
USER INSTRUCTIONS:
EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS - WINDOWS SCREEN SAVER

Your screen saver program has been installed into the Windows(tm) 
Desktop of the Control Panel. BE CERTAIN YOUR MONITOR IS SET TO
256 COLOR PALETTE. If you have an old generic VGA monitor which
can only display 16 colors, I'm afraid these images will look
terrible. Sorry. 

Accessing your screen saver is easy and requires only three steps:
  I.   Double Click on the Control Panel
  II.  Open the Desktop Item
  III. Select your screen saver, set delay, and password via
  Setup.
  
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I.   Load the Control Panel

The Control Panel is generally found in the MAIN group of your Program 
Manager. Execute the Control Panel by double clicking the Control Panel 
icon.

If you cannot find the MAIN group or the Control Panel icon, you can run 
the control panel from the File Manager by double clicking CONTROL.EXE in 
your main Windows directory (usually called WINDOWS).

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II.  Run the Windows Desktop

To run the Desktop of the Control Panel, double click the Desktop 
icon in the Control Panel.

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III. Select your screen saver

Use the 'Screen Saver' area of your Desktop screen to select your screen 
saver. You may use the Test button to preview your screen saver and the 
Setup button to assign a password and activate/deactivate your mouse.

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FOUR GOOD REASONS TO REGISTER!

1) YOU WILL RECEIVE ELEVEN (11) ADDITIONAL EXTRAORDINARY, UNIQUE
MYTHIC IMAGES OF EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS. (Actually, you will 
get 12 new photos because the painting with the registration 
reminder will no longer have text upon it.)

2) THE REGISTRATION REMINDER WILL NOT APPEAR DURING YOUR SLIDE
SHOW.

3) You will be supporting an important project in which Reality 
Software seeks to make available to art enthusiasts, design
pros and those working in multimedia, royalty free images at $1.00 
each. Compare that price with those typically charged by stock 
photography agencies whose lowest, one time use fees are usually
$100.

4) You can absolve yourself of guilt because you have just
acquired three, exceptional, mythic paintings to use as you wish,
royalty free, for no cost. 

5) You will have access to our tech support.

Ben Blumenberg, Reality Software, P.O. Box 105, 1015 Main Street
                Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105, U.S.A.
Phone: (207) 832-7348 - Most days noon to 9 PM EST.
Internet - bennett@pipeline.com (almost daily mail run); or 
           ben.blumenberg@swcbbs.com
CompuServe - 71044,1645           


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SCREEN SAVER ORDER FORM: EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS v1.0

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LICENSE AGREEMENT: EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS v1.0 

What 'Royalty Free' means.

As owner of either the shareware version or registered version of
this screen saver, you have a single user license. You have
also acquired royalty free rights to the use of the individual graphics
files: file names are given below. Understand that this royalty free 
license applies only to the USE of the images, NOT to the reproduction and 
sale of the graphics files themselves. These images may be used as design 
elements in any publication or software product that you author, whether or
not it is offered for sale in the retail marketplace. Examples of
legal use would be illustrations in multimedia, catalogs, paper or e-books. 
Illegal examples of image use would include the design of your own screen
saver using these graphics files and/or their incorporation into
retail image file collections of any sort. For these latter uses,
please contact Reality Software for a duplication-resale license that 
pertains to the graphics files themselves.

Needless to say, it is also illegal for you to redistribute and resell
this screen saver product.

YOU MAY NOT COPY AND DISTRIBUTE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, BE IT PRIVATE OR 
COMMERCIAL, ANY OF THE ORIGINAL FILES THAT COMPRISE THIS PRODUCT. 
This means that you cannot redistribute in any manner this screen saver 
product as your own publication.

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FILE LIST and MYTHIC BACKGROUND: EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS

file name     subject                                      display order

bear.pcx      The Goddess as Bear Mother. Perhaps the               2
              earliest epiphany of the Goddess occurred
              during Neanderthal times more than 30,000 
              years ago when a bear cult can be identified 
              in the archeological record. The precise nature 
              of the metaphor cannot be accurately inferred. 
              The association of bears with motherhood is very
              ancient and the root words for 'bearing children'
              and 'birth' in Germanic and Old Norse are the
              same as that for 'bear'. The Slavs had a
              Grandmother Bear, there was festival of Virgin 
              Mary of the Bear on Crete and one of the
              manifestations of Artemis was that of a bear. In
              Neolithic Old Europe, figurines have been found 
              portraying a bear headed female holding a cub.                
              
buttrfly.pcx  The epiphany of the Goddess as a butterfly is         13     
              known from the early Neolithic in both Anatolia 
              and Old Europe. In Minoan culture, the butterfly 
              is the double axe and the hourglass shaped Goddess 
              of Death and Regeneration. As a symbol of life, 
              the butterfly rises from the sacrificed bull or 
              the dead corpse on the battleground. The Butterfly 
              Goddess may be associated with fish and have a 
              head like that of a lily.                            

*crow.pcx     The Crow Goddess foretells of death and plays a       7
              prominent role in Irish and Welsh epics. The War 
              Goddess of ancient Ireland, the Morrigan, is
              a Crow Goddess. The crow's scavenging of dead
              animals lies at the root of this association and 
              this bird often appeared on ancient battlefields 
              to pick at the corpses.  The symbolism is not all 
              macabre because these actions hasten the release 
              of the soul into its next possibility of rebirth.                                  
              The Crow Goddess lingers on today in Celtic folk 
              tradition as a messenger of death.
deathowl.pcx  The Death Goddess 2: see Owl below.                   9

deer.pcx      The Doe is another epiphany of the Primeval           10              
              Mother and in Siberia she lingered as such into 
              this century. Evidence of a deer cult in the 
              Upper Paleolithic is almost as old as that for a 
              bear cult. The Sumerian goddess of childbirth was 
              a stag and Artemis was clothed in deerskin and 
              accepted a deer as sacrifice. Archeological 
              evidence from early Neolithic England, and the
              nature of stag dances recorded in many places in
              Europe, point to the worship of a female deity 
              by men wearing stag headdresses who were dressed 
              as women. Irish and Scottish folk tales preserve 
              a distant memory of deer priestesses.

egret.pcx     Long necked water birds were extremely important      11  
              epiphanies of the Goddess in northern latitudes
              because their annual return in the spring 
              heralded a rebirth of life, in the awakening of 
              those species which had been dormant throughout 
              the winter, and the return of others that had 
              migrated to warmer climates.   

*egret1a.pcx  Nag Screen with Registration reminder

eye.pcx       The Eyes of the Goddess became a metaphor for          7
              her all-seeing wisdom. Paleolithic and Neolithic
              figurines from Old Europe depict divine moisture 
              flowing from the eyes of the Goddess. In Western
              Europe, the  round eyes of the Goddess are almost 
              exclusively found on grave artifacts and represent
              the eyes of the Owl Goddess. Radiant divine eyes
              signifying spring's renewal have been found in
              Spain, Ireland and Denmark. 

herons.pcx    See Egret above. What better symbol of life renewal    3
              in the spring than a pair of nesting herons?   

ocean.pcx     Cosmic Water as divine water flowing from Mother      14
              Earth has a long history as divine, life-giving, 
              life creating moisture. Waves and patterns of rain 
              were often both portrayed alone and in conjunction 
              with many of her epiphanies.

*owl.pcx      The Owl Goddess as a harbinger of death has a         15
              long history extending back into the last Ice
              Age which continued throughout Neolithic Old
              Europe. The owl has been long understood to 
              possess extraordinary visual acuity and thus the
              Owl Goddess was very wise and had oracular powers.
              She is frequently associated with life symbols,
              such as the snake, vulva, triangle, net and axe,
              thus emphasizing the tight linkage between the
              regeneration of life and death. Here we have the
              Death Goddess attendant upon an Egg which shall
              shortly give birth to new life.

sheep.pcx     The ram is not an epiphany of the Goddess and there    5
              was no ram goddess. Rather, the coiled horns of the
              ram became a symbol that conflated with the
              Cosmic Snake and the Waters of Life and in that
              sense, stood for dynamic, regenerative life force.
              In Old Europe complementary forces were given 
              iconographic expression as mythical beasts which
              were composites of known species. Birds -
              sometimes owls - with ram horns are a good
              example as are the Minoan winged rams and the 
              Celtic ram-headed serpent.                                                                              

*snake.pcx     The Cosmic Snake is one of the most universal        12 
               epiphanies of the Goddess and, unlike in the 
               Judaeo-Christian culture of Western Europe, does
               not carry the connotation of death and evil. The
               Cosmic Snake embodies dynamic life force which,
               as does the snake growing and shedding his skin, 
               continuously regenerates. The symbolism of the
               Snake Goddess is found with nearly all of her 
               epiphanies as a re-affirmation of the immortality
               of life which transcends individuality.

treefrg.pcx   The Frog Goddess symbolizes the womb, the life         8 
              producing uterus and is found as such in Egyptian
              and Hellenistic Culture. The Frog Goddess has her
              origins in the Upper Paleolithic and she is often
              depicted as a Frog-Woman into the Neolithic. Yet
              we can never forget that in life there is death
              (and vice versa) and in Lithuania, the toad was
              sacred to the Goddess of Death and Regeneration.


turtle.pcx    The turtle was seen to have the form of the female     6
              uterus and so became another epiphany of the
              Goddess of Death and Regeneration.
              
web.pcx       The spider is The Goddess as Weaver of Fate.           1          
              Neolithic evidence strongly suggests that weaving
              was done only by women and often in a room adjacent
              to a small temple. Nature's best model for weaving 
              is, of course, the spider's web. As the Goddess 
              weaves the fabric of space time, so do we become 
              ensnared in a particular reality in which we must
              live, laugh, cry, and die. Such is our Fate and 
              the terrible responsibility of the Goddess who with
              warp and weft forms our context.                                   

*shareware graphics files

I recommend these books for further exploration.

Crawford, O.G.S. 1991. "The Owl Goddess." Oak Park, IL:Delphi.

Gimbutas, M. 1989. "The Language of the Goddess." San Francisco: 
        Harper & Row.
        
Monaghan, P. 1981. "The Book of Goddesses & Heroines." St.Paul,
        MN: Llewellyn.        
        
Wallace, B.G. 1986. "The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and
        Secrets." New York: HarperCollins.        

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RELEASES SCHEDULED FOR 1995 AND BEYOND!

        Reality Software is now releasing a series of screen savers 
whose theme is antique transportation. Each registered version will 
contain 15 royalty free, 8 bit TIF images in 256 grey scale. These 
photographs are rare: most exist as single prints made by photographers 
many, many decades ago, some more than a century old. These archival 
images are of extraordinary interest, to historians, hobbyists and 
design professionals. The majority have never been published before in 
any medium and their intrinsic interest is exceptional. The originals 
comprise our personal collection which took many years to accumulate. 
This series offers you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a 
collection of the rarest transportation photography which is truly of 
museum quality. Except for an occasional old stereo card, there is no 
possibility that you would see any of these prints in the public 
marketplace. Each individual photograph has been meticulously
restored to remove negative and print damages while maintaining
the historical integrity of the image.

1) Two collections which feature 19th century locomotives were 
released in late 1994: several more are planned for 1995. There
are no duplicate photos among the collections. See catalog.txt.

2) Also to be released in 1995 will be several screen savers
which feature classic sailing ships such as 19th century
schooners. The format will remain the same: each volume
contains 15 different, royalty free images.

3) In 1996, we plan to publish screen savers that feature
archival photography of early trolley cars, electric trains, 
bicycles, late 19th and early 20th century warships and early 
aviation.

The format of each registered product will remain the same: 15 
superb, royalty free images for $15. Stock photo agencies
typically charge license fees in excess of $100 for commercial
use of their images. There will be no duplicate photos throughout 
our entire collection of archival transportation screen savers. 

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See catalog.txt on disk 2 or 3 to read about our 1) archival
photo and visionary art collections; and 2) extraordinary
e-books for DOS and Windows in ancient history and the history
of religion.

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Copyright 1995

Leslie Berger Blumenberg
Reality Software
P.O. Box 105
1015 Main Street
Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105
Phone: (207) 832-7348
Internet - bennett@pipeline.com 
        (almost daily mail run); or (least 
        preferred) 71044.1645@compuserve.com
        
Original Visionary Computer Art: Leslie Berger Blumenberg
 
Software Production: Ben Blumenberg 
           

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