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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Eos is usually described with rosy fingers or rosy forearms as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise: [32] the singer in the Homeric Hymn to Helios calls her ῥοδόπηχυν , "rosy-armed", as does Sappho, [33] who also describes her as having golden arms [34] and golden sandals; [35] vases depict her rosy-fingered, with golden ...
*H₂éwsōs or *H a éusōs (lit. ' the dawn ') is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the dawn goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1]*H₂éwsōs is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her characterization in subsequent traditions as well as the importance of the goddess Uṣas in ...
But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector. — (24.776) Ovid's Heroides (16.201-202), Paris names his well-known family members, among which Aurōra's lover as follows:
The Proto-Indo-European reconstructed goddess of the dawn is *H₂éwsōs.Her name was reconstructed using a comparative method on the basis of the names of Indo-European goddesses of the dawn, e.g. Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, or Vedic Ushas; similarly, on the basis of the common features of the goddesses of the dawn, the features of the Proto-Indo-European goddess were also reconstructed.
Regardie says of the rosy cross in The Golden Dawn: The Rose-Cross is a lamen or badge synthesizing a vast concourse of ideas, representing in a single emblem the great work itself – the harmonious reconciliation in one symbol of diverse and apparently contradictory concepts, the reconciliation of divinity and manhood.
The Cipher Manuscript was legitimate, and the Golden Dawn is a valid offspring of an older Jewish order in Bavaria called Loge zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe, which translates to "Lodge of the Approaching Morning Light" [15] or "Lodge of the Rising Dawn". This Order was founded to allow German Jews to conduct Masonic-style lodges since, at the ...
4Q108 is a "tiny fragment" [4] containing only ten letters from two lines — five letters each from verses seven and eight of chapter three. The five letters from verse seven are: למה (lmh), the last three letters of the name Solomon; and שש (šš) (shesh), the six in the word sixty.