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Kerenyi observes that her name is merely an epithet and claims that she was originally the " Mistress of the Labyrinth ", both a winding dance-ground and in the Greek view a prison with the dreaded Minotaur at its centre.
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" We may justifiably ask ," observes Kerenyi, " Why was this great mythical hunter, who in Greece became a mysterious god of the underworld, a capturer of wild animals and not a killer?
Diodorus Siculus felt that Apollo must have repented this " excessive " deed, and said that he had laid aside his lyre for a while, but Karl Kerenyi observes of the flaying of Marsyas ' " shaggy hide: a penalty which will not seem especially cruel if one assumes that Marsyas ' animal guise was merely a masquerade.
" " All three names — Halia, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, and furthermore also Kapheira — must have been applied to one and the same great goddess ", Karl Kerenyi observes.
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The word is applied as an epithet to Demeter in this context: Demeter Thesmophoros ; a relief at Eleusis illustrated in Kerenyi ( fig 7 ) shows the goddess sitting on the ground as she receives her votaries.
Kerenyi notes a Linear B inscription from Knossos, " to all the gods, honey ... to the mistress of the labyrinth honey " in equal amounts, suggesting to him that the Mistress of the Labyrinth was a Great Goddess in her own right.
Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: " As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants " ( Kerenyi 1980 p 149 ).
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Kerenyi suggests that the name Ariadne ( derived from, hagne, " pure "), was an euphemistical name given by the Greeks to the nameless " Mistress of the labyrinth " who appears in a Mycenean Greek inscription from Knossos in Crete.
Karl Kerenyi ( and Robert Graves ) theorizes that Ariadne ( whose name they derive from Hesychius ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, " utterly pure ") was a Great Goddess of Crete, " the first divine personage of Greek mythology to be immediately recognized in Crete ", once archaeology had begun.
On the one hand, the name " meander " recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor, and on the other hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, " the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form ".
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Mythographer Karl Kerenyi suggested that the consonance might ultimately derive from a deeper, pre-Indo-European language layer: indeed the sign combination ro-ja, which is someone with great power, is attested in Linear A.
In Greek a hunter who catches living animals is called zagreus, Karl Kerenyi notes, and the Ionian word zagre signifies a " pit for the capture of live animals "
In Argive culture, Niobe is associated with Phoroneus, sometimes as his mother, sometimes as his daughter, or else, likely, as his consort ( Kerenyi ).
" Not all poets took Iphigenia and Iphianassa to be two names for the same heroine ," Kerenyi remarks, " though it is certain that to begin with they served indifferently to address the same divine being, who had not belonged from all time to the family of Agamemnon.
She is also sometimes described, as Karl Kerenyi noted, in archaic vase-painting, with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines: thus chthonic Echidnae are presented as protectors of the vineyard.
Karl Kerenyi points out ( The Heroes of the Greeks ) " It is not easy to differentiate between the divine beast, the heroine and the goddess ".
Karl Kerenyi, in quoting this passage, remarks, " At the core of this richly elaborated myth, in which the poet even recalls the rhyta, it is not easy to separate the Cretan elements from those originating in Asia Minor.
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Prof Karl Kerenyi claims an ancient mythic figure Iachen ( or Iachim ) represents a sublimated form of Sirius or Sothis.
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* One of the impieties of Tantalus, according to Pindar, was that he offered to his guests the ambrosia of the Deathless Ones, a theft akin to that of Prometheus, Karl Kerenyi noted ( in Heroes of the Greeks ).
The three sisters were Agave, Autonoë and Ino, who was a surrogate for the divine nurses of Dionysus: " Ino was a primordial Dionysian woman, nurse to the god and a divine maenad " ( Kerenyi 1976: 246 ).
" On Samothrace ... the mother was called Elektra or Elektryone ", Karl Kerenyi notes.
" In this form the story was certainly not ancient ," Karl Kerenyi noted.
Karl Kerenyi points out that the older tales mentioned two dragons, who were perhaps intentionally conflated ; the other was a female dragon ( drakaina ) named Delphyne in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, with whom dwelt a male serpent named Typhon: " The narrators seem to have confused the dragon of Delphi, Python, with Typhon or Typhoeus, the adversary of Zeus ".
According to Karl Kerenyi and other scholars, the second Asterion, the star at the center of the labyrinth on Cretan coins, was in fact the Minotaur, as the compiler of Bibliotheca ( III. 1. 4 ) asserts: Pasiphaë gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur.
Heracles placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.
Iachen was known in Minoan Crete as I-wa-ko, who became the Greek torch bearing son of Persephone-Iakchos, who was also associated with Sirius, as ‘ the light bearing star of the nocturnal mysteries ’ according to Kerenyi.
Silver staining was introduced by Kerenyi and Gallyas as a sensitive procedure to detect trace amounts of proteins in gels.
In Greek mythology, Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus (" foresight ", literally " fore-thinker "), a pair of Titans who " acted as representatives of mankind " ( Kerenyi 1951, p 207 ).
Karl Kerenyi, also involved in Greek mythology, was an associate of Carl Jung, who adopted mythological material in his psychological theories.
Hercules placed it under a great rock on the sacred way between Lerna and Elaius ( Kerenyi 1959: 144 ), and dipped his arrows in the Hydra's poisonous blood, and so his second task was complete.
Silver staining was introduced by Kerenyi and Gallyas as a sensitive procedure to detect trace amounts of proteins in gels.
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" They bring and bestow ripeness, they come and go in accordance with the firm law of the periodicities of nature and of life ", Karl Kerenyi observed: " Hora means ' the correct moment '.
Among those who responded were some of the Argonauts, Oeneus ' own son Meleager, and, remarkably for the Hunt's eventual success, one woman — the huntress Atalanta, the " indomitable ", who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself ( Kerenyi ; Ruck and Staples ).
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Karl Kerenyi explains ( speaking as if he were an ancient Greek ):
" Kerenyi links the figure of Zagreus with archaic Dionysiac rites in which small animals were torn limb from limb and their flesh devoured raw, " not as an emanation of the Greek Dionysian religion, but rather as a migration or survival of a prehistoric rite.
Karl Kerenyi, wrote in 1952 that several Greek goddesses were triple moon goddesses of the Maiden Mother Crone type, including Hera and others.
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Classical scholar Karl Kerenyi conflated Phorcys with the similar sea gods Nereus and Proteus.
Many pictures show the serpent Python living in amity with Apollo and guarding the Omphalos, the sacred navel-stone and mid-point of the earth, which stood in Apollo's temple " ( Kerenyi 1951: 136 ).
Gods who ride such animals, notably Shiva and Dionysos, or who have canine servants, notably Orion and Osiris ( with Anubis his gatekeeper and embalmer ), were also regarded by Kerenyi as partly derived from Iachen, the sublimator, or an even older myth.
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In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continued to be revenged ( Kerenyi, 114 ): " But the goddess again made a great stir of anger and crying battle, over the head of the boar and the bristling boar's hide, between Kouretes and the high-hearted Aitolians " ( Homer, Iliad, ix. 543 ).
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