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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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# Eos
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**Domain**: The dawn
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**Symbol**: Rosy fingers, saffron robe, a chariot of winged horses, the morning star before her
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**Roman Equivalent**: Aurora
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## Overview
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Eos is the goddess of the dawn — the rose-coloured light that opens each day and the goddess who brings it. Daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, she is sister to [Helios](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/helios) the sun and [Selene](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/selene) the moon, the three great lights of Hyperion's line who divide all of time between them: Eos leads, her brother follows, her sister rules the dark. Each morning she rises from the eastern stream of Ocean, saffron-robed, and opens the gates of heaven for the sun's chariot, her own team of horses drawing her ahead of him across the sky. Homer's tireless epithet for her is *rhododaktylos* — rosy-fingered — the reddening light spreading from the horizon like a hand opening over the world.
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She is beautiful, tender, and famously amorous — struck, some said, by [Aphrodite](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/aphrodite) with an unquenchable longing for young men, so that the dawn forever pursues mortal lovers and forever loses them to the age she herself outlives. This is the tragic seam running through her brightness: as the deathless goddess of a moment that renews without fail, she is bound again and again to mortals who cannot. Her light is the freshest thing in the world and her loves the saddest, and the greatest of her myths turns exactly on that gap between an immortal's morning and a mortal's decline.
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## Key Myths
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**Tithonus, and the terror of undying age.** Eos loved the Trojan prince Tithonus and, unwilling to lose him, begged Zeus to make him immortal. Zeus granted it — but she had asked for eternal life and forgotten to ask for eternal youth. So Tithonus lived on and on, ageing without end, shrinking and withering until he was nothing but a voice, a dry rustle of endless old age with no release in death. In the oldest tellings Eos shut him at last in a chamber where he babbled ceaselessly; later poets said he dwindled into a cicada, the shrill unstoppable chirp of the summer heat. It is one of the sharpest of all Greek warnings: that deathlessness without youth is not a gift but a curse, and that the dawn's love could not save her beloved from the one thing she could not give.
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**The lights of the sky.** Eos, [Helios](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/helios), and [Selene](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/selene) are the three children of Hyperion who carry the great lights in turn — dawn, day, and night. Eos goes first each morning, throwing back the gates of the east and drawing her chariot up ahead of the sun so that her brother may follow; when she withdraws, the day is fully come. She is the herald of the light, the daily promise that the dark has an end.
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## Related
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- [Helios](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/helios) — Her brother, the sun she leads across the sky each morning
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- [Selene](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/selene) — Her sister, the moon; the three lights of Hyperion's line
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- [Aphrodite](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/aphrodite) — Who cursed her with unending desire for mortal youths
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- [Hypnos](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/hypnos) — The god of sleep her dawn dispels each morning
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Greek Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology)
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