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It's so hot today- and muggy! :( I just have one little fan on in the house. *grumbles about the climate* I'm trying to stay cheerful. And productive. It looks like I missed a bit when I was drafting chapter one of the thesis- again. Just a page or two.
Sacred-Texts is so awesome... but I am so hot and miserable, I can barely concentrate. It does have some yummy new Talmud and Haggadah etexts- including illustrations! I just love illustrations, anyway. But these are really nice ones. There is also more Lucian goodness, and folklore and stuff. I just wish I could find a non-abridged translation of the Talmud. This one is huge but it's still abridged- as in, not including all of the chapters. Bah. Anyway, it is from the 1870s or so, and has all of these prefaces for confused Victorian Christians. It amuses me. It also amuses me that I apparently can understand Hebrew to a certain extent. Must be another one of those not-very-cool Palestinian super powers. Ooh, ooh, I know that word! Y-es!
LOLJason! The caption says "why are you sad, uncle?" Well, maybe it has something to do with Jason's choice of attire. Or maybe he's just sad that he's going to have to murder Jason? Ah, mocking Jason just never gets old.
And people on Crete wore snakes and had seagulls attacking them ALL THE TIME:
-sophie
ETA: The following is an Aino folktale:
The Reason for there being no Fixed Time for Human Beings to copulate.
Anciently the Creator summoned all the birds and beasts, the gods p. 10 and devils together, in order to instruct them on the subject of copulation. So the birds and all the others of every sort assembled, and learnt from the Creator when to copulate, and when to give birth to their young.
Then the Creator said to the horse: "Oh! thou divine ancestor of horses! It will be well for thee to copulate one spring, and to give birth to thy young in the spring of the following year; and thou mayest eat any of the grass that may grow in any land." At these words, the horse was delighted, and forthwith trotted out. But, as he rose, he kicked God in the forehead. So God was very angry, and pressed his hand to his head, so much did it hurt him.
Meanwhile, the ancestor of men came in, and asked saying: "How about me? When shall I copulate?" To which God, being still angry, replied: "Whenever you like!" For this reason, that race of creatures which is called man copulate at all times.
Sacred-Texts is so awesome... but I am so hot and miserable, I can barely concentrate. It does have some yummy new Talmud and Haggadah etexts- including illustrations! I just love illustrations, anyway. But these are really nice ones. There is also more Lucian goodness, and folklore and stuff. I just wish I could find a non-abridged translation of the Talmud. This one is huge but it's still abridged- as in, not including all of the chapters. Bah. Anyway, it is from the 1870s or so, and has all of these prefaces for confused Victorian Christians. It amuses me. It also amuses me that I apparently can understand Hebrew to a certain extent. Must be another one of those not-very-cool Palestinian super powers. Ooh, ooh, I know that word! Y-es!
LOLJason! The caption says "why are you sad, uncle?" Well, maybe it has something to do with Jason's choice of attire. Or maybe he's just sad that he's going to have to murder Jason? Ah, mocking Jason just never gets old.
And people on Crete wore snakes and had seagulls attacking them ALL THE TIME:
-sophie
ETA: The following is an Aino folktale:
The Reason for there being no Fixed Time for Human Beings to copulate.
Anciently the Creator summoned all the birds and beasts, the gods p. 10 and devils together, in order to instruct them on the subject of copulation. So the birds and all the others of every sort assembled, and learnt from the Creator when to copulate, and when to give birth to their young.
Then the Creator said to the horse: "Oh! thou divine ancestor of horses! It will be well for thee to copulate one spring, and to give birth to thy young in the spring of the following year; and thou mayest eat any of the grass that may grow in any land." At these words, the horse was delighted, and forthwith trotted out. But, as he rose, he kicked God in the forehead. So God was very angry, and pressed his hand to his head, so much did it hurt him.
Meanwhile, the ancestor of men came in, and asked saying: "How about me? When shall I copulate?" To which God, being still angry, replied: "Whenever you like!" For this reason, that race of creatures which is called man copulate at all times.
