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Helen - Birth. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. As the story goes, Zeus took the form of a swan and had sexual relations with Leda on the same night as her husband, King Tyndareus. To Zeus, she gave birth to Helen and Polydeuces, and to Tyndareus: Clytemnestra and Castor. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that ...

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Helen is often called "the face that launched a thousand ships", though this phrase is post-classical, from Christopher Marlowe: Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium? The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus In Goethe's Faust (Part 2), Helen has a son by Faust named Euphorion. In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Helen along with Paris in the second circle of Hell, where they ha ...

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Art Nouveau is viewed as a stage in the cultural movement called "Modernism", not so much from the character of its surficial details but in its fundamental inspiration, which was motivated by the search for a new style that would not depend on any of the styles of the past. Following the rapid commercialization of Art Nouveau in the decade 1900–10, designers reacted in two fundamentally different manners: a decorative school of designers turned to new sources for decor and produced Art Deco, while a radical approach, epitomized by Adolf L ...

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Since its inception, Christianity has associated goats with Satan. A common superstition in the Middle Ages was that goats whispered lewd sentences in the ears of the saints. The origin of this belief was probably the behavior of the buck in rut, the very epitome of lust. The common mediaeval depiction of a devil was that of a goat like face with horns and small beard (a goatee). The Black Mass, a probably-mythological "Satanic mass," was said to involve a black goat, a form i ...

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Anvil - Cartoons props. A typical metalworker's anvil, with horn at one end and flat face at the other, is a standard prop for animated cartoon gags, as the epitome of a heavy and clumsy object that is perfect for dropping onto the villain of the story. For example, in one episode of the Road Runner cartoon, a falling Wile E. Coyote overtakes the anvil he has just dropped from a balloon, arriving at the ground first to then have the anvil arrive on top of him. The visual hyperbole of overtaking the fal ...

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According to Arngrim Jonsson's Latin epitome of the lost Skjöldungasaga made in 1597: Ríg (Rigus) was a man not the least among the great ones of his time. He married the daughter of a certain Danp [Old Norse Danpr], lord of Danpsted, whose name was Dana; and later, having won the royal title for his province, left as his heir his son by Dana, called Dan or Danum, all of whose subjects were called Danes. Th ...

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JUPITER
Represents the point at which a tendency to blur the distinctions between the other planets takes place. Jupiter is the tendency to be all-encompassing and to produce, like the peacock's tail, the full panoply of influences all at once, as contrasted to the Sun which is the epitome of specialized individualization. Thus, Jupiter is the planet of expansion and fortune and indicates the manner of our growth.
 

 
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FLAT EARTH SOCIETY OF COVENANT PEOPLES CHURCH (International Flat Earth Research Society)
Also called the "Society of Zetetics". It is the conviction of this group that the sphericity of the world is merely a scientific theory inconsistent with the facts. Science, as opposed to pragmatic technology, is an unfounded religion, and its teaching that the earth is a spinning ball is mere superstition. Apart from obvious mountains and valleys the continents form virtually a planar disc, with the north pole as the center and the south pole as the circumference -- airplanes "all fly level on the Plane Earth".
 
The question as to whether reality conforms to consensus or to individual conviction is less important than the fact that the Flat Earthers represent to the majority of people (occult-minded and otherwise), the epitome of "nonsense". A proper subject for meditation, therefore, might be to learn how to view "error" from unconventional points of perspective.
 

 
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AMENTA
In Grant''s reversed vision , Hell or the hidden (Amen) land (Ta).
 
The hiding place of the midnight sun, Khephra, which is overseen by Set. In psychology this is the subconscious or dream (REM) state. Think of the Devil, however, i.e. the "Dual" or "Double", as the antithesis of being. Thus the epitome of or the ultimate subconscious, is the True Will or "Hidden Sun," the son (sic) behind the Sun. This is none other than Sothis or Sirius. To understand why this is so it is necessary to see that the spheres of influence are infinite and as the planets of the solar system determine the course of our lives, so the Sirius complex governs our solar system in turn.
 

 
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