Tag: mythology
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Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part one)
Image: Cartwright, Mark. “Warrior & Amazon.” “Vaginas have received you, and you know of nothing else!” Finding the the true identity of the Amazons © Nicholas Costa 2024 Feminist Amazons? In the conclusion to her essay in the Feminist Theology magazine Olga Papamichali writes: “The independent and radical nature of the Amazon spirit changed the…
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Atlantis in the Sybilline Oracles-(part three- Corcyra)
Nisyros volcano- The key to understanding the volcanic metaphors of Odysseus’ journeys, Circe (circle); the Cyclops, a giant with one eye who throws rocks. Atlantis, the Sybilline Oracles, and Corcyra © Nicholas Costa 2024 The following reference at first sight appears to be out of place. Every location mentioned in the Sibylline text is in…
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Atlantis and the Sibylline Oracles (part two- Eridanus)
Atlantis, the Sibylline Oracle, and Eridanus © Nicholas Costa 2024 The text refers to Eridanus. Eridanus wasn’t a city, or a person, it is a reference to a constellation: “And then, when they shall have bewailed their land reduced to ashes, by Eridanus.” Eridanus significantly appears in the myth of Phaeton (the shining one) who…
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Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles (part one)
Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles © Nicholas Costa 2024 In AD 17 the region of Lydia in western Asia Minor was subjected to a huge earthquake. Pliny called it “the greatest earthquake in human memory” (Nat. Hist. 2:86 §200). Twelve cities in the region were devastated. They were Sardis, Magnesia, Temnos, Philadelphia, Aegae, Apollonis, Mostene,…