Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Island of Samothrace, the Argonauts were initiated into the sacred mysteries. The Goddess of All Being mated with the Serpent Priapus, and was delivered of a bull. Then the sacred nymphs leapt on the Argonauts and scratched and bit them until even Hercules passed out. Thereafter, the Argonauts glowed with "a faint nimbus of light...
...Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the King's daughter, through the heart, and the love-smitten princess helped to get the Fleece from her father's temple. Mythology's most famous voyage had reached its goal, but Author Graves takes 150 more pages to wind things...
...Father purified himself by bathing in the sea that washed Japan. He washed his nose: the Storm God was born. He washed his right eye: the Moon God appeared. He washed his left eye: lo! resplendent Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, leaped into being...
Later, the Sun Goddess sent her grandson, Prince Rice-Plenty, to govern the Earth. In good time, the Sun Goddess' great-great-grandson, Jimmu, became Japan's first emperor. He commanded his descendants to bring all the eight corners of the universe under the one roof of Japan...
...From Tokyo he rode in a crimson carriage to the old capital at Kyoto. There, in a confident, resonant voice, he read his imperial Rescript, announcing his ascension. Alone, save for two attendants, he appeared, once before midnight and once after, at the shrine of his ancestress the Sun Goddess and offered her a sacrifice of holy rice...