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night-ranging Zagreus, performing his feasts of raw flesh; and raising torches high to the mountain Mother among the Curetes, [18] and were consecrated and received the title of "bacchus". [19] This passage associates Zagreus with the cult of Zeus at Cretan Mount Ida, where the infant Zeus was guarded by the Cretan Curetes. According to West ...
The gospels also suggest that he was the husband of Salome; whereas Mark 15:40 names the women present at the crucifixion as "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and of Joses, and Salome," the parallel passage in Matthew 27:56 has "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children."
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Shelomit – daughter of Zerubbabel, sister of Meshullam and Hananiah. I Chronicles [187] Shiphrah – one of two midwives who saved the Hebrew boys. Exodus [157] Shua – daughter of Heber that mentioned in 1 Chronicles 7. Susanna #1 – a woman who was nearly sentenced to death due to false adultery accusations before being saved by Daniel ...
Zagreus, despite his infancy, was able to climb onto the throne of Zeus and brandish his lightning bolts, marking him as Zeus' heir. Hera saw this and alerted the Titans, who smeared their faces with chalk and ambushed the infant Zagreus "while he contemplated his changeling countenance reflected in a mirror."
Semele (/ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ l i /; Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη, romanized: Semélē), or Thyone (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Θυώνη, romanized: Thyṓnē) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother [1] of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.
This is paralleled with another Orphic myth, the birth of Zagreus, who was conceived when Zeus, disguised as a serpent, deceived and mated with Persephone. [7] Melinoë is born at the mouth of the Cocytus, one of the rivers of the underworld, where the Chthonic Hermes is stationed in his role as psychopomp. [8]
After the Titanomachy, the 10-year war among the immortals, she was pursued by Zeus and they got married. [7] [2] Zeus himself is titled Metieta (Ancient Greek: Μητίετα, lit. 'the wise counsellor'), in the Homeric poems. Metis was both a threat to Zeus and an indispensable aid. [8] He lay with her, but immediately feared the consequences.