Busting Boundaries

Well, it's set. James is moving to FL next week. I'll meet him in Tucson on Friday, and we'll head toward FL, making a stop in Santa Fe along the way, and a few other stops at points of interest. We won't have time to search, but will try to enjoy the scenery as we drive through. It'll be fun, I think.

The other X-ray tech is out at work for a while using up her remaining vacation time from last year, so I'm doing X-rays for the next however many days. Today looks like it'll be busy, busy, busy.

I wanted to add something to my analysis yesterday. First, another term used in shipwrecks is "capsized." And the first poem in the SB is written in all caps...

Second,  I've long thought the poem from TTotC has a mythological theme, and a couple of my spots in the past were named for Greek mythology. I've been reading the different mythology books (the Bullfinch's Mythology I got for Christmas and other books like The Iliad and Odyssey). I'm also reading more about Norse mythology.

I think F has a King Midas/Pan thing going, and many of his stories reflect aspects of those myths. For example, look into how King Midas kept his secret, and why he had to keep killing his barber. :)

Here's the mountain tomb of the historical King Midas, Tumulus MM:

Anyway, there is a Greek goddess who fits the terms of "throbbing," "breeze," "saline door," "screaming," "shrouded," "war," "wild," and "dreams" -- all words found or implied in the stanza that describes "throbbing Ann."

There is another goddess it could also fit, Persephone, who is often portrayed wearing a "shroud" or a "veil." (I posted a pic yesterday of a sculpture of Persephone and her veil)

Persephone, while innocently picking flowers in the meadow, was abducted by love-maddened god of the underworld, Hades.

Persephone's mom, heard Persephone's screams as shows being dragged by Hades through a "door" to the underworld. This "door" has been described as being in different places, and one of these places is at the edge of the Western Sea. I can picture her "reaching back" as the meadows and flowers and fields she loved disappeared behind her.

Anyway, Demeter, her mom, searched the world looking for her, and finally that ass, Zeus, told Demeter he had given Persephone to Hades. Man, She was ticked.

I would not to be Zeus right about then. Woowhee, Demeter coulda skinned that guy god alive, and she raised hell (so to speak), cursing the land so that  nothing would grow until she got her daughter back. People began to starve as crops failed, and basically the world was miserable without Persephone.

When Zeus saw that Demeter wasn't going to just let it go, he agreed to persuade Hades to let Persephone return. Hades reluctantly agreed, but tricked Persephone into eating a number of pomegranate seeds before she left. Apparently, if you eat anything in Hades, you're doomed to remain there forever. That wily Hades! I'm surprised Demeter didn't bust her way through the ground like a Herculean mole to wring his neck.

Just eat it...it's...candy.

In the end, they worked out a deal where Persephone would stay in Hades as a dead goddess, the "dread queen of the dead," for the winter months, and return to the surface in the spring. And that's why we have the seasons, because the flowers and trees and grass and crops literally rejoice when she's back in their presence.

But I'm more convinced that F is referring to another goddess as "throbbing Ann," and that one is easy enough to find if you plug in the keywords I used above.

It's all so interesting to me. And, as a side note, E.A. Poe's poems are heavily laden with references to mythology, if that is the Poe to which Forrest thanks for the favor.

But still, there's something that I'm quickly finding fruition in, and I'm not too distracted by this SB. The poem and TTotC work together, and the captions are key. One day soon I will show you why, but the last answers are coming to quickly now to reveal. Just look to the trees...and stuff. Read the poem, read the book--the whole book--where the captions are equally important as the words and drawings and photos. It's the big picture, the whole story (or as much of the whole story as F will tell), and the blaze/map/trail.

I will also say the word "mark" is important. What did F drop to mark the enemy's in the dense Vietnam jungle below? Bombs with white phosphorus. Google it, and you'll see a distinct way these bombs marked a spot...