[MD] spiders and shields

[X Acto]

well john with ya bein all gussied up clean an all, prob
things 'll take there own course 8^)



----- Original Message ----
From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:16:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] spiders and shields

Very nice Ron.  If I can talk Lu into another baby girl, will name her
Ethonoe.  It's unusual, sounds good and means something.  A three-fer!
Bonus!


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> I thought it interesting that the native peoples Dusenberry associated
> with, called whites
> "spiders" weaving their intellectual webs around them, for Athena, Greek
> goddess of craft and wisdom
> also is a patron of weaving, on the shield of Athena the gorgon .
>
> That is a graver matter, and there, my friend, the modern interpreters of
> Homer may,
> I think, assist in explaining the view of the ancients. For most of these
> in their
> explanations of the poet, assert that he meant by Athena "mind" [nous] and
> "intelligence"
> [dianoia], and the maker of names appears to have had a singular notion
> about her;
> and indeed calls her by a still higher title, "divine intelligence" [Thou
> noesis],
> as though he would say: This is she who has the mind better than others.
> Nor shall
> we be far wrong in supposing that the author of it wished to identify this
> Goddess
> with moral intelligence [en ethei noesin], and therefore gave her the name
> ethonoe;
> which, however, either he or his successors have altered into what they
> thought
> a nicer form, and called her Athena.
> —Plato, Cratylus, 407b
>
>
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