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323: The Forgotten Women of the Apocalypse

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The Myth of Isis

Hesiod's Theogeny describes typhon in the following way: Earth bore her youngest child typhon of the love of Tartarus by the aid of a golden Aphrodite strength was with his hands. And sometimes which so troubled my spirit dark and obscure here and there the stars peaked out and in the middle of them was placed the moon which shown like a flame of fire. So that sounds relatively familiar right compared to our text. Yes, yes, very good. Okay, so why else do I think that this woman is supposed to represent Isis? Here's why her great nemesis who forces Isis to flee into the wilderness is also a fiery many had a dragon.

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