what the hell is a golden odyssey?
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A golden odyssey is what you would call someone going on a trek to attain an unattainable goal similar to that of Jason and the Argonauts of Greek mythology.  \n\nJason was in search of the golden Fleece which was considered impossible to find.  He subsequently found it.  But the journey was filled with peril.\n\nhere is a link to a site that may give a little more light into Jason and the Argonauts\n\nwww.pantheon.org/articles/g/golden_fleece.html
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I tell you now a story of beauty and tragedy. It begins with Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived. One strum of his lyre, one note sung, and beasts would crawl to him, rocks would move to be closer, trees would leave their places to be near to him. They called him a sorcerer for his power, and perhaps he was, for he was the son of the Muse Calliope.\nHe lived his life simply and carelessly until the day he met Eurydice. She was a Dryad, and their love was perfect and unbreakable. Aristaeus, who saw Eurydice's beauty and desired it, tried to take her unwillingly. She ran from him. Ran in terror, without thought to her step, and so it was she stepped on a viper in her flight. The venom of its bite killed her at once, and Orpheus was inconsolable. His grief was bitter, but he did not let it lull him into a stupor. He decided to take action.\nWith his lyre, Orpheus descended into the Underworld. A normal mortal would have perished any number of times, but Orpheus had his lyre and his voice and he charmed Cerberus - the three-headed monster dog of Hades who guarded the Underworld - into letting him pass. Facing Hades and his cold Queen Persephone he played for them his sorrow at the loss of his love. The heart that was frozen by Hades' abduction melted in Persphone's breast and a tear rolled down her cheek. Even Hades could not help weeping. They let Orpheus through to Eurydice, but warned him very carefully: Eurydice would follow him into the light of the world and once she entered the sunlight she would be changed from a shade back to a woman. But if Orpheus doubted, if he looked back to see her, she would be lost to him forever.\nOrpheus heard and rejoiced. He turned and left the dark hall of Hades and began his ascent back to life. As he walked he rejoiced that his wife would soon be with him again. He listened closely for her footfall behind him, but a shade makes no noise. The closer to the light he got, the more he began to believe that Hades had tricked him to get him out of the Underworld, that Eurydice was not behind him. Only feet away from the light Orpheus lost faith and turned around. He saw Eurydice, but only for a moment as her shade was whisked back down among the other dead souls. She was gone.\nOrpheus tried again to enter the Underworld and demand her return, but one cannot enter twice the same way - and no other way was open to him. All that was left to him was death.\n\nHere the story changes. There are different stories of his death. Some say he played so mournfully that his songs called for death, and that the animals who surrounded him tore him apart, weeping as they did. Some say it was Maenads in a frenzy who ripped the singer to shreds. Some say he was struck down by Zeus for disclosing mysteries that were meant to be kept sacred. Either way, he was torn apart, and much of him was thrown to the winds. But the Muses mourned the death of their son and prodigy, and saved his head to sing forever.
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Allright I didn't want to get into it but if no one else is going to fine. First of all when people talk about Atlantis they're using the wrong term. Plato was the first person to mention the legend of Atlantis, it might have been passed on as an oral tradition prior to that, or he may have been using it as an allegory. If it was a real thing he refered to (which seems probable as he was pretty specific in detail) then some scientists believe they have found it, and the evidence is pretty good. They found a civilization, quite advanced, sacrificed bulls, on an island with red black and white stones, that was a seafaring race, and was destroyed by a tsunami. All coinciding with what Plato said.\n Now then, when most people speak of Atlantis what they refer to is the Great Civilization Myth. This is the theory that there was a great mother civilization that is the source of early technology and knowledge through the world (or at least a large portion of Europe, Africa, and South/Central America. This civilization supposedly flourished for 16000 years until it put science ahead of nature and caused such imbalance that the Earth went into turmoil and threw mankind back to a near stoneage existence with only memory of their deads. This cycle has supposedly occured several times. This seems crazy at first sight, but who knows. There is a fascinating book called Forbidden Archeology that documents some interesting anomalies (although I don't believe it goes into the Atlantis myth). It is a source of more questions than answers but if you're really interested you should at least check out the website, even if you don't by the book. www.forbiddenarcheology.com\n\nOkay above I have dealt with facts, theories, and myths (and yes I know I've left out a whole bunch of stuff but I'm dealing with The Great Civilization theory not the one that dissappeared, or where did who originate so I'm not going into the Olmecs or the Egyptians or any of thatstuff because it really doesn't apply. There are plenty of civilizations that just up and blew away but none were advanced enough or powerful enough to qualify) but a discussion of Atlantis can not be concluded without bringing Edgar Cayce into the mix. As far as psychics go I'm generally sceptical, but Cayce did come up with some interesting things that should at least be looked into. First he predicted that Atlantis would be found of the coast of Florida, and in the year he predicted what appear to be submerged docks were indeed found (although they could be natural formations). Secondly he predicted that the Atlantians left behind two great storehouses of information. One was lost in South America, the other would be found in a room under the paws of the Sphinx (by the way the Sphinx is most definately much, much older than the pyramids and in fact when it was carved the valley of the pyramids is beieved to have been a tropical jungle) well it turns out that sonar readings have discovered what to all appearances is a giant room under the Sphinx! Maybe it's natural but as soon as the information was revealed the Egyptian government shut the team down and to this day won't even let people approach the Sphinx let alone study it. Well there you go, that's a quick intro there's plenty of research you can do from here, but it might be wiser to just let it go. You may find yourself banging your head against a wall if you decide that you've got to figure out the truth:)
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The ram with golden fleece was a gift from Mercury to Nephele, to get her children away from their step-mother.  (Ancient child custody issues.)  The girl drowned, but the boy was "hospitably received" by Aetes, King of Colchis.  The boy then sacrificed the ram to Jupiter and gave the golden fleece to his host.  He placed it in a consecrated grove with a dragon to guard it.  Eventually, Jason's uncle, who was supposed to surrender the throne of his kingdom when he reached maturity, sent him on a wild goose chase, er golden fleece quest, claiming the fleece was the rightful property of their kingdom.  Which it was not.  Anyway, Jason rounded up a tough bunch of friends of his, and off they went looking for the fleece.\n\nFrom this point on, you can substitute what you know of grail quests, for the symbols and traditions have been intermingled for centuries.  One of the challenges Jason faces is a wily king with a beautiful sorceress for a daughter, named Medea.  Naturally, she becomes instrumental in his success.  Brave hero and beautiful witch.  Haven't we heard that one before a time or two?\n\nFrom here, I'll let you work out the secondary meanings.  The primary one should be obvious enough: the cooperation of Jason and Medea overcame all obstacles, where neither one would have succeeded without the other.
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I clicked on the link, but I saw that you had already been helped!\n\nPerhaps Odesseus/Ulysses was a comic hero?  I mean, come on!  A big wooden horse to defeat the Trojans?  Somehow I think this was a play on Trojan ego...  Was the giant wooden horse compensating for something?  Sorry.  I love double meanings...
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wtf the game has a fiancee???
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What the heck is that?
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I have a few possibilities.  All page numbers are Robert Fagle's translation of the Odyssey- paperback, copyrighted 1996.  If you look it up on Amazon you can search for key words inside the book.\n\nOn p. 274, Scylla is called "the yelping horror"\nOn p. 278, Scylla is called "ghoul of the cliffs"\n\nKeep in mind that every translation is going to be a little different.  For example, Athena is known as the grey-eyed goddess, the sparkling-eyed goddess, or the owl-eyed goddess, depending on which version you read.
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The oldest version, the one for the Apple II is available here:\n\nhttp://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html \n\nYou can play it online for free as much as you want. No ads, no banners, etc.\n\nOther sources of newer (but still old) versions:\nhttp://www.download-full-games.com/o-trail\n\nhttp://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml
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Myth. What someone would call their Paradise!
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Hello again....\n\nI was always intrigued by the story of the Minotaur and the great Labrynth of Knossos....or was it Crete, nope that was the king, I believe....anyway, I digress...\n\nThe story of Perseus and Medusa also struck a chord - as a girl I was busting to have a horse just like Pegasus.\n\nThe first movie I ever went to see (that I remember) was Clash of the Titans and I don't think I ever got over the romance of it all......
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It is something like  "Golden Team"
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The Epic of Gilgamesh... an ancient Mesopotamian story and poem based on the travels of a king and his friendship with a wild man sent to destroy him.\nWritten around 2500BC.
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What the hell's a moby track?
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Never started, theoretically the golden age is a temporal term originated from early Greek and Roman poets. The term refers to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure and/or immortal. It usually ends with a devastating event, identified to the Fall of Man.\nIf you are referring to the metaphoric use of the word then you maybe surprised by the number of so called “Golden Ages” are society has experienced.\n\nGolden Age in Societies:\nAthenian Golden Age presided by Pericles (445 BC – 429 BC)\nGolden age of Latin literature, the period in Latin literature between Cicero and Ovid. (75 BC – 14 AD)\nIslamic Golden Age (750 – 1500)\nChinese Golden Age. From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty. (618 – 907)\nGolden age of Jewish culture in Spain (900 – 1100)\nSiglo de oro: \nthe powerful Spanish Empire between 16th and 17th centuries\nthe later Spanish Golden Age of the arts in the 17th century.\nGolden Age of England presided by Elizabeth I of England. (1558 – 1603)\nDutch Golden Age, 17th century\nGerman Golden Age, German Empire, 1871-1914\nPolish Golden Age, 16th century, early 17th century\nGrand Siècle, the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. (1610 – 1715)\nGolden Age of Piracy (1715 – 1730)\n\nTechnology\nThe Golden Age of Radio, early 20th century\nThe Golden Age of Hollywood animation\nGolden Age of Arcade Games, the early 1980s to early 1990s\nGolden Age of Television (ca. 1950s)\nGolden Age of Aviation, period between the two World Wars, 1920s and 1930s.\n\nGenre\nGolden age of Swordplay, period of Sword skills between 16th and 18th century.\nGolden Age of Science Fiction, period from the early 1940s through the 1950s\nGolden age of the Italian Horror movie (ca. 1957-1979)\nThe Golden Age of the British whodunit, early 20th century\nGolden Age of Comic Books, period between 1938 and 1945\nGolden age of the cinema of Mexico, beginning in 1935 and ending in the late 1950s\n\nSenior Citizen\nGolden Age Passport, a National Park Service pass for citizens who are 62 or older.
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The Iliad\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/iliad/\n\nThe Odyssey\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/
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what the fucking hell is a fifa?