Divine Epiphany and Stars in Pre-Homeric Greece
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In the Homeric poems, the gods manifest themselves as animals, natural phenomena or human figures; in one case (Il. 4.74-80), Athena appears “like a star”, precipitating from the sky in the middle of the battle camp.
In Minoan and Mycenaean seals, floating figures resembling meteors, stars or constellations have been recognized; the evidence of a possible relation, in cultic scenes, between stars and divine epiphany, allows us to suppose that Homer records the memory of a pre-Hellenic
symbolic role of the meteor, associated with momentary appearances of divinity.
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