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selidor has sent me the very first image of Vanth, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Yes, I'm going to put it up on my wall. What else does one do with a sky of chthonic figures? In both senses, awesome.
Not so awesome is the smell of burning that just came in sharply through the windows and the flakes of ash falling onto our yard. I can see white and brown smoke rising when I look out the front door, a helicopter circling; I can't tell the distance. I hope it is not someone's house. The air is turning peat-blue. The first thing I think when cinders start drifting down is Pompeii.
selidor has sent me the very first image of Vanth, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Yes, I'm going to put it up on my wall. What else does one do with a sky of chthonic figures? In both senses, awesome.Not so awesome is the smell of burning that just came in sharply through the windows and the flakes of ash falling onto our yard. I can see white and brown smoke rising when I look out the front door, a helicopter circling; I can't tell the distance. I hope it is not someone's house. The air is turning peat-blue. The first thing I think when cinders start drifting down is Pompeii.
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Will you accept earthquakes? We get those rather frequently . . .
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But, truth: they do have earthquakes here sometimes.
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Is Poseidon so much less to you than Hephaistos?
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Yes. One of his oldest epithets is ἐνοσίχθων, earth-shaker. It's attested in Linear B. Ἐννοσίγαιος is synonymous; he is also called γαιήοχος, earth-holder, earth-cradler. He is closely associated with horses, but he is also the bull that roars under the earth. You should read Mary Renault's The King Must Die (1958).
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I should read it; you're right. I think I may have, long ago, but I should read it again, if so. And I may not have. I have no memory of it, but I can remember reading something by her--I may have read part but not all. Which is the one in which they do bull dancing? Is that The King Must Die? The Bull from the Sea? I probably attempted it at too young an age.
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Just earthquakes. That's syncretism for you.
Which is the one in which they do bull dancing? Is that The King Must Die? The Bull from the Sea?
The bull-leaping is in The King Must Die, although there is a very little near the beginning of The Bull from the Sea. My favorite is The Mask of Apollo, but I recommend all of her classical novels. I would recommend all of her modern novels, too, except that with the exception of The Charioteer (1953) they are almost impossible to get hold of. Return to Night and The Friendly Young Ladies (1943), the two I've lucked across, are very good. Neat genderbending.