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The majority of sea snakes live in the warm seas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Most of the species are found in the Coral Triangle region of Southeast Asia, with Australia a close second. Built for marine life, sea snakes have rounded bodies and flat tails. Furthermore as they swim, small flaps cover their noses to keep the sea water out.
The families of sea snakes differ in their need for land and fresh water. The Hydrophiinae like the yellow-bellied sea snake spend their entire lives at sea. They have glands under their tongues to discharge salt. Also, the powerful lung of these snakes allows them to dive deeply, and stay underwater for a long time. Great numbers of these sea snakes can be found floating out in the open ocean in a giant raft (“slick”).
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If you live on an island, even a big one like Crete, the ocean is a constant presence. And if you spend a lot of time in boats and ships, like the Minoans did when they went fishing or traveled across the waves to trade, the ocean becomes a powerful focus for your safety and livelihood. So it's no surprise that the Minoans had a goddess of the sea, the sacred embodiment of the womb-ocean that their island rises up out of. Her name is Posidaeja.
Posidaeja's name shows up in the Linear B tablets, which record the Mycenaean Greek language. We don't know for sure that Posidaeja is what the Minoans called her, but when we use the name, she answers, so at the very least she's agreeable to it. Many of us who practice Modern Minoan Paganism simply call her Grandmother Ocean.
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Tethys Speaks
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Tethys:
The Waters Below
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Okeanos’s Story
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What a lovely telling of the myth & spell. Thank you. -
Looking forwaaad to it, many thanks! Enjoy your conference. Blessed Be, Tasha -
Really nice! Thanks for sharing. Blessed Be, Tasha
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You're quite welcome, Tasha! There will be more about his wife, Tethys, in the next week or two. It might be later than usual, bec
The Triple Goddess is a major component of modern Paganism, but the popular Maiden-Mother-Crone triplicity doesn't appear in ancient Crete. It's the modern creation of Robert Graves. And while it's a perfectly legitimate way to view the divine feminine, it's not historic, so we don't use it in Ariadne's Tribe.
The closest we can come to that kind of "life phases" division in the Minoan pantheon is a Younger and Elder Goddess, exemplified by, for instance, Rhea (the Great Mother) and Ariadne (the Daughter). This mother-daughter duo are the focus of the mythic cycle of the Mysteries, the probable Minoan precursor to the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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