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OT: We have our own Diety, sort of...
OT: We have our own Diety, sort of...
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
501 posts
Jul 19, 2010
1:19 AM
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Very interesting, notes the humanity of history and the universality of the human experience. People in those days, or any day, were motivated by the same basic things that motivate us. When I went to school in Europe, I brought back some rusty German barbed wire I found in the woods in Remagen around an old 88mm gun emplacement (the cannon was gone of course, but the old piles, etc. were there and the barbed wire surrounded it). I can imagine some Roman soldier deployed in Egypt, probably no older than I was at the time seeing Harpocrates and picking him up, just like I did the wire. That tiny piece of bronze would have been worth no more than that barbed wire, but it would have been a nice souvenier from an adventure far away from home. My Remagen experience was pretty special to me and so is that barbed wire. We've all probably got something like that squirreled away. Thanks for passing that on.
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Last Edited by on Jul 19, 2010 1:24 AM
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Andrew
1095 posts
Jul 19, 2010
2:17 AM
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This is the third time this week that I have seen his name! I've been reading Catullus, where Harpocrates is mentioned in poems 74 and 102. And then yesterday a friend found a newspaper report about how a relic of Harpocrates was found at Silchester!
OK, I wrote too soon - you've found the same newspaper report!
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Andrew,
gentleman of leisure,
noodler extraordinaire.
Last Edited by on Jul 19, 2010 2:18 AM
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