At 20:44 29.11.00 +0000, Don Bloom wrote:
>...
>Following on from the items about the letter to the Ephesians, 'women
>submit to your husbands',if account was taken of the importance of the
>religion of Artemis which was a highly feminist religion. The name of the
>god was later Romanised to Diana; but Artemis was devoutly claimed by the
>Ephesians as their god.
More precisely, Diana was an Ancient Italian moon goddess, also being
"responsible" for women's and fertility issues, who then got equated to the
Greek Artemis, so that the Diana of the imperial period substantially is
the Greek Artemis, a pótnia the·rô·n (which is a very time-honored type of
numen, elswhere called "keeper of the animals"). The Ephesian Artemis,
however, is a fertility goddess of Asia Minor, which by Greek colonialists
got fused with their own Artemis... (btw, in how far do you think this was
"highly feminist"?)
> Do not forget that what was written, whenever it was written, was
> written for a purpose. So ask why was it written?
A merely rhetorical question? <--- a not so rhetorical question... :-)
Best,
Heike
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