Well, I woke up in the middle of the night...and was waiting for sleep to return...and the TV came on...by itself...an infomercial about Ethiopian exile Jews...kindof outcasts in their own country...and I listened awhile...and thought somehow the remote came on and by falling off it's perch in the change filled pickle jar...and it WAS on the floor when I found it and turned the TV off....then I woke up again...and waiting for sleep again...and the TV came on again!...oh...what is this, I thought..and leaned over the bed to look at the remote...on the floor still...face down...that is to say all the buttons were against the carpet...and if something...like Deer Mouse!...stepped on it it might turn the TV on!...so my cabin mates at the moment may be the ghost turning the TV on...
But...having thought on the "messengers" of the gods in last night's post...I recalled that the Poet had somethings to say about Mouse and the god Mouse was a totem for...brb...
APOLLO SMINTHEUS
The Mouse God
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Robert Graves, in 1955, 1969 (p. 56) wrote: "One component in Apollo's godhead seems to have been an oracular mouse--Apollo Smintheus ('mouse Apollo') is among his earliest titles..." Indeed, white mice were sacred to Apollo and supposedly they whispered secrets gathered from the earth in his ear.
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The Greek god, Apollo, for instance seems to have begun as the Demon of a Mouse fraternity in pre-Ayran totemistic Europe: he gradually rose in divine rank by force of arms, blackmail, and fraud until he became the patron of Music, Poetry and the Arts and finally, in some regions at least, he ousted his 'father' Zeus from the Sovereignty of the Universe by identifying himself with Belinus the intellectual God of Light. Jehovah, the God of the Jews has still more complex history.
Robert Graves The White Goddess
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Apollo brought plague down on the Greeks in the Trojan War...hence is thought of as being in command of plague...and is prayed to for healing of same...which has something to do with a disease has within it it's cure, or maybe that's poisons...Graves talks about that too somewhere!
It's unforgivable that Poets can leave and not be held accountable for what they wrote!...
But, in The White Goddess, and the Greek Myths, and just about everywhere in his writing, he does stick with his notions and try to explain them.
Time was I would read anything about Graves with interest...trying to see if what I was seeing was being seen by others!...now there's so much on the web I just sorta ho hum!
One translation has it it's "mouse catcher"...which would make Apollo not a mouse but rather...a cat.
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After all, even the smallest house cat is a skilled hunter. The Greeks thought that Bast should have a twin brother, as Artemis had her brother Apollo. They linked Apollo with Heru-sa-Aset (Horus son of Isis), so Bast´s name was tinkered with to mean "soul of Isis" (ba-Aset) changing her into a form of this popular goddess. They also decided that Bast was a moon goddess, although she was originally considered to be the daughter of Ra and the "Eye of Ra".
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/bast.html
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lemego find the Ethiopians...brb...
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The Falash Mura: Ethiopia's other tragedy Derek Brown, former Guardian correspondent in Jerusalem, reports on the uncertain welcome in Israel for the dispossessed descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ethiopia2000/article/0,,181406,00.html
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An epithet of Apollo, derived from the Smintha, a city near Troy, or from sminthos; the mouse-exterminator.
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DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
But...having thought on the "messengers" of the gods in last night's post...I recalled that the Poet had somethings to say about Mouse and the god Mouse was a totem for...brb...
APOLLO SMINTHEUS
The Mouse God
brb...
quote
Robert Graves, in 1955, 1969 (p. 56) wrote: "One component in Apollo's godhead seems to have been an oracular mouse--Apollo Smintheus ('mouse Apollo') is among his earliest titles..." Indeed, white mice were sacred to Apollo and supposedly they whispered secrets gathered from the earth in his ear.
unquote
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The Greek god, Apollo, for instance seems to have begun as the Demon of a Mouse fraternity in pre-Ayran totemistic Europe: he gradually rose in divine rank by force of arms, blackmail, and fraud until he became the patron of Music, Poetry and the Arts and finally, in some regions at least, he ousted his 'father' Zeus from the Sovereignty of the Universe by identifying himself with Belinus the intellectual God of Light. Jehovah, the God of the Jews has still more complex history.
Robert Graves The White Goddess
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Apollo brought plague down on the Greeks in the Trojan War...hence is thought of as being in command of plague...and is prayed to for healing of same...which has something to do with a disease has within it it's cure, or maybe that's poisons...Graves talks about that too somewhere!
It's unforgivable that Poets can leave and not be held accountable for what they wrote!...
But, in The White Goddess, and the Greek Myths, and just about everywhere in his writing, he does stick with his notions and try to explain them.
Time was I would read anything about Graves with interest...trying to see if what I was seeing was being seen by others!...now there's so much on the web I just sorta ho hum!
One translation has it it's "mouse catcher"...which would make Apollo not a mouse but rather...a cat.
brb...
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After all, even the smallest house cat is a skilled hunter. The Greeks thought that Bast should have a twin brother, as Artemis had her brother Apollo. They linked Apollo with Heru-sa-Aset (Horus son of Isis), so Bast´s name was tinkered with to mean "soul of Isis" (ba-Aset) changing her into a form of this popular goddess. They also decided that Bast was a moon goddess, although she was originally considered to be the daughter of Ra and the "Eye of Ra".
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/bast.html
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lemego find the Ethiopians...brb...
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The Falash Mura: Ethiopia's other tragedy Derek Brown, former Guardian correspondent in Jerusalem, reports on the uncertain welcome in Israel for the dispossessed descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ethiopia2000/article/0,,181406,00.html
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An epithet of Apollo, derived from the Smintha, a city near Troy, or from sminthos; the mouse-exterminator.
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DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
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