Saturday, December 11, 2010

Graiae witches and Perseus the fourth hag

the gray witches of Graiae have one eye and one tooth that they share amongst them. In some tales there are three witches in some two. The eye represents the shared power, wisdom and for-site that they shared merged as one soul. It was as if they saw out the same one eye. The tooth represents the powers they share and the fact that they consume all things as if one mouth and one tooth, they bite into things as one. They consume the same foods. Perseus is visited by Athena who aids him steering him to the Graiae witches,where to find weapons to defeat the Gorgons. The Graeae told him of the whereabouts of the nymphs. Athena gives him a he receives a mirrored shield from Athena, a magic sword from Hermes. Perseus steals the eye from the witches and forced them to help him by ransoming the eye to them. The hags tell Persues about the mystical land of the Hyperborean nymphs. Here one sees that Perseus steals the wisdom and knowledge of the witches, the eye of their coven, this represents becoming accepted into it, proving himself one of them, unifying them with the Greeks through him, the next Graiae witch. He returns the symbol of their authority through divine unified grace and power so they continue to govern themselves and the peoples they lead, as each hag witch is a mother to their people, they represent their unified people who have a unified council with each other to determine things for all their peoples and tribes. Thus Perseus is the fourth witch and represents the Greeks who are unified as the fourth and the old tribes become Greek too as the Greeks like them a unified tribe though the new allied peoples interact using the unified coven they share. the stealing of the eye made the tribes Greek and the return makes them equally Greek yet holding to their traditional cons toms and political structures as part of the new greater Greece. Greece is an equal part of their unity.

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