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2 Citations "First in my prayer, before all other deities, I call upon Gaia, Primeval Prophetess . . . The Greek great earth mother." -- Aeschylus "I will sing of well-founded Gaia, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend, technorati.com"First in my prayer, before all other deities, I call upon Gaia, Primeval Prophetess . . . The Greek great earth mother." -- Aeschylus "I will sing of well-founded Gaia, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend, technorati.com
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1 Citation Every Saturday night, I light incense and do the Kyklos ritual for Apollon; however, I do celebrate other rituals. Panathenaia, which recently concluded, is an example of one of those yearly rituals in honor of a specific deity. For rituals like these, I either adapt something or make a libation/incense offering.The HMEPA Calendar, which gives the day and month of the Athenian year and its corresponding Western dates, includes some other observances that repeat monthly. Many of these are days on, technorati.com
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1 Citation Why this is important: It is the first mention of Apollo killing Python at the future site of his temple and oracle at Delphi , and so the first mention of the Oracle at Delphi in Greek literature. What the poem is about: how at first you went all over the earth looking for a place for your oracle for mankind So, Apollo basically roams the earth looking for a place for his oracle. And I mean all over. He checks out at least 15 different spots, even making a few false s, technorati.com
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Sunday Read: Excerpt from Sarah Ruden?s The Aeneid 1 Citation Sunday Read: Excerpt from Sarah Ruden?s The Aeneid March 8th, 2009 by Ben - Editor When the New South Africa was still very young - when Mandela was president; when you could buy a beer for R2.50 during happy hour; when a pizza-and-soup joint graced the Main Road in Mowbray instead of a 7-11; when the Catholic Welfare Book Shop was just a twinkle in some, erm, Catholic?s eye - two Americans and one Brit shared a flat in Liesbeek Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town. That?s not to be confused with Li, technorati.com
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Counting the Homeric Hymns: Pythian Apollon 1 Citation Happy seventh day of the lunar month! Today is sacred to Apollon (according to Hesiod) and it is also Thargelia! This is a set of prayer beads that I have made to represent the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollon. For the purposes of the count, I have omitted the part where Apollon lays the foundations of his temple, beginning instead with the part I find most meaningful and relevant personally: when Apollon redeems the pirates to become the priests of his temple at Delphi, which through the words, technorati.com
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1 Citation The focus of my final graduate course, on ancient world literature, became the cyclical and intertextual nature of creation myths. One of the stories I ended up narrowing in on was the story of Kain and Able in the Hebrew Bible. That said, my favorite short piece in In Praise Of Darkness is Legend: Cain and Abel came upon each other after Abel?s death. They were walking through the desert, and they recognized each other from afar, since both men were very tall. The two brothers sat on the grou, technorati.com
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