Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Cacoch

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Cacoch: Another of myoccasional gods of the world, ancient and modern.This one, from the Mayanstable, is a creator god, who apparently brought forth the water lily, which,in turn, was the life form from which all other Mayan deities sprang. It seemsa little odd that, as the initiator of the other deities, he is also placed inthe rather lowly role of the messenger of another creator god, Hachacyum.  But I guess this inconsistency is simply inline with most religious myth and legend, in that there is little of logic ofreason involved.
3rd December 1621 - Galileo invented thetelescope; good man. A great help in dispelling many of the then current mythsabout the Earth and its place in the universe.3rd December 1678 - Edmund Halley, theastronomer, received an MA from Queen's College, Oxford.