MrRING
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I don't know if anybody here has been enjoying Alan Moore's fantastic, very magic-oriented comic Promethea, about the incarnation of a fictional goddess who is currently destroying the ABC universe... but was she a real goddess in some religion?
I got to wondering about it primarily because of a strange thread at the DC Comics Message Board (which you can read here if my link works): in it, a fellow argues that his research has led him to believe there was a goddess of some religion called Promethea.
To quote from his posts (some are reacting to other people's thoughts, but I think it's mostly pretty understandable):
I am a Canadian authour currently researching the Prometheus mythology. I have come to the conclusion that there was indeed a Goddess of Fire and her name was Promethea. The only reference that I have come across is for the Promethea moth. Can anyone help out? Evidence of Promethea will certainly help to re-write Greek Mythology.
Thanks! ....
I have been researching ancient Gods, Goddesses, & Daemons for over 30 years. Many old Goddesses were hidden away by the Christian Church in the form of male daemons, Christian saints, etc. Other religions have done the same. If you study the Greek Gods & Goddesses you will discover that they are not Greek in origin. Keep in mind that at one point in time no one ever heard of the Sumerian Gods & Goddesses either. No one believed that Helen of troy ever existed and the treasures of King Tut (which I had the pleasure of seeing as a young lad) were locked away in the dust of Time. The fact that a moth was named for Promethea gives credence to the existence of a Goddess. The swastika which was a fire symbol associated with Goddesses is also associated with Prometheus. The swastika was not only the Fire Wheel of the Kelts, but also too, a very powerful symbol of the Goddess representing fertility. My research began on that basis. I have strong intuition and I am never wrong! ...
I apppreciate all of the feed back that i have been receiving. I love the depth of the info being provided. When it comes to moths I know absoultely nothing! However when it comes to Gods and Goddesses...I consider myself somewhat of an expert. I am not trapped in linear thinking. Research must be approached with an open mind otherwise you get stuck in academic thinking. ...
OK- Ready to go to the head of the class? What was the name of Prometheus' wife and how did his offspring become involved in Jewish mythology? (I refer to the Flood Story) In my opinion this is only one smae aspect of Christian tampering. It matters not that some fellow didn't get around to naming a moth thousands of years after the Greek mythologies were written. Anyone familar with John Allegro (who deciphered the Dead Sea Schrolls) wiil know that he interperted Christ as being a secret code name for magic mushroom. So now we enter the ream of the possible...Go back in time and you will discover the many mythologies surrounding fire and you will discover a woman at the centre of the fire in most of them. Patterns don't change. They are deliberately hidden, altered or destroyed. For example it is due to the Goddess Religion resurfacing that we are even aware of her exsistence. It you grew up in an organized religion such as Christianity, SHE does not even exsist! Still not convinced?
I share a bit more of my research with you. The Holy Bible ...Revelations...The Armagaddon Section...Satan goes out into the four corners of the world to gather uip his forces...Gog and Magog...Now put them together...Gogmagog.. The Great Scythian Mother Goddess...In Scotland SHE is known as Hogmagog and HER festival Hogmany is still celebrated today! You hav eto be able to peel away the crap to get at the TRUTH! Now go in search of Promethea with a more open mind and the wonders of the Universe will finally be opened up to you...
Sorry Tacitus but Prometheus comes from Latin Greek. Are you aware that Southern Italy was occupied by the Greeks as well as the Kelts, Estrucans as well as other tribes comprising of Latin origins? The ancestors of the Greek who provided most if not all of the Greek Gods swept through that area as well. The Greeks as they became know were comprised of many different Latin-speaking tribes just as were the Kelts (who spoke Keltic before Galic) and the Mongols who spoke a variety of dialects.....
I'm not convinced yet, BUT I do know Mr. Moore has a tendency to start a idea only to discover that connections that he surmised were actually there (for example in numerous places in FROM HELL events that he wrote originally because they made a good story were later corroborated in fact - like the cabbie who ferried around Jack in the story dying in a cab acident, and finding out later that the real fellow he based it on died the same way). Is it possible there WAS a Promethea?
I got to wondering about it primarily because of a strange thread at the DC Comics Message Board (which you can read here if my link works): in it, a fellow argues that his research has led him to believe there was a goddess of some religion called Promethea.
To quote from his posts (some are reacting to other people's thoughts, but I think it's mostly pretty understandable):
I am a Canadian authour currently researching the Prometheus mythology. I have come to the conclusion that there was indeed a Goddess of Fire and her name was Promethea. The only reference that I have come across is for the Promethea moth. Can anyone help out? Evidence of Promethea will certainly help to re-write Greek Mythology.
Thanks! ....
I have been researching ancient Gods, Goddesses, & Daemons for over 30 years. Many old Goddesses were hidden away by the Christian Church in the form of male daemons, Christian saints, etc. Other religions have done the same. If you study the Greek Gods & Goddesses you will discover that they are not Greek in origin. Keep in mind that at one point in time no one ever heard of the Sumerian Gods & Goddesses either. No one believed that Helen of troy ever existed and the treasures of King Tut (which I had the pleasure of seeing as a young lad) were locked away in the dust of Time. The fact that a moth was named for Promethea gives credence to the existence of a Goddess. The swastika which was a fire symbol associated with Goddesses is also associated with Prometheus. The swastika was not only the Fire Wheel of the Kelts, but also too, a very powerful symbol of the Goddess representing fertility. My research began on that basis. I have strong intuition and I am never wrong! ...
I apppreciate all of the feed back that i have been receiving. I love the depth of the info being provided. When it comes to moths I know absoultely nothing! However when it comes to Gods and Goddesses...I consider myself somewhat of an expert. I am not trapped in linear thinking. Research must be approached with an open mind otherwise you get stuck in academic thinking. ...
OK- Ready to go to the head of the class? What was the name of Prometheus' wife and how did his offspring become involved in Jewish mythology? (I refer to the Flood Story) In my opinion this is only one smae aspect of Christian tampering. It matters not that some fellow didn't get around to naming a moth thousands of years after the Greek mythologies were written. Anyone familar with John Allegro (who deciphered the Dead Sea Schrolls) wiil know that he interperted Christ as being a secret code name for magic mushroom. So now we enter the ream of the possible...Go back in time and you will discover the many mythologies surrounding fire and you will discover a woman at the centre of the fire in most of them. Patterns don't change. They are deliberately hidden, altered or destroyed. For example it is due to the Goddess Religion resurfacing that we are even aware of her exsistence. It you grew up in an organized religion such as Christianity, SHE does not even exsist! Still not convinced?
I share a bit more of my research with you. The Holy Bible ...Revelations...The Armagaddon Section...Satan goes out into the four corners of the world to gather uip his forces...Gog and Magog...Now put them together...Gogmagog.. The Great Scythian Mother Goddess...In Scotland SHE is known as Hogmagog and HER festival Hogmany is still celebrated today! You hav eto be able to peel away the crap to get at the TRUTH! Now go in search of Promethea with a more open mind and the wonders of the Universe will finally be opened up to you...
Sorry Tacitus but Prometheus comes from Latin Greek. Are you aware that Southern Italy was occupied by the Greeks as well as the Kelts, Estrucans as well as other tribes comprising of Latin origins? The ancestors of the Greek who provided most if not all of the Greek Gods swept through that area as well. The Greeks as they became know were comprised of many different Latin-speaking tribes just as were the Kelts (who spoke Keltic before Galic) and the Mongols who spoke a variety of dialects.....
I'm not convinced yet, BUT I do know Mr. Moore has a tendency to start a idea only to discover that connections that he surmised were actually there (for example in numerous places in FROM HELL events that he wrote originally because they made a good story were later corroborated in fact - like the cabbie who ferried around Jack in the story dying in a cab acident, and finding out later that the real fellow he based it on died the same way). Is it possible there WAS a Promethea?
