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Orphion and Eurynome / Artemis
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Region: Greece
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature:
Sources: Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins

Notes:
  • Orphion:
  • Eurynome:
    • Ophion's mate and possible dragoness or form of Ge
    • Worshipped as Artemis in Phigalia
    • Upper body of a woman, lower body of a fish

"Probably Eurynomos and Eurynome were a husband-wife, brother-sister pair originally, and Euronomos, as Eurynome's mate, represented Ophion's underworld aspect." (Source: Python pg 231.)

Tale:

"Fish goddess, Artemis, and daughter of Sybaris, lay with a dragon in a grove of Artemis in Phrygia and so became ancestress of the people called Ophiogenesis (Snake Born)." (Source: Python pg 231.)

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