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katharosI would like to mention something. Because I am a geek. And because my brain will latch ontp any pathetic excuse for a distraction when I am supposed to be revising.
The largest known asteroid has a diameter of 918 km. It is called Ceres.
Of perhaps more direct relevancy, Ceres is the Roman name for the Greek Goddess Demeter. According to theoi.com, Demeter is the:
Goddess of agriculture and one of the twelve great Olympian gods. With her daughter Persephone she was also goddess of the afterlife - through the practise of her mysteries men could reach Elysium in death.
But the Goddess has her dark side.
When Persephone was taken by Hades, the god of the underworld, she brought endless winter and deadly starvation to the world, threatening to destroy the race of men until Zeus agreed to intervene.
Let me take a moment to contemplate Ceres, the frozen, ice bound country.
When a ruler chopped down a grove sacred to her, she caused him to experience such an unquenchable hungerthat he finally ate his own flesh.
She transformed Persephone's handmaidens into Seirens, women from the waist up with a birds body, legs, and wings, who later lured sailors to their deaths on the rocks. Some versions say they begged for the change. Wings... Air... Fye?
She nursed a King's son in recompense for his hospitality, and held him in the fire everynight in order to burn away his mortal flesh and make him immortal. But she was interrupted one night and the baby was killed. Perhaps in Ceres country he wasn't? Perhaps this is an origin for AShura-ou...
There's a lot of other stuff about her here:
http://www.theoi.com/Summary/Demeter.html
The largest known asteroid has a diameter of 918 km. It is called Ceres.
Of perhaps more direct relevancy, Ceres is the Roman name for the Greek Goddess Demeter. According to theoi.com, Demeter is the:
Goddess of agriculture and one of the twelve great Olympian gods. With her daughter Persephone she was also goddess of the afterlife - through the practise of her mysteries men could reach Elysium in death.
But the Goddess has her dark side.
When Persephone was taken by Hades, the god of the underworld, she brought endless winter and deadly starvation to the world, threatening to destroy the race of men until Zeus agreed to intervene.
Let me take a moment to contemplate Ceres, the frozen, ice bound country.
When a ruler chopped down a grove sacred to her, she caused him to experience such an unquenchable hungerthat he finally ate his own flesh.
She transformed Persephone's handmaidens into Seirens, women from the waist up with a birds body, legs, and wings, who later lured sailors to their deaths on the rocks. Some versions say they begged for the change. Wings... Air... Fye?
She nursed a King's son in recompense for his hospitality, and held him in the fire everynight in order to burn away his mortal flesh and make him immortal. But she was interrupted one night and the baby was killed. Perhaps in Ceres country he wasn't? Perhaps this is an origin for AShura-ou...
There's a lot of other stuff about her here:
http://www.theoi.com/Summary/Demeter.html
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Date: 2005-05-23 07:44 pm (UTC)