Mythology - Page 8

Rosie Gamgee · 09-20-2006, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Spock

Rosie the Resistor!

At least I know Row, Row, Row Your Boat.

Well, on the subject of Greek mythology, I've always liked the story of Apollo and Daphne. Has anyone ever seen the sculpture of this by Bernini? Sheer brilliance.

***Earniel*** · 09-20-2006, 06:15 PM

Yes, the way bark and leaves appear is lovely! As far as classical statues go, the Niké in the Louvre is my absolute favourite, even if she's lacking a head...

durinsbane2244 · 09-20-2006, 07:10 PM

*sigh* aren't most of them lacking something?

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-20-2006, 11:54 PM

DB, you totally played that like an innuendo.

Rosie Gamgee · 09-21-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

Yes, the way bark and leaves appear is lovely! As far as classical statues go, the Niké in the Louvre is my absolute favourite, even if she's lacking a head...

Yeah, she's cool, IMO. Not my fave, but definately cool.

durinsbane2244 · 09-21-2006, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

DB, you totally played that like an innuendo.

*shifty* what 'choo talkin' 'bout, mate? *runs*

hectorberlioz · 09-21-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

*shifty* what 'choo talkin' 'bout, mate? *runs*

Don't worry DB, when it's them who "spot" the innuedo, just remember that old maxim "Those who smelt it, dealt it."

durinsbane2244 · 09-21-2006, 09:44 PM

ooooh! wicked, friend, wicked...(wasn't quite intended, but yeah)

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-21-2006, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Don't worry DB, when it's them who "spot" the innuedo, just remember that old maxim "Those who smelt it, dealt it."

So those who spot it, thought it?

But that is so not an old maxim.

durinsbane2244 · 09-21-2006, 11:48 PM

ah, well, i was actually referring to arms...so there...

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-21-2006, 11:58 PM

I didn't think it was an innuendo, hence I said "like" an innuendo. But the emphasis on the unusually vague word, followed by the wide grin just makes me think of suggesting something that's not kosher to just come out and say.

durinsbane2244 · 09-22-2006, 12:00 AM

HA! nah, i really meant the arms...

anyways, is anyone else a norse fan?

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-22-2006, 12:04 AM

A Norse fan of what?

durinsbane2244 · 09-22-2006, 12:06 AM

a fan of norse, and mythology thereof. odin, thor, baldur, loki, and the like!

Rosie Gamgee · 09-22-2006, 11:00 AM

Wasn't it in Norse mythology that some dude got chained to a rock for some indescretion? I'm trying to remember, because I tried to do a drawing of it once... Hm.

Falagar · 09-22-2006, 11:42 AM

Loki was chained to a cave (or three rocks. Or something) beneath the earth for the murder of Balder, son of Odin. Iirc, Loki was jealous of Balder who not only was extremely hot and skilled but also, apparently, immortal (something about his mother asking all things on earth not to cause her son harm - except one...). He found the only thing that could hurt Balder, a mistletoe, which Balder's mother had forgotten, and tricked Balder's brother Hodr into throwing a spear (or shoot an arrow, can't remember) at Balder, which he had imbued with/wrapped a mistletoe around. Balder died and everybody mourned.

When Odin discovered that Loki had been behind the whole thing, he decided that Loki should be imprisoned under ground. A serpent was placed abobe to drip venom upon him, and while his wife Sigyn would catch much of this venom in a bucket, but when she turns away to empty the bucket venom would drip on his face, and his pain causes earthquakes.

Loki will, however, free himself in time to join in on the Ragnarok and batte the Æsir (gods)..

durinsbane2244 · 09-24-2006, 08:46 PM

he wasn't jealous of baldur, just bitter because nothing could hurt him, and his nature made him be bothered by so much fun. also, she didn't forget mistletoe, she just didn't care about it because it was "too young to make an oath"...

durinsbane2244 · 09-26-2006, 05:08 PM

so anyway, how 'bout the creation? the clouds made of eyebrows? that's just hilariously great!

sun-star · 09-26-2006, 05:09 PM

I've been reading the Prose Edda recently - the description of Ragnarok and its aftermath is breathtaking!

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Rosie Gamgee

Wasn't it in Norse mythology that some dude got chained to a rock for some indescretion? I'm trying to remember, because I tried to do a drawing of it once... Hm.

It happens in Greek, too. Prometheus.

09-20-2006, 06:15 PM	#142
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Yes, the way bark and leaves appear is lovely! As far as classical statues go, the Niké in the Louvre is my absolute favourite, even if she's lacking a head... __________________ We are not things.

09-20-2006, 07:10 PM	#143
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	sigh aren't most of them lacking something? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-20-2006, 11:54 PM	#144
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	DB, you totally played that like an innuendo. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-21-2006, 09:44 PM	#148
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	ooooh! wicked, friend, wicked...(wasn't quite intended, but yeah) __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-21-2006, 11:48 PM	#150
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	ah, well, i was actually referring to arms...so there... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-21-2006, 11:58 PM	#151
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I didn't think it was an innuendo, hence I said "like" an innuendo. But the emphasis on the unusually vague word, followed by the wide grin just makes me think of suggesting something that's not kosher to just come out and say. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-22-2006, 12:00 AM	#152
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	HA! nah, i really meant the arms... anyways, is anyone else a norse fan? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-22-2006, 12:04 AM	#153
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	A Norse fan of what? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-22-2006, 12:06 AM	#154
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	a fan of norse, and mythology thereof. odin, thor, baldur, loki, and the like! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-22-2006, 11:00 AM	#155
Rosie Gamgee The Lovely Hobbit-Lass Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bounded in a nut-shell Posts: 1,593	Wasn't it in Norse mythology that some dude got chained to a rock for some indescretion? I'm trying to remember, because I tried to do a drawing of it once... Hm. __________________ It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year!

09-22-2006, 11:42 AM	#156
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Loki was chained to a cave (or three rocks. Or something) beneath the earth for the murder of Balder, son of Odin. Iirc, Loki was jealous of Balder who not only was extremely hot and skilled but also, apparently, immortal (something about his mother asking all things on earth not to cause her son harm - except one...). He found the only thing that could hurt Balder, a mistletoe, which Balder's mother had forgotten, and tricked Balder's brother Hodr into throwing a spear (or shoot an arrow, can't remember) at Balder, which he had imbued with/wrapped a mistletoe around. Balder died and everybody mourned. When Odin discovered that Loki had been behind the whole thing, he decided that Loki should be imprisoned under ground. A serpent was placed abobe to drip venom upon him, and while his wife Sigyn would catch much of this venom in a bucket, but when she turns away to empty the bucket venom would drip on his face, and his pain causes earthquakes. Loki will, however, free himself in time to join in on the Ragnarok and batte the Æsir (gods).. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 09-22-2006 at 11:43 AM.

09-24-2006, 08:46 PM	#157
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	he wasn't jealous of baldur, just bitter because nothing could hurt him, and his nature made him be bothered by so much fun. also, she didn't forget mistletoe, she just didn't care about it because it was "too young to make an oath"... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-26-2006, 05:08 PM	#158
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	so anyway, how 'bout the creation? the clouds made of eyebrows? that's just hilariously great! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

09-26-2006, 05:09 PM	#159
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I've been reading the Prose Edda recently - the description of Ragnarok and its aftermath is breathtaking! __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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