| Chronic Ileum Ileitis Ileac Ileostomy |
| Janus January |
This overview concerned with KRONOS, CHRONOS or CRONOS
exposes ideas implicit in CHRONOLOGY, CHRONICITY, HARMONY and TIME. Chronos
was also known as EON. Another overview exposes the links of
SATURN or JANUS with JANUARY, ILEUM, ILEITIS and
other vistas related to medicine.
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Youth tend to show disregard for Father Time (Vouet). |
A prophecy declared that CHRONOS would be dethroned
by his son ZEUS in retribution for having
castrated his father URANUS. To avoid such fate, CHRONOS escaped to LATIUM and became LATENT among
the LATINS. Saturn make great efforts to SATURate Romans with abundance which
led Chronos to become known as SATURN.
His high standing in Rome is reflected in the fact that the Roman treasury was kept in his temple and that
the most important annual Roman festivity was named SATURNalia.
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Roman forum and temple of
Saturn (Right). |
To further avoid his fate, Chronos ate or canablilized his
children, as depicted by Reubens and Goya perhaps to denote that "time devours all".
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Time creates and devours all (Goya, Rubens). |
CHRONOS, in his role as AEON or EON, stands for eternity or "of infinite age". There
is a poetic proximity between EON and EOS or
DAWN who as ALBA personifies the onset of each DAY.
Poets described Eos as she who;
"travels high above earth ...
she tints
the orient with gold ...
she is the rosy
fingered morn ...
the mother of the morning
stars ... ".
Eos reminds us that sidereal time
as measured by DAY cycles which transcends the sort of time
measured by human watches and CHRONOmeters. DAY
or DIA and poDIA, naDIA, DYU, DIOS and DEUS are
Indoeuropean, Ukrainian, Spanish and Latin terms
linking day, light, event, and hope with God and when expanded by AYUS, AEUUM and AETAS,
encompass ideas of "duration of life" as per eons and eternity.
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| Aurora as
Sidereal time is quite illuminating (Guerin). |
Linking eternity with deities is not new. The
patronym for ZEUS was CRONIDES to underscore that
the father of ZEUS or JOVE was KRONUS. Perhaps JOVE was JOVIAL because he was
timeless, ageless thus eternal. In Rome, Jove or Zeus, Mithra as well as Saturn stood for the eternal.
Saturnalia was in fact a pagan Christmas until Christians absorbed many of the symbolisms
of Saturnalia and Mithraism. One tactic
was to transfer the symbolic birthday of Christ from January sixth to December
twenty fifth, which is the birthday of Mithra.
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Dawns begin Days and remind humans of Deities (Dujardin, Breton). |
CHRONOS impacts the nature of things. The logical human mind perceives reality more or less CHRONOlogically.
Nonetheless, in biology, time is quite relative as revealed by ORGANic RHYTHMS of
ORGANisms such as cycles of DNA replication, cell
divisions, sleep and other periodic phenomena.
ORGANic RHYTMS must RIME and HARMonize an ORGANism
with extra corporeal CADEnces and CALENDars or
otherwise health will fall or deCAY as in CAER,
CADE, and CADUCARY, words that underscore ideas in
FALL and FALLING.
CHRONIC implies LASTing. It is surprising that
many fail to realize that CHRONIC pain can destroy
life. This point is made by CHRONICles about
Hercules who chose to forgo his immortality to be
able to escape his agony from pain by dying or
committing suicide. CHEIRON or CHIRON, the pioneer
of surgery, also suffered from CHRONIC unbearable
pain.
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Chronos and Athena protect wisdom and beauty from
the ravages of time (Sandrart). |
Originally, KRONOS was a Deity concerned with
agriculture and harvests which is implicit in his nickname of
"the ripener" and his depictions with a scythe, syckle or a pruning knife. He is
also depicted with his head covered with
a veil to stress the common plight of farmers
of being unable to predict the climate.
CHRONOS personifies time, infinity and energy, three vital cosmic powers named Cronico, Kosmos and ILIACo.
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Shiva is a paradox as is life.
Shiva creates and destroys |
ILEAC,
ILIAC,
ILEITIS, ILEOSTOMY, ILEUM, ILEUS share, roots but have acquired distinct overtones.
Basically, ELIOS which in Greek points to rotation, loop and
curl are found in terms describing sun cycles as well as bowel
loops or curved loins.
ILIACo, personifies energy and the term is rooted
in HELIOS, ELIOS, EILEIN, ILIA, ILIO and HELIOS
for sun, rotation, loop, roll, curl, twist, and
loin. In more poetic terms, ILIAC stands for the
"genius or spirit of the sun". ILIAC also means
hip or haunch as well as the terminal portion of
the narrow intestine or jejunum or "small
intestine" wich in fact is quite long.
ILIAC also refers to the largest hip or pelvic
bone. Perhaps the link of hip with energy has
to do with procreation which often is energized
by swaying hips.
ILEITIS refers to an inflamed ILEUM which often is due
to Crohn disease, a chronic granulomatous
inflammatory disorder of unknown cause or
etiology afflicting any portion of the
intestinal tract but with preference, the
terminal ILEUM. A serious complication of Crohn disease is
ILEUS or mechanical bowel obstruction due to
its thickening. ILEUS can also be due to
intestinal paralysis.
Regarding CHRONUS as TIME, it is best to admit
that humans do not know how to define TIME.
Calling time a MOMENT, INTERVAL, or an INSTANT does not
clarify matters. Even St. Augustin confessed that
"if no one asks me
I know
but if any person should require me to tell him
I can not ... ".
Some poet said
"... it flies, it crawls ...
it passes inexorably ...".
Some philosopher remarked
"Tempus fugit" for "time flies".
A retort by A. Dobson is
" ... time goes you say
ah no!
time stays, we go".
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The vanity of power promotes
pretenses to timelessness. |
Speaking of Chronos and its transformation into Saturn
has prepared us to welcome the new year and meet with
Janus in January.
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