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Language Classes, 12/21
Written on the blackboard:
LAST CLASS -- Please hand in your final projects
There is a basket on Dream's desk to collect the papers; next to it sits another basket, full of red-and-green wrapped candy canes and Christmas chocolates. Dream is not visible, but a large raven is perched on his desk, watching over the students. When a paper is turned in, he inspects it with shiny eyes and seems to caw his approval.
There is a basket on Dream's desk to collect the papers; next to it sits another basket, full of red-and-green wrapped candy canes and Christmas chocolates. Dream is not visible, but a large raven is perched on his desk, watching over the students. When a paper is turned in, he inspects it with shiny eyes and seems to caw his approval.
Classics, 12/21
Re: Classics, 12/21
The term “Cyclopean Masonry” is used in architecture, in conjunction with “Pelasgic,” to define the rude polygonal construction employed by the Greeks and the Etruscans in the walls of their cities. In the earliest examples they consist only of huge masses of rock, of irregular shape, piled one on the other and held together by their great size and weight. Sometimes smaller pieces of rock were used to fill up the interstices. The walls and gates of Tiryns and the Acropolis at Mycenae (”http://ah.phpwebhosting.com/a/OUTofBFLO/greece/mycen/acrop/source/6.html”) were constructed in this way.
Such walls are found on Crete and in Italy and Greece. Ancient fable attributed them to a Thracian race of giants, the Cyclopes (”http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://members.tripod.com/~Poseidon64/cyclops.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.tripod.com/~Poseidon64/pics.html&h=267&w=177&sz=29&tbnid=NvsfYT67eokJ:&tbnh=108&tbnw=71&hl=en&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCyclops%2BPicture%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN”), named after their one-eyed king, Cyclops. Similar walls, though not called cyclopean, are found at Machu Picchu, Peru, and at several other pre-Columbian sites in the New World.
Later, these blocks were rudely shaped to fit one another. It is not always possible to decide the period by the type of construction. This depended on the material. Where stratified rocks could be obtained, horizontal coursing might be adopted, in fact, there are instances in Greece, where a later wall of cyclopean construction has been built over one with horizontal courses.
The Citadel of Tiryns (”http://www.grisel.net/tiryns.htm”) in Greece features walls (”http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/mycenae/tiryns3.jpg”) that range in thickness from approximately 24 feet to as much as 57 feet where chambers are incorporated within them. Though formed without mortar, clay may have been used for bedding.
Cyclopean concrete derives its name from this ancient method. It is a form of massed concrete in which stones are placed as the concrete is poured. These are called plums or pudding stones and are 100 pounds or more in weight. They are generally set at least 6 inches apart and no closer than 8 inches from any exposed surfaces.
Re: Classics, 12/21
Re: Classics, 12/21
The thing the Romans did to change their gods from the Greek gods was to change their name. They mainly named their gods after planets. For example the Greeks had Zeus, the god of lighting and the master of all the gods. The Romans changed his name to Jupiter. If you take the main Greek god names (Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysius, Demeter, Hermes, Poseidon, Hestia and Hephaestus) and compared them to their Roman equivalent (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Venus, Mars, Apollo, Diana, Bacchus, Ceres, Mercury, Neptune, Vesta and Vulcan) you will notice that only Apollo is the god that keeps his name. Even minor Greek gods like Nike had her named changed by the Romans (to Victoria).
I suppose the Romans changed their names to make the religion all their own. Or at least make it seem like it was all their own, as most of the mythology was the same as the Greeks too.
Re: Classics, 12/21
According to the tenets of Hinduism, God is one as well as many. He is to be found everywhere and in everything. He is an enigma, because He is in many things at a time and is many things at a time. He is here and He is there.He is with forms and also without form. He speaks and He speaks not. He is the self and also the not-self. To say that this is God and this is not is perhaps much more sacrilegious than seeing God in images and idols and worshipping Him. Hinduism recognizes this fundamental truth about God in letter and spirit. For the Hindus the whole universe is sacred, permeated by His presence, radiating His glory, sustained by Him and manifested by Him. Everything in it and every aspect of it, without an exception, is sacred and worthy of worship. .
Early Italic cultures, however, did not worship specific gods, but rather worshipped undefined spirits called numina. Each place had its own numen: rivers and trees, groves, fields and buildings. As diverse cultures converged and settled on the Italian peninsula, they brought with them a variety of gods and forms of worship. As a result of such migration and cultural exchange, Roman polytheism was remarkably diverse and flexible. In addition to the numina, Roman religion included worship of ancestors and household gods and worship of anthropomorphic deities, some native, some historical, and some imported from Greece and the East.
Re: Classics, 12/21
If you don't look too closely, you might think that the religion of the ancient Greeks and the religion of my people on the Colonies of Kobol are almost identical. This would be because they seem to have the same gods: the Lords of Kobol seem like they're the same as the Greek gods, or at least some of them. At least, they have the same names.
But actually, Colonial religion is much closer to modern Western Earth religions in structure than it is to ancient Greek religion, at least the way it's practiced in its current form. People can worship privately in several ways, including using small statues of the gods or rosaries that are similar to the ones that 13th-Colony Catholics use. And some of the Colonies are stricter than others about religion. Gemenon, for instance, is way stricter than the rest. But public services are pretty close to Catholic or Orthodox services, with a priest reading from the Sacred Scrolls and responsive readings. The phrase "so say we all" is used pretty much the same way as "amen" gets used in Christian prayers and services.
We do have oracles, though, and they're less mysterious than the ancient Greek oracles were, but they serve pretty much the same purpose, and they did use a hallucinogenic drug called Chamalla. Also, the Lords of Kobol have the same names, but different stories than the Greek gods do. I'm pretty sure Athena in Greek myth didn't commit suicide because of the exile from Kobol, since Kobol isn't part of Earth history as far as I can tell, although it does seem to be pretty close to the Jewish and Christian concept of Eden.