Posts by Lilith __
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to David Haywood,
Sorry, David! Time to make a snowperson?
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Gee,
Hope it’s not too cold.
It's below freezing, plus windchill. And still snowing! A rare day for Chch. And now thunder and lightning....
I think we're all enjoying the novelty. This is the sort of natural event we can cope with!
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Nice one, David! Everything looks OK under the snow....
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Not sure if this counts as a deus ex machina , or just magical thinking, but this little button might make us all feel better.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Amy Winehouse’s death
What a waste. So much talent.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ian can I just say…I don’t know what you have for breakfast, but I’m pretty sure you could patent it! ;-) [Lithosphere, indeed!]
Regarding the transition from Mesopotamian goddess to Hebrew demon: it’s amazing how old stories and images never seem to get thrown away, just reused for new purposes.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Islander,
Lilith? The OT Lilith? Where’s she in all this?
I think Lilith is only mentioned in one of the Apocrypha, as Adam's first wife, made from the earth along with him. As I recall, he divorced her for being too uppity, and replaced her with Eve, who was subservient by design.
Her origins apparently go further back into Mesopotamian and Indo-European mythology.
One of my reference books says the name means "lily" and derives from the Sumero-Babylonian word lilu , meaning lotus. Her obvious connection with sexuality and fertility is no doubt what makes her demonic in Hebrew mythology.
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Lamentable…
So much for unstoppable urges, eh?
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Sacha,
There were? Huh.
ETA love the Potter clip thanks Rob!
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Sacha,
There are other plausible reasons for foreign security interests in Christchurch at that time. If that’s what this was.
There are?! I mean I love Chch dearly, but I can't see why spies would be flocking here....