"MAIA", THE "GREEK GODDESS" OF SPRING AND REBIRTH; SHE IS THE SHY AND GENTLE GODDESS WHO BRINGS ABOUT THE SEASONAL WARMING OF THE EARTH, THE PATRON OF MOTHERS AND NURSES, TO WHOM SACRIFICES WERE MADE TO ENSURE THE GROWTH OF CROPS. HER NAME MEANS "T"HE MAKER". EVERY SPRING THIS GODDESS IS BELIEVED TO MAKE THE GRASS AND FLOWERS GROW AGAIN. HER NAME IS THE ORIGIN OF THE MONTH," MAY." HER TRADITIONAL DAY OF CELEBRATION IS MAY 1ST. ON THIS DAY, MEN AND WOMEN DRESS IN GREEN CLOTHING AND DANCE ABOUT THE "MAYPOLE" TO WELCOME THE SPRING.
"MAIA" WAS THE ELDEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE "PLEIADES", THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF "ATLAS "AND THE "OCEANID, PLEIONE."A SHY AND SOLITARY GODDESS, SHE LIVES ALONE IN A CAVE ON "MT. CYLLENE" IN ARCADIA. SOME STORIES SAY SHE SCORNED MARRIAGE, PREFERRING TO BE FREE, WHICH HINTS AT HER ANCIENT, PRE-PATRIARCHAL ORIGINS. "MAIA "WAS THE MOTHER OF "HERMES", ALSO A SKILLED MAGICIAN AND MESSENGER OF THE GODS. THE GREEKS KNEW HER HAS THE "GRANDMOTHER OF MAGIC."
ON THE NEXT CLEAR NIGHT, TAKE SOME TIME TO LOOK INTO THE NIGHT SKY AND YOU WILL SEE HER. SHE IS THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE "PLEIADES." BE SURE TO ADD SOME SPLASHES OF COLOR TO YOUR HOME WITH FRESH CUT FLOWERS, BOWLS OF FRESH FRUIT AND BRIGHTLY COLORED CANDLES.
"BLESSINGS TO YOU AT THIS MOST SPECIAL TIME OF THE YEAR."
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IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, "SEMELE" IS THE DAUGHTER OF CADMUS, THE KING OF THEBES AND HARMONIA, THE DAUGHTER OF ARES AND APHRODITE. AS THE STORY GOES, ZEUS SAW SEMELE AND FELL MADLY IN LOVE WITH HER, AND SHE SUBSEQUENTLY BECAME PREGNANT WITH DIONYSUS. WHEN HERA DISCOVERED THE AFFAIR, SHE BECAME INSANELY JEALOUS AND, APPEARING AS AN OLD CRONE, TRICKED SEMELE INTO ASKING ZEUS TO APPEAR TO HER AS HE DID TO HERA. NOW, BOTH HERA AND ZEUS KNEW THIS MEANT SURE DEATH FOR SEMELE, BUT THERE WAS NO WAY ZEUS COULD GET OUT OF IT FOR SEMELE HAD ASKED HIM FOR A 'FAVOR' TO WHICH HE AGREED TO AND SWORE BY THE RIVER STYX; HENCE, HE COULD NOT TAKE HIS PROMISE BACK WITHOUT RETRIBUTION FROM STYX.
SO, ZEUS CAME TO HER ARMED IN HIS THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, AND SEMELE WAS CONSUMED BY HIS FIERY APPEARANCE. HOWEVER, BEFORE SHE DIED, ZEUS RESCUED THE UNBORN DIONYSUS FROM HER ASHES AND SEWED IT IN HIS THIGH GAVE BIRTH TO DIONYSUS HIMSELF. LATER, DIONYSUS WENT DOWN INTO THE UNDERWORLD AND BROUGHT SEMELE BACK, NAMING HER THYONE. HE ASCENDED WITH HER TO MOUNT OLYMPUS WHERE ZEUS MADE HER IMMORTAL. SEMELE BECAME A GODDESS.
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Mars Iovantucarus was a Celtic god who was associated with the Treveran healer-god Lenus Mars at his sanctuary at Trier. The name reflects the deity's function as a protector of youth, and the temple was visited by pilgrims who often brought with them images of children, often depicting as holding pet birds as offerings to the god. At Tholey, also in Treveran territory, 'Iovantucarus' was also used as an epithet of Mercury.
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KISHAR is the Babylonian Goddess of the earth. She is the daughter of Lahamu and Lahmu, and sister/wife to Anshar, God of the sky. They in turn were the parents of Anu, also a sky God, and Ki, also an earth Goddess, who gave rise to the Annunaki, the great Gods of Mesopotamia. Her name, which means "host of earth," is also seen as KISSARE or KISAR.
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