Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 62
July 10, 2021
Any fun tidbits that you can share?
Oooo… like book tidbits from The Good Counselor?
Well, I’m still tipsy from a nap and cough syrup, so I’ll share a mostly spoiler free (the one spoiler paragraph in the midst of this section I cut out. So here’s interaction between Hera and Zeus, from Zeus’s perspective, a little a little later in the book…
from Chapter Six of
The Good Counselor
July 9, 2021
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Valdemosa, Majorca: Pomegranate Trees -
John...
Valdemosa, Majorca: Pomegranate Trees - John Singer Sargent 1908
American 1856-1925
Oil on board 71.1 x 99.1 cm
Private Collection
July 8, 2021
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So, you guys remember good old Ea-Nasir? The copper...
So, you guys remember good old Ea-Nasir? The copper merchant from ancient Mesopotamia who kept stiffing his customers out of their money and copper, and then kept their complaint letters stored in a room in his house, to be found by archaeologists thousands of years later?
Well, I recently learned something that makes that story even better. Most clay tablets from that time period were made of unfired clay, which means that they degraded over time, getting washed away by weather and such. Some of the fired tablets were fired on purpose, but others were fired accidentally when the building they were stored in were burnt down.
That means that in this case there are three options. (1) The tablets in Ea-Nasir’s house were unfired and just really randomly lucky to survive. (2) Ea-Nasir’s house was burnt down, likely by someone he owed money to. (3) Ea-Nasir not only kept a bunch of complaint letters in his house, but fired them to preserve them.
The drama of Ea-Nasir is more compelling than pretty much all of the MCU
*laminates all my anon hate*
So far in The Good Counselor, Hades and Persephone going to Alikarnassos is mentioned along with Aphrodite's fertility cult. Demeter pausing before calling it an "adventure" and "barbaric" makes me think they had to do some wild shit? 🤔
Yeah, I’ve decided to kind of lampshade the hell out of that 😂
In ancient times, was a fertility cult dedicated to Aphrodite at Alikarnassos, and I can only imagine the goings on at their temple.
Poor Aphrodite. She was only trying to be helpful, and as usual, slut-shamed by Demeter.
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ladyprimavera:Persephone’s return to earth
Persephone’s return to earth
