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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:20 PM, John Watkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Oh, well-caught.<br><br>It was Israel, wasn't it? Phoenician Aethiopia included the Levant.<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:44 AM, <<a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Master the Ruler of the Seas writes:<br>><br>><br>>> - In that strange conversation, the old ambassador comes out with<br>
>> "Cassiopeia weeps for her children". He seems to have jumped to the<br>>> conclusion that Cassie was a clone of "Fiona", and I suppose he wants to<br>>> disarm her and see what hre reaction is. But what an odd thing to say. I<br>
>> suppose it's a play on the Jewish "Rachel weeps for her children". As far<br>>> as I know, Cassiopeia's only child was Andromeda, chained to a rock as an<br>>> offering to the sea monster sent against Cassiopeia's country<br>
><br>> And where was that country?<br></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>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.</div>
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