Ares = Pelles the Grail-King
Drakon = Huios Anthropoio ('Son of Man')
Kadmos = Longinus the Centurion
DCM, s.v. "Ares" (pp. 52-53a) |
"FK" |
DCM, p. 52b "turning Ares's spear aside" |
Pelles having "the bloody spear in his side" (Smith 38) |
DCM, p. 52b "wounded ... in the thigh ... Ares fled" |
Pelles was wounded "in both thighs" (The Holy Grail 1) |
GM 12.c "Ares and his twin-sister Eris were conceived when Hera touched a certain flower". (GM 12.2 "The 'certain flower' is likely to have been the may-blossom ... whitehorn".) |
Pelles fed his own father from the Grail (Staines 416) : "the finder or keeper of the Grail ... was said to have planted a whitethorn bush at the site of ... the Abbey of GLASTONBURY" (FHG, p. 5). |
GM 12.2 "its 'sister' is blackthorn, ... Strife -- Ares's twin, Eris." |
Permeating "the wonderful burning bush" is (G:LB, p. 310) "a blazing flame ... black of color." Such is (G:LB, p. 311) "the burning thorn-bush." |
DCM = Pierre Grimal : Dictionary of Classical Mythology.
"FK" = "Fisher King". https://www.essays24.com/History-Other/The-Fisher-King/8903.html
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
FHG = Sean mac Aodhagain : Finding the Holy Grail. AuthorHouse, 2009. https://books.google.com/books?id=uiXQh_-Q8p4C&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=
G:LB = Louis Ginzberg : Legends of the Bible. Konecky & Konecky.
DCM, s.v. "Cadmus" (pp. 82b-83a) |
Eu-angelion |
p. 82b Kadmos "killed the dragon." {Dragons are winged serpents : cf. the 6-winged (Ys^a<yah 6:2) s`arapiym ('caustic' serpents) in the wilderness, confronted by Mos^eh} |
"Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so shall the Son of Man be lifted up" (Euangelion kata Ioannes 3:14) : who, on that occasion, was pierced by Longinus. |
p. 82b He was "advised ... to sow its teeth. [Kadmos] did so, and at once, armed men sprang out of the ground". {Did he have to break out those teeth so as to escape out of its mouth?} |
(G:LB, p. 306) "a serpent ... swallowed Moses down to his ... feet." But "a heavenly voice was heard ..., "Spew him out!" and Moses came forth and stood on the ground." |
p. 82b "the Spartoi ... did not know who was throwing the stones". {Cf. Aztec god Ixquimilli's stoning-to-death adulterers.} |
"who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." {But how could one be sure that anyone was without sin?} |
p. 82b "Only five survived ... who subsequently married [Agau[h]e,] one of [Kadmos]'s daughters". |
(W:"SWW") Photine (the Samaritan woman-at-the-well) hath 5 husbands. |
p. 83a Kadmos "served as Ares's slave for eight years". |
(G:LB, p. 305) Imprisoned by Yitrow, Mos^eh "lay in the pit ... for the space of seven years." |
p. 83a Kadmos married Ares's daughter goddess Harmonia ('musical harmony'). |
Mos^eh married Yitrow's daughter S.ipporah ('talon' {which may be for plucking a lyre}). |
Ys^a<yah 6:2 http://biblehub.com/isaiah/6-2.htm
Euangelion kata Ioannes 3:14 http://biblehub.com/john/3-14.htm
W:"SWW" = WIKIPEDIA article "Samaritan Woman at the Well". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_woman_at_the_well
"a centurion from Cappadocia named Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was nearly blind," pierced the thorax of Iesous Khristos, causing outflow of water and blood. https://www.gotquestions.org/Longinus.html
{This "ophthalmia" ("HLL") of Longinus might be comparable to the Norse myth of the fatal piercing of the body of Baldr by Ho,dr, who was blind.}
"HLL" = "Holy Lance of Longinus". https://www.bibleprobe.com/holy_lance.htm
[written 11 July 2017]