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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:40 pm
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In class today I was sort of paying attention to stuff and someone mentioned there were people called métis, so I was like "wut." And then I get home, and A-WIKI-ING I GO.
1. A métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences, regarded as racial.
2. Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus, indeed his equal and the mother of Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom. By the era of Greek philosophy Metis had become the goddess of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus.
exceprt from the second: "Zeus lay with Metis but immediately feared the consequences. It had been prophesied that Metis would bear extremely powerful children: the first, Athena and the second, a son more powerful than Zeus himself, who would eventually overthrow Zeus. In order to forestall these dire consequences, Zeus tricked her into turning herself into a fly and promptly swallowed her."
Yeah, uh. I was amused anyway. 8D
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:10 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:25 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:42 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:31 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:31 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:17 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:25 pm
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