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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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ONLY NICE THINGS

15:27 / 05.04.07

Genius, Latin, second declension masculine. It's a loan word. I'll check L&S when I get home - that list appears to be far from exhaustive.

fish confusion errata

15:44 / 05.04.07

But you see my point, don't you, that "genius" is not a masculine word in English because English does not have grammatical gender? English speakers do not classify "genius" as masculine the way French speakers classify, I don't know, "le génie" as masculine.

English speakers might consider "genius" to be masculine for other reasons, though, like maybe because the term is often applied to men.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:48 / 05.04.07

I see your point. It just isn't enormously relevant, and has not really been the subject of any of this discussion. "Genius" in English is not masculine in the way that a French noun is masculine or feminine. Neither is materfamilias in English feminine in the same way that it would be in Latin. Nonetheless, the gender with which it is associated is very clear.

15:57 / 05.04.07

We don't have to go far back in history in the UK to find an argument made amongst the supposedly educated, that there could be no such thing as a woman of genius.

I think the argument ran as follows: because genius is a matter of hormones and is so clearly a male trait 'she' our hypothetical female genius would clearly be someone who was capable of growing a beard and therefore hormonally male. Bless. To think our grandmothers grew up when that kind of mush was being passed off as logical thinking.

(From a PhD students' seminar poster I saw in the dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, in Cambridge UK in 2003, though I don't have any further references to hand. I think the primary sources used were from the first few decades of the twentieth century.)

All Acting Regiment

18:02 / 05.04.07

Thanks for the free rules! Yes, there'll be some musketing and bayoneting forthwith. Seeing as I've been tasked with painting these massed troops I might stick some photos up in the creation thread. Oh me.

12:20 / 06.04.07

Actually, ignore all my other questions sofar. I just want to know a free way to make medium length internet animations.

12:07 / 07.04.07

You know those crazy bloody Cockneys? Well, they're a bit south aren't they?

21:50 / 07.04.07

In America and Canada I've found a few groups that will send out free rosaries. Does anyone know of a similar organisations in the UK? I'm led to believe that some Catholic churches hand them out for free. In fact, on seeing the fashion rosaries in Next, my Catholic friend got very angry, said a lot of stuff and then ended with "and it's bloody stupid because the nun's will give you one anyway". If so, where do I find the nuns?

subcultureofone

21:00 / 08.04.07

does the movie 'pet sematary' involve zombie bunnies? i need to celebrate easter.

21:31 / 08.04.07

No.
Go with 'Night of the Lepus' which has giant killer rabbits. Or 'Donnie Darko' which has spooky Indian in a rabbitsuit. Or... I really want rabbit mole, today. And there aren't any good fucked up rabbit movies, are there? ('Brown Bunny' don't count, even if you think it's good.)

Monty Python's 'Holy Grail' had the rabbit bit towards the end. That's about as close, I think, as it gets.

21:35 / 08.04.07

No? Perhaps. But if the movie is anything like the novel then it does involve the dead that rise from the grave. revenants?

21:47 / 08.04.07

Urgh. Now I can't be certain there aren't any zombie bunnies in 'Pet Semetary', which is going to annoy me until I watch it again.

subcultureofone

22:20 / 08.04.07

donnie darko it is, then. i can't believe a genre as promising as zombie bunnies has been overlooked by the entire motion picture industry.

14:21 / 09.04.07

Sexy Beast also had a terrifying undead humanoid rabbit in it.

20:23 / 09.04.07

And there aren't any good fucked up rabbit movies, are there?

You obviously haven't seen Watership Down.

Bunnies. Scratching out eyes. Blood. Terrifying visions. God laughing. U certification.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:29 / 09.04.07

I second Watership Down. That shit is messed up. The Black Bunny of Death haunted my dreams for years as a kid.

08:07 / 10.04.07

Urgh. Now I can't be certain there aren't any zombie bunnies in 'Pet Semetary', which is going to annoy me until I watch it again.

I remember it being a cat or a dog in the film, not a rabbit.

10:36 / 10.04.07

Couldn't you just watch Harvey?

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:48 / 10.04.07

So...uh... anybody a member of exclusive indie-tastic bittorrent sharing site OiNK ? Y'know, I only ask because it's invite-only and, y'know, if you were cool you'd probably invite me. But whatever man. Whatever.

20:07 / 10.04.07

Sort of along the same lines but does anyone have a UKNova account they don't use anymore or wouldn't mind me sharing it? The sign ups have been closed forever and I want me some UK Tv.

09:01 / 11.04.07

I'm an Oink member, but not a power-user yet so I don't have any invites.

However, I am in Japan, any I left Utorrent running from startup on my girlfriends computor back home. That means my ratio is alwas improving while I'm not downloading anything. So if you can wait a few weeks?

16:13 / 12.04.07

So what is a lady genius then? A genia? Geniatrix?

A lady genius is traditionally referred to as "The wife of X" or "That Loud Annoying Woman". I dream of Geniatrix...

Whisky Priestess

12:48 / 17.04.07

So there's this painter, right? And he has this model with dark hair and pale skin (not that important, just to give you an idea) and is interested in painting her as various goddesses of the Greek and Roman pantheons - he's done Diana and Venus already. She's quite young so no mother goddesses ideally.

I'd also like a few suggestions from other (pref. European) pantheons, the older and darker the better - I've thought of Cotytto who's Thracian but I can't find out much about her. I've got no idea where to start with Etruscans and so forth. From Mesopotamia we have Astarte/Ishtar/Inanna (I'd include Tiamet but she's a dragon goddess) ... any more for any more?

I'm particularly interested goddesses who are associated with prostitutes or fallen women, as the girl runs a shelter for same. I suppose he could paint her as Mary Magdalen but I'd prefer something more ancient and pagan.

(This is for a story btw - I don't have any pervy artist friends, more's the pity)

14:08 / 17.04.07

Well, the idea of a woman being "fallen" goes along with Christian ideas about carnal being bad and sex being the opposite of divine, so you won't necessarily find any pre-Christian "fallen" women.

Ostara or Eostre was associated with spring and fertility. You might have similar correspondences with The rune berkana is associated with a birch-tree goddess, who was a kind of Green Woman to go along with the wild Green Man who was a face for Freyr, as far as I can tell. I don't know enough to know if Berchta is an embodiment of or role played by Freya or Idunna/Ostara or Frigga.

This list might also be useful, and you might get some mileage out of trees in general. Willow is a sad, sad woman....

14:54 / 17.04.07

What about Lilith? According to the Zohar she´s Adam´s first wife (but probably derived from a sumerian storm demon called Lil) and unlike rib-Eve Lilith was created in the same way as Adam. After god tried to force her to have sex with Adam she escaped from Eden. Some of her titles are Mother of Demons, Queen of Vampires, Sovereign of Whorehouses and Empress of Evil.

Whisky Priestess

15:09 / 17.04.07

Cheers grant, that's a really useful start. I take your point about fallen women but that was just an example - I mean also prostitutes (see above), temple whores, sex, fertility, whatever ...

I should have specified that I'd prefer to concentrate on continental European mythologies, preferably from the South - at the moment I'm ignoring Norse and Celtic mythologies, and I'm looking for obscure e.g. Babylonian cults, Persian deities etc. Pre-Classical but in the same rough geographical area, if you see what I mean.

Sorry not to do the research myself but am at work and won't be online tonight when I need to refer to stuff -would prefer to follow links recommended by you knowledgeable and clever people and print off stuff to read on the tube rather than trawl through all the 76 articles on Mesopotamian gods on the otherwise very useful Godchecker.

Whisky Priestess

15:13 / 17.04.07

Thanks Mist - re Lilith, "Eisheth Zenumin, the angel of prostitution, flies with her"

Hmm, interesting ...

01:45 / 18.04.07

Where's the thread in the headshop about politically correctness? I know this isn't the right thread but someone help me out - also someone linked to a blog by someone defining it that I really liked but I lost the link - help me Barbelith.

07:41 / 18.04.07

Here is your thread, Bear!

09:09 / 18.04.07

Whisky, have you thought of Ishtar? "As the goddess of love, Ishtar was irresistible. Her lovers were legion and she was the matron of courtesans and prostitutes. Ishtar herself was the 'courtesan of the gods' and she was the first to experience the desires which she inspired. Sovereign of the world by virtue of love's omnipotence, Ishtar was the most popular goddess in Assyria and Babylonia" AKA Inanna, Astarte

Whisky Priestess

12:10 / 18.04.07

Yep - she's in my first post and is a front-runner. But cheers anyway for the link!

01:22 / 19.04.07

How long does it take to upload a lil 25 second movie onto youtube? I am in the process, and it says "processing please wait".

Whisky Priestess

07:20 / 19.04.07

If you're still waiting, too long.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:35 / 19.04.07

Freyja is associated with prostitutes--She is one, or rather She practiced prostitution at one stage in Her career. In exchange for Her favours, She obtained the magical Brinsingamen necklace from four Dwarves.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:02 / 19.04.07

It's a good necklace because it makes everyone who wears it extra HOTT.

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