Ariadne-Isis Faked her Death?

Theseus fighting the Minotaur by Jean-Etienne Ramey, marble, 1826, Tuileries Gardens, Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theseus_Minotaur_Ramey_Tuileries.jpg

I have several sources that state that Osiris is Dionysus and that his wife was Ariadne.  But it is said in The Dionysiaca, that Ariadne is killed by turning to stone by the head of Medusa (sounds familiar but that is another story).  Yet, other sources say she killed herself or that she died in childbirth.

There are stories of Dionysus retrieving his wife and mother from Hades in Diodorus Siculus' Library of History.

What really happened?  Well, as an interpreter of these ancient stories, I believe she faked her death because she didn't want to be remembered by the stories of the Minotaur and his strange conception.  I believe her and Dionysus went to Egypt after his Indian War and triumph and their marriage in Naxos and reinvented themselves there as Osiris and Isis.  The story of Ariadne also has variations of her crown's origin.  The constellation of Corona represents her and her crown.  Per Wikipedia and many ancient sources:

In Greek mythology, Corona Borealis was sometimes considered to represent a crown that was given by Dionysus to Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of Crete. When she wore the crown to her wedding, where she married Dionysus, he placed her crown in the heavens to commemorate the wedding.^[4]

The story of the Minotaur includes the labyrinth which interestingly enough is similar to the story of the American Hopi legend of their Man in the Maze (but without the same details).  Again, my research indicates that the Kachinas of the Hopi were the visiting Cronides.

The Minotaur in the Labyrinth, engraving of a 16th-century CE gem in the Medici Collection in the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence^[17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minotaurus.gif

 

 

I'itoi, the Man in the Maze

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:O%27odham_unofficial_flag.svg

Per Wikipedia:

The Pima also refer to I'itoi as Se:he "Elder Brother". The term Iʼithi is a dialectal variant used by the Hia C-eḍ O'odham.

He is most often referred to as the Man in the Maze, a reference to a design appearing on native basketry and petroglyphs which positions him at the entry to a labyrinth. This labyrinth is believed by the Pima to be a floorplan of his house, and by the Tohono O'odham to be a map giving directions to his house.

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Borealis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'itoi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa

Theseus

 

Theseus and the Minotaur (public domain0

Theseus was the founder of Athens and son of Aegeus and Poseidon.  He is famous for killing the Minotaur of Crete and taking Ariadne with him to the island of Naxos.  There he abandoned her.  The reasons for doing so vary as the myth varies.  Theseus continued on to follow in the footsteps of Heracles when he continued with his own labors of becoming a vigilante and killing dangerous, evil men in the area who would murder and torture people to death.

Theseus also kidnapped the famous Helen of Troy when she was ten years old but gave her up to his mother when he realized the anger of the people for doing this.  Later Helen was given to another man in marriage when she grew up.

Theseus was said to have been killed by being thrown off a cliff after losing popularity with his people.



by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)



Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus