John R. Salverda Writes:
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Similar attachments, making the story of Hera more Eve-like, are also discernible, for instance, consider her two daughters, Hebe and Eileithyia. Could these two names be nothing more than Greek transliterations of the names Eve and Lilith?
Similar attachments, making the story of Hera more Eve-like, are also discernible, for instance, consider her two daughters, Hebe and Eileithyia. Could these two names be nothing more than Greek transliterations of the names Eve and Lilith?
A footnote from the book
"Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis" by Robert Graves and Raphael
Patai (New York: Doubleday, 1964), pp 65-69 explains the Hebrew form of the
word "Eve" rendered here as "Hawwah"; "… this may well
be a Hebraicized form of the divine name Heba, Hebat, Khebat or Khiba … Her
Greek name was Hebe, Heracles's goddess wife." Scholars often suppose the
Greek Hebe to have been derived from the Hurrian goddess Hebat, through Greek
contact with the Hittites who had adopted the Hurrian goddess.
They also expect
that Eve was developed from Hebat through Hebrew contacts with the Hittites.
More likely, in my view, is that the Greek Hebe was influenced directly from
the Hebrew Eve through ancient Greek contact with the Israelite/Phoenicians.
After all Lilith (Eileithyia), an associate of Eve mainly in the Hebrew
culture, seems to have come along with her.
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For full discussion, see:http://genesisflood-amaic.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/re-our-post-prophet-elijah-as-greek.html
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