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Earth goddess - see "Ge".

Dodo and Galatee: Famous Bronze Age companion lovers. They were excellent swimmers. {Lesbian Peoples}

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Visigoth princess. Married Frankish - Neustrian - King Chilperic I. Died 567. Daughter of Visigoth king Anthanagild. Brunhilda's sister. When Chilperic's brother Sigebert married Brunhilda, Chilperic got rid of his first wife Audovera and married Brunhilda's sister Galswintha. (1) When Chilperic's mistress, Fredegunde, engineered Galswintha's murder, and then married Chilperic, forty years of war began, reputedly at the urging of Brunhilde, anxious for revenge. (2) 1. EncBrit 11th ed. 2. women-s History, Jone Johnson Lewis.

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Another spelling for Gaia, the Earth deified in Greek mythology. Daughter of Chaos.

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Gertrude Stein, cited by Wittig in her essasy "The Trojan Horse" (Wittig, Straight Mind, 68). Mechtild of Hackeborn b.1241- d. 1298, fl. 1295 Halligan Theresa A., c. 1298, _The Booke of Gostlye Grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn_, reprinted in 1979 by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval, ISBN: 0888440464 Paperback $20.00 (This book is about Mechtild's visions as recorded by Gertrude the Great, Gertrude of Helfta. Since Gertrude actually wrote the words on paper, she is occassionally credited as being the author. Four women of the convent at Helfta are important at the same time: two are named Gertrude and 2 are named Mechtild. Gertrude of Hackeborn (c.1222 -1291) became abbess of the convent in 1241 and brought her sister, Mechtild of Hackeborn (1241-1298), to live at the convent. Gertrude the Great (also known as Gertrude the Younger, 1256-1301/02) joined the convent at about age 5 and was an active writer, composing _The Heralds of Divine Love_. After a lifetime as a Beguine, wearied by overwork, illness, and age, Mechtild of Magdeburg (1207?-1282) joined the convent in about 1270 where she wrote _The Flowing Light of the Godhead_. - For more information on these women, see _The Women of Helfta_ by Mary Jeremy Finnegan, 1991, U. of Georgia Press) Gertrude of Helfta b. 1256- d. 1301/ 02, fl. 1290

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mentioned in sappho? a fellow poet?

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some good ones in the sagas - gudrun thorbjornsdottir

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indonesian Guruda hindu Garuda bird

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