Re: Mitanni and Matsya

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


> In terms of myth, "reddish" makes plenty of sense for
> the sun's chariot driver, since the sun is preceded
> by the red dawn and followed by the red dusk or "born
> and dies in blood" as the Mesoamericans sometimes put
> it.
>
>
> --- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

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Francesco, color symbolism was also very important to the ancients.

Mercury is grayish-white to the naked eye, not reddish.

And prior to the orange glow of morning is the pale forerunner we call
twilight.

Mercury is always so close to the sun in the sky that it was natural to
associate them together.


Patrick

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