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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 112 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth

Section 13 (part 79)

Τρεῖς δέ οἱ Εὐρυνόμη Χάριτας τέκε καλλιπαρῄους, Ὠκεανοῦ κούρη, πολυήρατον εἶδος ἔχουσα, Ἀγλαΐην τε καὶ Εὐφροσύνην Θαλίην τ᾽ ἐρατεινήν· [τῶν καὶ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἔρος εἴβετο δερκομενάων 910 λυσιμελής· καλὸν δέ θ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσι δερκιόωνται.] Αὐτὰρ ὁ Δήμητρος πολυφόρβης ἐς λέχος ἦλθεν, ἣ τέκε Περσεφόνην λευκώλενον, ἣν Ἀιδωνεὺς ἥρπασε ἧς παρὰ μητρός· ἔδωκε δὲ μητίετα Ζεύς. Μνημοσύνης δ᾽ ἐξαῦτις ἐράσσατο καλλικόμοιο, 915 ἐξ ἧς οἱ Μοῦσαι χρυσάμπυκες ἐξεγένοντο ἐννέα, τῇσιν ἅδον θαλίαι καὶ τέρψις ἀοιδῆς. Λητὼ δ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν, ἱμερόεντα γόνον περὶ πάντων Οὐρανιώνων, γείνατο, αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς φιλότητι μιγεῖσα.
Themes
Divine Providencetheology

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

The Moirai and Horae are described as distributing good and evil to mortals, indicating divine ordering of human affairs.

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Living Godtheology

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

The deities are portrayed as active agents who marry, reproduce, and intervene in the cosmos rather than abstract principles.

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Maat Cosmic Ordercosmology

The Egyptian principle of truth, balance, and right order underlying both the cosmos and human conduct; the parallel to Zoroastrian asha and Greek dike.

The daughters of Themis include Dike (Justice) and Eunomia (Good Order), which parallel the concept of cosmic truth and order.

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Anthropomorphismtheology

Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.

[auto] The passage describes Zeus cutting his own womb, taking wives, and bearing children in human-like biological terms.

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