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Thanks, hagi! Oh, and I am a pagan...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 12, 2008 at 7:14 PM
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I am very pleased that an agnostic/atheist/whatever can feel respect for ancient Greek gods - I myself have long adored the appeal of Greek mythology, I remember when I was a little girl, I had a major inner struggle between Christianity (although I grew up in USSR where we were supposed to be raised as atheists, my family actually encouraged me to explore Christianity, although only my aunt went to church, others were more or less undecided) and Greek mythology - I thought, well, God sounds about as much believable as do ancient Greek myths, so I should choose... Should I? The first Commandment says I must.
Anyhow, at that time Christianity won because they had punishments for Pagans, but Greeks didn't have punishments for Christians (I was obviously stronger in mythology than in history). Now I'm not so easily scared so maybe I'll give polytheism a chance...
And the poem is beautiful.
posted by
hagi
on January 12, 2008 at 3:21 PM
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Re: This poem is, well, wonderful!
Thanks, Chyrlann, I only saw your comment today, or I would have thanked you earlier...
posted by
Nautikos
on November 6, 2007 at 4:07 PM
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This poem is, well, wonderful!
I haven't much time but became mesmerized in reading sdrawkcab, your series. Inept it is backwards going. I will be away for awhile so shall print and take them to absorb (as I did the first series you wrote this time last year) upon newly arriving.
posted by
roadscross
on October 17, 2007 at 6:08 PM
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Re:
Thanks OTA, I appreciate approval from a
real poet...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 27, 2007 at 9:00 AM
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Naut, I like your poem. It reminds me of your blogs where you have given details so vivid about your travels that I felt myself there. Pan is smiling I am sure. ~ Peace, OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on September 26, 2007 at 3:39 PM
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MandaLee
Thanks!
posted by
Nautikos
on September 25, 2007 at 4:05 PM
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EX
They were the first to really explore the human mind and soul...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 25, 2007 at 4:04 PM
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posted by
Amanda__
on September 24, 2007 at 3:54 PM
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NAUT:
I read the Greek mythologies repeatedly. I am amazed at the imagination. It boggles the mind that what they wrote back them is still applicable today. Who has not had the experience of Sissyphus or Tantalus somtime in our lives? I look forward to reading your posts.
posted by
EX_TURPI
on September 24, 2007 at 7:18 AM
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Re: Naut, the Greeks had gods for just about everything, even "the unknown god"
Thanks, Rumored! Yep, it was quite an interesting crowd - I guess we have (well, some of us have, lol) downsized a bit...
And no, I don't think 'geek' is etymologically related to 'Greek', but you have already done what you ought to have done, so I won't repeat it...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 24, 2007 at 4:18 AM
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Bhaskar
Thanks, Bhaskar! You're quite right, the gods play a 'fateful' role in Greek tragedy! And the tale of Oedipus, of course, is archetypical in our own psychology, particularly Freudian psychoanalytical theory, though rejected by many as 'non-scientific'...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 24, 2007 at 4:11 AM
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Soul
Thanks! Yes, it does...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 24, 2007 at 4:01 AM
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Krisles
Thanks for the compliment! As for Pan, who is probaly the oldest god, he is many ways the most interesting. He is certainly closest to non-human nature, and might be seen as transitionary, the human arising out of the non-human - he is, after all, still half goat...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 24, 2007 at 4:00 AM
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Re: Great poem, Nautikos
Thanks, TAPS. Why don't you? From the 'inside', as it were?
posted by
Nautikos
on September 24, 2007 at 3:53 AM
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Naut, the Greeks had gods for just about everything, even "the unknown god"
and the Romans were just as, um, thorough...at least we (I) only have One to keep track of....
by the way, does our "geek" come from the same root as "greek"? (I know, my bad..
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posted by
Rumor
on September 23, 2007 at 8:36 PM
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Nautikos
This is a good write, and I'm going to read the previous ones too. The Greeks' exploration of the depths of the self is truly a great learning for the moderns. They go to the basest of the base to the sublimest of the sublime of human emotions. For example, Oedipus' lament at the oracle of Delphi:
"But when he (Apollo) spoke he uttered monstrous things,strange terrors and horrific miseries—
it was my fate to defile my mother’s bed,
to bring forth to men a human family that people could not bear to look upon,
to murder the father who engendered me".
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on September 23, 2007 at 8:08 PM
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Nautikos
Greece has great influence on modern western civilization, in many ways!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on September 23, 2007 at 7:02 PM
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Nautikos
Great post and poem! Your writing almost makes me want to get back into some of the studies I did long ago....I declared Philosophy as a major my first year in college...then changed, for I am much too intellectually lazy....of course, now I know I also have ADD which is why I flit from subject to subject and learn just enough to be stupid in a serious conversation about most things! I always loved the Greeks, too....in my pre-teens, most of the fiction I read had settings in Rome or Greece. Anyway, thank you for sharing your knowledge. As for the poem, all I remember about Pan is that he played the flute, was very lustful, and Echo was a lover....but, I think he had to do with nature, too?
posted by
Krisles
on September 23, 2007 at 10:59 AM
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Great poem, Nautikos
Wonderfully interesting post. Makes me want to write a post on religion--but I probably won't. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on September 23, 2007 at 8:24 AM
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