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By Rose Roll - January 22, 2003

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In numerous instances of mythology, an initial, primordial female power is supplanted or in some way altered by a male figure. In Hesiod's Theogony, Gaea's original supremacy is eventually usurped by Zeus, while in Aeschylus' Eumenides, the primal power of the Furies is supplanted by the rationality of male law and order. While this subordination…

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