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Post by Gabbin on Nov 10, 2005 21:40:34 GMT -6
I shall join you, Gams and we shall beam our pinpoint acuracy of Greek Mythology on these two. Now, is Hero sandwiched in some pickle? Probably some rye story.
My spell check isn't working a acuracy just doesn't look acurate. Harumph.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 10, 2005 23:11:05 GMT -6
It's a tale, Gabbin, of Hero Sandwich Worship; stacked and oh-what-buns; considered a real beauty. Yes, yes, I mayo need your help - your rye wit - bekaiser I may not be able to gather the mustard to tell the tale myself. I'm sure there are many cheesy details I'll miss.
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Post by Gabbin on Nov 12, 2005 20:59:44 GMT -6
Well, be careful, use a condiment.
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Post by Phalon on Nov 12, 2005 23:48:07 GMT -6
Condiments? Hhmm...I like meat better unfettered.
I'll have to think about it. Maybe spare-ribbed? All kinds of pretty colors too; Sunshiney mustard yellow, ketchupy red, and French undressing orange.
Oh, and Hero and Leander; I condimeant to get to that this evening. Got distracted though.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 17, 2006 0:52:35 GMT -6
Pfft...page three...I hate that.....now where was I?
Ok...I'm picking a number between one and a couple hundred something....
156....Ok Phalon. Let's have it.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 17, 2006 1:01:02 GMT -6
A couple hundred and something? There are seven hundred damn pages in this book.
<flip, flip, flip>
Ok - page 156 in my new, big, heavy, barely fits on my lap book of Dr. Zeus....no, no - wrong book....The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth & Storytelling....ah....hera it is...Zeus and Hera.
Zeus and Hera were married; rulers of the gods; nasty, they were. I'll get back to you on the specifics once I read.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 17, 2006 1:03:00 GMT -6
700? Damn...didn't get to check it out that far before I had to wrap it...lol..cool...can't wait.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 25, 2006 0:21:58 GMT -6
psst.....
page 353?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 26, 2006 22:44:19 GMT -6
Why do I feel like there's a zeus tightening around my neck? Hera, hera...slow down. Zeus and Hera; I haven't gotten to them yet...or are you not into Hera worship?
Page 353, (starts on 352 so I have to back-track a bit): Prince Rama and the Demon King. A Hindu myth. Hindu sight is 20/20, and I shall have to read this over carefully to make sure I don't miss anything.
Maybe I can just combine the two? Do kind of a multi-cultural mess of myths. Give me time...I'll get to it eventually. Unless of course, you'd like to Dr. Zeus up a bit?
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 26, 2006 22:52:33 GMT -6
Ah but see....you are the keeper of the mything p's....and also the master of the pun among other things....definately not my forte but I so enjoy the read...thought I'd give you a nudge. Do as you please I will love it either way.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 26, 2006 23:08:24 GMT -6
I am not the keeper of the mything peas. I didn't even know they'd left. Still too busy trying to keep track of those wander-lustful greens. Last time they got loose and I tried to round them up, all I heard was "Lettuce live in peas and harmony". I think they both must be plotting something together. Cantalopement maybe.
Huh? Peas tell me where I'm going with this - I've no clue.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 26, 2006 23:12:10 GMT -6
LMAO....shouldn't that be "Peas and Hominy" grit your teeth it'll get better..
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 1, 2006 21:00:08 GMT -6
"Hello?" *tap, tap, tap* "Is this thing on?"
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Post by prmystic on Feb 2, 2006 18:51:19 GMT -6
From what I've been reading, it's definitely on...but on what?
If the peas are missing what happened to the princess, and if she was Hindu, is she a missing Indian princess?
I'm so confused.
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 4, 2006 22:11:55 GMT -6
That book sounds like the one I may inheret here soon, Gams. A big book, it is.
This Mything P is cruising along somwhere unkown.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 5, 2006 11:45:39 GMT -6
Sorry we've lost you, Prmystic.
It's a fallibility of this thread: mything the boat, causing threads to sink to new depths. It's been lost for quite some time - lost religions, mythed puns, and wayward gods.
And wayward they are; the Greek deities at least. Divine powers displaying the most petty of human emotions: jealousy, rage, infidelities, disloyalties and cruelty.
The first couple of Olympia is a perfect example. Zeus, the supreme god, supremely lacking in restraint in area of staying put; his promiscuity and potency result in the offspringing of many a mything person.
Ironically, Hera, his sister and wife, was the patroness of marriage and married women - the punisher of adultery and rewarder of chastity and devotion. Her jealousy of her husband's affairs often resulted in merciless retaliation to the subject of Zeus' amorous wanderings, and any subsequent children of those trysts.
Why, all of the sudden, does that other first couple, Bill and Hilary, come to mind.
Ironic also, that despite all this, their long-lasting marriage symbolized the strength of the institution in Greek and Roman culture.
Ok, Scrappy? Prince Rama and the Demon King soon to follow.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 5, 2006 23:13:11 GMT -6
YAY!!!
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Post by xenavirgin on Feb 8, 2006 3:18:10 GMT -6
Hi kids. Can I play please??? What's this book you have Mistress P? Sounds like my Larousse Encyclopedia of World Mythology, a real hernia maker. I found that when I was an undergraduate I really had to get buff to handle the huge quarto and folio books in the Egyptology library. ;D A myth I was relating to my Egyptology class the other day may interest you. I was doing comparisons between Egyptian cosmologies and other ancient cultures. We were looking at the relationships between earth and sky deities. Most ancient cultures have female earth deities and male sky gods. In Egypt the earth is a god, Geb, and the sky is female, Nut. This had something to do with the belief that the sky 'gave birth' to the sun everyday, and swallowed it again at night. So where other cultures were seeing the cycle of death and rebirth in the cycle of crops from the earth in a seasonal sense, the Egyptians were seeing the cycle on a daily basis with the birth and death of the sun. Anyway, just my 2 cents there, now what about Prince Rama Mistress P? XV
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Post by Phalon on Feb 10, 2006 0:14:37 GMT -6
Throw your two cents in here anytime, X-Virgin. Two cents; is that what they say in the Motherland? Two pence? It's been awhile cents we've seen you; how's the weather? Shilling this time of year? Ok - I will stop before I go any farthing with the bad puns.
And since mythology is your area of expertise, please feel free to correct any of the facts we make up along the way in here.
Interesting about the earth goddess and sky god deities. Was this always so? We discussed a while back about the sun goddesses falling from grace and becoming moon godesses in Greek mythology in relation to the power being taken away from women. Any relation with the earth/sky, I wonder.
The story of Prince Rama and the Demon King is a long one, and it'll take time to get it down to a managable length. The condensed soup and abridged over troubled waters version coming sometime soon.
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 10, 2006 22:37:43 GMT -6
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. XV, I thought your Eyptnuts were going to become a candy bar.
Well, let me tell you, today I picked up a gem of a gem book and in it was an interesting little ditty on the Amethyst gem. Oh, it seems the rock got its name from a geek tale. Let me go get the book....trot, trot.
Drat! I left the book out in the car. Let me recap and correct tommorrow.
A Geeky God said whomever he next walked behind would be fed to the lions or something. A sad Goddess decided to save this gal from the pain and so turned her into stone-holy Medusa! Bacchass was there and he spilled his wine on her and stained her that lovely pink color-I am wondering if I should still be referring to her as a her now that she has undergone a sex/gem change. Anywho, that is how we got Amethyst.
Let me go do some research on that now and see if I can correct my story. This is how rumors get started and may have been the reason for this story....a scroll was left out in the chariot.
I shall see if Amethyst is online...
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 25, 2006 9:46:13 GMT -6
Alrighty. I finally found the book. I shall finish off Myth P with this post, perhaps.
A 16th-Century French verse (why are the French making up Greek myths? Pfft, its a free world) tells about Bacchus being in a drunken rage and stating that the first person he passes will be eaten by tigers. I don't know if they will eat the tigers at the dinner table or not but, hey, let just add to that and say they are. The first turns out to be a fair maiden called Amethyst. Shoot, she says, why me? Diana swoops down and presto, Amethyst becomes a white stone. Bacchus regrets his angry drunken stupor comment and pours red wine over the rock-as an offering to Diana (what about Amethyst?).
What a night for Amethyst....."So, did you sleep well after the party?"....."like a rock"......I went to a rock party....
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Post by prmystic on Feb 26, 2006 7:56:59 GMT -6
European writers frequently took up the characters of Greek or Roman gods for new stories for political or moral purposes, generally because the pagan gods were seen as amoral.
Along those lines I'm tempted to pen a little tale about the Roamin' war god Mars shooting a corrupt companion in the face while out on a hunting trip and some bumbling boob named Bacchus drunkenly steering the US-car towards disaster. "Daddy look no hands!"
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 26, 2006 9:14:08 GMT -6
LMAOLMAOLMAO....
I would LOVE to read something like that!
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 6, 2006 23:20:26 GMT -6
psst?
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 23, 2006 22:13:48 GMT -6
I'm reading a book about writing on both sides of the brain... about how to get the critic to shut down and let the creative side work alone, then come back when it's time to edit the work. Anyhoo, here's what I find in Chapter 7:
The Greeks have a mythological deity named Momus, the god of mockery and faultfinding.
I thought of this thread and decided to share.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 25, 2006 0:17:22 GMT -6
Mia, I've been telling my kids for years that us Moms have the power of gods, but somehow, I think they've always found fault with my reasoning. I will have to look up more information on this Momus, hoping I don't slaughter the facts too badly and make a mockery of the whole thing.
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Post by Mini Mia on Mar 27, 2006 17:36:32 GMT -6
I just read an interesting post on Katherine's board and thought you might find it interesting as well.
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Post by Siren on Apr 23, 2006 9:17:50 GMT -6
Mia, I remember in the "Tsunami" episode, Xena told Gabby that she'd meet her "at noon". I wondered if they actually referred to "noon" back in those days. But I guess we'd have all been stumped if X had said, "Meet you here at 2 feet. And stay out of trouble!" On "The Splendid Table", my favorite radio show, discussing food and cooking, the hostess, Lynne Rossetto-Kasper, mentioned a quartet of ancient Greek gods and goddesses who occupied the kitchen. I'm guessing at the spelling here, but they are: Anona - the goddess of the food supply Penates - the goddess of the cupboard Forculis - the god of cupboard doors Cardia - the goddess of door hinges They certainly were specialized, weren't they? I guess if you had a squeaky hinge, you made an offering to Cardia to get in her good graces! Here's a link to "The Splendid Table". You can listen to the weekly show right through your computer. splendidtable.publicradio.org/
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Post by Phalon on Apr 23, 2006 20:58:06 GMT -6
Old Mother Hubbard and her dog would've fared much better had she made an offering or two.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Apr 29, 2006 17:09:07 GMT -6
Hey Madam Phalon? You up for a page turner?
PAGE 596!
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