Silver Age

Watched the detective show Numbers...think that's what it's called...earlier was Drew....

Trying to think where I was with the Ages of Man...oh...focus!...the notion was how each age melded with the environment...with Nature....the Golden Age was the Acorn Eaters...and...Oh...lets say then humanity and environment were one....the Garden of Eden was the Golden Age...and then what happened!...Apple Eaters!

But it's curiosly exact that knowledge is what sets us apart from Nature...well...lemego see the second age...Bronze I believe...silver...brb...

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The Silver Age

But when good Saturn, banish'd from above,

Was driv'n to Hell, the world was under Jove.

Succeeding times a silver age behold,

Excelling brass, but more excell'd by gold.

Then summer, autumn, winter did appear:

And spring was but a season of the year.

The sun his annual course obliquely made,

Good days contracted, and enlarg'd the bad.

Then air with sultry heats began to glow;

The wings of winds were clogg'd with ice and snow;

And shivering mortals, into houses driv'n,

Sought shelter from th' inclemency of Heav'n.

Those houses, then, were caves, or homely sheds;

With twining oziers fenc'd; and moss their beds.

Then ploughs, for seed, the fruitful furrows broke,

And oxen labour'd first beneath the yoke.

http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.1.first.html

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That might be a good site to find classics!

Had Ovid read the Bible?....brb...well...that search didn't find anything...but...did any Roman read the Bible??...or Greek??....it's an odd thing that for all their interaction the mythologies of the ancients all seem to be in their own worlds...with similarities...but never cross references...Greek mythology doesn't borrow from Egyptian...or Sumarian...there all different yet the comparative mythographers will happily point out the similarities world wide...what I mean is the Greek myths never say that according to the Hebrews the world started this way....but then there's Ovid's creation...with it's Creator resembing the Biblical story...and actually it lines up better with the discoveries of modern science than most!!...and it's very different from the standard stories...and in thinking on this I imagine a religious story like say the Mormons' wouldn't include reference to other's stories!...religions are very self centered!!

And this Silver age is curiously exact too...in the Bible the Apple Eaters knowledge is characterised as having to do with romance...but in truth what took humanity out of the Garden...or ascendent over Nature...was the knowledge of Time...of the Seasons...and how crops grow...all those ancient monuments...the Pyramids and Stonehendge and such...were very important to the farmers....Animals of course have knowledge of the Seasons...in fact that is their whole story...so one with Nature they are...and they dont need cribs to remember... like Pyramids....which is odd in a way...while we have remarkable memories...and can add to them with records...we are woefully forgetfull...requiring a long childhood to learn how to get along and remember being human!!

Eating apples was one thing...growing them another!!

DavidDavid

Tree in the Door