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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: the Robert Graves quote [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-23-80.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-23-80.png[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]Look! If you're going to keep plagiarizing me get it right ================ [b]THE OLYMPIAN CREATION MYTH[/b] At the beginning of all things Mother Earth emerged from Chaos and bore her son Uranus as she slept. . . . b. Her first children of semi-human form were the hundred-handed giants Briareus, Gyges, and Cottus. . . . c. The Libyans, however, claim that Garamas was born before the Hundred-handed Ones and that, when he rose from the plain, he offered Mother Earth a sacrifice of the sweet acorn. . . . . 1. This patriarchal myth of Uranus gained official acceptance under the Olympian religious system. ... Briareus ('strong') was also called Aegaeon, and his people may therefore be the Libyo-Thracians, whose Goat-goddess Aegis gave her name to the Aegean Sea. Cottus was the eponymous ancestor of the Cottians who worshipped the orgiastic Cotytto, and spread her worship from Thrace through out North-western Europe. These tribes are described as 'hundred handed', perhaps because their priestesses were organized in colleges of fifty, like the Danaids and Nereids; ... . . . . . . . 3. Garamas is the eponymous ancestor of the Libyan Garamantians who occupied the Oasis of Djado, south of the Fezzan, and were conquered by the Roman general Balbus in 19 B.C. They are said to have been of Cushite-Berber stock, and in the second century A.D. were subdued by the matrilineal Lemta Berbers. Later they fused with the Negro aboriginals on the south bank of the Upper Niger, and adopted their language. They survive today in a single village under the name of Koromantse. Garamante is derived from the words gara man te meaning 'Gara state people'. Gara seems to be the goddess Ker, or Q're, or Car, who gave her name to the Carians, amog other people, and was associated with apiculture. Esculent acorns, a stape food of the ancient world before the introduction of [grains], grew in Libya; and the Garamantian settlement of Ammon was joined with the Northern Greek settlement of Dodona in a religious league which, according to Sir Flinders Petrie, may have originated as early as the third millenium B.C. Both places had an ancient oak-oracle. Herodotus describes the Garamantians as a peaceable but very powerful people, who cultivate the date-palm, grow [grain], and herd cattle. [b] Robert Graves[/b][i] The Greek Myths[/i] New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1959 (edition) vol. 1 pp. 31-33 Read more: http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/116/forgotten-garamante-kingdom?page=4#ixzz2YPUO4n1T [/QB][/QUOTE]
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