CLT 3370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Bow Drill, Aristoi, Hephaestion
29 Oct 2016
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Psychopomps (leader of souls to the underworld) Syracuse expedition mutilation of herms in athens. The homeric hyman to hermes (birth and deadly deeds) Invents special sandals, kindling fire with a bow drill, sausage. Myaia gives birth to hermes in a cave. Hermes crawls out of cave and sees a tortoise. Hermes kills tortoise after lying about being friends with it. He makes a lyre with the body of the tortoise. He wants steak, so he goes to the place where the gods keep their herds. He doesn"t want to get cough, so he drives the cows backwards and also makes giant sandals. Old man sees baby, tells him not to tell anyone. To kill cow, he wrestles them and slits their throats. He makes fire from a stick and bow drill to cook cow. Then he makes a sacrifice to the twelve gods. He burns the remains of the cows and he takes the remaining cows back home.
