(urth) Laundress and Star (AEG spoilers)

[Mr Thalassocrat]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:20 PM, John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Oh, well-caught.
>
> It was Israel, wasn't it?  Phoenician Aethiopia included the Levant.
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:44 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> > Master the Ruler of the Seas writes:
> >
> >
> >> - In that strange conversation, the old ambassador comes out with
> >> "Cassiopeia weeps for her children". He seems to have jumped to the
> >> conclusion that Cassie was a clone of "Fiona", and I suppose he wants to
> >> disarm her and see what hre reaction is. But what an odd thing to say. I
> >> suppose it's a play on the Jewish "Rachel weeps for her children". As
> far
> >> as I know, Cassiopeia's only child was Andromeda, chained to a rock as
> an
> >> offering to the sea monster sent against Cassiopeia's country
> >
> > And where was that country?
>

I think it was supposed to be vaguely Phoenicia. I vaguely recall from
somewhere that the Perseus/Andromeda myth is supposed to have its roots in
some old Near Eastern myth with a hero battling a sea monster. Don't think
there's any particular connection to Israel.
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