>In a message dated 7/07/2005 5:33:57 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
>donald_at_... writes:
>
>> It's clearly not
>> Dara Happa or Carmenia, so it must come from one of the other
>> major cultures.
>
>This argument does not make sense - She is a goddess after all, divinely
>inspired, not created by a culture. If She can hoist a huge moon into
>the sky She can change a few opinions, and have a few of Her own. .
Without the idea of a ruling goddess the Seven Mothers wouldn't
have created her - they would have created a god. Even if she is
a goddess who always existed and the 7M found how to worship her
there must have been myths about her. Those myths are clearly not
Dara Happen or Carmenian in origin.
--
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/