what about Hermes Trismegistus then?

i want to pound corsair into liver sausage

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*sigh* I know who Hermes is you know! I created this thread didn't I?!?

Background on Hermes for you;
Hermes is the god of Travelers, Merchants, Thieves, Gamblers, Athletes, and eloquent speech (I wondered why I liked him so much ). He serves the gods as an aribter and also as a messenger, which is his most known role. The "winged shoes" you refer to are actually "winged sandles" that allow him to fly, and he also has a helmet which allows him to turn invisible.

There. Happy now?

Note: I have always liked Hephaestus; he maybe deformed, but he still got the girl (Aphrodite)!

with a lot of help, and she was made to go to him against her will.

Yeah, well she had it coming. Always flirting with the other gods, and so forth .

And you don't hear him complaining do you?

Edited by - esquilax on 2/11/2004 3:36:41 PM

so if eros was her son, was it Ares who was his dad? or Haephastus?

(the first Greek legend I ever read and is still one of my favourites is Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun, a much more powerful tale about hubris than the Icarus story. Well told, you really get a strong sense of Phaeton's terror as the Chariot goes out of control.)

Ever read the story of Mithra and the Slaying of the Bull,and his battle with Ahriman?

That's a red herring question right Taw? I believe the correct answer is that Cupid is the son of Venus and Vulcan. However, in the Greek, you cannot say that Eros was the son of Aprhodite and Hephaistos.

I've only seen some statuary about Mithra and the Bull. What's that about?

prepare for more boring pointless rubbish as Tawakalna drones on for another half a page or more. haven't you guys got a real life? what do you do, just sit here all night and day talking pseud talk? like anyones impressed!

Well I'm impressed. But i'm also clinically insane.

@alc

As they say, it is a free forum. If you find the stuff here of no interest to you, might I suggest that you not visit? It seems a terrible waste of your time to even consider posting here.

I'm more intrested in the pseudo mythologies like Elvish, Serpentine and such. I love creating them myself but I find that real world ones don't hold the same feeligns in them though the are very intresting.

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There is no Silicon Heaven! But where do all the calculators go ?

You could no more evade my wrath... than you could your own shadow!

That's derogatory comment number four for Alcestis. He just doesn't give up, does he? I think you have an enemy Taw! Are you scared yet?

Alcestis - Do you have anything constructive to say about Mythology?

Taw - I can only remember bits and pieces about Mithra. How about "droning on" for a while and reminding me?

Esq I'm devastated. I'm so upset I'm gonna have to leave the forums because of Alcestis' biting and ascerbic wit. boo-hoo

I'm too tired to drone about Mithra right now, I've just completed a mega-shift on site and I'm fooked, but i'll cobble summat together tomorrow.