From: "Andrew Bollen" 
Subject: Re: (urth) DOORS: perhaps the last note thereon, this round
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:43:30 +1100

Mantis wrote:


> LEUCOTHEA
> One of Lara's names is "Leucothea Fitzhugh Hurst" (276).
>
> "The most warlike of the remaining Pelasgians were the Centaurs of
> Magnesia, whose clan totems included the wryneck and mountain lion.  They
> also worshipped the horse . . . The Centaurs' mother goddess was called,
in
> Greek, Leucothea, 'the White Goddess' . . . she had also become the
> 'mother' of Melicertes, or Hercules Melkarth, the god of earlier
> semi-Semitic invaders" (THE WHITE GODDESS, pb., p. 52).

"Leucothea" was also the name of one of the Sirens. I've always thought that
it would have been a good name for Seawrack.



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