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fn8 The Romans, perhaps confusingly, called Nemesis INVIDIA, which is also the Latin for ‘envy’. fn9
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The Romans, perhaps confusingly, called Nemesis INVIDIA, which is also the Latin for ‘envy’. fn9 Neil Gaiman’s Sandman character, Dream, is also known as Morpheus, and formed the inspiration for the character Morpheus played by Laurence Fishburne in the Wachowskis’ Matrix films. fn10 Four exceptions perhaps. Hypnos is not so bad after all. The longer you live, the fonder you become of him. And talking of living long – perhaps Geras isn’t too awful either. So five. fn11 Their names signify not their size but their chthonic origins – generated from the earth, ‘Gaia-gen’ if you will. Gaia’s name, incidentally, became worn down to Ge in later Greek. She is still there in earth sciences like ‘geology’ and ‘geography’, not to mention the later environmental studies that have restored her full name – James Lovelock and his popular ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ being a prime example. fn12 The sugars of the ‘manna ash’, which still grows in southern Europe, give their name to today’s sweetener Mannitol. fn13 At least the deposed Sky Father has the consolation of the planet Uranus named in his honour – it being the convention that the planets take the Roman names of the gods they represent. fn14 The females of the race can be called ‘Titanesses’. fn15 In fact the area of central Greece where Mount Othrys stands is called Magnesia to this day: it gave its name to magnesium, magnets and, of course, magnetite. Manganese too, through a spelling mistake. fn16 As is often the case with extraordinarily attractive people. It is incumbent upon us to apologize or look away when our beauty causes discomfort. fn17 The question of how long it took for immortals to be weaned, to walk, talk and grow into adulthood is a vexed one. Some sources maintain that Zeus grew from a baby into young manhood in a single year. Divine time and mortal time seem to have run differently, just like those of dogs and humans do, or elephants and flies, for example. It is probably best for us not to concentrate in too literal a fashion on the temporal structure of myth. fn18 Zeus was often playful. The Romans called him JUPITER or JOVE, so he had quite literally a jovial disposition. ‘The Bringer of Jollity’, Gustav Holst calls him in his orchestral suite The Planets. Download 1.62 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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