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Briareos as the “sea-goat” Aigaion
The sea-goat Aigaion “cannot be distinguished from Hesiod’s Briareos”, according to M.L. West; they are already explicitly linked in Iliad I.402-04, though they must have had separate origins:[3]
…the monster of the hundred arms whom the gods call Briareus, but mankind Aegaeon, a giant more powerful even than his father.”[4]
This episode, alluded to in Iliad (i.399ff), is found nowhere else in Greek mythology: at one time the Olympian gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when the sea nymph Thetis brought one of the Hecatonchires to his aid, him whom the gods call Briareios but men call Aigaion (“goatish” Iliad i.403).[5] Hesiod reconciles the archaic Hecatonchires with the Olympian pantheon by making of Briareos the son-in-law of Poseidon, he “giving him Kymopoliea his daughter to wed.” (Theogony 817).
In a Corinthian myth related in the second century CE to Pausanias (Description of Greece ii. 1.6 and 4.7), Briareus was the arbitrator in a dispute between Poseidon and Helios, between sea and sun: he adjudged the Isthmus of Corinth to belong to Poseidon and the acropolis of Corinth (Acrocorinth) sacred to Helios.
In Virgil’s Aeneid (10.566-67), Aeneas is likened in a simile to “Aegaeon,” though in Virgil’s account Aegaeon fought on the side of the Titans rather than the Olympians; in this Virgil was following the lost Corinthian epic Titanomachy rather than the more familiar account in Hesiod.
This recipe come to us from Columbus Ohio!
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle tequila
2 cups of dried fruit
Sample the tequila to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the
tequila again. To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level
cup and drink. Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup
of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat
again. At this point it’s best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try
another cup… just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs
and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the fruit up off floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets
stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample
the lequita to check for tonsisticity. Next, sift two cups of salt, or
something. Check the tequila. Now shift the lemon juice and strain
your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink.
Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360
degrees and try not to fall over. Don’t forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the tequila and
wipe counter with the cat.
CHERRY MISTMAS!
So I’m digging for names to call my computers and I’ve settled on The Cyclopes since I’ve only got the one good eye. <manslaughter>
Now I know I ain’t the only nerd to ever use these names but it sure is fun to finally have some names and boxes to use them on. The server will be Uranus <don’t hack me>. My box will be Brontes and my laptop shall be heretofore known as Cronus, who, as noted below, is another Son of Uranus. I kill me.
Hesiod’s Cyclops
In the Theogony, the Cyclopes—Arges, Brontes, and Steropes —were the primordial sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth) and brothers of the Hecatonchires. They were giants with a single eye in the middle of their forehead and a foul disposition. According to Hesiod, they were strong, stubborn, and “abrupt of emotion”. Collectively they eventually became synonyms for brute strength and power, and their name was invoked in connection with massive masonry. They were often pictured at their forge.
Uranus, fearing their strength, locked them in Tartarus. Cronus, another son of Uranus and Gaia, later freed the Cyclopes, along with the Hecatonchires, after he had overthrown Uranus. But Cronus then placed them back in Tartarus, where they remained, guarded by the she-dragon Campe, until freed by Zeus. They fashioned thunderbolts for Zeus to use as weapons, and helped him overthrow Cronus and the other Titans. The thunderbolts, which became Zeus’ main weapons, were forged by all three Cyclopes: Arges added brightness, Brontes added thunder, and Steropes added lightning.
These Cyclopes also created Poseidon’s trident, Artemis’ bow and arrow of moonlight, Apollo’s bow and arrow of sun rays, and the helmet of darkness that Hades gave to Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa. According to a hymn of Callimachus, they were Hephaestus’ helpers at the forge. The Cyclopes were said to have built the “cyclopean” fortifications at Tiryns and Mycenae in the Peloponnese. The noises proceeding from the heart of volcanoes were attributed to their operations.
Apollo slew the Cyclopes in revenge when Zeus killed his son, Asclepius, with a Cyclopes-forged thunderbolt.
Say what you want (but only in a free speech zone!), I love Wikipedia. Check out all the cool Cyclops Articles Here!
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