Anthropology

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Also: Eris only slaps those who don't......

[BADGE OF HONOR]

How is anthropology bullshit?

And what year are you?

1.  What Mr. Alphabets said.  

2.  Junior.  I'm 22, if you were wondering.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

What about the anthropology of bullshit?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

That would be bullshit squared, then.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

That would be bullshit squared, then.

What about the philosophical tangential theories of anthropological bullshit as it equates to scatalogical references throughout cultural histories?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Now that would be a giant cube o bullshit there.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Now that would be a giant cube o bullshit there.

I can keep piling it on higher. I went to college and was trained in the art of massive bullshit piling (otherwise known as education).

[Cain]

That psychotic crone is actually an aspect of the Wiccan Goddess, unless it is Hekate, unless it is Athena in menopause, unless it is....well take your pick. I tend to think that while Eris may be into the all sweet and nice tickles for those upon whom that approach may work, She is also the deity who provoked Yahweh to be so evil in the Old Testament. It is good to keep this perspective. (The same sweet wind that cools you on a hot day, is the wind that can blow a massive storm which destroys your entire livelihood.)

BAM! In comes Greek geek knowledge.  Enyo/Eris was considered one of the  Graiai, or the the three Gray Sisters, who were apparently beautiful. They were described as "fair-faced and swan-like" but they's had gray hair from the day they were born and they shared one eye and one tooth, but they lost even that when Perseus stole their eye and later threw it in a lake.

Also ""[Depicted on the chest of Cypselus at Olympia] Aias is fighting a duel with Hektor [in the Trojan War], according to the challenge, and between the pair stands Eris in the form of a most repulsive woman. Another figure of Eris is in the sanctuary of Ephesian Artemis; Kalliphon of Samos included it in his picture of the battle at the ships of the Greeks." -Pausanias, Guide to Greece
5.19.1

However, I tend to think she was probably in good shape as she was hauling dead bodies around the battlefield of Troy and she was said (in Dionysiaca) to look like Rheia, the loverattle goddess.



Rather like the above, only probably with a nose and alot of armour, covered in blood.

[LMNO]

Cybele?

Didn't her male adherents castrate themselves to show their devotion?

[Cain]

Yup.  But her Greek incarnation was Rheia, Zeus' mommy.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

But even though there was Rheia, Cybele [Kubele] was still worshipped as a distinct person with a separate cult.

I know this because they have been revived among some of the radical lesbians around where I live.

As for Eris and the Graia, that is just one account. She appears to have fooled a lot of people.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

So you're saying Eris looked more like this  

[BADGE OF HONOR]

What did you expect, something warm and cuddly?

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

What did you expect, something warm and cuddly?

Not really, just something a little less butch.

[Zurtok Khan]

So you're saying Eris looked more like this  

I'd hit it.