Thirty-Second Floor: Hidey or Nice, Trick or Treat
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UPDATED: Saturday, November 18, 2006 03:04
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maisign! Yay yay!
--Karel.
P.S.: I have ghillies that lace up the calf...
"Wondrous is our great blue ship that sails around the mighty sun and joy to everyone that rides along." -- Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra.
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Originally posted by cozen:
I'm a Greek/Roman mythology cretin. Did they have court jester gods?
Well there is Pan; not so much a jester more a sort of comic relief god though.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Poseidon is the god of the sea, get a trident and hang kelp in your hair.
Yeah, I just don't know much about him besides that and what I remember from the Odyssey. I've always been somewhat partial to Hephaestus and Apollo, among others.
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http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Poseidon.html
"But you sleep like a ghost with me
It's as simple as that
So tell me I'm mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again."
Goodbye to all that. III-The Opium Den (Brave)-Marillion
visit WWW.Marillion.com for a better way of life.
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cozen: Hermes-he was the trickster god of the greek pantheon. http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hermes.html
LMD: if you don't like Morpheus (I like him for some reason) there's always Hephaestus: http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Hephaistos.html
or Dionysus: http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Dionysos.html
or Helios:
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html
or Kronos, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Hyperion.
There are ever so many!
And, for Mai, I don't like Hecate, personally. She was very tricky and mean and spiteful. Maybe Leto or Rhea or Selene-goddess of the moon!
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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God of animal husbandry, eh, on Hermes' resume.
Sigh. Guess I gotta find my galoshes (wellies, or so I understand, for the Britfolk). A god's gotta do what a god's gotta do, and so what if the sheep get nervous.
Though I kinda don't mind being noted for the seduction of Khione on the same night as Apollon.
Um, Khione & Apollon: got female parts, right?
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`ErmhV
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No cozen, both Hermes and Apollo slept with the same woman, Khione, on the same night. Apollon (Apollo) is a man-type god. And, because Greek mythology is full of this kind of stuff, she gave birth to two different babies, one by each guy. Though, how they could tell whose baby was whose is beyond me!
It also may be interesting to note that she was killed by Artemis (Apollo's sister), whom she pissed off by claiming to be prettier or something.
By the way, just because I'm a big Greek nerd, I would just like to inform all and sundry that "theoi" is simply the plural form of the word "theos" which means, "god".
Also, I knew the answer to final Jeopardy last night: "The word "toxic" comes from the ancient greek word for this weapon." The answer? "arrow". The word in greek is "atoxos". I felt all smart-like!
Okay, gonna go be nerdy somewhere else now!
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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greeks gods are weird.
And particularly big on the sharing thing.
Oh, and the incest.
But you know, they wore fun clothes (barely) so i'm not going to think about the other bits.
Selective ignorance, its a joy.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Mythology is fun! It's not so much about what they DID, it was about the symbolism behind it, about the lessons the stories were teaching the ancient greeks, about how they were trying to explain and make sense of their world. It's fascinating!
Serenity,
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
http://callmeserenity.livejournal.com/
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