<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">No dia 20/05/2012, às 19:42, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado <<a href="mailto:meuemaildobruno@gmail.com">meuemaildobruno@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">> Someone else wrote:</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>>"I want to add that the BNS Cumaean is old and creepy, while the Sibyl is portrayed as young and beautiful, even if she is the oldest and least beautiful of the Four Sibyls."</div><div><br></div>
<div>Right, but according to Wiki </div><div><br></div><div>[Cumean Sibyl] "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Although she was a mortal, the Sibyl lived about a thousand years. This came about when </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo" style="text-decoration:none;background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Apollo</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> offered to grant her a wish in exchange for her virginity; she took a handful of sand and asked to live for as many years as the grains of sand she held. Later, after she refused the god's love, he allowed her body to wither away because she failed to ask for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_youth" title="Eternal youth" style="text-decoration:none;background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">eternal youth</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. Her body grew smaller with age and eventually was kept in a jar (</span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ampulla</i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">). Eventually only her voice was left (</span><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Metamorphoses</i><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> 14; compare the myth of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus" title="Tithonus" style="text-decoration:none;background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">Tithonus</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">).</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height:1em;font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration:none;background-image:none;white-space:nowrap">[3]</a>"</sup></div></blockquote><br><div></div><div>Muito interessante não só por causa da Mandrágora mas também por ecoar o comentário acerca do 'Father Inire' - vivo tão para além do normal para a sua espécie, ou coisa parecida. Haverá alguém comparável na mitologia da Sibila, que seja candidato a FI? </div></body></html>