The first order that was given up and the kindness that replaced it
Warning
The accounts disagree and she is not one being
Resonance
Those who begin something and are displaced from it
Symbols
The watersThe danceThe serpentThe first sky
Mythology Summary
Eurynome is two figures under one name, and they are not the same being. In Hesiod she is an Oceanid, one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys (Theogony 358), who bears the three Graces to Zeus - Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia (Theogony 907-911). In the Pelasgian cosmogony that Orpheus sings in Apollonius Rhodius she is the first queen of Olympus: she and Ophion hold the sway of snowy Olympus before Cronus and Rhea, and are thrown down into the waves of Ocean when the stronger pair take over (Argonautica 1.496-511).
Modern Practice
Eurynome is worked with for beginnings that are displaced: the first order, the one who held something before it was taken, and the grace that comes after. The practice is to say which Eurynome is being addressed - the mother of the Graces or the first queen - because they are different powers and the two accounts were never reconciled.