(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Jeff Wilson]

On 11/12/2011 4:42 PM, Nick Lee wrote:
> Jeff Wilson:
>
>     Apollo not a hunter? God of the bow, stalker and slayer of the python,
>     tracker of stolen cattle, stalker and taker of infant Hermes, relentless
>     pursuer of Daphne, co-stalker and co-slayer of Niobe's children, cast in
>     bronze at his Pompeii temple in the same archery pose as his hunting
>     goddess twin sister's bronze at her Pompeii temple? That
>     Apollo-not-a-hunter?
>
>
>
> You may be overstating your point. Apollo's the god of archery. Wikipedia is as far as you need to go to find that out. Also, when *I* searched for Apollo+Hunter, this was the first link:
>
> http://www.infoplease.com/cig/mythology/night-hunters-artemis-apollo.html

Google and Wikipedia are valuable reference tools, but the value is in 
how much subject matter they cover and how accessible they make it. The 
mere fact of a given item's inclusion or its relative popularity there 
means little or nothing.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >