Cumaeans

Matthew Groves · 06 Feb 2009, 05:16 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:16:43 -0600
Subject: (urth) Cumaeans
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And her rod looks like the Rod of Asclepius.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> No; the Cumaean is _not_ named for a witch out of the New Testament. Rather,
> she is named for the priestess-prophetess of Apollo at Cumae.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaean_Sybil
>
> As such, she might well be a "being of power." I had concluded (assumed?)
> that she was of the same order of being as Father Inire.

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