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S2 Ep1060: Artemis, Ephesus, and the Background to 1 Timothy 2: Dr. Sandra Glahn

Theology in the Raw

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The Hittite Mythology of Ephesus

Hittite influence was much greater. Like there are some bees on the side of Artemis's leg on the statue. And we've read that as like mother bee and they're like, yeah, no, they didn't know bees were women until like the 18th century. They discovered King Bee had ovaries, probably not so much a Queen Bee as a Hittite story about a bee. Probably those breasty looking things are magic sacks. Okay. So it's connected to kind of the, it'sconnected to Zeus, you're saying. I'm saying it's connectedto magic and connected with more Hittite mythology than Diana.

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