sites & Shields: about "veneras"

[Angus mac Lir]

>From: Rosina Lila
>Subject: Re: sites & Shields
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:56:47 EDT
>
>...-In the Spanish Archives the Santiago shells are called "veneras" (I
don't know why)-. ...

Venus was said to have risen from the sea, riding a scallop-shell, hence the
shell's name that refers to the goddess.

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