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Hello Jeff, Some Titans once imprisoned Ares by cutting out his tendons, so that he couldn't move and had to be rescued. It always seems to me that Greeks really disliked Ares, I …
07 Apr 2006, 16:35
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Hello Chris, Exactly! That was the way Greeks thought of their gods - when someone was in battle-madness, he was Ares, a bold thief was filled by Hermes etc. Spartans didn't like …
07 Apr 2006, 16:30
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Hello aramini1, Lars and Penates were the generic names of the household gods of Rome. Those are not proper names. In other words, Latro's god was a lars, and each family got one.…
07 Apr 2006, 16:22
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01 Feb 2006, 19:54
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Hello Roy, .... First, I wouldn't say that Increate is specifically Judeo-Christian God. He isn't usually called that, for one thing. I would say that He (or It - Uncreate is…
29 Jan 2006, 12:46
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Saturday, December 10, 2005, 10:57:39 AM, Roy C. Lackey wrote: RCL> In my previous post I forgot to mention that the "servants" of God in Kleos RCL> had his ear, but those who wen…
10 Dec 2005, 13:50
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Friday, November 4, 2005, 9:03:29 PM, Los Arboles Del Frio wrote: LADF> Not really. If you search within the book you can get to the rest of it. For LADF> instance, with the searc…
06 Nov 2005, 21:30
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Friday, July 1, 2005, 9:52:08 PM, James Wynn wrote: JW> ...that's not the only Gnostic tag in the New Sun story. I would like to point out that the New Sun is generally neoplaton…
03 Jul 2005, 03:20
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Saturday, June 25, 2005, 8:44:53 PM, James Wynn wrote: JW> It is not self-evident that Tussah is a clone of Typhon, JW> and many (possibly most) readers find nothing askance in …
25 Jun 2005, 12:34
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Friday, June 24, 2005, 2:36:51 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: .... DlDO> Ummmm ... not really what I had in mind. DlDO> What I'm saying (and have been saying for a couple of ye…
25 Jun 2005, 12:23
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In a book by William Burroughs, "Cities of Red Night" I found the following quotation "Akhkharu, who suck the blood of men since they desire to become men". Akhkharu are apparentl…
06 Jun 2005, 09:24
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Friday, April 22, 2005, 9:42:41 PM, studio at studiobl.com wrote: ssc> Also: a conciliator brings together two opposing sides--like animal and ssc> vegetable? Could the Conciliato…
27 Apr 2005, 14:23
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 11:16:46 PM, Alice K. Turner wrote: AKT> Oh, I agree completely. This kind of writing is completely out of fashion AKT> now, but "Lepanto" is actually…
11 Jan 2005, 15:10
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 7:41:52 PM, aqala at yahoo.com wrote: ayc> I think some of this list’s subscribers will benefit from reading George ayc> Orwell’s opinion of G. K. Chestert…
11 Jan 2005, 14:03
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Friday, December 10, 2004, 2:06:30 PM, Andrew Bollen wrote: AB> Been far too busy to really follow the interesting discussion on AB> Wolfean soul dynamics here recently, but thin…
10 Dec 2004, 13:47
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Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 7:14:04 AM, Roy C. Lackey wrote: RCL> Just so. And Wolfe goes out of his way to make Apheta and her kind have no RCL> tongues. In Chapter XIX, aptly nam…
07 Dec 2004, 12:30
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Monday, December 6, 2004, 6:23:31 AM, Dan Rabin wrote: DR> Is "hetman" in this category? According to Oxford English Dictionary "hetman 1: A captain or military commander in P…
06 Dec 2004, 03:21
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Saturday, December 4, 2004, 10:53:03 AM, Hmpf MacSlow wrote: HM> Okay... but my point kind of was - we don't have two different words for it HM> in German. (Though of course I…
05 Dec 2004, 14:19
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Saturday, December 4, 2004, 2:59:45 AM, James Wynn wrote: JW> That's what I'm trying to say. Wolfe's general story-telling from Fifth JW> Head, Latro, and the Sun cycle could legi…
05 Dec 2004, 13:51
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