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    The document discusses artifacts depicting goddesses from Thrace, now called Bulgaria. It shows images from silver ewers and plaques found in Rogozen and Letnitsa, Bulgaria. The artifacts likely represent Kotys, a great goddess of Thrace, and include depictions of goddesses riding lions and dragons, as well as a possible image of Dionysus or another goddess on an ewer. The document provides images and context about these artifacts celebrating Thracian goddesses.

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    The document discusses artifacts depicting goddesses from Thrace, now called Bulgaria. It shows images from silver ewers and plaques found in Rogozen and Letnitsa, Bulgaria. The artifacts likely represent Kotys, a great goddess of Thrace, and include depictions of goddesses riding lions and dragons, as well as a possible image of Dionysus or another goddess on an ewer. The document provides images and context about these artifacts celebrating Thracian goddesses.

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    Thracian Goddess Chalices

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    The document discusses artifacts depicting goddesses from Thrace, now called Bulgaria. It shows images from silver ewers and plaques found in Rogozen and Letnitsa, Bulgaria. The artifacts likely represent Kotys, a great goddess of Thrace, and include depictions of goddesses riding lions and dragons, as well as a possible image of Dionysus or another goddess on an ewer. The document provides images and context about these artifacts celebrating Thracian goddesses.

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    ThracianGoddessChalices

    ThracianGoddessChalicesandPlaques

    AnothersideoftheRogozen
    Ewer,whichhastwoimagesofa
    goddessridingonlions.Ifyou
    comparecarefully,thefoldson
    therobesforexample,you'llsee
    thattheyaredifferent.

    TheRogozenEwer

    http://www.sourcememory.net/art/thrace/goddesses.html

    ThesemostlikelyrepresentKotys,great
    goddessofThrace,
    nowcalledBulgaria

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    ThracianGoddessChalices

    AnotherchasedsilverewerfromRogozen.
    IsitDionysos(seevines),oragoddess(seebreasts)?

    YetanotherewerfromRogozen,
    showingawingedArtemisBendis
    withlionsineachhand.The
    Bendisidentificationcomesin
    withthetworidersapproaching
    frombothsides,unusualinthat
    theirsteedshavehumanheads.

    Shamanicwomanridingadragon,oneofthe
    silverandgoldplaquesfromLetnitsa,
    Bulgaria.

    AnotherLetnitsaplaqueshowing
    awomanwithmirrorconjuringa
    dragonwiththreewolfheads.

    MoreThracianTreasure>
    http://www.sourcememory.net/art/thrace/goddesses.html

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    MaxDashu|SuppressedHistoriesArchives|Gallery|FemaleIcons

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