IN NATIVE AMERICAN LEGEND, "LELAWALA" WAS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN OF THE PEACEFUL TRIBE OF THE "ONGIARA" WHO LIVED BY NIAGARA FALLS, BUT IT SEEMS THAT A TERRIBLE CURSE FELL UPON THEM. FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, THEY WERE DYING. THE MEDICINE MAN BELIEVED THAT THE TRIBE HAD OFFENDED "HINUM", THE "GOD OF THUNDER" WHO MADE HIS ABODE WITH HIS TWO SONS IN A CAVE BEHIND THE FALLS. SO, AT FIRST, THE INDIANS SENT CANOES WHICH WERE LADEN WITH FRUIT, FLOWERS, AND GAME OVER THE FALLS TO SATIATE "HINUM", BUT THE DYING CONTINUED. IN DESPERATION, THEY BEGAN TO SACRIFICE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE TRIBE DURING A CEREMONIAL FEAST ONCE A YEAR...AND IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT ONE YEAR, "LELAWALA "WAS CHOSEN.
THE TRIBE PLACED "LELAWALA", WEARING A WHITE DOESKIN ROBE AND A WREATH OF WOODLAND FLOWERS IN HER HAIR, INTO A WHITE BIRCH CANOE AND SENT HER OVER THE WATERFALL...TO DIE. HER FATHER, HEARTBROKEN OVER THE LOSS OF HIS DAUGHTER, JUMPED INTO HIS OWN CANOE AND FOLLOWED HER. BUT, UNLIKE THE OTHER GIRLS, "LELAWA" DID NOT DIE FOR IN THE SPIRIT WORLD, BOTH OF "HINUM'S" SONS CAUGHT HER IN THEIR ARMS BECAUSE BOTH WANTED TO MARRY HER. SHE AGREED TO MARRY THE ONE ONE SON WHO TOLD HER WHY THE TRIBE WAS DYING; HENCE, IT WAS THE YOUNGER SON WHO TOLD HER OF A GIANT WATER SNAKE THAT THAT WAS POISONING THEIR DRINKING WATER. THE SNAKE WOULD THEN DEVOUR THE DEAD.
SO, "LELAWALA "WENT TO HER PEOPLE IN SPIRIT AND TOLD THEM IN THEIR DREAMS TO SET A TRAP TO DESTROY THE SERPENT. THE INDIAN BRAVES WENT OUT MORTALLY WOUNDED SNAKE ON ITS NEXT VISIT TO THE VILLAGE, AND WHILE RETURNING TO HIS LAIR ON THE RIVER, THE SERPENT CAUGHT HIS HEAD ON ONE SIDE OF THE RIVER AND HIS TAIL ON THE OTHER SIDE FORMING A SEMI-CIRCLE WHICH TODAY WE KNOW OF AS "HORSESHOE FALLS". AND "LELAWALA" RETURNED TO THE CAVE OF THE GOD WHERE SHE REIGNS AS MAID OF THE MIST. HER SPIRIT STILL LIVES IN THE CAVES BENEATH "NIAGARA FALLS."
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In Aztec mythology, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli ("lord of the star of the dawn"; also spelled "Tlahuizcalpantecutli" or "Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli") was the personification of the morning star, which is the planet Venus as seen in the morning. His brother Xolotl was the planet Venus as the evening star. Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl.
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AIDOS (pronounced AY-dose) is the Greek Goddess of modesty. She is the daughter of Prometheus, the Titan God of planning, and she acted as a conscience, to keep men from doing wrong. Aidos was often in the company of Nemesis, Goddess of retribution, who would punish those who failed to heed the guidance of Aidos. Her name, which means "modesty," is also seen as AEDOS, and she was also called AISKHYNE or AISCHYNE, which means "shame."
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I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE WONDERFUL TALE OF HOW THE GREEK TITAN, PROMETHEUS, UPSTAGED ZEUS AND CARRIED THE GODS' FIRE TO THE HUMANS. AND, FOR THIS FELONIOUS ACT, HE WAS SHACKLED TO A ROCK ON MOUNT CAUCUSUS WHERE AN EAGLE PERPETUALLY GNAWED AT HIS EVER-REPLENISHING LIVER. NOW, IT WAS KNOWN THAT PROMETHEUS DID NOT ACT ALONE, THAT, IN FACT, HIS BROTHER EPENETHEUS HAD HELPED WITH THE TASK, BUT THIS COULD NOT BE PROVEN. SO, INSTEAD OF THE TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT LIKE THAT OF PROMETHEUS, THE GODS DEVISED A MORE SUBTLE TYPE OF PUNISHMENT FOR HIM...THE BEAUTIFUL PANDORA WHO WOULD BE SENT TO BECOME HIS WIFE.
HER NAME MEANS "ALL-GIFTED" AND THAT SHE WAS. AT ZEUS'S COMMAND, HER BODY WAS CREATED OUT OF CLAY AND FIRE BY HEPHAESTUS, THE CLEVER BLACKSMITH OF THE HEAVENS. AND THE, ALL OF THE GODS GATHERED TO GIVE HER GIFTS. APHRODITE GIFTED HER WITH GREAT BEAUTY; HERMES WITH CLEVER SPEECH; AND APOLLO WITH MUSIC. HEPHAESTUS PLACED A GOLDEN CROWN ON HER HEAD WHICH HE HAD ENGRAVED WITH MAGICAL SYMBOLS. THE HORAE WREATHED HER IN A WIDE ARRAY OF FRESH FLOWERS. SHE WAS TRULY THE LOVELIEST MORTAL WOMAN WHO HAD YET BEEN PLACED UPON THE EARTH.
HOWEVER, THERE WAS ANOTHER GIFT WHICH I HAVE YET TO MENTION. IT WAS THE GIFT FROM HERA, THE GODDESS OF MARRIAGE. SHE GAVE PANDORA THE GIFT OF INSATIABLE CURIOSITY. WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHY HERA CHOSE THAT GIFT. PERHAPS IT WAS BECAUSE SHE DISLIKED THE IDEA OF CREATING A PASSIVE VIRGIN TO BE PAWNED OFF AS A HELPLESS BRIDE, FOR SHE HERSELF, COULD NEVER BE CALLED A PASSIVE WIFE. IN FACT, WE FIND IN HERA THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN WHO FIGHTS TO BE HEARD AND IS NOT DISMISSED IN MARRIAGE, A WOMAN WHO WAS CONSTANTLY REBELLING AGAINST THE STEREOTYPE OF THE HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT WIFE.
SO, WHEN PANDORA WAS SENT TO EARTH TO BE WITH EPINETHEUS, THE GODS ALSO PROVIDED HER WITH A DOWRY; IT WAS A STRANGE LIDDED JAR WHICH, UNBEKNOWNST TO PANDORA, WAS FILLED WITH ALL OF THE HORRIBLE ILLS THAT PLAGUE PEOPLE BY DAY AND MALADIES OF THE NIGHT. SHE IS TOLD NOT TO OPEN THE JAR, BUT, OF COURSE, WE MUST REMEMBER HERA'S GIFT. SO, FOR A TIME SHE AGREES TO AND PLAYS THE PART OF THE PERFECT, SUBMISSIVE WIFE. BUT EVENTUALLY, HOWEVER, SHE CAN NO LONGER CONTAIN HERSELF AND OPENS THE JAR...AND AS EVERYONE KNOWS...THIS ONE ACT UNLEASHED ALL THE ILLS OF HUMANKIND WHICH HAVE TROUBLED US EVER SINCE.
BUT, ONE THING REMAINED IN THE BOTTOM OF THE JAR AND THAT WAS HOPE...HOPE WHICH HAS BEEN WITH US ALWAYS. AND, WHENEVER WE ARE TROUBLED BY DISEASE AND DEATH, IT IS THIS HOPE THAT KEEPS US AFLOAT.
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