tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post6065215693166308742..comments2023-09-28T07:32:28.168-08:00Comments on Bill's Greek Mythology: TFBT: CentaursAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-40949049467972969452014-12-31T08:59:49.395-09:002014-12-31T08:59:49.395-09:00Maya,
I think everyone in Southeast Alaska likes ...Maya,<br /><br />I think everyone in Southeast Alaska likes bears. But we are vengeful when they kill one of us. <br /><br />BillAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-6638946019766810942014-12-31T03:48:17.748-09:002014-12-31T03:48:17.748-09:00Do people there wish the large predators extermina...Do people there wish the large predators exterminated?Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-62125516678504919332014-12-30T17:17:15.517-09:002014-12-30T17:17:15.517-09:00Maya,
The disadvantage of living in a legendary wo...Maya,<br />The disadvantage of living in a legendary world is the monsters. Fall before this a man in the town of Hoonah was attacked by a sow brown bear and her yearling cub. It was right in downtown hookah right after dinner. His neighbors saved him. Twelve months earlier one of our contractors was taking groceries out to a camp of tree thinners. His open boat broke down right before dark. He paddled to shore, ate a cold dinner, was attacked, chased, killed, eaten and his remains cached for later. The only officially recorded victim to be killed by a pack of wolves was about five years ago. We need a few demigods around here.<br /><br />BillAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-80254327152673839422014-12-30T11:14:46.468-09:002014-12-30T11:14:46.468-09:00Your world seems almost legendary to me!
I think y...Your world seems almost legendary to me!<br />I think you are right. For the wolves, there are additional reasons - they kill and snatch livestock and, when numerous and hungry, attack even humans.<br />Stefan Stambolov, one of the first Prime Ministers in Bulgaria's modern history (mandate 1887-1894), once complained in his diary about the lack of patriotism in Bulgarian doctors. The occasion: a murder had happened in the village of Svoge (http://en.svoge.bg/), 30 km from the capital Sofia. Svoge had no physician, let alone a forensic expert. So the authorities tried to send doctors from Sofia, but nobody accepted the mission. It was winter, and the doctors said, "Unthinkable! We'll never get to Svoge alive. We'll freeze, and if we don't, we'll be eaten by wolves."Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-43403320197801508312014-12-30T08:46:59.432-09:002014-12-30T08:46:59.432-09:00I always thought our demonization of wolves, was b...I always thought our demonization of wolves, was because the competed with us for game. Sort of like the demonization of sea lions where I live; they compete with my neighbor/fishermen for salmon. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-89256934504570372852014-12-30T04:20:00.647-09:002014-12-30T04:20:00.647-09:00It is funny how the emotions and language initiall...It is funny how the emotions and language initially developed for warfare are used and vented in sport.<br />As for demonization of "the others" - it is natural. Members of social species not only live together in groups, but are known for their hostility to other groups of the same species. In his <i>Shadows of forgotten ancestors</i>, Sagan describes how monkeys and apes regularly patrol the borders of their group's area and, if one of the neighboring groups fails to patrol its area, our groups expands its area at the expense of the weak or pacifist neighbors, driving them to extinction.<br />As soon as humans developed consciousness, they apparently felt a bit uneasy about slaughtering other human tribes and started demonizing the victims in order to feel better. It requires special effort to admit, as Homer did, that the human beings we are exterminating are no worse than us.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-5290596229690516222014-12-29T09:09:16.384-09:002014-12-29T09:09:16.384-09:00Maya,
Excellent point. Even in the tragedies, th...Maya,<br /><br />Excellent point. Even in the tragedies, the poets went to great links to make the most ferocious characters sympathetic to some degree. If they demonized anyone it was the gods.<br /><br />I wonder when society started demonizing "the other". I recall when my son started playing sports in school, he referred to the visiting team as "the enemy". I pointed out they were his friends, who'd be best be nice to or they would not come back and play us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216523923707900157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097508687199514965.post-24883948044799141182014-12-28T22:46:33.321-09:002014-12-28T22:46:33.321-09:00The Greeks, however, never went too far in dehuman...The Greeks, however, never went too far in dehumanizing their human enemies. Homer's legacy of regarding everyone as just human was apparently lasting. I don't know of any Greek work of literature or art demonizing Persians like the recent movie "300" did.<br />Compare this to the view of the Persians in question:<br /><br />"These "Turanians" of Aniran, apparently the traditional enemies of the Avestan (i.e. Persian)-speaking peoples, appear in Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology as the noxious folk of the sixteen lands created by Angra Mainyu" (i.e. the Satan).<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AniranMaya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.com