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	ADONIS - LoveToKnow Article on ADONIS
		It is suggested (Frazer) that Adonis is not a god of vegetation generally, but specially a corn-spirit, and that the lamentation is not for the decay of vegetation in winter, but for the cruel treatment of the corn by the reaper and miller (cf.
		An important element in the story is the connection of Adonis with the boar, which (according to one version) brings him into the world by splitting with his tusk the bark of the tree into which Smyrna was changed, and finally kills him.
		It is probable that Adonis himself was looked upon as incarnate in the swine, so that the sacrifice to him by way of expiation on special occasions of an animal which otherwise was specially sacred, and its consumption by its worshippers, was a sacramental act.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AD/ADONIS.htm (915 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Greek & Roman Mythology (Ad-Am) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adonis was a Phoenician god symbolising vegetation scorched by the heat of the sun, adopted by Greek mythology as a mortal favourite of Aphrodite.
		In Roman-Jewish mythology, Agna was a virgin incarnation of the Ewe goddess.
		In Greek mythology, Alphito was a white goddess of barley flour, destiny and the moon.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /D1AA.HTM (1304 words)

	AllRefer.com - Adonis (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		When Adonis was gored to death by a boar, both Persephone and Aphrodite claimed him.
		Adonis' death and resurrection, symbolic of the yearly cycle of vegetation, were widely celebrated in ancient Greece in the midsummer festival Adonia.
		The worship of Adonis corresponds to the cults of the Phrygian Attis and the Babylonian Tammuz.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Adonis.html (266 words)

	Pagan-Christianity Today Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ARTEMIS, in Greek mythology, one of the principal goddesses, counterpart of the Roman goddess Diana.
		DEMETER, in Greek mythology, goddess of corn and the harvest, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea.
		In early mythology he was represented as one of the primeval forces of nature, the son of Chaos, and the embodiment of the harmony and creative power in the universe.
	biblicalstudies.qldwide.net.au /pagan_christianity_today_part2.html (12483 words)

	Adonis
		Adonis is a complex figure, for the outlines of his tale were fully as a part of the sub-Olympian Greek mythology by Greek and Roman authors, and yet he also retains many deep associations with his Semitic origins.
		The name "Adonis" is a variation of the Semitic word "Adonai", which means "lord", and which is also one of the names used to refer to YHWH in the Old Testament.
		Theias struck the tree with an arrow, causing the tree to open and Adonis to be born.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/adonis.html (506 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Beguiling Beauties - Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adonis was the son of King Cinyras and his daughter, Smyrna.
		As Adonis grew and became more handsome, it was apparant that Aphrodite would have a fight on her hands for Persephone did not want to return him.
		She declared that Adonis would spend a third of the year with Aphrodite, a third of the year with Persephone, and the remaining third would be his alone.
	www.geocities.com /hestia624/beauties-adonis.html (256 words)

	Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable.
		Such tales concerning tribal eponyms are thought to originate in attempts to absorb mythology of one tradition into another, in order to unite the cultures.
		To the Greeks, mythology was a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_mythology (2982 words)

	Adonis, Greek Mythology Link.
		Adonis was a handsome young man, of beauty comparable to that of Endymion, Ganymedes, Narcissus, Hyacinthus 1, Atlantius (also called Hermaphroditus), Hylas or Chrysippus 2.
		Adonis' mother Smyrna conceived an incestuous passion for her father, and with the complicity of her nurse shared the bed of her father (Cinyras 1 according to some or Thias according to others).
		Some say that when Adonis was still an infant Aphrodite, for the sake of his beauty, hid him in a chest unknown to the gods and entrusted it to Persephone.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Adonis.html (990 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Adonis (mythology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adonis (mythology), in Greek mythology, beautiful youth beloved by the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone.
		In Roman mythology Venus (called Aphrodite in Greek mythology) was the goddess of love and beauty.
		Adonis (botany), genus of annual and perennial herbs (Buttercup) containing about 20 species, grown for their showy flowers.
	encarta.msn.com /Adonis_(mythology).html (122 words)

	Flowers in Greek Mythology
		As Adonis chased game through the forest, the goddess would follow closely behind, in her swan-driven chariot, dressed as a huntress.
		While his rival was hunting alone, Ares disguised himself as a boar and attacked Adonis causing him lethal injuries.
		Adonis used his spear to strike back to Ares, but was soon gored to death by the boar's great tusks.
	www.valentine.gr /mythology1.htm (375 words)

	Adonis - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adonis was then born when Theias shot an arrow into the tree or when a boar used its tusks to tear the tree's bark off.
		Apollodorus considered Adonis to be the son of Cinyras and Metharme.
		The Festival of Adonis was celebrated by women at midsummer by sowing fennel and lettuce, and grains of wheat and barley.
	www.free-definition.com /Adonis.html (511 words)

	Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adonis Beloved of Aphrodite, the central figure of a widespread fertility cult, god of vegetation and rebirth.
		Adonis was a very handsome young man, of beauty comparable to that of Endymion, Narcissus or Hylas.
		His mother (Smyrna) had conceived him in an incestuous affair and had prayed to the gods that she might be invisible; so the gods in compassion turned her into the tree called smyrna (myrrh).
	www.adonis-tlc.com /mythology.htm (189 words)

	Adonis, Greece, Greek mythology
		The cult of Adonis was the first important cult in ancient Greece.
		It has been suggested that Adonis was a semitic god, since his name seems to be a grecian for of adon - the lord.
		In spring there would be Adonis festivals where wild celebrations of joy would take place, and in autumn there would be mourning processions.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/adonis.htm (287 words)

	Greek Language Expressions List
		While it is still debatable about which came first, the words or the myths, no one can doubt that the mythology itself catered to us in a way you may not have even realized: your language.
		Adonis was tragically killed by Aphrodites other lover Ares, diguised as a boar.
		Greek Myth: Perhaps one of mythology's most famous tales is that of King Midas, who was granted the wish that everything he touched turned to gold.
	www.areopagus.net /grkterms.htm (2314 words)

	Greek Mythology: THE LOVES OF APHRODITE 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ADONIS A Prince of the island of Kypros (in West Asia), who was loved by Aphrodite.
		While Adonis was still a boy, because of Artemis’; anger he was wounded by a boar during a hunt and died.
		Eros went on killing the beasts, until he was weary of the bowstring and hitting the grim face of a panther or the snout of a bear; then he caught a lioness alive with the allbewitching cestus, and dragged the beast away showed her fettered to his merry mother...
	www.theoi.com /Olympioi/AphroditeLoves2.html (4914 words)

	ZEUGMA Tarihçesi
		In Greek mythology, Achelous is the deity of the river of that name, and ruler of all rivers.
		In Greek mythology, Alastor is an avenging demon, associated with blood feuds between families, and the Greek term for an avenging power that visits the sins of the fathers on their children.
		In Greek mythology, Atlantides was the name given to the Pleiades, who were fabled to be the seven daughters of Atlas.
	www.zeugmaweb.com /zeugma/english/dictionary-a.htm (10597 words)

	Classical Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The story of the relationship between Adonis and Aphrodite is a story of Southern origin, which relates closely to the goddess’ role of granting rebirth, and the male’s role as cyclical fertilizer: that which dies and comes back to life again.
		She warns him to be wary of prey that does not run from him, and one day, during a hunting expedition, Adonis comes across a very firm boar.
		It could also be interpreted as an example of the bond between the woman, or mother goddess and her son, or all mankind.
	www.vu.union.edu /~crosbyc/hw/hw4 (416 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Lovers Adonis and Aphrodite in Myth and Art
		Before it healed she beheld Adonis, and was captivated with him.
		She absented herself even from heaven [Olympus], for Adonis was dearer to her than heaven.
		She charged Adonis, too, to beware of such dangerous animals.
	www.loggia.com /myth/adonis.html (318 words)

	Learn more about Life-death-rebirth deity in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In mythology, a life-death-rebirth deity also known as a "dying-and-rising" god is one who dies and is reborn, in either a literal or symbolic sense.
		Often, the "death" was simply a visit and return to the underworld.
		Frazer suggested that as early as the third mllenium BCE, ancient middle eastern cultures had a sort of “dying and rising god” template, used especially for “vegetation gods” that died and rejuvenated in accordance with the food growing seasons.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/life_death_rebirth_deity.html (264 words)

	Life-death-rebirth deity - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The category life-death-rebirth deity also known as a "dying-and-rising" god is a convenient means of classifying the many divinities in world mythology who are born, suffer death or an eclipse or other death-like experience, pass a phase in the underworld among the dead, and are subsequently reborn, in either a literal or symbolic sense.
		These rituals were closely linked to the cycle of seasons, as when Athenian women planted "gardens of Adonis" in pots and then, when the young green growth withered in the heat of the summer, wept for the dead young god.
		He argues that rather than being a stand-in for crops in general, these herbs (and the herb-god Adonis) were part of a complex of associations in the Greek mind that centered around spices.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Dying_and_reviving_god (1053 words)

	Venus Mythology
		In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was the goddess of love (equivalent to the Roman Venus, Egyptian Goddess Isis, the Phoenician Astarte and the Babylonian Ishtar).
		She is known as the Daughter of Heaven and Sea, the child of Uranus and Gaia.
		She absented herself even from heaven, for Adonis was dearer to her than heaven.
	www.crystalinks.com /venusmyth.html (1614 words)

	ADONIS - Gods from Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When ADONIS grew old enough to be 'Gods Gift to Women', PERSEPHONE refused to hand him over.
		ARES was furious, and being of a boorish disposition, changed himself into a boar and killed ADONIS in a hunting accident.
		He declared that ADONIS was not totally dead, but could spend six months with each of them.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=ADONIS (372 words)

	Adonis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Charmed by his beauty, Aphrodite put the newborn infant Adonis in a box and handed him over to the care of Persephone, the queen of the underworld, who afterward…
		Charmed by his beauty, Aphrodite put the newborn infant Adonis in a box and handed him over to the care of Persephone, the queen of the underworld, who...
		The cyclic nature of the seasons as well as the mystery of natural growth are embodied in Adonis, the handsome god of vegetation and nature, according to Greek and Phoenician mythology.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9003772&query=adonis (644 words)

	Phoenician Religion -- Pagan
		Aphrodite had warned Adonis against the dangers of the hunt, telling him to be especially wary of any wild beasts that would not turn and flee but stood firm Because he was so fond of hunting, he paid no heed to Aphrodite.
		Aphrodite pleaded that he be restored to her, but Zeus decided that both goddesses should share him for eternity: Adonis would spend the spring and summer with Aphrodite and the rest of the year with Persephone in the underworld.
		Adonis, imported probably from the Phoenicians, came to be revered as a dying-and-rising god.
	www.phoenicia.org /pagan.html (13341 words)

	Greek Mythology Page
		Adonis seems clearly linked with Tammuz, the Assyro-Babylonion god who dies and rises again.
		Adonis is the Greek version of the Phoenician term Adon, which means "Lord."
		His amorous adventures played an important role in Greek mythology, and he loved men no less than women.
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	FLOWERS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY
		It is derived from the name of the Chloris, the goddess of vegetation, in Greek mythology, reasonably so, if we consider the great number of mythological tales linked to flowers of the Greek flora.
		The name of the flower known as ‘iris’ is derived from Iris, messenger of the gods.
		According to one such, Zeus had decreed that Adonis must spend two thirds of the year on earth with Aphrodite (Venus) and one third with Persephone in the Underworld.
	www.actahort.org /books/541/541_1.htm (340 words)

	Detienne, M.; Lloyd, J., trans.: The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology.
		Detienne, M.; Lloyd, J., trans.: The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology.
		The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture.
		Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/5445.html (227 words)

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