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<blockquote type="cite">Lee Berman-<br>
James Wynn is a devout Graves fan when it comes to interpreting
Wolfe. <br>
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[snip] That said, I am quite certain that Wolfe has relied heavily
on Graves' [snip] It is that book he used as a source when
retelling the story of The Binding of Zeus in "The Book of the
Long Sun". And of course, I was pleased and surprised to have
(almost by coincidence) discovered that he was tracking "The Book
of the Long Sun" over Graves' telling of the life of Aristaeus. It
was because I read Long Sun that I discovered that Aristaeus was
anything but a minor story Herodotus' "History (of the Persian
Wars)". <br>
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You might be interested in this, Lee.<br>
While browsing a used bookstore yesterday, I happened upon "New
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology" for which Graves wrote
introduction. There was an interesting article entitled "Pan,
Aristaeus, Priapus" which for me confirms that Silk a clone of
Typhon and that Tussah was also a clone of Typhon. But I still say
that Silk was also the born of Kypris/Bird of the Woods, as
impossible as that seems. But check out the bit about Max Muller:<br>
<blockquote>"Another divinity later incorporated in the retinue of
Dionysus, and often confused with the Satyrs because of his
physical resemblance to them, was the god Pan, whose cult was for
long localized in Arcadia. Hence, he was made the son of Hermes,
the great Arcadian god. His mother was either the daughter of King
Dryops, whose flocks Hermes had tended, or Penelope, whom he had
approached in the form of a he-goat. [...] The Homeric hymn
connects [Pan's name] with the adjective 'all' under the pretext
that the sight of Pan on Olympus amused all the Immortals. The
same etymology was invoked [...] who considered Pan to be the
symbol of the Universe. <br>
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*Max Muller found a connection between Pan and the Sanskrit
pavana, the wind, and believed that Pan was the personification of
the light breeze.* <br>
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In our opinion, however, it seems more likely that the name comes
from the root which means 'to eat' which gave the Latins the verb
'pascere', 'to graze or pasture'. Pan, indeed, was above all a
shepherd god [...]<br>
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"*Every region of Greece had its own Pan. That of Thessaly was
called Aristaeus.* Without doubt this Aristaeus was a great
primitive deity of this land, for his name means 'the very good',
which was also the epithet of Zeus in Arcadia. Moreover Pindar
says that 'Aristaeus was carried after his birth by Hermes to Gaea
and the Horae who fed him on nectar and transformed him into Zeus,
the immortal god, and into Apollo, the pure, the guardian of
flocks and the chase and pasturage.' According legend, Aristaeus
was the son of Uranus and Gaea or of Apollo and Cyrene.[...]<br>
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"Pan of Mysia, in Asia Minor, was Priapus. He was particularly
venerated at Lampsacus. His origin is rather vague. his mother was
said to be Aphrodite or Chione and his father Dionysus, Adonis,
Hermes, or Pan."<br>
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