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Post by stepper on Oct 31, 2012 15:54:59 GMT -6
Egg - Joxer took an egg to the head in Been There Done That
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Post by Siren on Nov 6, 2012 7:08:39 GMT -6
F is for flesh - there was plenty on display in "Old Ares Had A Farm"
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Post by scamp on Nov 6, 2012 8:35:37 GMT -6
Galen in Is There a Doctor In the House?
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Roman (though ethnically Greek) physician, surgeon and philosopher.
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Post by stepper on Nov 6, 2012 20:02:11 GMT -6
Hotel - notable only because during all their years of travel, I don't remember once that they stayed in a hotel. They spent time in jail, nailed to a cross, under the stars, and in castles even, but never a hotel.
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Post by vickiej on Nov 9, 2012 12:45:41 GMT -6
injuries
they didn't heal in Prometheus
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Post by stepper on Nov 11, 2012 21:36:18 GMT -6
Jewelry - Xena, sitting by a campfire admiring her jewelry - the opening scene of The Rheingold
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Post by scamp on Nov 14, 2012 8:58:34 GMT -6
Kali in The Way Kālī is the Hindu goddess associated with empowerment, shakti. The name Kali comes from kāla, which means black, time, death, lord of death, Shiva. Since Shiva also means Kala -- the eternal time -- Kālī, his consort, also means "Time" or "Death" (as in time has come). Hence, Kāli is the Goddess of Time and Change. Icould go on and on about tantric meanings, but bore everyone?
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Post by stepper on Nov 14, 2012 18:38:59 GMT -6
Lingerie – Aphrodite’s normal costume.
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Post by stepper on Nov 30, 2012 17:42:46 GMT -6
Hey Scamp and Vickie! Where are you???
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Post by Siren on Dec 24, 2012 0:52:10 GMT -6
Morpheus - Gabrielle is kidnapped to be his bride in "Dreamworker"
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Post by stepper on Dec 24, 2012 8:09:59 GMT -6
Nicklio - the guy who uses acupuncture to heal Xena after she was crucified - something that never made sense to me.
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Post by xenawp7706 on Dec 24, 2012 8:49:50 GMT -6
O- Orpheus
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Post by stepper on Dec 24, 2012 9:15:09 GMT -6
Welcome back stranger!
Pregnant - the reason Gabrielle gave up Tobias at the end of Senticles - the couple was walking along but the woman was pregnant.
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Post by Siren on Dec 30, 2012 20:55:12 GMT -6
Q is for quiver, in which Xena keeps her arrows
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Post by scamp on Dec 31, 2012 4:03:41 GMT -6
R is for Rhea (Ties That Bind)
Rhea was the sister of Cronus. They wed and their offspring were the Olympian gods. Cronus, who had castrated his father, was wary of his kids and so decided to eat them up all gone. Rhea saved Zeus and Cronus found that kids aren’t very digestible so he vomited them all up and the Greek Pantheon was formed. Cronus was exiled to Tartarus for kid munching.
Version 2 In this version, Cronus was not sent to Tartarus for snacking on his kids but was set up as king of the golden age, a utopian wonderland at the borders of the earth where he was the ruler of the island of Blest. Only Hesiod cites this much happier version.
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Post by scamp on Jan 7, 2013 20:49:39 GMT -6
Our old friend, Shakti, meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as 'The Great Divine Mother' in Hinduism.
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Post by stepper on Jan 12, 2013 1:44:09 GMT -6
The Execution - where Gabrielle fights to save Meleager.
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Post by scamp on Jan 20, 2013 2:36:31 GMT -6
Ulysses in “Ulysses”
Ulysses is derived from Ulixes, the Latin name for Odysseus, hero of the Odyssey.
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Post by stepper on Jan 20, 2013 22:09:40 GMT -6
Vanishing Act - a statue of Pax is stolen. PAX was a Roman goddess of peace who's temple was built on the site of a meat market - which really seems contradictory.
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Post by scamp on Jan 28, 2013 1:57:02 GMT -6
Waltraute is Brünnhilde’s Valkyrie sister in the “Twilight of the Gods” Wagner’s final opera of the Ring. “Twilight of the Gods” is better known as “Götterdämmerung.”
In 1888, Nietzsche wrote “Götzen-Dämmerung” (“Twilight of the Idols”) a deliberate pun on the title of Wagner's opera: Götze is German for "idol" or "false god". God only knows why, there is nothing funny or light about Nietzsche’s work.
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Post by scamp on Jan 28, 2013 4:17:32 GMT -6
Vanishing Act - a statue of Pax is stolen. PAX was a Roman goddess of peace who's temple was built on the site of a meat market - which really seems contradictory. LOL. It’s not as bad as it sounds. According to Livy’s mythological history of Rome, the land which became Vespasian’s Forum was originally a field belonging to the family of Rome's last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. After the revolution that vanquished the Tarquinii and established the Roman Republic, the field was consecrated to Mars and was used for military purposes including being a grazing area for horses and sheep. When the military wasn’t using the land, it became a commons. Other than the sacrificial slaughter of animals on the site, I can find no classical reference which supports the one website’s claim that the Templum Pacis was built over a meat market. That is not to say that someone didn’t assert that at one time: after all, for some seven decades it was accepted that the building was a Templum to Venus, not Pax (note also that the website is about.com, not an edu site which means no peer review). Over time, as Rome expanded, the number of public buildings located on the site grew. Soon the site became important. Perhaps the greatest of its buildings is the Pantheon with its remarkably ugly exterior yet I consider it one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve ever seen on the interior. What I have yet to understand is how there can be a 20 foot circular hole in the ceiling/roof but even during a thunderstorm, no rain leaks in. There are the two “rules” concerning how to read unknown material culture: 1. if you don’t know what use an object had, call it a ceremonial object and 2. if you find bone not near a stone building, call it a market. Here the problem was that while tufa stone (which was not a building material associated with the Romans until quite recently) was found nearby, almost all of what would become Vespasian’s Forum was made of wood. At that time, 99% of Rome was made of wood. You know, while Nero fiddled and all that – except he wasn’t in Rome during the fire. And two morals: Rome really, really wasn’t built in a day and we still are clueless about much of the material culture we have uncovered. It took almost 200 years for someone to figure out that the Rosetta Stone isn’t really black – the black on it is ink Napoleon poured on it so he could take a rubbing of it… we still can’t read Linear A, only Linear B. Even when written records exist, they are woefully incomplete: Euripides wrote 92 plays, 18 are extant (19 if one includes the disputed authorship of Rhesus – I don’t). Never forget Gilbert and Sullivan’s song from H.M.S. Pinafore: Skim milk masquerades as cream…
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Post by stepper on Jan 28, 2013 19:14:20 GMT -6
Xena of course
and the disclaimer to You Are There - The concept of linear time was severely harmed during the making of this motion picture.
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Post by scamp on Apr 27, 2013 6:26:57 GMT -6
Zehra in The Play’s the Thing
Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zehra, as Zehra meant blossom, beauty, and brilliant.
I'm awed by how much finesse the X:WP writers used in deploying all these historical figures.
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Post by xenawp7706 on Apr 27, 2013 7:15:30 GMT -6
A- Autolycus the king of thieves
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Post by stepper on Apr 27, 2013 18:53:43 GMT -6
I'm awed by how much finesse the X:WP writers used in deploying all these historical figures. Yet they still managed to have fun! Bliss - A Comedy of Eros
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Post by scamp on Apr 28, 2013 0:49:50 GMT -6
Of course, Callisto!
In Greek mythology, Callisto or Kallisto was a nymph who served Artemis. She was transformed into a bear and set among the stars, she was the bear-mother of the Arcadians, through her son Arcas (fathered by Zeus). Arcadia was also home to the god Pan. Our word panic is derived from “Panic Fear” or fear of the forest at night.
And for what it is worth, the word Kallisto means beautiful with a type of beauty that is pure.
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Post by scamp on Apr 28, 2013 0:58:16 GMT -6
Darius in Chariots of War
Darius I (550–486 BCE) was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak, when it included much of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, parts of the Balkans (Bulgaria-Pannonia), portions of north and northeast Africa including Egypt (Mudrâya), eastern Libya, coastal Sudan, Eritrea, as well as most of Pakistan, the Aegean Islands and northern Greece/Thrace-Macedonia. Darius is also mentioned in the Biblical canon of 1 Esdras.
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Post by stepper on Apr 28, 2013 20:47:16 GMT -6
Eli - As I remember it, excluding Xena and Gabrielle of course, only Ares and Callisto were in more eps.
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Post by vickiej on Apr 29, 2013 11:40:02 GMT -6
Friendship
The most important theme running throughout the show.
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Post by stepper on Apr 29, 2013 16:03:18 GMT -6
Xena: "There are people you meet, who move in and out of your life, like ghosts-- and after they're gone, you find that they've left a part of themselves with you. It's as if, in some small way-- that their spirit-- helps define who you are-- or what you wanna bring to the world."
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