Mythic Birthplace of Zeus Said Found

[oldpaganfreak]

"Worship of lightning god unbroken
Zeus is the most important figure in ancient Greek mythology. He is the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus, the god of the skies and the father of a slew of other deities and mortals, such as Athena, Apollo, Heracles, Aphrodite and Helen of Troy, say the legends."


the concept of zeus as the chief god is relatively modern in the world of greek mythology, not muchn older than the corpus of greek writing. it is evident that the greeks honoured the goddess above all others in ancient times. demeter, the sister of zeus, the goddess of corn and agriculture, was more inportant than zeus, until the shift of society to a more patriarchal view.

[Antaletriangle]

Chronus was the big fella wasn't he?-hence chrono=time as in the birth of the metaphysical in zeus and siblings?



Saturn, as in chronos in Greek devouring one of his babbies.Goya, i think.

[oldpaganfreak]

cronos was the father o fzeus. he was a nasty bugger who castrated his father.
he was never a god, but one of the titans, the father of the gods, who was a child of gaea and uranus.
again, we see the goddess, gaea as an earlier central figure.

before any of the other gods were born to cronus and rhea, aphrodite was born from the blood of uranus' castration as it hit the ocean waves.
ironic that the goddess of love should be the first child born from such a violent act.
yet again, a goddess upstages zeus.

[Antaletriangle]

I was always fascinated by Greek/Roman mythology as a kid-i'm starting to think there's always something behind such myth and legend-modern science would suggest mythology was born out of ignorance and was set in place to answer fundamental questions and keep the people in line by placating the gods etc. Just the same as modern religions; i tend to think that nothing is absolute-it's about blending -such as creationist or evolutionary theory-science says it's one not the other-why can't it be both,as in the essence/issness created evolution or at least natural selection as a matter of the life/spiritual evolutionary strategy.Just ideas but it's a part of what makes life fun!!lol.

[oldpaganfreak]

Originally Posted by Antaletriangle

I was always fascinated by Greek/Roman mythology as a kid-i'm starting to think there's always something behind such myth and legend-modern science would suggest mythology was born out of ignorance and was set in place to answer fundamental questions and keep the people in line by placating the gods etc. Just the same as modern religions; i tend to think that nothing is absolute-it's about blending -such as creationist or evolutionary theory-science says it's one not the other-why can't it be both,as in the essence/issness created evolution or at least natural selection as a matter of the life/spiritual evolutionary strategy.Just ideas but it's a part of what makes life fun!!lol.

absolutely. variety makes the world go round!
one thing to remember about mythology is that the greeks never viewed their stories as myth. it was their religion and the stories answered fundamentasl questions for them. obviously, judeo-christian mythology is viewed as the 'word of god', by many, even today.
one culture's truth, is another culture's myth.

[Antaletriangle]

I agree oldpagan that is what i was hinting at also.Concerning their belief system.

[Humble Janitor]

Ditto.

What we call myth could very well have been truth in ancient times.

I know there is an agenda to obscure this truth and there always has been one.

[Dantheman62]

Wow I didn't know how much was going on there, here's just one page of links.......


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1. Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project
   
   
   About the Mount Lykaion Project. July 7, 2008. Field Season 2008! ... Welcome to the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project ...
   mountlykaion.wordpress.com - Cached
2. The Mt. Lykaion Project Blog
   
   
   Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. Home. About the Mount Lykaion Project ... The Mt, Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project season runs from June 26 – August ...
   mountlykaion.wordpress.com/about - Cached
3. Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey
   
   
   The American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Project Overview. Team Members* Area Map. Sanctuary Plan. Photographs. Literary. References ...
   corinth.sas.upenn.edu/lykaion/lykaion.html - Cached
4. Worship at Zeus's "Birthplace" Predates the Greek God
   
   
   ... on the summit of remote Mount Lykaion, some 4,500 feet (1, ... The Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. University of Pennsylvania: David Gilman Romano ...
   news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-zeus-altar.html - Cached
5. Washington University in St. Louis Magazine
   
   
   ... Romano is co-director of the Mount Lykaion Project in Greece's Arcadia region. ... In the ancient world, Mount Lykaion was known as the birthplace of Zeus, ...
   magazine.wustl.edu/Winter08/CosmopoulosRomano.html - Cached
6. "Search for Zeus: The Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project" with ...
   
   
   Amherst, MA Area Chamber of Commerce ... "Search for Zeus: The Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project" February 25, 2009 - 4:30 PM ...
   www.amherstarea.com/events/index.cfm/fa/ShowEvent/EventID/7359.cfm - Cached
7. New discoveries at Mount Lykaion push Zeus worship back 1,000 years ...
   
   
   ... recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and ... The Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, begun in 2004 with the first ...
   sciencecodex.com/new_discoveries_at_the_ash_altar_of_zeus_mount_lykaion... - Cached
8. Godlike Productions - Post New Thread
   
   
   ... discovery by the Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project was described last ... The place of Mount Lykaion in practices venerating Zeus is documented in ...
   godlikeproductions.com/bbs/reply.php?messageid=500012&page=1&quote=op - Cached
9. Lykaion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   
   
   Lykaion is a mountain in Arcadia, sacred to Zeus Lycaeus, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practiced on its summit. This seems to have involved a human sacrifice, and a feast in which the man who received the portion of a human victim was changed...
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykaion - Cached
   
   
   
   
10. An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus - New York Times
    
    
    ... ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece. ... Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project ...
    nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/05zeus.html?ex=1359867600&...