There is a figure who appears in the novel without apology. He steps through a mirror of black smoke at the edge of a glade in November, sits upon a fallen trunk in the waning afternoon light, and speaks of forgotten siblings and a world that has ceased to remember him. He is Erebos—and if […]
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I. Introduction The religion of the Late Bronze Age Aegean was not Olympian religion in an earlier form. It was something older and stranger: more local, more animistic, more deeply rooted in the agricultural rhythms of the land and the intimate realities of the household. The defined personalities we know from Homer, of gods with
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I confess that as a child I believed the following tales were the stories of real people who had lived long ago. Only when I got older did I understand their significance as myths, though at times I am not entirely sure. The details seem too specific, too human, too particular to be pure invention.
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This is a fascinating question precisely because it touches the murky frontier between Mycenaean religion, Arcadian local cults, and the Olympian mythology that the Greeks of the Archaic and later periods projected backward into the Bronze Age. The short answer is that Athána Alēa is not an Olympian Athena at all. She appears to preserve
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