From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 03:42:02 MST
You could look to the myths and folk tales too, for the fun of it.
In Frascati, Italy, the patron folk figure is Miss Poppea,
a three-breasted woman characteristic of abundance. You can buy
cookies and ceramics of Miss Poppea in the tourist shops.
(http://www.romacastellionline.com/frascati/frascati.htm)
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And even further back in time:
Goddess Artemis (from Greek Mythology)
[...]
The worship of Artemis was prolific and flourished throughout the
Mediterranean regions as far back as the Bronze Age. Later Greek colonists
at Ephesus in Asia Minor built a famous temple to her. The early Greek
settlers found the Asian inhabitants worshiping a many-breasted nature
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goddess who they identified with their Artemis. So together they raised a
shrine to her, this was rebuilt and enlarged as time went by. The fourth
temple to be built was known as "The Temple of Artemis", and became famous
as one of the "Seven Wonders of the then World". Made of marble except for
its tile-covered wooden roof, it was built by contributions from all the
great cities of Asia. Dedicated about 430 BC, it had taken some 120 years
to complete. According to legend it was set on fire and destroyed on the
night Alexander the Great was born in 356 BC. Someone called Herostratus
started the blaze merely so his name might be remembered in history.
(source: http://www.controverscial.com/Greek%20Mythology.htm)
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