Origin of the 2 Eucharists
the reason for the eucharist in two kinds is :
Hiran.ya-kas`ipu’s corpse : |
the eucharist : |
Nara-simha devoured the flesh; |
the flesh = wafer, eaten by the laity; |
the Mari goddesses quaffed the blood. |
the blood = wine, quaffed by clergy (originally clergy of Maryam). |
Nara-simha = Amuthaon
Nara-simha emerged from a pillar. |
Toppled by S^ims^o^n, the ‘pillar’ (Strong’s 5982) <AMUD |
AMUTHaon, whose wife was ("A-Ant") Aglaia, one of (HTh 945 -- GM 105.5) the three Kharites who |
S^ims^o^n’s hair was shorn from his head |
provide (GM 105.h) a "head of hair." |
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The blood of Hiran.ya-kas`ipu was all lapped up by the MARI goddesses. |
The 3 MARYam women were praesent at the blood-letting crucifixion. |
Amuthaon was praesent where (at Lemnos) the men were slain (VF 2:162 -- "A") by their own women. |
"A-Ant" = http://www.maicar.com/GML/002GG/ggAlthepus.html
HTh = Hesiodos : Theogonia.
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
VF = Valerius Flaccus.
Kirtti-mukha = Paulos = Teiresias
a serpent was wrapped around the Persian Zrvan Daregho-cvadhata, God of Time. |
Paulos was (on Malta) harmlessly bitten by a viper. |
long-lived Teiresias viewed snakes. |
God "of Time" (HT, p. 327) Kirtti-mukha is depicted on the fac,ades of temples. |
Paulos escaped over the city-wall of Dimas`q. |
Teiresias counseled escape from the city Thebai on account of its "walls" (GM 107.b). |
Kirtti-mukha (‘Renown-mouth’) is figured as lion-god’s separate head. |
Paulos : "as his head struck the earth it bounced three times and |
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at every meeting with the earth gushed forth a spring of sweet water." (AMMB, p. 346) |
Teiresias died at the water-spring Telphousa (CDCM, s.v. "Tiresias") |
HT = Stella Kramrisch : The Hindu Temple. U of Calcutta, 1946. http://books.google.com/books?id=8-aS52MgIkMC&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&dq=
AMMB = Harriet-Louise H. Patterson : Around the Mediterranean with My Bible. Philadelphia : the Judson Pr, 1948. http://www.archive.org/stream/aroundthemediter000103mbp/aroundthemediter000103mbp_djvu.txt
CDCM = Pierre Grimal : A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. 1990.
The name Telphousa/Tilphoussa may be derived from earlier *THeLPHou-/*THiLPHou-, aequivalent to Skt *GHaLBH-/*GHiLBH-, <arabi^ QaLaBa ‘to tip, tilt over, topple over’ (alluding to the pillar toppled by S^ims^o^n?)