well john with ya bein all gussied up clean an all, prob things 'll take there own course 8^)
----- Original Message ---- From: John Carl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
