Eurynomial (goddess)
Eurynome (old Greek: Εὐρυνόμη) was the original deity of the Pelasgians , whom they worshiped as the "Great Goddess of all things". Her name means the “universal”, the “widely valid” or the “wandering into the vastness”. As a protagonist in the Pelasgian myth of origin , she ruled Mount Olympus in pre-Greek times
myth
As the first goddess in Pelasgian mythology , Eurynome arose naked from the primordial chaos and first and foremost separated the sky from the waters. Dancing over the primeval sea, she separated the light from the darkness. As she wandered aimlessly across the primordial ocean, Boreas , the north wind, noticed her and urged her to unite with him. She rubbed it between her hands until it condensed into the snake Ophion . After they had enjoyed themselves together, Eurynome assumed the shape of a dove and laid the world egg on a small island . In her sleep she accidentally broke the shell and everything flowed out: earth, sun and moon as well as the planets. In this way Eurynomials had "born" all things in the world.
After the act of creation they ruled the sea, until they - as the later, Greek continued in Lycophron Alexandra from - Titan Rhea defeated and the Tartarus was overthrown.
Individual evidence
- ↑ artedea
- ↑ Gantz, Timothy: Early Greek Myth. A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimor and London, 1993, p. 54, quoted from Haarmann, Harald : In the footsteps of the Indo-Europeans. From the Neolithic steppe nomads to the early advanced civilizations. CH Beck, Munich 2016, p. 157.
- ↑ Haarmann, Harald: In the footsteps of the Indo-Europeans. From the Neolithic steppe nomads to the early advanced civilizations. CH Beck, Munich 2016, p. 157.
- ↑ artedea
- ↑ Haarmann, Harald: In the footsteps of the Indo-Europeans. From the Neolithic steppe nomads to the early advanced civilizations. CH Beck, Munich 2016, p. 157.
- ↑ artedea