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["Doctor Oakroot" <doctor AT doctoroakroot.com>]

That depends on whether you're speaking classical Greek or modern English :o)




grady wrote:
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?chthon01.wav=chthonic
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> It's much closer to "tha-nick"
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> xo
>
> Ross
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> Agent Starchild wrote:
>> Chthonic from what I understand is pronounced kah-tah-nick.  I
>> discovered the word when writing a term paper about the Greek god
>> Dionysus.  Dionysus is the heir of the chthonic lineage starting with
>> the Titans whose immediate ancestor is his mother Hecate.  The
>> chthonic gods are contantly in clash with the Olympian gods which is
>> the source of the ambiguity with which Greeks view Dionysus, the
>> unpredictable and dangerous god of wine and revelry.
>>
>> Even more interesting is the evolution of the myth of Hecate.  In
>> pre-Olympian Greek texts, she is understood as the goddess of
>> fertility and the "mother-sister of the youth."  She becomes demonized
>> to make way for the patriarchal system of order in Olympian mythology.
>>  People went to the crossroads to wait for Hecate.  She would manifest
>> herself carrying three torches or with three large wolves.  It's
>> sometimes theorized that Cerberus, the guardian of Hades, is an
>> evolution of Hecate and her wolves.
>>
>> So all this talk about "going down to the crossroads" to sell your
>> soul to the devil like Robert Johnson probably has its root in Hecate,
>> who wasn't a devil, just a besmirched goddess who had to be called a
>> witch to justify patriarchal dominance.  The "witching" of the Goddess
>> has occured in a number of cultures that have gone through a
>> transformation from matriarchy to patriarchy.  Morgan la Fey, for whom
>> I am named, is a benevolent mother goddess in Celtic myth and an evil
>> sorceress in the Christian Arthurian legends.
>>
>> My record label and promotion company is devoted to the subversion of
>> the patriarchal order through music which comes from the deep place
>> within the Earth that is at the same time ancient and original.
>>
>> Thanks for your interest,
>> Morgan Guyton
>> Chthonic Art Productions
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