> to the romans she became diana, and her central shrine was at ephesus, the very place where, in the 3rd century ce, the christian patriarchs established the cult of the mother-goddess mary. danae was the great-grand-daughter of danaus. her kena'ani equivalent was dinah, ya'akov's (jacob's) only daughter; she who was raped by the sons of shechem and revenged by shim'on and levi. danae was also raped, by her uncle proteus. incidentally, danae's fate was to be locked in a wooden ark and cast into the sea with her baby child  an equivalent not of mosheh, but of perseus > the thirteenth chapter of the book of judges begins with the statement that the beney yisra-el were delivered into the hands of the pelishtim (philistines) for forty years, the pelishtim being phoenicians who had fled crete when the temple of knossos was destroyed; in other words, a people of the same ethnic root as the pelasgian danaans. at that time a man named mano'ach, from the tribe of dan in tsar'ah (), had a wife who was barren. the motif is common to the tanach, and gives us an ancient echo of the fertility-cults that surrounded the moon-goddess: sarah, rivkah (rebecca) and rachel, as chanah (hannah) later, were all barren, but yhvh (or actually the goddess, yah, the sister of ephron-phoroneus; only the rabbis have removed the goddess from their patriarchal cult) likewise enabled them to conceive. on the pelasgian principal, we must reinstate the moon-and-fertility goddess, either dinah or danae or anat, or later mary, and thank her, not yhvh, for the gift of fertility
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