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I still do not know what benefits THUNDERS provide, but, says the internet, acoustic sound waves are used to repair tissues and to relieve pain!!!

Last year I amplified the myth of ZEUS, and I had the eerie feeling that I was talking about a real god. Well, by this or any other name, Zeus is still ZEUS and is so worshipped by Christians and others.

There are many articles online about Orthodox religion. As I love philosophical and theological disputations, I've loved ' is God essence or energies?' It states indirectly many tenets of the faith, such as the indwelling of the Spirit at baptism.

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We know the many myths about him and we fear his thunderbolts, but now science reveals his benevolence. THUNDERSTORMS are needed by the rain forests and to prevent deserts. LIGHTNINGS change the air nitrogen into N oxides, needed for agriculture. THUNDERS , fill in........................

How do we experience TIME? IT is not a thing we perceive ..... but -it is the DURATION of a pleasure or a pain, of a disability, of the walking between two houses; the waiting for an arrival; the watching of the sun moving across the sky --which involves REMEMBERING what we observed earlier...

On the thread about the wildest Gr. myth, I mentioned Pherecydes. In his cosmogony he posited 3 principles: Zas, ChothoniE and Chronos. There is a later long history about Chronos and Aion -- never resolved as yet: https://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Khronos.html

Not the wildest but, for me, the most problematic one: PHERECYDES OF SYROS, 6th cent. B.C.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pherecydes_of_Syros His cosmogony starts with three pinciples: Zas [Zeus], ChthoniE [Earth], and Chronos [Time]. All 3 are personified, yet what is it for time to exist...

Hallo, Ellina, You spoke of the derivation of two Greek words, and I have already dealt with "meli". Now I wish to deal with "zakharE". [By the way, your transliteration into the Roman alphabet is wrong since the Roman "x" represents the sound "ks", not "kh", even though the two letters look...

The ambiguities of the English language or of binary terms! I was intrigued by the term "Monolithos Castle" for it could be the name of a certain object in Rhodes, or "Monolithos [Single Stone] could be the name of a castle {analogously to saying "the Colosseum Amphitheater}, or "monolithos", a...

A Retrospection In an earlier post in this thread, I stated that the word Melissa is an epithet or [feminine] descriptive adjective that was used as a noun, as the name of a certain insect, since I took the ending "-issa" to be an adjective maker or mark like -ikos [English "-ic"] and other...

An incidental disquisition about compound words whose components are nouns, like EarthQuake and LysAndros: Inflected languages like Latin, ancient Greek, old English, etc., had the advantage, to avoid ambiguities and to make accurate translations, precisely by the use of grammatical endings or...

I knew the meaning of -lyssos, but the translation of the whole compound word seemed strange -- that's why I asked for assistance. Now, I came across an online list of historical personal names and their etymology. I saw the compound name LYSANDER, which they see as a Latin transcription of...

This article and others I have read show that, chronologically, ancient Egyptian architecture and sculpture inspired the creation of Greek temples and statues, and partially influenced their style. Other authors have claimed that the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician [a Semitic]...

Is Zeus the best Greek god because he became the king [ruler] of all other gods? You are obviously exalting POWER. Actually the gods are superhuman powers ..... and the myths do show Zeus as the most powerful -- hence the best -- god, though not necessarily the most socially important god...

What was done in this festival? That is, HOW was the solstice celebrated?

To continue and to not let this space go to waste: Obviously I advocate the universal study of the ancient Greek language [hellenikE glossa], which I explore and learn, but then should I consider myself an Hellene? The good ancient Isocrates declared, in other words, that anyone is an Hellene...

I have a more pointed question: Why should the Classical Greek language, a foreign language in today's world, be studied by everybody? Because any language (as a whole) involves a way of thinking or understanding, and because the Cl. Greek Language involves an extraordinary PERSPICACITY of mind...

So, I would not propose a return to the use of "-e". {For youngsters: Apheresis, Syncopation, and Apocope are respectively the cutting off of a sound at the beginning, the middle, and the end of a word -- which already occurred within the Greek language in ancient times. Ancient linguists...

I don't think that the study of ancient Greek benefits modern Greek or Greek-derived languages, although it may be used to improve Greek -- if anyone wants to improve it. For instance, Anc. Greek (as well as Latin) had the vocative case of nouns by using an "-e" ending, which has been lost in...