PAKHET is an Egyptian Goddess of the desert. Her name means "she who scratches", corresponding with her representation as a lioness. She was also called the "GODDESS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE WADI", referring to the lion's habit of frequenting the watering holes at the edge of the desert. As with other lioness Goddesses, hers was a protective role.
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"TAWARET" (SHE WHO IS GREAT) IS A PROTECTION GODDESS OF EGYPT; SHE PROTECTS THE WORLD FROM THE EVIL INFLUENCES OF HER CONSORT, APEP, THE GOD OF EVIL WHO RESIDES BELOW THE HORIZON. TAWARET, CONSIDERED THE COMPLEMENT OF APEP, WAS SEEN AS BEING THE THE CONSTELLATION OF THE NORTHERN SKY, DRACO, WHICH ALWAYS LIES ABOVE THE HORIZON. THUS, TAWARET IS CALLED THE "MISTRESS OF THE HORIZON."
SHE IS MAINLY DEPICTED WITH THE HEAD OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS, THE ARMS AND LEGS OF A LION, AND THE BACK AND TAIL OF A CROCODILE...A COMPOSITE OF ALL THINGS FEARED BY THE EGYPTIANS. SHE HAS THE BREASTS AND STOMACH OF A PREGNANT WOMAN, AND IT WAS IN HER ROLE OF PROTECTRESS THAT SHE WAS SEEN AS A GODDESS. TAWERET IS A RATHER AGGRESSIVE GUARDIAN OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND THOSE WHO ARE IN LABOR, DRIVING THE EVIL SPIRITS AWAY FROM MOTHER AND CHILD FOR CHILDBIRTH. BECAUSE THE EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY INFANCY WERE FELT TO BE A DANGEROUS TIME FOR BOTH THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD, AMULETS OF TAWERET WERE USED BY PREGNANT WOMEN.
MANY OF THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF ANCIENT EGYPT HAD TEMPLES BUILT TO HONOR THEM BUT TAWERET WAS MORE A HOUSEHOLD DEITY AND NOT A SPECIFIC DEITY OF THE PHAROAH. HER PICTURE IS OFTEN FOUND ON BEDS AND HEADRESTS, AS DURING SLEEP HER PEOPLE WERE DEFENSELESS. ACCORDING TO THE "EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD", SHE IS THE "LADY OF MAGICAL PROTECTION", THE GODDESS WHO GUIDES THE DEAD INTO THE AFTERLIFE, ASSISTING THEM AS THEY ARE 'BORN' INTO ANOTHER REALM OF EXISTENCE.
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"RUSALKA" IS A SLAVIC WATER NYMPH, NOT A GODDESS, BUT A FEMALE GHOST WHO IS SAID TO HAVE APPEAR LIKE A LONG-HAIRED, PRETTY YOUNG MAIDEN; SHE IS BELIEVED TO REPRESENT THE SOUL OF A DROWNED GIRL OR AN UNBAPTIZED CHILD. RUSALKI ARE SOMETIMES NAKED, COVERED ONLY WITH THEIR LONG TRESSES; SOMETIMES THEY MAY CHOOSE TO DRESS IN A LONG SHIFT. IN APPEARANCE, THEY ARE SAID TO BE EXTREMELY PALE WITH ALMOST TRANSLUCENT SKIN.
ACCORDING TO TRADITION, THE RUSALKI LIVE BENEATH THE RIVER IN A BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL PALACE. IT IS SAID THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, THE THEY CAN BE SEEN WALKING OUT ONTO THE RIVERBANK WHERE THEY WILL FROLIC AND PLAY ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT. SOME CAN BE SEEN SWINGING ON THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES WHILE OTHERS ENJOY RUNNING THROUGH THE GRASS. SOME JUST SIT OUT ON THE DOCK AND COMB THEIR HAIR. OTHERS SING AND JOIN IN A CIRCLE DANCE...WHICH IS BELIEVED TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF RYE.
WITH THEIR SINGING AND CHARMS, THEY ATTRACT HANDSOME MEN AND TICKLE THEM TO DEATH. SOMETIMES THE MESMERIZE THE MEN AND LEAD THEM AWAY TO THE RIVER FLOOR AND CERTAIN DEATH.
"RUSALKA"
"IN LAKESIDE LEAFY GROVES A FRIAR ESCAPED THE WORLD; OUT THERE HE PASSED"HIS SUMMER DAYS IN CONSTANT PRAYER,"DEEP STUDIES AND ETERNAL FAST."ALREADY WITH A HUMBLE SHOVEL"THE ELDER DUG HIMSELF A GRAVE,"AND CALLING SAINTS TO BLESS HIS HOVEL,"DEATH--NOTHING OTHER--DID HE CRAVE."
"SO ONCE UPON A FALLING NIGHT HE"
"BOWED DOWN BESIDE HIS DROOPING SHACK"
"AND MEEKLY PRAYED TO THE ALMIGHTY."
"THE GROVE WAS TURNING SLOWLY BLACK;"
"ABOVE THE LAKE THE MIST WAS LIFTING;"
"THROUGH MILKY CLOUDS ACROSS THE SKY"
"A RUDDY MOON WAS SOFTLY DRIFTING,"
"WHEN WATER DREW THE FRIAR'S EYE--"
"HE LOOKS; HIS HEART IS FULL OF TROUBLE,"
"OF FEAR HE CANNOT QUITE EXPLAIN;"
"HE SEES THE WAVES RISE MORE THAN DOUBLE"
"AND SUDDENLY GROW CALM AGAIN."
"THEN, WHITE AS FIRST SNOW OF THE HIGHLANDS,"
"LIGHT-FOOTED AS NOCTURNAL SHADE,"
"THERE COMES ASHORE AND SITS IN SILENCE"
"UPON THE BANK A NAKED MAID."
"SHE LOOKS AT HIM AND BRUSHES GENTLY"
"THE HAIR AND WATER OFF HER ARMS."
"HE SHAKES WITH FEAR AND LOOKS INTENTLY"
"AT HER SEDUCTIVE, LUSCIOUS CHARMS."
"WITH EAGER HAND, SHE WAVES AND BECKONS,"
"NODS QUICKLY, SMILING FROM AFAIR,"
"AND SHOOTS WITHIN TWO FLASHING SECONDS"
"INTO STILL WATER A STAR."
"THE GLUM OLD MAN SLEPT NOT AN INSTANT"
"ALL NIGHT. ADD DAY NOT ONCE HE PRAYED;"
"BEFORE HIS EYES STILL HUNG AND GLISTENED"
"THE WONDROUS GIRL'S PERSISTENT SHADE."
"THE GROVE PUTS ON THE GOWN OF NIGHTFALL;"
"THE MOON WALKS ON THE CLOUDY FLOOR;"
"AND THERE'S THE MAIDEN--YOUNG, DELIGHTFUL,"
"RECLINING ON THE SPELLBOUND SHORE."
"SHE LOOKS AT HIM, HER HAIR SHE BRUSHES,"
"SMILES, SENDS HIM KISSES SWEET AND WILD,"
"PLAYS WITH THE WAVES--CARESSES, SPLASHES--"
"NOW LAUGHS, NOW WHIMPERS LIKE A CHILD,"
"MOANS TENDERLY, CALLS LOUDER, LOUDER..."
"HERE, MONK, HER MONK! TOO ME, TO ME!"
"THEN VANISHES IN LIMPID WATER,"
"AND ALL IS SILENT INSTANTLY."
"ON THE THIRD DAY THE ARDENT HERMIT"
"WAS SITTING ON THE SHORE, IN LOVE,"
"AWAITING THE VOLUPTUOUS MERMAID,"
"AS SHADE WAS LYING ON THE GROVE."
"NIGHT CEDED TO THE SUN'S EMERGENCE;"
"BY THEN THE MONK HAD DISAPPEARED."
"IT'S SAID A CROWD OF LOCAL URCHINS"
"SAW FLOATING THERE A WET GREY BEARD."
"--A.S. PUSHKIN, 1819--"
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THE STORY OF EUROPA IS WHICH A TALE WHICH HAS COME TO US ACROSS THOUSANDS OF YEARS. WE FIND LIKENESSES OF EUROPA AND HER WHITE BULL FEATURED OF BOTH GREEK VASES AND ON ROMAN MOSAICS, BUT WHO IS EUROPA?
EUROPA WAS THE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MORTAL DAUGHTER OF AGENOR, THE PHOENICIAN KING OF TYRE WHO WAS SAID TO BE A DESCENDANT OF POSEIDON. THE LEGEND OF EUROPA AND ZEUS BEGINS WHEN SHE WAS GATHERING FLOWERS BY THE SEA, SHE WAS SPOTTED BY ZEUS; HE WAS OVERWHELMED BY HER GREAT BEAUTY IMMEDIATELY FELL IN LOVE WITH HER. HIS LOVE FOR HER WAS SO OVERWHELMING THAT HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO THE FORM OF A MAGNIFICENT WHITE BULL AND MADE HIS WAY TO THE SHORE WHERE SHE WAS GATHERING THE FLOWERS ALONG WITH HER FEMALE LADIES IN WAITING. THE BULL IS SLEEK AND HANDSOME, AND, OF COURSE, HE MADE SURE THAT HE APPEARED TO BE TAME BY ALLOWING THE LADIES TO PET HIM. AND THEN, HE LAID DOWN AT THE FEET OF EUROPA.
IN TIME, EUROPA FELT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH WITH THE BULL TO CLIMB UPON ITS BACK FOR A RIDE, BUT, ALAS, AS SOON AS SHE IS SAFELY SEATED, THE BULL RUSHES OUT TOWARD THE SEA AND CARRIES HER OFF TO THE SHORES OF CRETE. THERE, ZEUS CHANGES HIMSELF BACK INTO HIS ORIGINAL FORM AND REVEALS HIS DIVINE IDENTITY TO HER. THE MORTAL WOMAN THEN BECOMES ANOTHER OF THE GOD'S LOVERS AND THE FIRST QUEEN OF CRETE. SHE WENT ON TO BORE HIM THREE SONS--MONOS, SARPEDON, AND RHADAMANTHYS.
EUROPA WAS LEFT ON CRETE BY ZEUS BUT, THE STORY GOES THAT ZEUS LOVED HER SO MUCH THAT HE GAVE HER THREE PRICELESS GIFTS. THE FIRST WAS A MAGICAL MAN MADE OF BRONZE WHO STOOD GUARD ON CRETE; THE SECOND WAS A DOG THAT EXCELLED IN THE HUNT; AND THE THIRD GIFT WAS THAT OF A JAVELIN WHICH ALWAYS HIT ITS TARGET.
We know Europa today as one of Jupiter's 16 original moons; it is a special moon, for it is one of the few moons in our entire solar system that is thought to have liquid water.
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