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Controversy around Priapus father (the Son of Aphrodite)

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Does anyone have insight on who is father was? Aphrodite is considered to be Priapus’s mother, but there is controversy as to who his father was. Was it Zeus? Pan? Adonis? Dionysus? Most do credit Dionysus, but there is a case for each of them.
 
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Does anyone have insight on who is father was? Aphrodite is considered to be Priapus’s mother, but there is controversy as to who his father was. Was it Zeus? Pan? Adonis? Dionysus? Most do credit Dionysus, but there is a case for each of them.
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Priapus is a Greek name for the Egyptian god Min(-os) [Pan/Capricorn/Auriga] and is Daksha-Prajapati
['progeny-lord'],a name for Agni [Fire/
Hephaestus]. Min and Pan are to be linked with the Mesopotamian god Tammuz [ Adonis].Pan [Myrtilus/Hippolytus] was the son of Hermes [ Haoma/Soma/Odysseus] and Penelope [Chione/Snow]. Penelope/Penelopeia is a corrupt form of Pelopia ,the daughter of Amphion. Amphion [Orpheus] is a name for Pelops [Theseus] and Icarius [Dionysus/Hades/Osiris/Hesperus/Shiva].
Haoma [Soma] is the Taurus constellation. The Perseus constellation is Mithras.
The Auriga constellation [Triptolemus/
Myrtilus/Hippolytus/Silenus/Aegeus/Pan] was a goatherd in Babylonia.The goatherd carried Capella/Capra on his shoulder.
Phaethon was linked to Saturn. Europa Hellotis is Athena[Hellotis/Penelope/Pelopia].
Priapus [Ischys/Isaac/Aesacus] was also called Leucippus and was the rival of Apollo [Ares] for the love of Daphne [Laurel/Bay tree/Bau/Gula/Artemis Leucophryne/blonde Demeter/Badb/
Coronis/female hound Bran/Aegle/
Orthaea/Aphrodite Antheia].
Norse Baldr is Anglo-Saxon Baldaeg.
Baldaeg is Germanic bald or balding and Greek Aegeus, meaning goat, and is Pan/
Priapus [Faunus Fatuus/Silenus]. When Suetonius says that Caius [Sir Kay] is balding, but hairy like a goat, he is comparing Caius [Caligula] to Faunus [Daksha/Medraut].[Sir] Hector is Peleus. Germanicus was linked to Garm [Welsh St Garmon is St Germanus of Auxerre]. Claudius was linked to Bata [Khnum/Battus/Stammerer]. Bata's wife [Messalina] ran off with another man in the myth of the Two Brothers. Nero [successor of Claudius] was linked to Anpu [Garm] once more.
Drusus was linked to Dryas [Daire/Set].
The miserly Tiberius was linked to Misharu [Mithras/Pluto/Thesauros].Augustus was linked to Apollo [Lug/Mars]. Caesarion was linked to Mercury [Shu].Julius Caesar was linked to Iulus [[Helios].
The Faunalia and Lupercalia were celebrations of Faunus/Pan [Auriga].
Auriga was prominent in the sky in the winter months.The Adonia celebrated the death of Adonis [Tammuz/Auriga/Athamas] in July. Daksha [Irish Dagda Ollathair] means Skillful ,as does Celtic/Welsh Medraut [Mordred later].
Arthur Pendragon [Theseus/
Perseus/Shiva/Achilles/Welsh Echel/Krishna] was killed by Medraut [Lycomedes/Autolycus/Parnassos].
Maeglocunos [Maelgwn] means master of hounds [Orion/Arawn/Urien/Arthur].
Arthur's giant hound Cabal is Anubis [Hermanubis/Epeius/Arion/Cerberus].
Neleus [Iolaus] was the huband of Chloris
[Roman Flora/Greek Antheia]. Iollan [Irish myth] was the husband of Uirne [Arne].
Iollan was the son of Iolaus and Antheia.
Iolanthe [Iole/Turan/Tuiren/Bran/Coronis/
Morrigan/Cassandra] was the daughter of Iollan [Hyacinthus/Eurytus/Priam/Brahma].
Sceolan [Scylla/Medusa/Echidna] was the daughter of Tuiren.
Arne means female lamb in ancient Greek.
Arne is Celtic Brigid [see Imbolg/Ewe's milk festival on 1 February]. Arne was the mother of Linus [Apollo/Lug/Lynceus], by her husband, Aeolus. The jackdaw [Procris, daughter of Erichthonius, not Erechtheus]
was sacred to Hecate [Athena/Brigid/Eithne/Hyades].
Arne was the lamb goddess.
Meshlamthea [Nergal/Aries/Lug Lamfada] can be translated as Mesh/Mesha [ram in Sanskrit] of the lamb goddess.
The modern constellation Leo Minor and the 3 closest stars of the modern constellation Lynx were in ancient times the constellation of the Salmon [Salmoneus/Shulmanu/Saturn/Solomon].
Arnaeus [Irus/Eros/Satyr/Savitr] is Helios [Aristaeus/Eunomus/Good Shepherd/Argus Panoptes/Acamas/Kama/Kamadeva/Bata/
Khnum/Ganymede/Ganesha/Erichthonius].
Odysseus [Epeius/Erechtheus/Erech-god/Anu/Anpu/Anubis ] is Hermes Argeiphontes.
The Sword in the Stone refers to Theseus [Arthur] lifting a great stone to get the sword his father, Aegeus, left for him.
Saturn is the slowest moving visible planet [or 'star' in ancient times] in the night sky and is linked to Ursa Minor which moves so slowly it is virtually static. Hence Hephaestus [Cronus] was described as lame. On the Greco-Roman Dendera zodiac in Egypt Ursa Minor was the wolf-god Wepwawet [Fenrir]. Fenrir took the hand [Cassiopeia/five stars or fingers/dactyli] of Tiw [Cepheus/Geb/Ares].
Norse Egil [Aegils] is Greek Aegialeus.
Europa [Athena Nike/Nikkal/Ningal/Ereshkigal/Gaia/
Hyades] was the sister of Phoenix [Ceyx/Gannet/Hermes/Gudgalanna/Taurus] and Adymus [Adam/Enlil/Mercury].
Adama [Adamma/Britomartis/Artemis Dictynna], the wife of Reshef [Apollo], was the daughter of Adam.
Panu [Pan/Oisin/Ossian/'fawn'/Faunus] was the god of fire in Finland, and son of the Sun goddess [Paivatar/Sulis/Saule/Minerva].
Oscar is Ishkur [Thor/Taranis/Jupiter/Zeus].
Aphroditus/Hermaphroditus is Shiva Ardhanarishvara [Hesperus/Ruda/Rudra/Telegonus].
Priapus is Min/Minos [Pan/Aegeus].Minos was the father of Deucalion [Dionysus/Theseus/Pluto].Deucalion was the father of Idomeneus [Idmon/Autumnus/Atymnios/Atum]. Idmon was the father of Thestor [Proteus/
Primus/Priam/Eurytus/Mercury/Periphas/
Phasis/Aeetes/Aquilo/Boreas].Phasis was the father of Calchas [Colchus].Calchas was the father of Theoclymenus [Hades].
Pan [Auriga] spread panic among the Persians [Perseus] at Marathon [Taurus].
Themistocles [Themisto's glory] is a name of Athamas,husband of Themisto.
Attica is Attis [Atys]/Attagus/male goat in Phrygian/Auriga.
Hippolyte [Ariadne/Varuni/Arianrhod] was the daughter of Hippolytus [Auriga/Cronus].
Hippolytus is Aegeus/Minos.Theseus is Shiva [Rudra].Sati [Eos] is Phaedra.
Dagda's epithet Ollathair means All-father and is Norse Alfadir/Alfathir,an epithet appropriated by Odin from Baldaeg.
Thor was Baldaeg Alfadir's son.
Brigantia [Frigg] is the mother of Dagda, not his daughter.Aed son of Dagda is Hades [Donn].Tammuz is Thames river-god.London [Llundain/Lundinium] is the City[dinas] or Fortress[dun] of Luna [Hera].
Brent [Braint] river is Brigantia's river.
Brigantia was the wife of Bres [Brendan/
Bran/Bodb Derg/Danaus/Coronus] and Aengus Og [Manawydan/Manannan]. Lir [Laran/Mars/Camulos or Alarch/Olor/Cygnus] is an alternative name for Lug [Apollo].
 
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