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HERMOS HERMAES HOMOIOS HOMAEREO HOMAEROS the Fable of Perseus HERMOS HERMAES HOMOIOS HOMAEREO HOMAEROS The Fable of Perseus. The Fable of Tiryns. The Fable of Troy. Reading the Iliad. Reading the Odyssey. The Fable of Moses. A MISSING LINK BETWEEN ANTIQUITY AND THE RENAISSANCE? Poetical cosmology in Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia based on the work of Wilhelm Pötters BUDDING CIRCLES - The grammar of Pater Rupert Ruhstaller OSB SINN UND AUFGABE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN In honor of Gerhard Goebel IDEEN FUER EINEN NEUEN MATHEMATIK-UNTERRICHT Franz Gnaedinger, Zurich, 2001 1 Contents HERMOS HERMAES HOMOIOS HOMAEREO HOMAEROS.......................................................3 THE FABLE OF PERSEUS............................................................................................................3 THE FABLE OF TIRYNS...............................................................................................................5 THE FABLE OF TROY................................................................................................................11 READING THE ILIAD.................................................................................................................14 READING THE ODYSSEY.........................................................................................................16 A speculative glossary:..................................................................................................................25 THE FABLE OF MOSES..............................................................................................................27 BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................................................................31 CALYPSO......................................................................................................................................32 POLYPHEM..................................................................................................................................33 HELEN..........................................................................................................................................34 MENELAUS..................................................................................................................................36 DEMODOCUS..............................................................................................................................38 INO................................................................................................................................................41 LAERTES......................................................................................................................................42 ARKEISIOS...................................................................................................................................45 Ki-Ri-Ke........................................................................................................................................45 What is language? / Homer’s Odyssey / Making sense of the Bible / and much more......................46 triangular definition of language....................................................................................................46 Homer’s Odyssey...........................................................................................................................47 making sense of the Bible..............................................................................................................50 Egyptian and Biblical mathematics...............................................................................................71 Phaistos Disc......................................................................................................................................96 Voynich.............................................................................................................................................101 Edward de Vere.................................................................................................................................103 Romeo and Juliet 1581-82...........................................................................................................104 Romeo and Juliet, a wider interpretation from 2014...................................................................107 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1584-87.......................................................................................120 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1576-78......................................................................................120 Titus Andronicus first version 1573, second version 1588..........................................................121 The Merchant of Venice 1578-79................................................................................................122 Cymbeline 1603...........................................................................................................................123 Hamlet 1585-86...........................................................................................................................125 The Winter’s Tale 1603/4.............................................................................................................126 The Tempest 1604........................................................................................................................128 As You Like It first version 1593, second version 1600..............................................................129 The Taming of the Shrew 1579....................................................................................................130 Twelfth Night turn of year 1589/90.............................................................................................132 Measure for Measure January 17, 1590.......................................................................................134 Love’s Labour’s Lost late 1570s..................................................................................................134 All’s Well That Ends Well 1599 or 1600.....................................................................................135 Comedy of Errors 1574 or 75, update 1593 or 94.......................................................................135 The Adventures of Master F.I. before 1573.................................................................................136 Sonnets in the light of Italian poetology 1601/02........................................................................138 2 HERMOS HERMAES HOMOIOS HOMAEREO HOMAEROS THE FABLE OF PERSEUS The ancient ones loved to convey knowledge in the form of myth. The entertaining yet complex form of the story makes it possible to say a great deal, while using a small number of words. Let me explore the possibilities of telling a fable by reinventing some of the early Greek myths on the basis of present-day archaeology. Facts and speculation: The megalithic Snake Pillar Building on the Goebekli Tepe in the (Sanli-)Urfa region in southeast Anatolia was built over 11,000 years ago. Its site is rich in reliefs and statues (excavation: Klaus Schmidt). The oldest copper sickle from Zaerzentmihaly, western Hungary, is believed to be 7,500 years old. I assume that the very first copper sickles were cast in the region of the Caucasus 8,000 years ago, for the Caucasus and Anatolia were the pioneers of early ceramics and metallurgy. The first examples of Old European Script (a term coined by Marija Gimbutas) on vessels and figurines from the river valley of the Danube, west of the Black Sea, are about 8,000 years old. 7,500 years ago the rising level of the Mediterranean caused the Bosporus to gave in, and a mass of water corresponding to that of 200 Niagara Falls thundered into the deeper basin of the Black Sea, at that time a freshwater sea, making its level rise by 70 meters in the first year and a further 50 m in the following, increasing its size by 100,000 square meters and expelling over two million farmers (Walter Pitman and William Ryan). Many figurines of a rain/bird/snake goddess, possibly anticipating Gorgo (a speculation of mine), date from around this time. Cronus was originally an Anatolian weather god. Zeus was an Indo-European weather god, his bird the eagle. Zeus' brother Poseidon was originally a god of streams and rivers, and his animal was the horse. Zeus' brother Hades ruled the underworld, his animal being the dog (Iranian followers of Zarathustra even today believe that only a dog can sense if the soul of a deceased person lingers or has left the body). - Prometheus was punished for bringing fire to mankind, and was chained to a mountain in the Caucasus, where Zeus' eagle fed on his liver. Heracles freed Prometheus. The trident is still the symbol of the Crimea and Ukraine. - Atlas carried heaven on his neck and shoulders. According to the Greek geographer Strabo, the pillars of Heracles are also found in the region of the Black Sea, and fleeces were used for washing gold out of the rivers of Georgia. - The founders of proto-dynastic Egypt possibly came from the region of the Caucasus and conquered Egypt via the Wadi Hammamat in the period from around 3400 till 3200 BC. My Fable of Perseus follows: a conglomeration of facts, working theses and free speculation, brought together in fable form: Gaea and Uranus had a son, a titan by the name of Cronus. Cronus lived on Mount Ararat. His friend Japetus lived across the valley, on the Ala Dag above Lake Van, then a freshwater lake. Japetus had two sons: a strong one by the name of Atlas,
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