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Re-asking for both our sakes - can anyone help us link Loki and Ulysses/Odysseus further?

Re-asking for both our sakes - can anyone help us link Loki and Ulysses/Odysseus further?

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It’s SO GOOD!

The article and this are so so helpful, thank you! I can recognise nearly all those uses of water from what I’ve read elsewhere, but confounded I’ve never heard the term - and now it’s turning up in my Year 9 students work because one of them used google, found one website, and told the rest! 😂

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Thanks you, that’s the only reference I’d been able to find too! But nothing about preparing it or it being particularly specialised. For water anyway.

Great start, thanks Diane!

In twenty years of teaching (albeit at a secondary school level) I’ve never come across this term…
Can someone with more academic reading under their belt please tell me is it an Ancient Greek thing I’ve entirely missed or more modern?

Help Please:
Some of my younger students were making presentations on sacrifice and came up with this term for purification of water:

Khernips
χέρνιψ. Etym. χείρ, "the hand" + νίπτω, "I wash.")

There are numerous Hellenism pages that give instructions on how to make and use this…

Thanks!

A tiny cake on top of a copy of You Are Odysseus. The cake has a lit candle, a little flag the the book’s cover, and the number 1000 in gold icing.

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS has sold 1000 copies! 🎉

L Jenkinson-Brown dressed as Athene with helmet, black curly wig, yellow aegis with multicoloured tassels and blue peplos with golden tassels and belt. She stands in front of bookshelves.

L Jenkinson-Brown holding a copy of her book YOU ARE ODYSSEUS and dressed as Athene with helmet, black curly wig, yellow aegis with multicoloured tassels and blue peplos with golden tassels and belt. She stands in front of bookshelves.

It’s World Book Day!
I’ve celebrated by dressing as one of my favourite Ancient Greek characters (and goddesses) to read and to write, ⚡️Athene, Goddess of Wisdom⚡️

(And I taught three classes and a help session dressed like this!)

I was only two then but I heard about that later on - an English class project where we had to explain song meanings.
Some people really tell on themselves with what they find offensive.

I think about this scene a lot. Though as a kid I definitely didn’t recognise the main point.
Can’t wait for my daughter to start reading these.

From the comic 'Tintin en Amérique', published in 1932, created by Hergé.
American publishers were uneasy of this scene but Hergé nevertheless refused to remove it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_...

Oh the film not the series? I remember watching that but you’re right, sooooo long ago! (There’s a series too.)

I haven’t seen it! Just the comics.

I think it’s been made clear it is - they filmed on black beaches in Iceland for it - but I predict it’ll won’t feature the women sent by Persephone

Aragorn in the Underworld, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

This is still arguably the best film depiction of the Underworld as described by Homer, and if this scene isn’t done as well in the Nolan Odyssey film this June, I shall be sad and disappointed.

That’s exactly what I suspected thank you!
Sadly, it was invented by an AI the other day to answer a lazy pupil’s homework question.

Thank you! So, as suspected ornitheoskopos is not an Ancient Greek term?

This is so helpful, thank you! This is all to do with potential AI usage by pupils. The other mysterious term appears to be ‘ornitheoskopos’, which has a similar construction but no actual provenance…