(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.
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