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The Abyss
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Abyss (Greek, abyssos, Latin abyssus). Myths about an abyss or bottomless pit are found in most cultures.
In Judaism the abyss lies deep within the earth, a place where evil spirits of the dead are banished (Job 32:22, Psalm 6:5, 143:7).
In ancient Greece the majority of the dead retire to a gloomy [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Achilles, aggression, battle, brad pitt, classical, Greece, greek, greek drama, Greek myth, heel, Homer, Illiad, killing, legend, life, murder, myth, mythology, paris, psychology, stories, struggle, styx, tale, trojan, Troy, violence, warfare on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Achilles Slays Hector
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Achilles The ancient Greek warrior and hero who, in Homer’s Iliad, fought in the Trojan wars.
The son of Peleus and Thetis, at birth Achilles’ mother held him by the heel and dipped him in the fiery river Styx to obtain [...]
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Alpha & Omega
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Alpha The first letter of the Greek alphabet.
In the New Testament it is used in reference to Jesus Christ.
I am the alpha and the omega”
(Rev 1:8).
The statement is usually taken to mean that Christ is present from the beginning to the end of time.
Add to this, report errors, suggest edits [...]
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Posted in A, tagged altered states, ambrosia, goddesses, gods, Greece, greek, hallucinogen, hindu, honey, mushroom, nectar, olympus, religion, soma, vedic on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Mt Olympus Greece
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Ambrosia (from Greek ambrotos = immortal).
This is the otherworldly food or drink of the Ancient Greek Olympians, sometimes given to mortal heroes and mankind as a salve.
Mortals were punished if they took it uninvited.
Some scholars argue that ambrosia prefigures the Christian Eucharist.
It remains unclear as to whether ambrosia has an [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Apocrypha, Bible, catholic, Christian, greek, jewish, latin, orthodox, religion, scripture, spirit, spirituality on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Apocrypha This term has different meanings, according to the beliefs of those using it.
These meanings may be summed up as follows:
(a) Religious texts considered inauthentic by Protestant denominations but included in the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles.
These extra books are found in ancient Greek and Latin versions of the Old Testament but not in the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ancient, apollo, classical, greek, myth, mythology, pagan, religion, rome, temples, worship on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Apollo In Greek mythology Apollo - also called Phoebus - is the twin brother of Artemis, born of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.
He is associated with strength, order, youthfulness, beauty and reason, as opposed to the emotional and sometimes drug-induced frenzies relating to Dionysius.
Apollo’s chief temple and oracle was at Delphi, over which the expression, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged ancient, Aramaic, assyrian, dialects, gallilean, greek, Hebrew, jesus christ, language, middle east, speech, syriac, writing on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Aramaic [from Greek Aramaios] A group of Semitic languages as old as 2,000 BCE.
Jesus Christ apparently spoke a Gallilean dialect of Old Aramaic, related to Hebrew.
In modern times the Eastern Aramaic language of Syriac (or Assyrian) is still spoken in regions of the Middle East.
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Cropped from original, “Aramaic scrıpt at Mor Ibrahim in Midyat” [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aristarchus, cosmology, earth, geocentric, Greece, greek, heliocentric, science, sun on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Aristarchus (of Samos, 310 - 230 BCE) is the first known Greek to have proposed a heliocentric model (i.e. the earth rotates around the sun).
His theory was rejected in favor of the geocentric models (i.e. sun and planets rotate around the earth) of Aristotle (384-322 BCE) and later, Ptolemy (90-168 CE).
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Fixed from non-copyright image desribed as: “10th century [...]
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Athena The sagely and powerful Greek goddess of war, daughter of Zeus and Metis.
Uranus and Gaia warned Zeus that if Metis had a daughter, she would bear a son who would rob Zeus of his heavenly kingdom.
Zeus responded by swallowing the pregnant Metis so as to be Athena’s sole progenitor.
Athena sprang fully armed from Zeus’ [...]
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Democritus (460-370 BCE) Greek Presocratic philosopher born in Thrace whose surviving fragments reveal that he wrote on physics, math, ethics and music.
His atomic theory, coming to us through Aristotle, posits an infinite number of differently shaped and everlasting atoms (tiny indivisible particles) that randomly combine to create an infinite number of worlds throughout time. Each [...]
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