Nessus, House Absolute, etc.

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:14:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Nessus, House Absolute, etc.
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That is Cheiron. Nessus is the one who instructs Heracles wife to skin him
and make a shirt from the skin, which poisons/burns Heracles' skin when he
puts it on, precipitating Heracles suicide/apotheosis.



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> Nessus, if I remember correctly, is the centaur that trains Achilles.
>
> Lane
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:09 PM, David Stockhoff
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> To all:
>>
>> I have to step back from my statement that Buenos Aires is not on the
>> Rio
>> de la Plate. It IS in fact on the estuary of that river---an estuary
>> that is
>> so wide at that point that it may as well be a sea. So yes, Nessus was
>> originally probably a native settlement by the sea/where Gyoll meets the
>> sea, and Buenos Aires has already moved north from where it was
>> "founded" by
>> Spaniards. However, the Wiki doesn't mention any previous settlement at
>> all:
>>
>> Seaman Juan D?az de
>> Sol?s<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_D%C3%ADaz_de_Sol%C3%ADs>,
>> navigating in the name of Spain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain>,
>> was
>> the first European to reach the R?o de la
>> Plata<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata>in 1516. His
>> expedition was cut short when he was killed, supposedly during
>> an attack by the native
>> Charr?a<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charr%C3%BAa>tribe in what is now
>> Uruguay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay>.
>>
>> The city of Buenos Aires was first established as *Ciudad de Nuestra
>> Se?ora Santa Mar?a del Buen
>> Ayre*[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#cite_note-Short_history-6>(literally
>> "City of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds") on February 2,
>> 1536 by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro de
>> Mendoza<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Mendoza>.
>> The city founded by Mendoza was located in what is today the San
>> Telmo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Telmo>district of Buenos Aires,
>> south of the city centre.
>>
>> More attacks by the indigenous peoples forced the settlers away, and in
>> 1541 the site was abandoned. A second (and permanent) settlement was
>> established in 1580 by Juan de
>> Garay<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Garay>,
>> who arrived by sailing down the Paran?
>> River<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_River>from
>> Asunci?n <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n> (now the capital
>> of
>> Paraguay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay>). Although upon the
>> refounding, the city itself was named Holy
>> Trinity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Buenos_Aires>(
>> Spanish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language>: *Santisima
>> Trinidad*) and only the port was still called Buenos Aires, over the
>> next
>> two centuries the port's name won out.
>>
>>
>> So, whatever. Does anyone know of any origins/meanings for the name
>> "Nessus"?
>> Son of Witz---Where did you get the textfiles of TBotNS?
>>
>> Also, my guess as to the futurity of Urth is no more than 100,000 years.
>> My
>> 2 cents.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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