Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

David Stockhoff · 17 Nov 2011, 19:51 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:51:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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On 11/17/2011 2:03 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/17/2011 11:55 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> On 11/17/2011 12:28 PM,
>>>
>>>
>>>> James Wynn wrote:
>>>> I assume he was possessed. Since black birds are sacred to Pas,
>>>> Hierax, and Tartaros but only one of these has "died", I consider 
>>>> the death
>>>> a signal that it is Pas possessing Oreb.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>> But the fact that Pas is dead at that point seems to me to make it
>>> unlikely that he could possess Oreb, no?
>>>
>>
>> David Stockoff wrote:
>> Tartarus, the dark god of black animals who worked to revive Pas, 
>> seems a more likely suspect.
>
> I kind of like the idea of Pas on the business end of a sacrifice. 
> Also, there is the whole (quite intentional) Osiris motif in which 
> Isis (Kypris) has to run around gathering parts of the god after he 
> has been murdered. We have Patera Jaculus and we probably have Sand. 
> I'd like more parts. There's Silk, but he's the phallus part that was 
> missing that has to be added after his resurrection.

Interesting. Does the myth dictate any particular number of body parts 
or name them? How does the scheme work---did the patera have an arm or 
leg, or was it part of Pas's mind as the text sort of suggests?

I also suspected that Pas took something from Sand, but had nowhere to 
go with it. Was it his heart (Tin Man), which is why Sand calls Violet 
"Plutonium"?

Also, I thought we already knew Oreb was possessed by Scylla. (Who 
killed Pas.) Is that not enough---or do I have it wrong?

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