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| | Hesiods Theogony and the Homeric Hymns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | HECATE, the great Earth goddess as witch: 404-452: an apotropaic passage to win the blessing of the Goddesses on this patriarchal poem: in 430-450 her blessing is invoked on the entire audience from kings down to farmers |
 | | THE CHILDREN OF KRONOS, 453-506, pages 46-47: Cronos and Rhea gave birth to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. |
 | | Now the pecking order is: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, Hestia, the Six Older OLYMPIANS, the present culture gods (civilized patriarchal family) instead of nature-family in which oldest and wisest woman rules and youngest and strongest male is the heir. |
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