-~and other misadventures~
This will be a chimera dump. Incomplete until otherwise indicated.
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The fetus shares immune cells with the mother. These cells persist, multiply, and can show up on blood tests. These cells migrate and persist in the body for years. Invasive sperm can also alter genital mucus cells and affect the uterus. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610722000682
Weirdness and Myth and Hated Nazis, a Look at Telegony in Literature
We are sort of like “interbeings”. We carry organelles with RNA variations, we carry rando DNA, genotypes. We carry ‘dead’ DNA code, redundancies from evolutionary multiverses that never ripened here, nubbins of strange organs and appendages that never came to call us home. Our DNA is a hallucination of a larger set of alleles. There are alleles all the way down.
Greek myths were cleaned up.
It is surprising then, that West wishes to delete χέσαιτογάρ, εἰ μαχέσαιτο from Little Iliad F 2, in which one of the two girls discussing who should get Achilles’ armour mentions that a woman ‘would shit herself if she fought’ in battle. The fact that Aristophanes in his Knights (1057) quotes this part of the fragment might also weaken the case for deletion or emendation here.
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Emendation and the peril of botched translations. What if the missing work shows up and upends centuries of scholarship. How is that going to go over with careerist academics and scholars? https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/botched-restoration-0013896
In the Epic Cycle of Greek poetry, the Telegony is the bookend for the whole shebang, but it is lost. “Only two lines remain.” But what are they? I was not able to discover them.
Only two lines remain apparently. As far as “Greek authorship” goes, really ancient pieces were sometimes picked up and translated – sometimes faithfully – by scholars whose names are lost. Homer used diaries and liar’s tales from scholars he read, and he read everything. He, Homer, likely had a team of scribes working with him. Greeks used forum, so they would have been efficient at ingesting and analyzing stories they picked up from oral traditions. The knowledge is vast and intractable due to the evolution that memes had over ancient times. Authorship is hardly necessary, but that cannot be said of oration in the presence of the juice of the grape, agape.
I found the lines. I am trying to translate them.
Discussion of the Telegony by Eugammon concludes with a fascinating conjecture that Odysseus’ original death was not at the hands of his son Telegonos, who stabbed him with a spear that had the barb of a sting-ray as its point. Since antiquity, with the notable exception of Aristarchus, this was considered to be what the Homeric Teiresias was referring to when he prophesied that Odysseus’ ‘mild death’ (θάνατος … ἀβληχρὸς) would come from the sea. West, however, noting that pain caused by a sting-ray barb is anything but mild, argues that Teiresias is referring to an event described in the Psychagogoi (F 275) by Aeschylus in which a heron defecates on the bald head of an ageing Odysseus; the hero’s death is caused by a fish barb contained in the bird’s droppings which poisons his scalp. Such a demise, according to West, also conforms to a number of folktale traditions in Greece and elsewhere in which the form of death is posited as a riddle. The death at the hands of Telegonos is, following this reading, a post-Homeric invention by Eugammon to add grandeur to Odysseus’ demise, and elevate him from his original folk-tale status as a trickster to one of the great heroes of the Trojan saga.
– https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/591effcf-0a88-4cd4-8959-198a73ca54e8/content M. L. West, The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 334. ISBN 9780199662258. $150.00.
“Eels generate spontaneously in mud.” is an example of a common folktalke that somehow ended up in the study of living creatures by Aristotle. People did not understand how babies were made, so they made stuff up to answer all of those annoying existential questions. People assumed godlike entities and their hubris cause things to happen.
They made a pantheon of Gods who act like spoiled high school kids. They had characters enter into incestuous marriages in order to provide a semantic end to their myth, a sort of cul-de-sac of inheritable grief and wonder. The wild raping and pillaging of your average Greek male god could go on until he married his mom. There were beliefs that bastards never wore the countenance of their fathers, but of their mothers.
Microchimerism can account for some bovine epigenetics. Telegony was attributed to epigenetics expressed by godlike energy. It was written into the pantheons, into the fables. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0037196306002344?via%3Dihub
Chimerism is when your body is host to distinctly different DNA strains. Chimeras can have different blood types in organs or various tissue. The ‘boundary’ of the individual is not hermetic. It is seemingly dynamically involved, not static.
In the case of memes, the ‘body’, the metanarrative which can support a local artifact of powered snark holds it among a constellation of memewerks. Social media platforms, authors, bots, anything with a weighted design which accelerates meme currency, provides it magnitude, and a method for profiting from data which replicates its ROI function.
When I send this letter to a local post office, it goes dead letter until its dead.
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