Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: The Carnesian View of Mythology Message-ID: <1031@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 23:25:08 EST Article-I.D.: mit-vax.1031 Posted: Sun Oct 27 23:25:08 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:47:09 EST References: <444@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 22 Summary: In article <444@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: >>What is the evidence that the ancient myths about the reign of Kronos >>are referring to the *planet* Saturn? > >Surely you jest?! Did you think that when planets were discovered, say, >sometime in the middle ages, that people simply gave them names from >Greek and Roman mythology?? When you say you are studying "Greek", do >you mean exotic sexual practices? I think the question was asked wrong, Ted. When mythology says, vaguely, "Kronos ruled the heavens" why does that mean that the Earth orbited it? Even so, your answer is really stupid. I think you're getting edgy. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "I'm looking for the joke with a microscope." -Iggy Pop