Hay, Everyone!
So tonight we honor Bendis and I hope that your week has been good. My brother finally got a job, which was wonderful. It means that we have more resources then we had last month. It's in something that he's good at and I believe that it's always good idea to work in an area that you feel that your good at. And not be stuck in something that you hate.
So I'm going to be adding info about Bendis and I hope that you have a wonderful remaining of the week.
BENDIS (Bendis), a Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped.
Hesychius (s. v. dilonchon) says, that the poet Cratinus called this
goddess dilonchos, either because she had to discharge two duties, one
towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two
lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the
other derived from the sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with
Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. (Proclus, Theolog. p. 353.)
From an expression of Aristophanes, who in his comedy "The Lemnian
Women" called her the megalê theos (Phot. Lex. and Hesych. s. v.), it
may be inferred, that she was worshipped in Lemnos; and it was either
from this island or from Thrace that her worship was introduced into
Attica; for we know, that as early as the time of Plato the Bendideia
were celebrated in Peiraeeus every year on the twentieth of Thargelion.
(Hesych. s. v. Bendis; Plat. Rep. i. 1; Proclus, ad Tim. p. 9; Xen.
Hell. ii. 4. § 11; Strab. x. p. 471; Liv. xxxviii. 41.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. C19th Classics Encyclopedia.
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