>>5645237 (pb)

'''>Pelican in her piety = Pelekus = Labrys = the double headed axe Zeus Labraundos used to invoke storms = the symbol of the Amazons, which likely goes all the way back to one of the oldest Egyptian gods Nieth.

U wot m8?

Care to explain that step by step with how you connected each name?

Genuine question, student of Egyptology here.'''

Note: I'm not a scholar, this has mostly been pieced together through research I've done. If you see any

The pelican (henet in Egyptian) was associated in Ancient Egypt with death and the afterlife. It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. Henet was also referred to in the Pyramid Texts as the "mother of the king" and thus seen as a goddess. References in nonroyal funerary papyri show that the pelican was believed to possess the ability to prophesy safe passage in the underworld for someone who had died. (Note: this is odd since Nieth is

pelican =pelekus

The name comes from the Ancient Greek word pelekan (πελεκάν),[2] which is itself derived from the word pelekys (πέλεκυς) meaning "axe".[3] In classical times, the word was applied to both the pelican and the woodpecker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican#Etymology

pelekus =labrys

Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, lábrus) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe called in Greek a πέλεκυς (pélekus). The relation with the labyrinth is uncertain.[1]

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labrys =Zeus

A link has also been posited with the double axe symbols at Çatalhöyük, dating to the neolithic age.[11] In Labraunda in Caria, as well as in the coinage of the Hecatomnid rulers of Caria, the double-axe accompanies the storm-god Zeus Labraundos.

labrys =Amazons

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In Roman Crete, the labrys was often associated with the mythological Amazons.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrys#Etymology

Part 1

>>5701802

(There seems to be links between Mithralism, Janus and Minoan religion, but that's outside the scope here.)

Minoan's are thought to have worshiped Ariadne (grandfathers were Zeus and Helios, half-sister of the minotaur), who is of course connected to the labyrinth and minotaur. The true meaning of the labyrinth is uncertain but it's doubtful that it had the meaning the word has today. If you look at ancient representations of the labyrinth it's more like two spirals, not very maze-like. Possibly the point at which ascent or descent is determined after death.

"Minos put Ariadne in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations (either to Poseidon or to Athena, depending on the version of the myth); later, she helped Theseus overcome the Minotaur and save the potential sacrificial victims."

As the story goes, after Minos' son is killed in Athens, Minos forces Athens to capitulate. As tribute they now provide 7 young men and 7 young women, every 7 years to sacrifice to the minotaur. One year Theseus volunteers to kill the minotaur. When Ariadne, she falls in love with Thesus.

In a kylix by the painter Aison (c. 425 – c. 410 BCE)[14] Theseus drags the Minotaur from a temple-like labyrinth, but the goddess who attends him, in this Attic representation, is Athena.

Knossos, Europe's oldest city, it is thought to have been founded in the Neolithic era around 7000 BC. Evans estimates that first arrivals could go back to 8000 BC. At Knossos: "One of the most common cult-symbols, often seen on palace walls, is the double-headed axe called the labrys, which is a Carian word for that type of tool or weapon.[21]"

The same root labr- appears in the labyrinth of Knossos, which is interpreted as the "place of the axe." The double-headed axe was a central iconic motif at Labraunda. The axe cast of gold had been kept in the Lydian capital Sardes for centuries. The Lydian king Gyges awarded it to the Carians, to commemorate Carian support in a battle. This is the mythic anecdote: the social and political reality may have been more complicated, for such ritual objects are never lightly passed from hand to hand or moved from their fixed abode. Upon receiving this precious, purely ritual axe, the Carians kept it in the Temple of Zeus at Labraunda.

The figure of a double-sided axe is a feature of many coins of Halicarnassus. Coins at the museum at Bodrum bear the head of Apollo on the obverse and on the reverse the name of the reigning Carian ruler inscribed next to the figure of Zeus Labraunda carrying the double-bladed Carian axe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labraunda

Part 2

>>5701839

The earliest evidence for the cult of Zeus Labraundos at the site dates to the middle of the 7th century BC. Most of the monumental marble buildings however were erected by the Hekatomnid family of Karian satraps in the 4th century BC. The famous Maussollos is among these. From the Roman period there are two large bath buildings. Early Christianity is represented on the site by two Byzantine churches as well as a baptistery.

http://www.labraunda.org/Labraunda.org/Foreword_eng.html (Website for the ongoing excavation of Labraunda, lots of coins with hermaphrodites baring axes)

From predynastic and early dynasty periods, she was referred to as an "Opener of the Ways" (wp w3.wt) which may have referred, not only to her leadership in hunting and war, but also as a psychopomp in cosmic and underworld pathways, escorting souls. References to Neith as the "Opener of Paths" occurs in Dynasties 4 through 6, and is seen in the titles of women serving as priestesses of the goddess. Such epithets include: "Priestess of Neith who opens all the (path)ways", "Priestess of Neith who opens the good pathways", "Priestess of Neith who opens the way in all her places"

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Neith's symbol and part of her hieroglyph also bore a resemblance to a loom, and so in later syncretisation of Egyptian myths by the Greek ruling class, she also became goddess of weaving. At this time her role as a creator conflated with that of Athena, as a deity who wove all of the world and existence into being on her loom.

As the goddess of creation and weaving, she was said to reweave the world on her loom daily. An interior wall of the temple at Esna records an account of creation in which Neith brings forth from the primeval waters of the Nun the first land. All that she conceived in her heart comes into being, including the thirty deities. Having no known husband she has been described as "Virgin Mother Goddess":

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The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC) noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith and that they identified her with Athena. The Timaeus, a dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.[8]

E. A. Wallis Budge speculates that the spread of Christianity in Egypt was influenced by the likeness of attributes between the Mother of Christ and goddesses such as Isis and Neith. He asserts that the writers of the apocryphal gospels, in honoring the blessed Virgin, ascribed to her the peculiar mythologies of these goddesses.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith

The syncretic relationships between these religions are, by their nature speculative, but the common themes that form the 'thread' are: war goddess, primeval creator, weaver, duality, asexual reproduction and gatekeeper.

>>5701849

Finally this also likely connects to the Hittite god Teshub or Tarhunt. "Teshub is depicted holding a triple thunderbolt and a weapon, usually an axe (often double-headed) or mace. The sacred bull common throughout Anatolia was his signature animal, represented by his horned crown or by his steeds Seri and Hurri, who drew his chariot or carried him on their backs. "