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| Keywords: Seven Days New Crete (Graves) Watch North-Wind Rise symbols.svg A simple black-and-white graphic which combines various symbols described or implied in the 1949 semi-classic utopian novel Seven Days in New Crete or Watch the North-Wind Rise by Robert Graves in order to summarize essential features of the goddess-worshipping quasi-matriarchal society detailed in the book From top to bottom the symbols are the Triple Goddess Nimuë Mari and Ana - symbolized by lunar phases of young moon full moon and old moon above the twin rival demi-gods the star-god of the first half of the year and the serpent-god of the second half of the year above the people of New Crete in their five social groups or estates likened to the five fingers of a hand thumb - captains index finger - recorders or scribes middle finger - commons ring finger - servants little finger - poets or magicians above the clipped coin of Dobeis the snapped sword of Pill and the broken gear of Machna The Labrys called labra in the New Cretan language is also a symbol used in the New Cretan society described in the book apparently symbolizing authority under the goddess but couldn't be conveniently included in this image The symbolic numerology of the New Cretan calendar e g the seven-day week -- five of which are each assigned to one of the estates leaving Tuesday and Friday for one-day wars and love-affairs -- and the thirteen-month year etc is also omitted own -- Graphic made by myself largely from scratch with the hand sign rather loosely influenced by some other images ; for the Triple Goddess symbol see PD image Image Triple_Goddess_Symbol_Filled svg Triple_Goddess_Symbol_Filled svg 2008 AnonMoos Hand symbols Goddess movement - Thealogy symbols Robert Graves | ||||
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