Dionysus and the Outsider

Son of Witz · 16 Dec 2010, 15:28 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:28:03 -0800
Subject: (urth) Dionysus and the Outsider
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On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't read a lot of the posts about Dionysus, so I may be duplicating something someone else said.  But people are saying that the Outsider was the son of Thyone, that is, Dionysus.  I read the passage quite differently.  Silk says there are two gods whose names are unknown: the son of Thyone and the Outsider.  So they're two different gods.  They're mentioned together and have anonymity in common, though, so some might draw conclusions from that.
> 
> "He [Silk's instructor] also said that Thyone's son was the only god whose name we don't know.  It was years before I realized that he'd been wrong.  We speak of the Outsider, but it's obvious that 'the Outsider' can't be his name ? that it's an epithet, a nickname."
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=-iCIWy8bPccC&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false
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> That is, the instructor was wrong because he'd forgotten the /other/ god whose name was unknown.
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> Jerry Friedman


Good work Friedman.
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