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  "thread": {
    "id": 4502,
    "subject": "tutelary lars and able's ancestorship",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2005-10-19T18:30:36+00:00",
    "last": "2005-10-19T18:30:36+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<20051019183021.WQVG9394.fed1rmmtao11.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "aramini1 at cox.net",
        "address": "aramini1 at cox.net"
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      "date": "2005-10-19T18:30:36+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) tutelary lars and able's ancestorship",
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          "text": "I always vowed to look up Mani's claim of being a tutelary lars, which I assumed was a form of spiritual guide.  The definition is below, but I was struck by Able's claim later: \"I am an ancestor.\"  Perhaps Able, too, has become a something like a tutelary Lars.  It is very clear that Mani is Mythgarthr's version of Aelfrice's Aelfs: a created being artificially conjoined with matter by the original inhabitants of the realm."
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          "text": "From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :"
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          "text": "  Lar \\Lar\\ (l[aum]r), n.; pl. Lares, sometimes Lars. [L.]\n     (Rom. Myth.)\n     A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector\n     of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of\n     a house; household gods. Hence, (Fig.): Hearth or dwelling\n     house."
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