(urth) Antipolaric brothers
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Nov 23 16:08:45 PST 2010
Nice, James.
On 11/23/2010 9:35 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>> Lee Berman-
>> James I'm hoping you will explain what you mean about the deeds of Hephaestus and these
>> two characters.
>
> Somewhere I have them more carefully detailed. But Hesphaestus was
> conceived by Hera without the need of a mate. When he was born, he was
> so ugly and so his mother threw him off of Mt Olympus into the sea.
> But he was rescued by the sea goddesses Thetis and Eurynome. They set
> him up in a workshop in an undersea cave where he made made marvelous
> works of craftmanship. In his workshop, Hesph had mechanical women who
> operated as his assistants. One day Hera saw Thetis wearing a broach
> that Hesph had made and demanded to know where she got it. She told
> her about Hesph and so he was brought back to Olympus (in a parade
> that was very reminiscent of Dionysus's coming to Olympus). So then
> one day, the Olympians overthrew Zeus and bound him to a chair. Thetis
> identified Hera, Poseidon, and Athena as the ring-leaders but Robert
> Graves included Apollo. Then they began fighting over who would be the
> leader. Thetis went down to Tartaros and released the Briareus, the
> hundred armed monster that Kronos and imprisoned there. With his
> speedy arms he was able to untie Zeus before the others knew what had
> happened. Now back in power, Zeus turned his wrath against Hera.
> According to Graves again, Hesphaestus came to the defense of his
> mother and so Zeus blasted him with his lighting bolt, knocks him off
> the mountain (again) at which point he was lamed. Then Zeus hanged
> Hera from Mt Olympus (the heavens) by a golden chain.
>
> So Silk performs the deeds of Hesphaestus on Mt. Olympus and Auk
> performs his deeds in his undersea cave.
> Quetzal says that the ring-leaders who "killed" Pas as Echidna,
> Scylla, Molpe, and Hierax and says "there may have been others".
> In the caves of Lake Limna, Auk --armed with a keyword "Thetis" and
> Chenille (recently possessed by the sea goddess Scylla)-- released the
> prisoners (hundred-handed Briarius) from the hellish Alambrera pits as
> part of the plan to resurrect Pas
> (http://urth.org/whorlmap/binding_zeus.htm). Also, at his side is the
> black mechanic, Incus, whom I argue is actually Maytera Corn (ear of
> corn) --a mechanical woman-- who will later assist him in his work of
> repairing Sand.
>
> As for Silk, well, for starters it helps to recognize that there are
> associations between Hy and Silk's mom, but it is not necessary.
> During their conversation, Silk _defends_ Echidna's celibacy rule.
> Then Hy jumps up on the bed with her azoth (both a lighting bolt and a
> golden chain). She fires her azoth at him, sending him tumbling out of
> the window where he is lamed. This event is a combination of Hesph
> being cast off of Mt Olympus by Hera and by Zeus.
>
> u+16b9
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