

This proportional 3:4:5 triangle is the first of the Pythagorean triangular set and is expressed in the dimensions of the Crucuno dolmen in Brittany (Thom, 1971 Thom, et al., 1973 Sullivan, 2000). Especially Carnac (France) is located at a unique latitude on Earth, where both the summer and winter solstice sun form a perfect Pythagorean triangle relative to the parallel of Latitude (the East-West equinoctial axis of the site). Let us also be reminded that the initial orientation of the Stonehenge and Carnac megalithic monuments was lunar (Hawkins, 1965). She was conceived as an orgiastic goddess in all areas of Pelasgic substratum, and her worship included male human sacrifices (Graves, 1948, p. Worth mentioning is also the fact that Ariadne (Areatha in Etruscan) is paired with Dionysos (Fufluns in Etruscan) on an engraved bronze Etruscan mirror-back, accompagnied by Semele (Semla in Etruscan).

The Welsh name for this constellation is Caer Arianrhod, meaning ‘Castle of the goddess Arianrhod’ the word Arianrhod can be translated as ‘silver disk’ or ‘wheel’ according to one version (Bilić, 2006, p. Her wedding diadem was set in the heavens as the constellation Corona Borealis. There the god Dionysos saw her and dazzled by her beauty made her his bride (the question of her being mortal or a goddess varies in ancient Greek accounts). After helping the Athenian hero Theseus, she left Crete with him but later he abandoned her at the Cycladic island of Naxos (where is to be found also an unfinished temple of Apollo aka the Portara among modern locals). She was put in charge of the Labyrinth and of the sacrifices and rituals offered either to Poseidon or to Athena, depending on the version of the myth. Dionysos was also strongly related to Ariadne (she was the only ‘official wife’ of the god), the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae (Lyons, 1996). To Misa), he was adored as twofold, male and female (see also the cases of Athena and Venus cases), related to the Great Mother, Venus and Isis. In the invocation of Dionysos, during the Eleusinian Mysteries (Taylor, 2015: Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, XLII. The annual vegetation cycles were, thus, referred to lunar deities who presided over the long calendrical cycles. In ancient Greek tradition, Dionysos was the son of the moon goddess Semele (Homer, Iliad XIV.323), who also had 50 daughters, the Menae, who presided over the 50 lunar months (the 50 ‘cows’ that Hermes stole from Apollo the cycle of 50 moons), half of one octaeteris and one Olympiad (Pausanias, Description of Greece V.1.4). Minos and Pasiphae, Venus, Athena, Hephaistos, Ariadne and Dionysos, as well as the Labyrinth, the Labrys, the Swastika and Rosette, Phaethon, Apollo, Artemis and Asterios had interrelated archaeoastronomical and environmental symbolisms in the Minoan and Bronze Age Mediterranean belief system.

