Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

paired dangerous beings localized as natural winds

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A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family Cosmic cycles, dawn/night struggle, and elemental conflict. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • The Odyssey BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11379-11488 confidence: medium

    The note identifies the island of the two Sirens with Salinas, ancient Didyme or the twin island, and interprets the Sirens as whistling gusts or avalanches of air descending from two lofty mountains.

    The two Sirens are identified with whistling gusts or avalanches of air from twin mountains on Salinas.

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