NAME: Electra, Eleckra, Atlantis (by Ovid,) the Nephele (Cloud - Nymph,)
Ozomene, amber, ****ning, bright.
AREA OF INFLUENCE / CONTROL: As the daughter of Titans, who were
disposed by the Gods of Olympus, and in later ages called a nymph,
Electra was not a goddess proper with an area of control or influence,
though in early times she was sometimes said to have something to do
with family, and was, along with her sisters and a number of other
goddesses, nymphs, & women a sometimes Amazon Moon-Women companion of
Artemis the Goddess of the Moon, the Hunt and Chastity, as well as one
of the nurses of Bacchus, in later years she has been called by some a
Goddess of Electricity due to her association with amber and though it
static electricity, and because our word electron comes from her name.
This later designation is perhaps most notable in the 23 foot tall, 4000
pound gold covered statue known as "Miss Electra" that stands atop the
Birmingham, Alabama Power Company building.
SYMBOLS: Electrum, the natural occurring alloy of gold & silver, amber,
which was regarded by the ancients as a solidified form of lightning. It
should also be noted that it is because of her association with amber
that this material is also associated with Taurus due to the Pleiades
being a part of that constellation.
USUAL IMAGE: Most often depicted only with her sisters as a human
appearing woman in Greek dress.
HOLY DAYS: While nether she nor her sisters had a holiday per say, the
rising of the Pleiades was a sign of summer, and their setting a sign of
winter, so this constellation was more honored than any other.
RELATIVES: Oceanus or Atlas (father,) Tethys (mother,) Alcyone,
Asterope, Celaeno, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, (sisters,) Thaumas "Wonder,"
(husband, a sea god,) Gaia & Uranus, (in-laws, to use the modern
equivalent,) the Harpies, (daughters, bird women who personified storm
winds,) Iris (daughter, goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the
gods, who was depicted as a winded woman.)
SYNODEITIES: Tien Mu (Chinese,) Inazuma (****nto, Japan.)
DETAILS: Yes her name is Electra, but don't confuse her with the tragic,
and very human, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, famed for her
madness, and an opera by Strauss, or the Electra who was a daughter of
King Oedipus, and who has complex named after her by Sigmund Freud.
No, no, this Electra, our Electra, had the name first and long time
before either of those two Joanie-Come-Lately humans!
The daughter of Titans, the often monstrous deities before the coming of
the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, she and her sisters were never given
the op****tunity for full goddess status, however they weren't without
some notoriety, as she and her 6 siblings where identified as the
constellation known mostly today as the Little Dipper, but in times past
better known as the highly regarded Seven Sisters or the Pleiades, much
studied and turned into myth by ancient peoples around the world, to the
Greeks the stars of the Pleiades were the 7 Sisters:
Aleyone or Halcyone, The one who wards off storms and evil
Asterope or Sterope, Sun-Face
Celaeno, the Swarthy One
Maia, the Great One, the Nurse, or Grandmother
Merope, the Eloquent Bee-Eater
Taygete or Taygeta, the Long-Necked
&
Electra, who in some accounts is the "lost Pleiad," represented by the
star in the constellation not easily seen by the necked eye due to her
hiding her face from mortals on seeing the destruction of Troy.
If that is the case I guess we're lucky he hasn't looked our way during
the last century or she might have turned into a blackhole!
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Terry McCombs
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