Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin

RADCLIFFE EDMONDS Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism and Original Sin

© 1999        .  -(p); - (e). Pure I come from the pure, Queen of those below the earth, and Eukles and Eubouleus and the other gods and daimons; For I boast that I am of your blessed race. I have paid the penalty on account of deeds not just; Either Fate mastered me or the Thunderer, striking with his lightning. Now I come, a suppliant...

Disquisitions on Original Antigenic Sin

Experiments in rabbits were designed to test the two unproven assumptions of the hypothesis proposed in the companion paper (1): that Original Antigenic Sin is fundamentally a restricted anamnestic response, and that there exists a trapping mechanism capable of deflecting antigen from one kind of cell and guiding it to another. It is shown that whole-body X-irradiation, sufficient to abolish pr...

Original sin and education.

Interaction and narration. Tearing Tolkien apart

In the past two decades computers have begun to be used extensively as media. The two most influential types of media usage is the internet and the WWW, corresponding to telephone, letters, newspapers and television, and the computer game genre, corresponding to aesthetic products such as novels and movies. The unique characteristic of the computer medium is its interactivity, i.e. the fact tha...

Genetics of Original Sin

The continuous repetition of Christian de Duve’s primary thesis in Genetics of Original Sin ensures that however little the reader understands or is interested in biology, he will have no doubt as to the author’s primary concern: Natural selection has made humans poor prognosticators. As evolutionary adaptation is all about living (and reproducing) in the moment, humans have evolved some unfort...