Do you name your vehicles?

I named my vehicle Ostara.

 

Pagan goddess, yes?

 

no..i dont

 

I name my car, 'car.'

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*yay* I will send you one, too. It's very nice to find people with similar interests!

I actually went back and fact-checked what I wrote yesterday, and I forgot to include the best part! That is, the details of the dreams that Astyages has! The first one was about his daughter urinating so much so that it drowned his entire capital city and then his empire; indeed, the whole of Asia (Minor) was seen to be submerged! This is why Astyages married off his daughter to the Persian Cambyses I (and hence the Delphic oracle was fulfilled when Croesus was warned that his empire would be destroyed when a mule took the throne; Cyrus was born to a Mede and a Persian, so of mixed ethnicity and of social class). And then the second dream involved his daughter growing vines from her genitals, again consuming the empire, and this is what caused Astyages to order Harpagus to kill the infant Cyrus. Look I even found a picture of this second dream on wikipedia!




Now, one thing I am uncertain of, as both translations I have of Herodotus' Histories don't specify or even remark on the fact at all, is my suspicion that the Harpagus who, much earlier in the book, gives the advice to Cyrus as he battles the Lydian's under Croesus to put have soldiers mound camels and put them in the front line to combat the Lydian cavalry, the idea being that went the horses approached the camels, the unfamiliar scent and sight of the beasts would cause them to go berserk and then to scatter in fear, which ultimately worked and enabled Cyrus to besiege the Lydian capital of Sardis as Croesus returned home to call on his allies and plan an invasion in four months time of Persia. My theory is that this Harpagus, who gives the advice and is present on the battlefield decades later with Cyrus, is the very same Harpagus who betrays Astyages and gives the infant Cyrus to the herdsman Mitridates and therefore saves Cyrus life, and so I assume that Harpagus would go on to become Cyrus right-hand man, and thus it would make sense for him to be present at the battle with Croesus. I haven't been able to confirm this yet, but it simply must be so.. If I find confirmation I will let you know!

 

Ummm no

 

I call my bicycle names sometimes, for example when it has a flat tire.

 

I think you've given more info I'm this thread than I ever knew about the story of Atalanta. I love it!

 

My bike has a flat right now :/.