The Legend of Andromeda

Andromeda: one of only three women within the classical northern mythologies. Andromeda, Cassiopeia and Virgo are representations of the Earth Mother in her three stages, youth, maturity and old age.

Mesopotamia: represents the goddess Istar as she is chained to a rock while Marduk prepares to do battle with her ally Tiamat. See the Mesopotamian legends of Cetus, Draco, Hydra, Hercules and Perseus.

Greece: the beautiful daughter of the vain Queen Cassiopeia and her husband King Cepheus of Philistia. As restitution for her vanity, the Queen chained her daughter to a rock on the beach as a sacrifice to the sea monster Cetus. Andromeda was saved by the hero Perseus, became his wife and the mother of Perses who founded the kingdom of Persia, and great grandmother of Hercules. See the Greek legends of Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Cetus, Hercules, Pegasus and Perseus.

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