pete, i had not hear that Chartes deviated from the basic NSEW orientations. if so, that that is interesting. as to the 'black madonna' stuff, interpretations...
I dont think we can come to any harm pursuing the eagle-serpent imagery. it's fascinating. The ancients of any civilization would have been deeply impressed in...
Pete Dello
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Apr 1, 2006 8:51 am
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Pete, snake and eagle may be combined in the name of a single person. In commenting on the Norwegian Eggjum rune-stone, E. V. Gordon [Introduction to Old Norse...
David, Look at your second image, and then think - MATRIX!! It's amazing and would make a good cover design for Ernest's new book. All he's got to do is write...
In a message dated 3/31/2006 1:32:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, skholiast@... writes: john, i think you might really have something there. if i can...
JohnHolthouse@...
Apr 1, 2006 1:13 pm
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Come to think of it, I don't remember mice being mentioned in the Bible, either, except for several passages about "unclean animals" that the Israelites were...
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Apr 1, 2006 1:31 pm
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In a message dated 3/31/2006 1:06:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, pete_dello@... writes: I've never been able to describe why I feel emotional about this...
JohnHolthouse@...
Apr 1, 2006 1:57 pm
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Don't ignore us murine beings who appear in I Samuel 6. 4, 5, 11 and 18, as also in Leviticus 11. 29 and Isaiah 66. 17. (The I Samuel meeces are probably...
JohnH, you ask, Is there a hermeneutical difference between "daughters of Jerusalem" and "THE daughter of Jerusalem"? I reckon there must be. Very often the...
Ernest, you ask, Would anybody like to speak to Mayank's question? I'm not yet ready to explicate the entrancing and mysterious chapter 26 of I Chronicles, but...
"...from atop Snir and Hermon from the arayot (lion's) dens, from the mountains of the nemerim (leopards)" (Song of Songs, 4:8) "Can...the namer (leopard)...
Wow! Why not use this for the cover image on the collection of essays we are putting together right now, which includes reprinting all of Ernest's more...
'ALPH, THE SACRED RIVER' in Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' has to be the Hebrew alphabet. (I wish that was my own idea, but it isn't.) It seems most likely that...
... in this connection, see two relatively recent books. one is just a sort of popular fantasy; not *great* writing but a fun airplane book; the other is a...
... someone else may have already caught this-- i'm not all the way thru my messages yet. in 1 Samuel chs 5 and 6, there's a passage about golden mice and...
david, while yr sonorous -getic i suspect has some serious eise- to it, i do strongly concur that STC did 'tap into' something in "Kubla". it is one of my...
david c here's one of my favorites: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/jarrell.html Jerome Randall Jarrell Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon. ...
many people know that the eagle and serpent are featured on the mexican flag because of their role in the story of the founding of the Aztec's capital. it is...
Now THAT'S a good idea! From: "Duane Christensen" <dlc@...> Reply-To: bibal@yahoogroups.com To: <bibal@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [bibal] Snake and...
Pete Dello
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Apr 1, 2006 6:47 pm
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Bryan, many thanks for your two messages: the poem is wonderful. I've never seen it before. What a good day this has been! Exactly the same lines of...
Pete and John, don't mind me crashing in here. The presence of some great river has a lot to do with your overall happiness. Listen to Smetana's Vltava....
.....may strike many Hebraists as faintly archaeological, and suggest that certain passages of ancient literature must be read in THE LIGHT OF MARI. David...
.....is especially good since the Hebrew word cheth-wau-daleth may be translated as the imperation 'Put forth a riddle!' (see Ezekiel 17. 2). Cheth, wau and...
david, yr pictures of Serpents reminded me of Mr. Lear, who has written such volumes of stuff: There was an Old Man with a flute, A sarpint ran into his boot; ...
david, i'm surprised at you, an Irishman (albeit orange) omitting THE river, anna livia plurabelle, a.k.a. ALP the Sacred River[run past Eve and Adam's, from...
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