JohnD wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:26 am
Fire is not a tragedy. A tragedy is a story of human ambition and failure through human nature. The tragedy is building human housing in forest areas in inflammable materials without thought of fire protection or evacuation. Fire is a natural process that clears the forest, so much so that many species are adapted to it. Pyrophitic seeds need the heat of a fire before they can germinate, to grow in the fertile ashes. Australian eucalyptus is an extreme example, that adds stripping bark and inflammable oils in their sap to fallen leaves, and secondary buds deep under the bark, so the fire burns fast and hot, they can sprout and the seeds grow, rapidly replenishing the forest.
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_______ *
DROESHOUT*
_________ {anagram}
_______ *
HERODOTUS*
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____ (1939) Encyclopedia Britannica on "Drama"
.
____ *
HERODOTUS* had a lot to say about
____ *
TRAGEDY* (i.e., *
a GOAT-song* ) being a PATHOS
_____(i.e., the violent death of Dionysus/Osiris
_______ by *SPARAGMOS* or dismemberment):
.
<<...we have the express testimony of *HERODOTUS* that the ritual
_worship of Dionysus (the god of Drama) was the same as the ritual
___ worship of Osiris such that it involved a "sparagmos"
_ (dismemberment), mourning, search, discovery & resurrection.>>
.
____ HowEVER, *HERODOTUS* avoided directly mentioning
____Dionysus OR Osiris in this regard:
.
____ "When the Egyptians lament the god
___ whom I may not name in this connection"
_ "They lament but whom they lament I must not say" -- *HERODOTUS*
.
__ For in the manner of ancient religion, it was always necessary
____ that Dionysus or Osiris be represented by some surrogate.
.......................................................
In fact, ALL TRAGIC HEROS are simply surrogates of Dionysus/Osiris:
.
<<We find a frequent sparagmos of beings who have committed some sin:
.
____ [A]ctaeon by hounds
____ [D]irce by a bull
____ [O]rpheus by Maenads
____ [L]ycurgus by horses
____ [P]entheus by Maenads
____ [H]YPPOLYTUS by horses
.
This use of a surrogate was made easier by the fact that both at
Eleusis & in the Osiris rite the myth was conveyed by *tableaux*
____ (i.e., 'things shown') rather than by words.
.
___ Thus the death of Pentheus, wearing Dionysiac dress,
_ would be shown by exactly the same tableau as that of Dionysus.
.
____ THE TRUTH COULD BE SHOWN TO THE WISE
_ AND AT THE SAME TIME *VEILED FROM THE UNKNOWING*
.
____ Such facts help to explain the charge of
_"profaning the mysteries" brought against Aeschylus.>>
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Fire is not a tragedy. A tragedy is a story of human ambition and failure through human nature. The tragedy is building human housing in forest areas in inflammable materials without thought of fire protection or evacuation. Fire is a natural process that clears the forest, so much so that many species are adapted to it. Pyrophitic seeds need the heat of a fire before they can germinate, to grow in the fertile ashes. Australian eucalyptus is an extreme example, that adds stripping bark and inflammable oils in their sap to fallen leaves, and secondary buds deep under the bark, so the fire burns fast and hot, they can sprout and the seeds grow, rapidly replenishing the forest.[/quote][float=right][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3iK3rJUfU[/youtube][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5UASI5rY7A[/youtube][/float]-------------------------------------------------
_______ *[b][color=#0000FF][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droeshout_portrait]DROESHOUT[/url][/color][/b]*
_________ {anagram}
_______ *[b][color=#0000FF][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus]HERODOTUS[/url][/color][/b]*
................................................
____ (1939) Encyclopedia Britannica on "Drama"
.
____ *[b][color=#0000FF]HERODOTUS[/color][/b]* had a lot to say about
____ *[b][color=#FF0000]TRAGEDY[/color][/b]* (i.e., *[b][color=#FF0000][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat]a GOAT-song[/url][/color][/b]* ) being a PATHOS
_____(i.e., the violent death of Dionysus/Osiris
_______ by *SPARAGMOS* or dismemberment):
.
<<...we have the express testimony of *HERODOTUS* that the ritual
_worship of Dionysus (the god of Drama) was the same as the ritual
___ worship of Osiris such that it involved a "sparagmos"
_ (dismemberment), mourning, search, discovery & resurrection.>>
.
____ HowEVER, *HERODOTUS* avoided directly mentioning
____Dionysus OR Osiris in this regard:
.
____ "When the Egyptians lament the god
___ whom I may not name in this connection"
_ "They lament but whom they lament I must not say" -- *HERODOTUS*
.
__ For in the manner of ancient religion, it was always necessary
____ that Dionysus or Osiris be represented by some surrogate.
.......................................................
In fact, ALL TRAGIC HEROS are simply surrogates of Dionysus/Osiris:
.
<<We find a frequent sparagmos of beings who have committed some sin:
.
____ [A]ctaeon by hounds
____ [D]irce by a bull
____ [O]rpheus by Maenads
____ [L]ycurgus by horses
____ [P]entheus by Maenads
____ [H]YPPOLYTUS by horses
.
This use of a surrogate was made easier by the fact that both at
Eleusis & in the Osiris rite the myth was conveyed by *tableaux*
____ (i.e., 'things shown') rather than by words.
.
___ Thus the death of Pentheus, wearing Dionysiac dress,
_ would be shown by exactly the same tableau as that of Dionysus.
.
[b][color=#0000FF]____ THE TRUTH COULD BE SHOWN TO THE WISE
_ AND AT THE SAME TIME *VEILED FROM THE UNKNOWING*[/color][/b]
.
____ Such facts help to explain the charge of
_"profaning the mysteries" brought against Aeschylus.>>
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