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20Greek legend of Orpheus and Euredice
by Schizm inthis thread is for discussing the greek legend of orpheus and euredice.. anyone here ever read this story?
did you enjoy reading it?
was it facinating?
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Greek legend of Orpheus and Euredice
by Schizm inthis thread is for discussing the greek legend of orpheus and euredice.. anyone here ever read this story?
did you enjoy reading it?
was it facinating?
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Here's another account of the story that gives a few more details:
THE LEGEND OF ORPHEUS http://www.laorpheum.com/history.html
GOD OF MUSIC AND POETRY
Legend has it that the music of Orpheus could move mountains and still running streams. Son of the gods Apollo and Calliope, Orpheus enchanted the gods with his poetry and song. A magic lyre, a gift from his father, became more than an instrument and symbol.
The legend begins as Orpheus sailed with mortal men on the ship Argo, seeking adventure. No one suspected his talents would accomplish more than calming the sailors during a storm or spurring them on during a luldrum. The music of Orpheus saved their lives! For eons, the mythical call of Sirens had tragically lured sailors to steer their ships ashore, resulting in their unsuspecting deaths on the rocks surrounding the island. These men, sailing on a forlorn and lonely ocean, could not resist the beautiful call of lonely women. The song of Orpheus was powerful enough to steer the Argo's sailors through this dangerous passage and onto other enthralling adventures!
The rest of this sad but romantic legend explains the origin of a constellation of stars in the sky...
Orpheus married the beautiful Eurydice. Awed by her beauty and wishing to keep her for himself, the bee keeper Aristaeus tried to attack her. Eurydice escaped harm, but suffered death from a snake bite as she fled away.
Stricken, distraught and overcome with grief, Orpheus resolved to rescue her from the underworld. He gained entry to the underworld by distracting the gods Charon and Cerberus, guards of the gates of hell, with his music. Once there, the gods and judges of the dead were so charmed and mesmerized with his song that he was given a chance to whisk his love away from the tortures of the dammed. He was instructed to leave and never look back, or he would never see Eurydice again. Perhaps he was tempted to witness her safety on the journey back or he distrusted the reprieve of the Judges of the Dead, but Orpheus glanced back. Eurydice vanished! Orpheus lost Eurydice forever.
Orpheus never recovered - he wandered the earth aimlessly, lamenting his loss. Perhaps it was jealousy of his love for Eurydice or further retribution for violating his contract with the Judges of the Dead, but Orpheus's life tragically ended. He ventured into the territory of the Maenads who killed him, tearing him limb from limb. His head, still singing, was tossed into the river Hebrus, where it floated to an island named Lesbos.
Zeus commemorated the magic of Orpheus's music by turning his lyre into a constellation. To this day, it is said that Orpheus still keeps music and poetry alive as lovers at night gaze upon his stars.- Harry Connick Jr.
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Greek legend of Orpheus and Euredice
by Schizm inthis thread is for discussing the greek legend of orpheus and euredice.. anyone here ever read this story?
did you enjoy reading it?
was it facinating?
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Schizm
This thread is for discussing the Greek legend of Orpheus and Euredice.
Anyone here ever read this story? Did you enjoy reading it? Was it facinating? Were you left feeling really sad? Did you dream in your sleep afterwards?
See a great painting of Euredice, along with the severed head of her beloved Orpheus laying on top of the lyre he played so beautifully: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/moreau/orpheus.jpg (Enlarge the photo by placing your cursor on it, then click the square box that appears.)
And here's another great painting of Orpheus' head laying on top of his lyre: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/d/p-delvill1.htm
For any who may not be familiar with it here's the short story of the legend:
The lovely Euredice is out walking in the meadows when she is set upon by an overly-amorous shepherd, Aristaeus. She runs from him, and, in her haste, does not see the poisonous serpent lurking in the grass, whose bite kills her. Her lover, Orpheus, is inconsolable. He vows to use the famous power of his lute to charm the god of the Underworld, Pluto, into giving her back. Orpheus succeeds, under the condition that he does not look back at Euredice until they have reached home. Simple enough, you might think. But, beset by doubts that he has been tricked, Orpheus cannot resist a glance. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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The Wild Beast has both a Name & Number. Do you know what the NAME is?
by Schizm inas shown by the text below, the 7-headed wild beast has a name.. 16 and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
18 here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
of course the beast's "number" is "666" -- but that's not it's "name".
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The Wild Beast has both a Name & Number. Do you know what the NAME is?
by Schizm inas shown by the text below, the 7-headed wild beast has a name.. 16 and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
18 here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
of course the beast's "number" is "666" -- but that's not it's "name".
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The Wild Beast has both a Name & Number. Do you know what the NAME is?
by Schizm inas shown by the text below, the 7-headed wild beast has a name.. 16 and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
18 here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
of course the beast's "number" is "666" -- but that's not it's "name".
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Building the Tower of Babel Tissot, James (1896-1900)
Technique: Watercolour
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Should organ donations be mandatory?
by Kenneson inthat is the correct url at the bottom.
i don't know why it is not allowing access.. .
debate is soon to begin in ontario on an organ donation law that would make it canada's first province to allow hospitals to harvest organs from dead or dying patients with or without their consent.
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I think this is a workable link to the article:
I haven't read the article yet, so won't comment just yet.
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The Wild Beast has both a Name & Number. Do you know what the NAME is?
by Schizm inas shown by the text below, the 7-headed wild beast has a name.. 16 and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
18 here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
of course the beast's "number" is "666" -- but that's not it's "name".
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Below is an oil on panel painting of the Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel, circa 1563 -
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The Wild Beast has both a Name & Number. Do you know what the NAME is?
by Schizm inas shown by the text below, the 7-headed wild beast has a name.. 16 and it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
18 here is where wisdom comes in: let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a mans number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
of course the beast's "number" is "666" -- but that's not it's "name".
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Otherwise unattainable, by a joint effort the many peoples of ancient Babel produced an impressively high structure referred to as the "tower of Babylon". Why did they build this tower?
For exactly the same reason the nations of today's world will produce something just as impressive, the likes of which will also require a joint effort to acomplish. Of course this modern-day "tower" is scripturally referred to as "Babylon the Great" ... a one-world government, an 8th King. Why will today's nations construct such a one-world government? Actually, for the very same reason those earlier peoples had for constructing their "tower of Babylon" ... the need for peace and security.
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who will survive...
by just2sheep inhow about that my first topic generation and my first oops a you think will be saved at armegeddon?
on the other thread diamondblue1974 asked "why must all non jws be destroyed?
surely jws are not the only good god fearing people on earth?
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Jabber some more, carla. Exercise those fingers, while wasting your life sitting there reading what mostly amounts to crapola. Like so many others on these type discussion boards you only hear what you want to hear, nothing else.
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