The lineage of Deion is one of the lineages involved in the Trojan War which include: the Tantalum lineage, the Trojan royal lineage, the Spartan lineage, the Maia lineage, the Deion lineage and the Asopos lineage. The lineage of Deion, the last child of Aeolus, illustrates the most advanced achievements in the ascension of the planes of consciousness. It includes Patroclus, and most probably Ulysses and his sons Telemachus and Telegonos.
Patroclus behind Achilles (on the left)
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It has previously been indicated that in this work we would be using the list of Aeolus’ children given by Apollodorus. However there does not seem to exist any earlier source which confirms beyond doubt Ulysses’ place in this lineage – Hyginus is in fact the only Greek writer to have placed Ulysses’ grandfather Arcisius within this lineage. On the other hand, Pherecydes established a connection through the lineage on the mother’s side, identifying Philonis, the daughter of Deion, as the mother of Autolycos, maternal grandfather of Ulysses. It is for this reason alone that we have considered Deion to be at the origin of one of the most advanced yogic experiences (Ulysses).
On the other hand, no author mentions Actor, father of Menoitius and grandfather of Patroclus, as the human father of Aeacus, father of Peleus and grandfather of Achilles. This is why we established the line of Peleus and Achilles from the river Asopos and his daughter Aegina. Women are indeed at the origin of a lineage only if there is an exclusive fertilization by a god, such as Niobe, Stilbe, Libya, Europa, Danae, Alcmene, Protogenia, and six among the seven Pleiades.
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The name Deion can be understood as ‘a union in consciousness’ or ‘the burning one’.
Philonis, ‘she who loves evolution’ (or that which is new), is the only one amongst Deion’s daughters to be mentioned by Pherecydes. If the genealogical placing of Deion which we are considering is exact, then it follows that Philonis entered into unions ‘on the same day’ with both Apollo and Hermes, gods who are respectively in relation with the psychic and the overmind, which is to say with the paths of purification and liberation and the ascension of the planes of consciousness.
From Hermes she bore Autolycos, ‘he who is his own light’, and Apollo engendered the great musician Philammon, ‘he who loves a great consecration’ and who achieves ‘exactness’ resulting from rendering the being psychic (he was a musician).The latter became the first man to instruct young girls’ choirs; through the realisation or achievement of exactness or harmony by the gift of self, he allows the receptive capacities at different levels of the being to work together in harmonious accord. With Argiope, ‘a clear vision’, Philammon engendered Thamyris, ‘numerous right movements’.
In Apollodorus’ version of this myth Deion entered into a union with Diomede, ‘she who concerns herself with union in consciousness’, who bore him four sons and a daughter named Asterodeia (Apollodorus does not mention Philonis here).
Asterodeia, ‘the path towards the light’, entered into a union with Phocus, a son of Aeacus whose lineage we will discuss later on (in manuscripts she is referred to as Asteropia, ‘a vision in lightening flashes’).
Ainetus, ‘he who consents’, does not have any known descendants.
Actor, ‘the guide’ or ‘the opening movement of consciousness towards the spirit’, entered into a union with Aegina, ‘the need for evolution’ (a need more fundamental than aspiration), who bore a son named Menoetius, ‘he who remains in the spirit’. The latter had a son named Patroclus, ‘the glorious ancestors’, who represents the ‘renowned’ accomplishments of a seeker before the great reversal of the Trojan War.
Pindar identifies Actor and Aegina as the parents of Menoetius in the Ninth Olympian, but does not mention Actor’s father by name. Another genealogical ordering identifies Actor as a son of Myrmidon and Pisidice. But in every version of this myth Patroclus is linked to an advanced stage of the path, either throu