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dukeofriven · 1 year ago

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Every time this post comes around I think about Gil Scott-Heron's 'Whitey's on the Moon.' I think about the slaves of Peenemünde and the snatch-ups of Operation Paperclip finding such a welcoming home in the Deep South. I think about the appalling misogyny of the Apollo astronauts, their conservatism, those military men so pleased to be able to come home and shake Nixon's hand . I think a lot about the myths we tell about our past, how all the edges and moral compromises get sanded-off: of drawing a line from the clean Wehrmacht to the clean NASA, the ways in which the outflow of billions to space development was shared and shaped by the aerospace industry to grow and improve the nuclear arsenal and the rockets and bombs that would spend the subsequent decades falling on the rest of the world. I think about Apollo 11 on the pad: Luftwaffe engineer Günter Wendt, (whom John Glenn 'whimsically' dubbed "der Führer of der Launch Pad") shaking hands with Neil Armstorng (who as a bomber had helped contribute to the destruction of 85% of all North Korean buildings in the still on-going Korean War), Buzz Aldrin (who flew 66 combat missions in that same war), and Michael Collins (trained to deliver nuclear bombs as one of LeMay's boys). I think about the companies that built and were enriched by the Saturn V, the LEM, and the command and service modules: North American Aviation, Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, Grumman, names who litter the battlefields on munitions and materiel. I think about the Reverend Ralph Abernathy Sr. with his protestors at Apollo 11, singing We Shall Overcome and pleading for something to be done about the crushing poverty afflicting his people. I think about the majority of Americans who were against Apollo, not because they were hide-bound or anti-tech but because they recognized its primary function was propaganda and coup-scoring against the Soviet Union in a time of serious privation. It certainly wasn't for science: even a cursory history of Apollo will note how sidelined the scientists were, and how negligible the scientific return was compared to what robotic probes could achieve faster, cheaper, and safer (which, indeed, has been an unavoidable criticism of manned spaceflight ever since.) You want to celebrate the Moon Landing? Sure. Why? I don't mean 'why' in the snide 'who cares' sort of way: I am not immune to the aesthetic glory of landing on the moon, to the power of its imagery, to the romanticism of the endeavor. If I was immune I would not have devoured as many books on the subject as i have, nor poured so much of my life into science fiction and all things space-themed. But, equally, I also understand that I was supposed to focus on those things, that the romanticism and the glory was the whole rhetorical point. If you want to celebrate the Moon Landing, it is imperative to ask the question 'why - and in what way?' At its best the Moon Landing can only be celebrated in the abstract, as the pinnacle of the Western values of technophilia and ingenuity. What gets harder is to celebrate it on a more personal level: the driving forces behind it were, at best, flawed people, at worst painfully human, men (and so many men) who were key players in the great crimes of our times, from Kennedy's brinkmanship in the second Indochina War, to the rehabilitated Nazis who put so much into the engineering, to the systemic misogyny of NASA as an organization to the astronaut corp themselves: a groups, as their own interviews and histories show, were largely the product of the time as conservative, white military men.

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

#moon landing #apollo 11 #martin luther king jr #gil scott heron #NASA #Nazis #Wernher von Braun #Youtube

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fridaythe13ththeseries · 2 years ago

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Midnight Riders

Episode Recap #65: Midnight Riders Original Airdate: February 10, 1990

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Dennis Thatcher as Cawley Marshak Lawrence King as Trevor George Buza as Biker #2 Andrea Roth as Penny Galen David Orth as Tommy Betz John Friesen as Sheriff Craydon Fiona Reid as Dr. Cynthia Galen John Bayliss as Reverend Randall Betz Jamie Jones as The Dragon Jasper Cole as Skip

Written by Jim Henshaw Directed by Allan Eastman

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Open on Saturn, or Jack looking at that planet through a telescope and explaining to Micki and Johnny about a convergence of planets about to occur. Seems the last similar event was in 1972, on the same date. Jack relates an old belief that when a convergence like this occurs, the past will repeat itself. Micki says the immensity of space is scary.

Nearby, two teens are making out in a car. Penny stops Tommy, saying she is scared of the area, a legend of a headless biker. They laugh about it, Tommy promising to protect her.

Next, a tractor trailer stops and drops of an old man who hitched a ride. He passes a sign for the town of Delight.

Micki mentions shooting stars overhead. Then feels a strange wind blow. The old man also notices the wind, then sees a biker gang emerge from the mist. Their jackets identify them as the Dragon Riders. Penny and Tommy see the bike lights and he thinks they are from a rival town. Getting out, he is surprised by the Dragon Riders idling and watching. One gets off his bike, then they taunt Tommy and go through his wallet, mentioning his father and laughing. Then the gang beats up Tommy, and one breaks the window and pulls Penny out of the car. The old man calls out to them to stop. Micki and the others notice and go to help. The gang says the old man will lose and that this time, they'll finish it. They drive off. Micki and Johnny help Penny and Tommy, and the old man calls Jack by name. Jack looks at him, surprised, and calls him Dad.

Cut to credits.

Micki and Johnny tend to the kids when the cops arrive. They ask if anyone noticed anything, and the old man speaks up. The sheriff recognizes Jack's father, calling him Cawley. Cawley says it has been 17 years. The sheriff takes takes the kids back to town with him. Jack asks where his dad has been, and Cawley says its been 10 years and he lost everything in a cyclone in Madagascar and lost track of where Jack was. Jack thought the man was dead. They decide to go back to town, too.

At the police station, Penny's mother, Cynthia is upset the kids were together again, but wants to take Tommy to the clinic. And she grounds Penny and sends her home. Cawley is missing suddenly.

The biker gang is laughing about the kids and saying the town hasn't change. They apparently have come back to get The Dragon and get even with those who wronged them. One of the bikers comments on hating being dead. The other says there are only three left, the sheriff, Tommy's dad and 'the girl'. One they get them, they get what they want, and Cawley will get what he deserves, too.

Micki and Johnny take Penny home. Penny is dreading her mother's interference in her relationship with Tommy, and mentions her father died before she was born. Micki asks about the bikers, and Penny tells them about the Headless Biker. He drives the roads looking for his head.

Cynthia tells Tommy's dad how to look after him as she leaves. She also wants them to stop seeing each other. Tommy's dad, Reverend Betz, says he'll talk to him again. Cynthia says 17 years ago, someone else was beaten on that road. He calls it a coincidence, but she mentions Cawley Marshak also being back in town. Cawley is suddenly there, recognizing them both and asking where they buried "him". They want to forget about the past, but he says if they do, it will bury them all.

Micki and Johnny leave, talking about the legend. Micki is worried, Johnny says it is just an urban legend.

The bikers ride again.

Jack gives his number to the sheriff, and asks about his dad, who the sheriff knew 17 years ago when he was a deputy. The sheriff heads back to check out the crime scene, and tells Jack to take his dad with him when he leaves town.

Cawley says the gang is back for The Dragon and the only thing that'll stop them is reburying him in hallowed ground. The reverend scoffs, saying the bikers are all dead. Cawley says the truth must be known, and Cynthia and the reverend look at each other.

The sheriff checks out where Tommy was attacked, and when calls the station, he can't get through. Then the gang arrives. The sheriff is shocked to see them all alive. They say they want their leader and aren't leaving without him. The sheriff says he doesn't know where he is. One biker gets out a chain. The cop shoots and nothing happens. They throw the chain around the Sheriff's neck and all speed off, dragging him behind.

Later, Jack, Micki and Johnny talk, Jack unsure why his father would ever have been in such an inland town. They split up to investigate the town for answers.

Penny and Tommy talk on the phone about their parents reactions to them dating. Suddenly the phone goes dead. The reverend shows up and Tommy tries to question him but the man leaves.

Jack finds his dad in town, who tells Jack not to worry about him. Jack is worried though and wants answers, but Cawley just says he has something to do. Then they hearing the roar of the bikes as they come in to town, hollering. The reverend comes out, too. The bikers leave the sheriff in the road and then go to him, but he's dead. Cawley tells the Reverend to tell him because this time they won't be stopped. Betz runs off. Johnny and Micki show up.

Betz goes to Cynthia's house, telling her about the sheriff's death by the Dragon Riders. He's panicked but she tries to calm him. The lights go out and Penny asks what's going on. The reverend tells Cynthia to take Penny and leave, then takes off.

Power is out all over. Micki lights a lantern where her, Jack, Johnny and Cawley are, trying to figure out what is going on. Johnny thinks the gang is trying to cut them off, since the phone lines are dead. Micki wonders why the gang is here, now. Cawley tells them about 17 years ago. He was passing through the town. The Dragon Riders came upon a young couple together on a deserted road. They roughed the couple up and the sheriff arrested their leader, a big man known as The Dragon. He was put in jail in the hopes the rest of the gang would leave. The gang said if anything happened to him, they'd be back. The boy they roughed up was only bruised, but the girl said she was raped. The sheriff went after the gang, who claimed innocence. He still tried to arrest them, but they killed him as they did the current sheriff. Phones and lights went, and the gang headed back to town, but the then-deputy and others were ready, and shot and killed the entire gang. The Dragon tried to flee in the confusion, but Cawley grabbed an axe and beheaded him as he drove by. An act he regrets. When it was done, he found out the girl had lied about the rape, to save her and her boyfriend's reputations. Seems he was off to bible college. The boy and girl were Cynthia and Reverend Betz. The town burned the bodies, except for The Dragon, who was buried. The deputy ran Cawley out of town. They killed the gang for what they seemed to be, and not for what they really were.

The reverend sees who he thinks is Cawley go in to the church and follows, but it is the gang inside with their bikes. They hold him up. They want The Dragon but he says he doesn't know and worries what people will think. The biker says they'll give him the same chance he gave The Dragon and they lower him down. He rushes out as they laugh. He runs, screaming for help as the bikes burst from the church and chase him. He falls down as the gang surrounds him. He kneels and begins to pray as Tommy comes out, hearing all the noise. The biker speeds by and hits the reverend, who collapses. Tommy rushes to his father, as the gang drives away. Jack and his dad hear all this, and Jack goes to them. Cawley asks for help from no one, saying he doesn't know how to do this.

As the planets align further, Micki comforts Tommy, as they all gather in the church. Jack asks why now, and Cawley says everything is the same, the dates, the planets, him. Cawley walks away. The group, with Tommy, wonder what to do. Cawley says they have to find and rebury The Dragon on consecrated ground, because if he's at peace, the gang will be too. But they have to do it before the last planet aligns before sunrise, and the attack will end. If not, The Dragon will return, with his gang and all will be alive again. Cawley says all involved are dead now except for Cynthia. Jack corrects him, saying he is alive, too. Cawley just says only The Dragon has a score to settle with him. They head off, Jack telling Micki and Johnny to find shovels.

The gang laughs about killing Betz. The bikers want to kill Cynthia. But one of them is worried about the old man Cawley, saying the 'rules' state he has until sunrise. The other wants to kill Cynthia so they don't have to follow rules anymore.

A knock at her door makes Cynthia arm herself and tell Penny to go to the basement. The person outside says it's Tommy. She doesn't want to open the door, but he tells her the gang killed his father. She unlocks the door. Tommy goes to find Penny, as Cawley asks where The Dragon's body is. Penny comes upstairs, her mother is upset. Cawley says she is her daughter's only hope. They need to make things right. He says she accused them falsely. She says it was them or her, but Jack scoffs at letting six men die to keep some secret. She says they got what was coming to them. Penny wants her mother to tell the truth. Cynthia says the town would have destroyed her the truth came out. Cawley pushes, but she says she'll only say where The Dragon's body is. He wants all the truth, but she says where the body is, the slips and mentions Reverend Betz. Penny puts it together, realizing that he was her father, too, making her and Tommy half-siblings. Cynthia is unable to explain.

Jack asks where the field is and Tommy tells him. Cawley tells Cynthia to come with them for safety. She looks at Penny and walks to her room to get her coat, but is caught by the bikers hiding there. They hold her and go back through the house, stopping both Tommy and Jack from helping her. They throw Jack down. Cawley asks them to stop, but they take Cynthia and attempt to leave. Johnny tackles the guy on the bike with Cynthia and tells her to run. The guy slugs Johnny, the bikers rev up and Cynthia, looking at Penny, walks in to the road to sacrifice herself. They bikers hit her and she falls.

The planets near perfect alignment. Penny begs her mother not to die. Cawley says while she still lives they still have a chance. Micki says they have to hurry. Jack, Johnny and Micki go to find The Dragon, Jack telling his father to stay behind.

The gang is driving around, awaiting the return of The Dragon and realizing Cynthia must still be alive. They head back to town.

Jack and Micki find where they think the body is buried and head to dig it up. At the cemetery, Johnny goes to find a spot to dig a new grave.

As Micki and Jack dig, they hear the gang head back to town.

Penny tells her mother she loves her, as the woman apparently dies.

Micki and Jack suddenly feel the earth shake and the ground opens up. Jack realizes Cynthia must have died, as the biker drives out of the ground, on his motorcycle. He stops, puts his head back on his neck and roars.

Tommy, Penny and Cawley hear the roar and the old man tells them to stay put.

The gang is driving and are thrilled to hear their leader has returned.

Micki and Jack dive out of the way as The Drago speeds towards them. They hide in Tommy's car still left behind. Jack hotwires it and speeds off as The Dragon chases them, attacking the car. Jack suddenly swerves, The Dragon hits them and flies off his bike. Jack and Micki speed off.

Johnny is still digging as Micki and Jack arrive at the cemetery. Cawley also shows up, followed by Penny and Tommy. Then The Dragon appears on the hill, roaring again, and the gang drives up. Tommy and Penny run as the gang surrounds them.

Jack tells his father to come with them into the cemetery, but he says he hasn't earned the right. Then he tells his son he was buried at sea, ten years ago. Jack is shocked. Cawley says he died with the death of The Dragon on his soul, and that this planetary alignment gave him a chance of redemption. He thanks his son for helping him, and tells him to get The Dragon into the grave. He tells Jack to go, then faces The Dragon, who drives at him to kill him. But the rider goes past Cawley, who vanishes, and speeds into the cemetery, Micki and Johnny diving out of the way. Johnny grabs a shovel and knocks The Dragon off his bike and into the grave, shoveling dirt on top of him as Micki throws handfuls of dirt, as well. The gang is about to run over the teenagers, when they suddenly all vanish. Jack calls to his dad, who is gone, as Micki and Johnny come up to comfort him.

As the last planet aligns, Micki asks how Jack is. He doesn't know, wondering how he grieves for someone who died a decade ago. Johnny says that at least now, he knows. Jack wonders what is happening to his father now. Micki says Cawley did the best he could, and Johnny points out a shooting star, saying they are heaven's fireworks and that the old man made it. Jack doesn't know what to believe.

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My thoughts:

Well, that is one jam-packed episode! Even when our trio is out just having a good time, they get involved in such crazy stuff.

Wonder if there was a supernatural pull putting Jack in the same place as his dad after all this time? Seems pretty coincidental, if not.

Also kind of a random place for Cawley to have been in, 17 years prior, as Jack points out, since he was a man of the sea. Why not then just set town by the seaside?

Cynthia and the reverend were quite horrible people as both teens and adults. I get making a horrible mistake as a teen that got out of hand so fast, but then they both stayed in the same town? And they were worried about the future reverend's reputation, but he apparently had a second child, Tommy, in no time? Did neither of them think moving might be the better option, ESPECIALLY when Tommy and Penny started dating? What the hell? For all they knew, Tommy and Penny had already slept together! Yuk.

I liked Jack's dad wanting to right such a horrible wrong, even in the afterlife. Shows that the good part of Jack isn't from nowhere, even if his dad wasn't a traditional dad.

I also liked the twist on the Headless Horseman story via a biker gang. But can't say this gang was totally wrong in want vengeance for such horrible deaths at the hands of a couple of jerk kids and a hair-trigger town.

Good episode, but could have used a little more fine tuning in the story, I think.

Next week: Repetition

#friday the 13th: the series #micki foster #80s tv #90s tv #louise robey #jack marshak #robey #chris wiggins #johnny ventura #steven monarque #cawley marshak #dragon riders #the dragon #headless horseman #headless biker #planetary convergance #episode recap #season three

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yellowflash03 · 4 years ago

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What is Nox? How is it connected to borrowed power Charyeok?

Park Mujin Mentions about Nox two times First Mention of Nox

-When Oh Songjin tries to marry Yo-Mira to obtain strength of moonlight sword and its successor

Second Mention of Nox

-After the death of Shim Bongsa specs announcers who was killed by Drake Mcdonald

Other Members of Former Nox (Morning crows)

-Reverend Axley and Reverend Saturn who fought against Commissioner Q and Commissioner O

Borrowed Power (Charyeok)

-It is power obtained by making a contract with god in order to use their powers

How does this nox as an organization works?

--The nox is organization is divided into four classes which are described in a pyramid structure consisting of four classes namely: 1. King 2. Bishop 3. Priest 4. Follower

Clues for the mystery of upcoming episodes

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sparkvia · 3 years ago

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I was just a boy. A young mind brimming with questions in a small town tucked away from the world by lonely willow-choked roads and thick swamps. Seems so long ago.

I remember the reverend, all red-faced and swollen above me, like an ugly moon. Angrier words that lashed out at the room beyond him, turned the crowd to a thrall with answers that even as a kid I knew were unsatisfactory. My mind knew only a future where it seemed that Man had triumphed over God. Man had walked on the Moon, and Man had split the atom for its Promethean gifts. Where was God, I had asked, completely serious, inside a Saturn V, or an H-bomb?

The lashings my father gave me for this heresy were not at all delivered in the form of sermon.

I still remember the day. Claustrophobic heat that drains your muscles. Turns every breath shallow lest you drown in humidity and sorrows. I skipped church now regularly, slipping away into all consuming greenery. My worn bag stuffed with the essentials for any young would-be apostate: warm bottles of Coke, smuggled turkey sandwiches, books about men trudging on red Martian sands, and a fishing pole. Perfect.

Somewhere far away cracked thunder as I caught glimpses of nasty thunderhead clouds between bayou canopy. Deep within me stirred superstitious fear of righteous lightning to drop me dead— but I pushed it away and continued the track, eager to pluck anything from the river. Each step through the muck lessened my worry, whistling.

The sky darkened. Deepened into bruised, ominous darkness. I felt the thunder in my belly. I grew frantic as any boy would, bravado and cheer as banished as the sun had been. Crashing through brush, trying to retrace my steps— something exploded. I was thrown. I could feel the heat of flame, sense fire in some primeval heart within my being as it sprang, ferocious and eager. Through half lidded eyes I glimpsed inferno. Struggled. Fought to stand.

I ran.

I hit something. Hard. Landed in the muck right on my rear just as rain began to pelt the good earth in droves. Lightning split the sky’s imitation of night, I scrambled, and looked up.

It was a woman. Tall as any man I’d ever met. Skin pale like moonlight, and hair pristinely golden and long, rippled with crimson wildfires and blue moss. Crowning her head were perfect, black antlers, elegant and regal. She was bare. My heart thudded in tandem to the storms song, and I was stuck fast, enraptured. Silvered eyes watched me— looked beyond me. To something I can’t possibly understand.

We started at one another. She tilted her head, just slightly. All around us the world creaked and groan as hungry wildfire snatched up everything in sight, turned all things living to choking ash. She was unfazed. Serene. I wept silent tears. Unblinking.

And then, without a sound, without so much as a breath— a single upheld pale hand closed, and the fire was gone. Thin, blackened trees whispered in the faintest breeze. Impossible. A miracle.

The woman— the goddess?— looked down at me in the mud. The silver eyes, a faint smile, and with quiet footsteps, disappeared into the tangle.

I’ve told no one else of this in my sixty years of life. Who would believe an old man about his forest savior? The fire was unwitnessed by anyone when I scrambled back into town, and my only greeting was a cuff on the head for missing another service.

My property, my home— it’s there. Built at the place I first witnessed something beyond explanation. And every night, under the rain or unblinking stars, I sit out on the deck, amidst a chorus of singing creatures shrouded in shadow. Waiting.

Hoping.

#submission #lady in the lake #fairies #Forest #southern gothic #writer wars

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warrioreowynofrohan · 6 months ago

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I hadn’t been sure about the Third being Neptune, so the information about Ianthe being the name of a sea nymph is very helpful, I am now convinced.

An additional reason why I think Jupiter is the Fifth House is a line from Magnus in HtN:

“No, no, Reverend Daughter,” protested the curly-haired moron from the Fifth House, the one whose clothes could have provided the Ninth with material resources for a decade. “Please. Nonius is about to give the rebels what-for. I never got what-for in school. Fifth poetry is very much I come from climes of sulphur gas/I shine in plasma sheet/Er-hem-er-hem-er-hem, surpass/My spot a crimson feat, and by then I was always comatose.”

I thought the last line of the poem could be a reference to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (though I can’t find any reference to sulphur as a notable component of its atmosphere, so I may be wrong).

@theoppositeofprofound has also made the excellent observation of the symbolic reference of Saturn devouring his children for the Fourth House (a house characterized by child soldiers).

Additional supporting evidence for Sixth and Seventh being Mercury and Venus is that GtN says the Sixth and Seventh Houses are closer to the Sun than the First House is. I figured either Third or Seventh had to be Venus due to the symbolic references, so that makes the identity if Seventh clear. Mercury (the Messenger) for the bringers of knowledge and truth also works.

There were other Houses that made their homelands on planets closer to the burning star of Dominicus—the Seventh and the Sixth, for instance—but to Gideon they could not imaginably be anything else than 100 percent on fire.

how a normal person numbers the planets:

how an ABSOLUTE MADMAN does it:

#tlt #the locked tomb

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silver-stargazing · 4 years ago

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An Incomplete Listing of Fictional Characters with Epilepsy and Seizures

@seaglassdinosaur requested a list of fictional characters with epilepsy and seizures. I couldn’t find one particular list on the Internet beyond the Wikipedia article so I complied my own list. The characters here will not all be positive depictions of the epilepsy experience, but they are representation regardless.

Literature:

Adult Literature

Antonio (Three O'Clock in the Morning)

Arthur (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Carmen Sternwood (The Big Sleep)

Evan Wallace (How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets)

FitzChivalry Farseer (Realm of the Elderlings series)

Isaac Hammoudeh (Mis(h)adra) (graphic novel)

Keziah Montgomery (Engraved on the Heart)

Lizzie Molyneux (The Dare)

Mary (The Florist’s Daughter)

Miles Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga)

Molly Volkova (Molly Falls To Earth)

Oscar Dubourg (Poor Miss Finch)

Othello (Othello)

Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov)

Peter Leavitt (The Andromeda Strain)

Prince Myshkin (The Idiot)

Robert “Sweetrobin” Arryn (A Song of Ice and Fire series)

Silas Marner (Silas Marner) (Catalepsy, which is different from epilepsy but still includes seizures and can be a symptom of epilepsy)

Sophie (We are Satellites)

Toby Withers (Owls Do Cry & The Edge of the Alphabet)

Youth Literature (Teen and Children)

Alex Woods (The Universe Verses Alex Woods)

Annemarie (When You Reach Me)

Duncan MacDonald (Prince Across the Water)

Emma Cooper (Throat)

Finn Easton (100 Sideways Miles)

Jake (Takedown)

Leilani Milton (The Islands at the End of the World series)

Meena Zee (Meena Meets Her Match)

Monks (Oliver Twist)

Ollie Paulot (Because You’ll Never Meet Me)

Pepper Al-Yusef (The Arsonist)

Percy Newton (The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue)

Pippa (Gemma Doyle Trilogy)

Sven Beekman (Talking to Alaska)

Thom Creed (Hero) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Will Thorpe (The Quarantine Series)

Zane Guesswind (Zane’s Trace)

Film:

Movies

Angie (The Sacred Disease)

Bagi (Khadak)

Dave O'Hara (Wide Awake (1998))

Esteban Espinosa (El Aura)

Ivy (The Exploding Girl)

Jackson Briggs (Dog (2022)) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

James Wayland (Deceiver)

Kinji Kameda (The Idiot (1951))

Kiri (Avatar: The Way of Water) (Diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, film leaves it unclear if it’s supernatural)

Lily O’Connor (Electricity)

Michaela Klingler (Requiem)

Penelope Stamp (The Brothers Bloom)

Robbie Reimuller (...First Do No Harm)

Ruth (Fast Color) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder)

Ruth Hunsdorfer (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)

Ruth Leavitt (The Andromeda Strain (1971))

Sam (Garden State)

Sam (Under the Lights)

Teresa Ronchelli (Mean Streets)

Television

Anežka Archuletta (Jane the Virgin)

Ashley Thomas (Emmerdale)

Caitlin Ryan (Degrassi)

David Platt (Coronation Street)

Erica Reyes (Teen Wolf)

Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon) (Unspecified Seizure Disorder; Magically cured during the series run)

Karen (Diff’rent Strokes) (only appears in one episode)

Leslie Cook (One Day at a Time (1975)) (only appears in one episode)

Nancy Carter (EastEnders)

Pearl Gallagher (Diff’rent Strokes)

Reverend Smith (Deadwood)

Roger Barner (Naked City episode: “Portrait of a Painter”)

Steph Cunningham (Hollyoaks)

Tsi Chou (The Andromeda Strain (2008))

Victor Newman (The Young and the Restless)

Will Graham (Hannibal) (seizures as a symptom of encephalitis)

Video Games

Ruben Victoriano/Ruvik (The Evil Within)

Note: This list is incomplete due to both the vast scope of this description (a lot of characters have seizures when, for example, being possessed or experiencing visions and I’m unsure whether to count them or not.) and the limitations I have with media as someone who only speaks english.

Also: If you know of any epileptic characters or characters who have had seizures that I missed, please let me know!

#actually epileptic #epilepsy #epilepsy representation #stargazer rambles #epilepsy representation masterpost

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ravageknight-eternal · 3 years ago

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I was just a boy. A young mind brimming with questions in a small town tucked away from the world by lonely willow-choked roads and thick swamps. Seems so long ago.

The lashings my father gave me for this heresy were not at all delivered in the form of sermon.

I ran.

I hit something. Hard. Landed in the muck right on my rear just as rain began to pelt the good earth in droves. Lightning split the sky’s imitation of night, I scrambled, and looked up.

And then, without a sound, without so much as a breath— a single upheld pale hand closed, and the fire was gone. Thin, blackened trees whispered in the faintest breeze. Impossible. A miracle.

The woman— the goddess?— looked down at me in the mud. The silver eyes, a faint smile, and with quiet footsteps, disappeared into the tangle.

Hoping.

#poetry #poem #short stories #science fiction short stories #scifi #science fiction #horror short stories #writing #story #aesthetic #darkness #horror #southern gothic #goddess #moon

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slovenlyrecordings · 4 years ago

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We got some super hot new repros of some seriously rare 60s r&b and garage killers in stock

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How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the World

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How Apollo 8 Delivered Christmas Eve Peace and Understanding to the World

It was the final months of 1968 and throughout the year, the stability of American democracy had been called into question again and again. When Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis in April, civil unrest erupted throughout the United States. The “confidence of America’s allies and friends around the world” had been shaken, Leonard Marks, the United States Information Agency (USIA) director told President Lyndon B. Johnson. “We have suffered a blow from which it will take a long time to recover.”

Two months later, on the other side of the country, presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot shortly after he made his California Democratic primary victory speech. Then, in late August, violent clashes between protestors and police at the Democratic National Convention broke out in Chicago, casting more doubt on the U.S. political system. Parallels were quickly drawn between the Chicago riots and the Soviet Union’s suppression of the Prague Spring that same month. At the end of the year the USIA concluded that the Vietnam War, protests, assassinations and upheaval throughout the country led “many persons abroad to question whether the vaunted American system might be on the verge of decay and disintegration.”

Tear gas, body counts, protests and riots all appeared on television sets around the globe and in international newspapers. The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee observed that “the mental picture that many foreigners have of our nation is increasingly that of a violent, lawless, overbearing, even sick society.”

Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

Since July 1969, Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon has represented the pinnacle of American space exploration and a grand scientific achievement. Yet, as Smithsonian curator Teasel Muir-Harmony argues in Operation Moonglow, its primary purpose wasn’t advancing science. Rather, it was part of a political strategy to build a global coalition. Starting with President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 decision to send astronauts to the Moon to promote American “freedom” over Soviet “tyranny,” Project Apollo was central to American foreign relations.

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Then, in late December, Apollo 8 offered an antidote: an image of a nation striving for grand goals, inclusive and focused on peace and unity. The crew’s broadcasts from the moon would capture the attention of a billion people worldwide. Inclusive language during the broadcasts, as well as the soon-to-be-iconic photo Earthrise, amplified the USIA and State Department messaging that the American space program was “for all mankind.” When the world felt divided—between democracy and Communism, among generations, races and genders—it would be Apollo 8 that would offer a moment of unity and a sense of connection.

From the start, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman understood his flight and then later promotion of the space program abroad as part of his service to the country, not as a purely scientific pursuit: “If you think I would’ve devoted that much of my life simply to exploration or science, I wouldn’t have, I’m not built that way, that’s not my thing.” The cold war threatened the security of the U. S., and his role as an astronaut was part of confronting that threat, lessening Soviet influence on the geopolitical landscape.

Shortly before his launch, as Borman engrossed himself in training, his phone rang. It was Julian Scheer, NASA’s deputy administrator for public affairs.

“Look, Frank,” Borman recalled Scheer explaining. “We’ve determined that you’ll be circling the Moon on Christmas Eve and we’ve scheduled one of the television broadcasts from Apollo 8 around that time.” Scheer pointed out that more people would hear the crew’s voices than had heard any voice in history. NASA estimated that a billion people around the world would be following the flight. He then added the simple but imposing instruction: “So, we want you to say something appropriate.”

One in four people on Earth—roughly a billion people spread among 64 countries—listened to the broadcast on Christmas Eve from Apollo 8 (from left: James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot; William A. Anders, lunar module pilot; and Frank Borman, commander).

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For help, Borman turned to his friend Simon Bourgin, the USIA science advisor. The two had become close during the Gemini 7 diplomatic tour of Asia. When Borman prepared for interviews, he would ask Bourgin for advice.

Bourgin suggested a simple and short broadcast. “With six television transmissions, you are overexposed . . . and with that much time you could be tempted to pad, ham it up, or try to entertain. Avoid all of these.” In other words, he explained, “Keep your audience hungry.”

For the Christmas Eve broadcast, start with a description of what you see, he suggested: “I have a feeling that any direct message that you might compose reflecting on Christmas Eve, conditions on Earth, and the way you feel about it at the moon, could get awfully sticky; it would be difficult not to sound pretentious or patronizing.” In its place, end with a quotation.

Bourgin had called his friend Joe Laitin, assistant to the director of the Bureau of the Budget, and his wife, Christine, for advice. Christine came up with the idea of reading Genesis. “Why don’t you begin at the beginning?” she asked.

The first ten verses of Genesis from the Old Testament would have “universal appeal and a sense of reverence that is called for,” agreed Bourgin. As he told Borman, “About the only thing I can think of to match the majesty of the occasion, and the evening, is to read the opening lines of Genesis.” When Borman shared the idea with crewmates James Lovell and William Anders, they also agreed. The passage, typed on fireproof paper, was inserted into the Apollo 8 flight plan.

On December 21, like much of the nation, the first thing on President Lynden B. Johnson’s agenda was to watch the early-morning launch of Apollo 8. At 7:51 a.m. EST, Borman, Lovell and Anders became the first humans to ride the huge Saturn V rocket into space, one of countless firsts that the astronauts would claim on the mission. Susan Borman, Frank’s wife, found it “awesome . . . like watching the Empire State Building taking off.” As the spacecraft glided out toward the stars, the astronauts departed the Earth and stopped experiencing sunrises and sunsets. Another first.

An entry pass to the viewing stand for the Apollo 8 launch at Kennedy Space Center, December 21, 1968, is held in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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Also in the museum’s collections is Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders’ spacesuit, engineered to provide a life-sustaining environment during unpressurized spacecraft operation.

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Lunar module pilot William Anders wore this intra-vehicular glove during the launch of Apollo 8.

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The Genesis scripture that the astronauts read on Christmas Eve 1968 can be found neatly typed in the pages of the Apollo 8 flight plan.

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When Apollo 8 astronauts splashed down on December 27, 1968, they were airlifted safely aboard this rescue net to hovering Navy helicopters.

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The image Earthrise, taken aboard Apollo 8, swiftly became a culture touchstone, appearing on this bumpersticker and elsewhere across the American landscape.

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The mission would prove a boon for American ambassadors and other officials, who were invited by local media for interviews on the flight. “An excellent opportunity to get positive exposure through a variety of media in many countries,” the USIA advised. The agency would record the heaviest placement of its media material in memory, providing hundreds of photos, thousands of feet of TV film, and “reams of copy” to local newspaper, radio and television outlets around the world.

The Voice of America radio network provided live coverage of each stage of the mission, from launch to splashdown, in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. American embassies in Eastern Europe assembled exhibits in their windows with pictorial explanations and a step-by-step schedule of the flight. As the crew completed stages of the mission, embassy staff would post announcements. The U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, reported that the window display “drew exceptionally large crowds, despite cold and snow.” In warmer climes, inhabitants of Martinique followed radio coverage of the flight so carefully that consulate personnel reported walking down the street and hearing status updates from shopkeepers and acquaintances.

Apollo 8 reached the moon three days later. The crew fired the service module engine, slowing the spacecraft down just enough to put it into orbit around another celestial body, another first. On the fourth orbit, Borman rotated the spacecraft, tilting its nose back toward Earth. Its small windows framed the Earth seemingly rising above the lunar horizon. The view caught the crew by surprise, even though mission planners had anticipated that the moment would come.

“Look at that picture over there!” Anders called out. “Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” With a Hasselblad camera in hand, Anders snapped a photo. Most of the photography scheduled for the flight focused on the moon. NASA needed detailed images of potential landing sites for future missions. As Anders watched the Earth rise above the lunar horizon, the black-and-white film magazine mounted to the camera’s boxy body would not do. Only color film could capture the contrast of the gray moon and the bright-blue Earth that Borman called “the most beautiful, heart-catching sight of my life.” Anders called out, “You got a color film, Jim? Hand me that roll of color quick, will you . . . hurry up!” After a swift swap of film magazines, Anders started snapping again.

“Look at that picture over there!” Anders called out. “Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” The image Earthrise became one of the most famous of the Space Age.

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He caught the Earth above the gray-chalky lunar horizon, the sun illuminating parts of Africa and South America. Eddying clouds suggested an alive, dynamic planet. Earthrise, as the photograph would come to be known, amplified the beauty—and rarity—of humans’ home planet. Shortly after the crew splashed down a few days later, this photograph would grace the front page of newspapers around the world and become one of the most famous images of the Space Age.

Food packed for the crew that day was tied up in fireproof plastic green ribbons and labeled “Merry Christmas.” Inside Borman, Anders and Lovell found turkey with gravy and a fruit-cake coated with gelatin to prevent crumbs from floating into the spacecraft’s systems.

At 9:30 p.m., during the second-to-last lunar orbit of the flight, the crew began their last broadcast from the moon. Taking a cue from Bourgin, they turned the camera toward the moon and took turns describing their perspectives. Borman called the moon a “vast, lonely, forbidding-type existence, or expanse of nothing, that looks rather like clouds.” Lovell agreed, commenting that “the vast loneliness up here of the Moon is awe inspiring, and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.” Anders added, “The sky up here is also rather forbidding, foreboding expanse of blackness, with no stars visible.”

“We are now approaching lunar sunrise,” Anders explained to the television and radio audiences around the world. “For all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 have a message that we would like to send to you.” Minutes before the spacecraft slipped behind the moon for the last time, the crew took turns reading from Genesis.

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“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth,” Anders read.

Borman ended the passage, adding “and from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.”

Around the world, television sets glowed with the broadcast. One in four people on Earth—roughly a billion people spread among 64 countries—listened to the reading. Within 24 hours, recorded broadcasts of the address from the moon reached people in another 30 countries. Audiences in North and South America as well as Europe tuned in live thanks to the recently launched Intelsat 3 satellite. Comsat put the satellite into operation a week ahead of schedule so that international audiences could follow the flight.

Frank Borman had at first been skeptical about the addition of heavy television equipment on missions because weight and time were at a premium. But the broadcast, and world reaction, would change his mind. “Probably [the] most important part of space,” he later reflected, “in view of [the] impact on people of the world.”

Reactions to the telecast were unprecedented, and the USIA won a significant public diplomacy victory with the carefully chosen, inclusive wording of the Christmas Eve address. A BBC correspondent commented that the reading “struck on instantly as a stroke of genius.”

In Latin America alone, 1,353 stations carried the VOA broadcast, breaking records. Even Radio Havana picked up VOA coverage, an anomaly for the official Cuban-government–run station known for transmitting programming created by the North Vietnamese, North Koreans and Russians. The station cheered the mission as “a total success.” Borman received some 100,000 letters of appreciation for the Christmas Eve broadcast from around the world, with just 34 letters making complaint.

The Apollo 8 crew had traveled farther and faster than any humans in history. They saw what no other eyes had seen: the far side of the moon, and the Earth from a great distance, blue and white and shining. They became the first humans to ride the mighty Saturn V rocket, break the bonds of Earth’s physical pull, and enter the gravitational field of another celestial body. But the mission, and the program more generally, “did much more than just advance the country scientifically and technically,” Borman, argued. “It advanced it—in my opinion—diplomatically just as much. It cast the country in a favorable light, at a time when there were many things that cast it in an unfavorable light.”

On Christmas Day, the front page of the New York Times carried an essay by the poet Archibald MacLeish inspired by the mission: “To see the earth as it truly is, small blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers.”

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1five1two · 5 years ago

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My hypothesis then is as follows: that our ingenious ancestors portrayed on the Wiltshire Downs, a Planetarium or stationary Orrery, if this anachronism may be allowed me, located on a meridional line, extending north and south, the length of sixteen miles; that the planetary temples thus located, seven in number, will, if put into motion, be supposed to revolve around Silbury Hill as the centre of this grand astronomical scheme; that thus Saturn, the extreme planet to the south, would in his orbit describe a circle with a diameter of thirty-two miles; that four of these planetary temples were constructed of stone, those of Venus, the Sun, the Moon, and Saturn; and the remaining three of earth, those of Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, resembling the “Hill Altars” of Holy Scripture; that the Moon is represented as the satellite of the Sun, and, passing round him in an epicycle, is thus supposed to make her monthly revolution, while the Sun himself pursues his annual course in the first and nearest concentric orbit, and is thus successively surrounded by those also of the planets, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; that these planetary temples were all located at due distances from each other; that the relative proportions of those distances correspond with those of the present received system; and that, in three instances, the sites of these temples bear in their names at this day plain and indubitable record of their primitive dedication.

Reverend E. Duke’s book, The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts (1846)

#quotes #ancient worlds #wiltshire #england #stonehenge

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bitesize-astrology · 3 years ago

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Graduation

Tuesday - March 1, 2022

***NOTE: Well, I got ahead of myself. The New Moon is on WEDNESDAY. I'm doing New Moon Ceremonies today so I got my wires crossed. But, it's all good, because whether you observe the New Moon today or tomorrow, it's powerful, and it would benefit you either way! Sorry for my enthusiastic mistake!!**

During Seminary there is one teaching I remember most profoundly: "Take your 'C' and graduate." Reverend Cindy Fuller would remind us OFTEN that God Universe doesn't need you to be perfect, but rather open and willing. If you wait till you "ace the test" before doing that thing your Soul came to do, you'll never step foot on that path. Today's New Moon @ 12° Pisces (at 12:34pm EST USA, 5:34pm UTC) says you have graduated, so accept your diploma - stained it might be. Because if you don't, you will miss the doors that open with the Full Moon @ 27° Virgo on March 18. Since November 2021, each New Moon has been at 12° and every Full Moon @ 27°. Don't tell me God Universe hasn't been working overtime to get you to change your story about yourself, and to move forward with a new narrative. This story and new identity is complete, and by the time the New Moon arrives on April 1st at 11° Aries, the new path is clear and obvious. Today: *Give any remaining fear to God, says the semisextile between the North Node in Taurus and Black Moon Lilith in Gemini @ 25°. *See your old story as ending, and that new ideas and purposeful action now point you to the next phase of mastery, says the conjunction between Mercury and Saturn in Aquarius @ 19°. *Open to the fullness and glory of who you are as a human and divine spark of God, says the conjunction between Mars, Venus and Pluto @ 27° Capricorn that semisextiles the Galactic Center in Sagittarius. The world needs you. The world needs me. We need each other. Let's take our "C" and graduate ... and kick ass!

#astrology #bite size astrology #new moon in pisces

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bobmccullochny · 3 years ago

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August History

History on August 28 1609 – Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay.

1789 – William Herschel discovered another Saturn moon, Enceladus.

1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) new ‘Tom Thumb’ steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroads.

1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 received Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published.

1898 – Caleb Bradham invented the carbonated soft drink that would later be called “Pepsi-Cola”.

1955 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi, for ‘flirting’ with a white woman, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.

1963 – At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech

1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales got divorced.

#Todays Smile #History #August

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whitedisk · 3 years ago

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Reverend Benn. Taken at Saturn Studio by Mrs Ealden #large #bearded #mature #male #model #charecter #reverend (at Saturn Photographic Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRzWL3ZF41u/?utm_medium=tumblr

#large #bearded #mature #male #model #charecter #reverend

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clowdydrecms · 4 years ago

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i was tagged by @haydenpanettieres thanks ! i love pretty much any opportunity to show off my music lmao.

10 songs I’ve been listening to (in random order tbh):

If You Want Me To Stay - Ari Lennox & Anthony Ramos

Woodlawn - Aminé

All My Girls Like to Fight - Hope Tala

Used To - SAYGRACE

All Night - Bree Runway

Saturn - Nao, Kwabs

CUT EM IN - Anderson .Paak, Rick Ross

six thirty - Ariana Grande

Mood - 24kGolden, iann dior

Hold On - H.E.R

my url in songs:

c: Chasing Amy by TeaMarr

l: Lover Is a Day by Cuco

o: Open (Passionate) by Kehlani

w: We Found Love by Daniel Caesar

d: DYING 4 YOUR LOVE by Snoh Aalegra

y: Youngest N Richest by Mulatto

d: Don’t Waste My Time by Usher & Ella Mai

r: Reverend by Smino

e: Everywhere by Chloe x Halle

c: Chicken Tenders by Dominic Fike

m: Missin You Crazy by Russ

s: She Like I’m Like by Young M.A

i’m tagging:

tbh anyone who wants to do it pls do and totally tag me in it i’d love to see it.

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spannycattheogony · 4 years ago

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Orphic Clementine Theogony

Orphic Clementine Theogony (c. 2nd-4th Century AD)

Orphic fragment 56 as cited in Clement Recognitions 10.17: The wise men, then, who are among the Gentiles, say that first of all things was chaos; that this, through a long time solidifying its outer parts, made bounds to itself and a sort of foundation, being gathered, as it were, into the manner and form of a huge egg, within which, in the course of a long time, as within the shell of the egg, there was cherished and vivified a certain animal; and that afterwards, that huge globe being broken, there came forth a certain kind of man of double sex, which they call masculo-feminine. This they called Phanetas, from appearing, because when it appeared, they say, then also light shone forth. And from this, they say that there were produced substance, prudence, motion, and coition, and from these the heavens and the earth were made. From the heaven they say that six males were produced, whom they call Titans; and in like manner, from the earth six females, whom they called Titanides. And these are the names of the males who sprang from the heaven: Oceanus, Coeus, Crios, Hyperion, Iapetus, Chronos, who amongst us is called Saturn. In like manner, the names of the females who sprang from the earth are these: Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Tethys, Hebe [Phoebe].

Of all these, the first-born of the heaven took to wife the first-born of earth; the second the second, and in like manner all the rest. The first male, therefore, who had married the first female, was on her account drawn downwards; but the second female rose upwards, by reason of him to whom she was married; and so each doing in their order, remained in those places which fell to their share by the nuptial lot. From their intercourse they assert that innumerable others sprang. But of these six males, the one who is called Saturn received in marriage Rhea, and having been warned by a certain oracle that he who should be born of her should be more powerful than himself, and should drive him from his kingdom, he determined to devour all the sons that should be born to him. First, then, there is born to him a son called Aides, who amongst us is called Orcus; and him, for the reason we have just stated, he took and devoured. After him he begot a second son, called Neptune; and him he devoured in like manner. Last of all, he begot him whom they call Jupiter; but him his mother Rhea pitying, by stratagem withdrew from his father when he was about to devour him. And first, indeed, that the crying of the child might not be noticed, she made certain Corybantes strike cymbals and drums, that by the deafening sound the crying of the infant might not be heard.

But when he understood from the lessening of her belly that her child was born, he demanded it, that he might devour it; then Rhea presented him with a large stone, and told him that that was what she had brought forth. And he took it, and swallowed it; and the stone, when it was devoured, pushed and drove forth those sons whom he had formerly swallowed. Therefore Orcus, coming forth first, descended, and occupies the lower, that is, the infernal regions. The second, being above him-he whom they call Neptune, is thrust forth upon the waters. The third, who survived by the artifice of his mother Rhea, she put upon a she-goat and sent into heaven. …

They say that he possesses heaven, as being superior to the rest; and he, as soon as he grew up, married his own sister, whom they call Juno, in which truly he at once becomes like a beast. Juno bears Vulcan; but, as they relate, Jupiter was not his father. However, by Jupiter himself she became mother of Medea [Hebe]; and Jupiter having received a response that one who should be born of her should be more powerful than himself, and should expel him from his kingdom, took her and devoured her. Again Jupiter produced Minerva from his brain, and Bacchus from his thigh. After this, when he had fallen in love with Thetis, they say that Prometheus informed him that, if he lay with her, he who should be born of her should be more powerful than his father; and for fear of this, he gave her in marriage to one Peleus. Subsequently he had intercourse with Persephone, who was his own daughter by Ceres and by her be begot Dionysius, who was torn in pieces by the Titans. But calling to mind, it is said, that perhaps his own father Saturn might beget another son, who might be more powerful than himself, and might expel him from the kingdom, he went to war with his father, along with his brothers the Titans; and having beaten them, he at last threw his father into prison, and cut off his genitals, and threw them into the sea. But the blood which flowed from the wound, being mixed with the waves, and turned into foam by the constant churning, produced her whom they call Aphrodite, and whom with us they call Venus. From his intercourse with her who was thus his own sister, they say that this same Jupiter begot Cypris, who, they say, was the mother of Cupid. {From Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Reverend Thomas Smith, published by Elibron Classics, 1867. Retrieved from https://www.theoi.com/Text/ClementRecognitions.html}.

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