Dionysus

James Wynn · 30 Nov 2010, 17:52 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:52:52 -0600
Subject: (urth) Dionysus
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> Lee Berman-
> I am thinking of when Horn first meets the Neighbors and is struck by the short, stiff hairs on the arm of their leader. He is never quite able to count their heads or see their eyes.

Unfortunately, I am the source for this, but it turned out that the 
reading was based on a printing defect in my copy of On Blue's Waters. I 
still think, based the meeting and other things --including the 
understanding the Horn is, thematically associated with Aristeaus' son, 
Actaeon--that Horn broke his neck in that pit and died. Then the 
greenbuck, a young Neighbor, feeling guilt over his death reanimated him 
(along with all his memories) and devoted himself to completing Horn's 
mission.

And of course Aristaeus has a lot of overlaps with Dionysus--not limited 
to the facts that he was a disciple of the D mysteries AND A's daughter, 
Macris, nursed D on honey.

Incidentally, the connection between Aristaeus and the Long/Short Sun 
cycle becomes more compelling the more one investigates it.  For 
example, I wrote the Aristaeus article 
http://urth.org/whorlmap/aristaeus and the Midas article (in which the 
Hyperboreans play a major role) http://urth.org/whorlmap/midas 
separately. It was only long afterward that I discovered that supposedly 
Aristaeus is the original source of the story of the Hyperboreans 
--which is a pretty amazing coincidence if that's all it is. 
Additionally, it is significant that I only discovered Aristaeus' 
connection to Pindar (a major character in Soldier of the Mist) after I 
was halfway through my simultaneous reading of the "Long Sun" and R. 
Graves' Aristaeus chapter.

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