Sunday, March 20, 2011

Ham, making bavon goddess style

North of Isthmus, Theseus is said to have killed a sow named Pjaea or the Crommyonian sow. Apollodorus described Crommyonian sow as an offspring of Typhon and Echidna.

"THE HUS KROMMYON (or Crommyonian Sow) was monstrous wild pig which terrorized the countryside around Krommyon on the Korinthian Isthmus. It was the pet of an old hag named Phaia ("the Grey").

Both the boar and its mistress were slain by Theseus when the hero was travelling the road from Troizenos to Athens clearing the thoroughfare of its assorted bandits and miscreants.

The boar is quite common in Athenian vase painting depicting the Labours of Theseus."

http://www.theoi.com/Ther/HusKrommyon.html
one notices that is some tales the sow is called Phaea while in truth the pigs owner is called Phaea. In fact the sow is the owner, the Hag is the sow.

Theseus against the Crommyonian sow

In a place north of Isthmus, called Crommyon, Theseus killed an enormous pig, the Crommyonian sow.

?The Crommyonian sow, which they called Phaea, was a savage and formidable wild beast, by no means an enemy to be despised. Theseus killed her, going out of his way on purpose to meet and engage her, so that he might not seem to perform all his great exploits out of mere necessity ; being also of opinion that it was the part of a brave man to chastise villainous and wicked men when attacked by them, but to seek out and overcome the more noble wild beasts. Others relate that Phaea was a woman, a robber full of cruelty and lust, that lived in Crommyon, and had the name of Sow given her from the foulness of her life and manners, and afterwards was killed by Theseus, Plutarch Theseus"http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/CrommyonianSow.html

I will let you think about this feat as it is not like the other bandits that were met on the road to Athens, yet it was. The Phaea grey? Celtic, like Circe? Matriarchal society made up of male companions who were like Ulysses men- pigs- in front of Circe? The first bandits representing their people were patriarchal and did not resemble the stories of Ulysses as does the Pheae story, Thea, these Phaea.( Goddess) The title grey refers to druidic or wicca, witch or a Goddess religions.

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