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  "thread": {
    "id": 993,
    "subject": "Greek Gods",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-07-15T17:15:27+00:00",
    "last": "1998-07-15T17:15:27+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0017-0017@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mary whalen",
        "address": "marewhalen at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-07-15T17:15:27+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Greek Gods",
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          "text": "This is Sean Whalen (prion).\n\nRostrum, I'm always happy to elaborate.\n\nAll the gods/monsters from Greek mythology which I said had names that\naren't Greek words had their names borrowed from the names of other\ngods who were not Greek, or else the origin of their name is unknown\nbut doesn't seem to come from a Greek word.  Tartaros is probably\ncomes from a word that the people who lived in Greece before the\nGreeks came had.  Thyone and her older name Semele are apparently the\nnames of non-Greek gods who came to be worshipped by the Greeks. \nCatamitus is how the Romans pronounced Ganymedes (in English Ganymede)\nwhich is not a Greek word either, and it's origin is unknown.\n\nWhen I say that a monster is the child of Typhon and Echidna or\nothers, I mean that in the Greek legends it is uncertain because some\nlegends say one thing that others disagree with.  All of the people\nwho are children of T and E on the Whorl have the names of\nmonsters/gods who were said to be the children of the Greek T and E in\nat least one source, though there is disagreement concerning every\nsingle one of them.  It is even uncertain if in the Greek myths T and\nE were brother and sister, if Typhon and Typhoeus are two different\npeople, and if Typhon is Typhoeus' father, or vice versa.\n\nYes, much of the Whorl religion is based directly on Greek sources.\n\nTartaros being blind.  Yes; and it is possible that this is a problem\nof his brain, rather than his eyes, which would fit in with the rest\nof his family.  It certainly would be odd for his eyes to be\nirreplaceable, especially since Typhon wouldn't have minded using any\navailable source for replacements.\n\n\nI think I have some new thoughts on Pas' name.  In Greek pas if the\nmasculine form of the word \"all.\"  The neuter form of this word is\npan.  Wolfe said he once thought that the Greek god Pan was the word\nfor all, and that he used to be the main god that the Greeks\nworshipped.  He was corrected by someone who wrote a letter to him. \nActually, Pan's name is a masculine word, just like the names of all\nmale Greek gods.  It would be odd for him to be the only male with a\nneuter name.  Pan comes from a shortening of the older form Paon,\nwhich comes from the word for \"feeder\" and is related to his Roman\nequivalent Faunus.  Wolfe probably had Typhon use this name because he\nis also not the god of all, as his name is taken by everyone else.\n\nprion"
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