's house of Atreus was cursed).
Regarding "equivalent" gods/goddesses, I've had the same experience! While I've studied equivalent figures from a number of different myths (and equate them, at least symbolically!), I've only actually met one, and not even one that I've studied very closely. Go figure! At this point I doubt I'll make satisfactory sense of any of it, though I'm told that it's more important to try than it is to succeed...
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Date: 2025-04-17 05:48 pm (UTC)My copy of Taliesin's Map arrived yesterday and I was starting to look through it today; he makes the same dawn-goddess association with Helene. Also in favor of this is that Eos is said to A) be extremely beautiful, B) have an outrageous sexual appetite, C) have married her Troian lover Tithonos. You're right that I don't like naturalistic interpretations, but there's certainly a lot to be said for them...
I'm not really certain, yet, what to make of Europe's necklace; in all sources, it is said to give eternal youth and beauty (interestingly, the flip side of poor Tithonos!), but some sources assign the necklace to Harmonia (Kadmos's wife, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares) and say it was cursed (by Hephaistos, still mad about his wife's liason with Ares) to bring strife (hence cursing the house of Kadmos in the same way the Troia myth's house of Atreus was cursed).
Regarding "equivalent" gods/goddesses, I've had the same experience! While I've studied equivalent figures from a number of different myths (and equate them, at least symbolically!), I've only actually met one, and not even one that I've studied very closely. Go figure! At this point I doubt I'll make satisfactory sense of any of it, though I'm told that it's more important to try than it is to succeed...