Research...

[helen99]

Long ago I posted about some research we'd been doing on Rhea and the Korybantes. Just now I was answering an "interview" that siabha_maellyn had posted on her journal. One of the questions she asked was something along the lines of, "To which historical period are you the most attracted?" To answer that question, I linked to This Page about the cult of Artemis (which also mentions Rhea and the korybantes and could be thought of as a later version.) What attracted me to this particular description was the fact that the Beekeepers were the guardians the Temple of Artemis.

Then, scrolling down on that page, I noticed the following reference:

"I) ADRASTEIA Town in the Troad
Strabo, Geography 13. 1. 13 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.): "The city [of Adrasteia in the Troad] is situated between Priapos and Parion; and it has below it a plain that is named after it, in which there was an oracle of Apollon Aktaios (of the Shore) and Artemis."

Intrigued, I did a search on "Adrasteia" and came up with this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrasteia. Adrasteia was a demi-goddess whose name meant "Inescapable". She was the daughter of "Melliseus" (a bee deity) and was charged by Rhea (along with the Korybantes) to raise and protect baby Zeus who was scheduled to be killed by his father.

We're getting our first package of bees very soon (we have a hive ready to go active and they've already been ordered) - so finding this was somehow appropriate.

Comments

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===(chuckles) yet another bit of info that inclines me towards the belief that "memories" are more a sensory organ than many think of them as. (grins)

===Very appropriate...(grins) I am looking forward to the bees.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

> inclines me toward the belief that 'memories' are more a sensory organ than
> many think of them as

Are you referring to certain types of memory actually being a seventh sense, so to speak, that is able to detect flows and patterns with which one has a personal resonance? And which may be found repeatedly throughout perceived timestreams intertwined with Self? (Or am I entirely missing what you're saying)?

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===Indeed. (grins) You are getting a strong aspect of what I am saying.