08-09-2022, 10:28 PM
(08-09-2022, 04:12 PM)Ruby Novacna wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I proposed to read the words pykedy (1B) olfchedy (4B) in the first line of 78v as Πηνιτις αφετις, where Πηνιτις, weaver, would be an epithet of Athena and αφετις (αφετης) could be an astrology term - prorogator (LSJ).
I tried to search for information on the net with very little return:
- Prorogator, aphete or hyleg are the synonymous terms used in horoscopes ;
- Athena, as a virgin, can replace Artemis to designate the Moon.
I know that very few members of this forum accept the possibility of mono-alphabetic coding for the manuscript, nor the Greek or Latin language, nevertheless I ask the question: do you have some knowledge on the use of these terms in astrology?
I don't know a specific reference to "Athena Prorogator", but it is true that her attributes are lunar and interchangeable with Artemis - although Athena is goddess of the polis and Artemis of wild places.
In a nativity the prorogator is the ruling planet that determines, it is said, the longevity of the native. There were different methods for determining and calculating this.
Weaving symbolism enters this, though, because Athena is goddess of weaving, but also because the moon is said to "weave" (and unweave) in her phases. We see this in the Odyssey - the weaving and unweaving of Penelope (with Athena her sponsor and Odysseus' guide) is distinctly lunar.
(Some Athenean mythological motifs and patterns enter into Western astrology, implicitly or explicitly, where Hephaestus (Vulcan) is the Sun, Gea (Earth) is the Ascendant and Athena is the Moon.)


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