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	Thriae
		Thriae are three Greek, holy sisters who are virgins.
		They recieved their name, Thriae, because they are lesser goddesses of nature who can foresee the future or foretell the unknown by inspiration, magic, signs, or omens.
		They live under a ridge of Mt. Parnassus, and the word Thriae means "pebbles," because the future was foretold by tossing pebbles.
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	Thriae -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, the Thriae ("pebbles"; also Thriai) were three virgin sisters.
		They were nature goddesses who were able to see the future (a trick learned from ((Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified with Roman Mercury) Hermes) and interpret the signs of nature and omens (such as tossing pebbles, the source of their name).
		They bear a resemblance to (Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species) bees covered with (The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant) pollen.
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	In Greek mythology Greek mythology the Thriae pebbles were three virgin... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Greek mythology Greek mythology the Thriae pebbles were three virgin...
		In Greek mythology Greek mythology, the "Thriae" ("pebbles") were three virgin sisters.
		They were nature goddesses who were able to see the future (a trick learned from Hermes Hermes) and interpret the signs of nature and omens (such as tossing pebbles, the source of their name).
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	Hermes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition, Hermēs brought Eurydice back to Hades after Orpheus looked back towards his wife for a second time.
		He taught the Thriae the arts of fortune-telling and divination.
		King Atreus of Mycenae retook the throne from his brother, Thyestes using advice he received from the wise trickster Hermes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hermes (1442 words)

	Thriae - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Greek mythology, the Thriae ("pebbles"; also Thriai) were three virgin sisters.
		They were nature goddesses who were able to see the future (a trick learned from Hermes) and interpret the signs of nature and omens (such as tossing pebbles, the source of their name).
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	PS: Waxing on bees. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On Thurs 30 November ("Re: Apollo's dragons") Bernard wrote: "[BXB] The feminine, or mantic and mediumistic state of wisdom was essentially inchaote and subject to "translation" in rational terms.
		May they not have been the Mad Maidens who sang the mad song, the thriambos?" The phallic Hermes is an instrument here, or we may say, an animus* to such mantic utterances: "The account of these mysterious Thriae given in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes is strange and suggestive.
		They are in a word 'Melissae,' honey-priestesses, inspired by a honey intoxicant; they are bees, their heads white with pollen; they hum and buzz, swarming confusedly....not only the priestesses of Artemis at Ephesus were 'Bees,' but also those of Demeter, and, still more significant, the Delphic priestess herself was a bee.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~psysc/psychoanalytic-studies/msg04564.html (998 words)

	Aerie of the Spirit's Breath: Parnassus
		He lived in the caves of Mount Parnassus until he was killed by Apollo, who then took possession of the oracle.
		Thriae was the name given to the three prophectic nymphs on Mount Parnassus, by whom Apollo was reared and who were believed to have invented the art of prophecy by means of little stones (thriae) which were thrown into an urn.
		Parnassos was often associated with nymphs, and still is. On the summit Lycorea is the Corycian cave, from which the Muses are sometimes called the Corycian nymphs.
	www.geocities.com /~spiritsbreath/oocinfo/mythplaces/parnassos.html (1957 words)

	Nymphs of the West: Others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A young man Thriae saw in a dream of the past involving Ancient Greece, and who also appeared in Thriae's vision before leaving the Underworld.
		A strange young girl that Thriae sees in a vision of one of the "sacred places." She also reappears in the hallway of East Junkin playing with some sort of toy.
		He carries Thriae to the nurse after she collapses as a result of her spirit chasing after a strange girl.
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		The Forest of Forever: Eunostos; Zoe; Kora the Dryad; Aeacus, a Cretan Prince; Amber, Queen of the Thriae; Thea and Icarus, the children of Kora and Aeacus.
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		This oracle was presided over by a triple Goddess, most often identified as the Thriae: Korykia 'follower of the maiden,' Daphnis 'laurel,' and Thuia 'mortar or cup.' Sometimes the oracle was tended by three Muses instead: Kephisso 'sparrow,' Apollonis 'apple keeper or destroyer,' and Borysthenis 'Northern Goddess.'
		Pebbles were placed in bowls of water, and either the pebbles were marked, they were chosen for shape or colour, or the water was used for scrying after certain pebbles were thrown in.
		The Thriae were also connected to bees and honey, so may have been funerary or chthonic in nature.
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		The Thriae - When Hermes (Mercury) asked Apollo to teach him augury, Apollo said he couldn't.
		Instead, he told Hermes to visit Apollo's old nurses the Thriae, who could teach Hermes the art of how to make predictions from pebbles.
		Tarpeian - As upholder of justice, Jupiter had oath-breakers hurled from the Tarpeian Rock.
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		Apollo said he couldn’t do that but his old nurses, the Thriae, on Parnassus would teach him how to divine with pebbles.
		He was welcomed into the Olympian family whom he taught the art of making fire by the twirling of a fire-stick.
		When he was with the Thriae he was shown how to divine with pebbles and he invented the game of knuckle-bones.
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		Our remote ancestors drank mead and attributed the state of intoxication to the spirit of a god.
		Mythology states that Thriae are nurses who obtain their inspiration, not from Bacchus the wine-god, but from honey.
		They are Melissae (origin of the modern day girl's name of Melissa) or honey priestesses, inspired by a honey derived intoxicant.
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	Hermes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was slender, beardless, with winged sandals, a herald staff, and a pot-shaped hat.
		Hermes learned the art of prophecy from the Thriae.
		He was the inventor of astronomy, dice, the musical scale, gymnastics, boxing, weights and measurements, and helped the Fates invent the alphabet.
	www.angelfire.com /pq/greekmythology/Hermes.html (107 words)

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	THOMAS BURNETT SWANN'S NIXIES: PAIN AND PLEASURE
		When he leaves with the two children to return to his and their rightful places as royalty in the city, Kora kills herself by setting fire to her tree.
		While Eunostos’ grief is great as the result of Kora’s ill-conceived dreams, his heartbreak is of minor importance compared to the near tragedy caused by the powerful evil of the novel’s pure nixie, Saffron, Queen of the Thriae (the Bee-People).
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	Hermograph Press: The Ancient God Mercury/Hermes
		This also made him the Assyrian god of knowledge and the recorder of fate for people for the next year.
		Taught the Thriae, winged female spirits who live on Mount Parnassus, the art of prophesy.
		At Zeus' command, disguised himself as a goatherd, sang the 100-eyed Argus (guarding Zeus' ex-lover Io whom Zeus had changed to a cow so Hera wouldn't know about his extra-marital affair--got all that?) to sleep, killed him but failed to bring back Io.
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	A Short Detour to Delphi and the Sibyls
		Or, a querent could visit the independent oracle of Korykia in a different cave above Delphi.
		This oracle was presided over by a triple Goddess, most often identified as the Thriae: Korykia 'follower of the maiden,' Daphnis 'laurel,' and Thuia 'mortar or cup.' Sometimes the oracle was tended by three Muses instead: Kephisso 'sparrow,' Apollonis 'destroyer, she who reckons, she who counts the time,' and Borysthenis 'Northern Goddess.'
		Athena was also associated with Delphi, due to an unusual round tholos temple maintained in various forms since Neolithic times, almost a kilometre away from Delphi in a gateway-like position.
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		Interestingly, the songs (dithyramb) that the three maidens, the Thriae, sing was the source of Hermes prophetic gift.
		Their inspiration derived from drunkenness, not of wine, but of honey.
		The Thriambos, was the song of the Thriae, or honey-priestesses, a song about beginnings.
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	Greek Mythology: THRIAE / THRIAI Prophetic Bee Nymphs of Mount Parnassus in Phocis
		Greek Mythology: THRIAE / THRIAI Prophetic Bee Nymphs of Mount Parnassus in Phocis
		THE THRIAI were three prophetic NYMPHAI of Mount Parnassos in Phokis.
		Other references not currently quoted here: Philochorus 1C; Scholiast on Callimachus Hymn to Apollo 45
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		Because bees were divine messengers, honey made into sacred mead, wine created from fermented honey, has traditionally endowed prophetic powers on the favoured.
		The original Thriae, three maiden seers at Delphi, were the daughters of Zeus and demanded payment in honey.
		They drank mead brewed to a secret formula from the nectar of sacred bees who lived in the grove.
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	Mead
		And as the conservative gods, long after men ate fermented bread, were faithful to their porridge, so long after men drank wine they still offered to the gods who were there before the coming of the vine 'wineless libations,' nêphália." (1)
		"Mythology has left us dim hints as to the functions of certain ancient maiden prophetesses at Delphi called Thriae." (2)
		"The Thriae are nurses like the Maenads, they rave in holy madness (thuíousin)...
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	Hekate's Supper
		Eating the egg, we give birth to ourselves.
		This is the food of the Thriae, the most ancient Delphic prophetesses, who wove golden tissues of words of truth or madness.
		They sang the thriambos, a honey-intoxicated bee song, in honor of the flowering pollen-producing rod, the magic wand of the phallic God, reunifying nature and spirit.
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