Orpheus

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~ ORPHEUS  id+ | A MONAD or SELF |
           id+ | LOVE TRIUMPHS OVER DEATH |
           id+ | IDEAL BUT NON REAL LOVE |
           id+ | IMMENSE even perhaps
                 EXCESSIVE LOVE
                 for the DECEASED EURYDICE
                 inducing fatal JEALOUSY
                 among the LIVING |
  biol> MONAD IS A SINGLE CELL PROTOZOON or
        SINGLE CELL COCCUS
  sc>   MONAD IS A
        UNIVALENT RADICAL OR ELEMENT
  med> in genetics MONAD denotes
        A SINGLE CHROMOSOME as in
  MONOSOMY vs DISOMY or IN PAIRS
  id+ | PEDERASTY perhaps |
  hx> ORPHIC THEOLOGY INCLUDES
      ELEMENTS FOUND IN OTHER THEOLOGIES
  IT PRESUMED KNOWLEDGE OF
  THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNDERWORLD AND
  PROPOSED PROFOUND FAITHFULL LOVE
  AS VICTORIOUS OVER DEATH
  IT STOOD FOR FREE WILL SEX and
  FALLIBILITY as in
  sp FALLA = FLAW FAIL
  IT OFFERED CAPTIVATING BEAUTY and
  WILLING SACRIFICE
  THERE MAY BE A CONNECTION OF
  THE ORPHIC MYSTERIES WITH
  THE ELYSIAN MYSTERIES
  astr> THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS
        BECAME A CONSTELLATION
  myth> THE SON OF APOLLO & KALLIOPE or
        OREAGER & CALLIOPE or MENIPPE
  THRACIAN IN ORIGIN
  HE JOINED THE EXPEDITION OF THE ARGONAUTS AND
  INHERITED THE POWER OF PLAYING
  THE LYRE AND CYTHARA
  sug> sp GUITARRA = GUITAR
  HE SANG SO WELL
  THAT BIRDS FISH AND BEASTS  EVEN TREES
  WOULD GATHER TO HEAR HIM
  ORPHEUS SINGING COULD CALM THE STORMY SEAS
  sug> LULL LULLABIES
  HIS SONGS SURPASSED THOSE OF THE SIRENS
  HIS LOVE SONGS WERE
  FOR EURYDIKE or EURYDICE
  WHOM HE LOVED AND LOST
  WHEN SHE DIED FROM
  A POISONED BITE OF A SNAKE
  WHICH WAS LURKING IN GRASS
  note maxim> " SNAKE IN THE GRASS "
  AS SHE WAS ESCAPING FROM
  ARISTAEOS WHO ALSO LOVED HER
  ALL THE SISTER NYMPHS OF EURYDIKE
  ACCOMPANIED BY ORPHEUS
  WANDERED THE HILLS CALLING HER BACK
  ORPHEUS EVEN WENT DOWN
  INTO THE LOWER WORLD or HADES AND
  THE SWEETNESS OF HIS MUSIC
  SOOTHED MONSTERS AND SPIRITS
  THE WHEEL OF IXION STOPPED
  THE STONE OF SISYPHUS DID NOT MOVE
  THE THIRST AND HUNGER OF TANTALUS CEASED
  EVEN THE HARDENED HEART OF PERSEPHONE AND
  THE MERCILESS ERINYS WERE TOUCHED BY
  THE GRIEF OF ORPHEUS
  AN EXCEPTION WAS MADE AND
  EURYDIKE WAS PERMITTED TO RETURN
  FROM THE LOWER TO THE UPPER WORLD
  ON THE CONDITION THAT ORPHEUS
  SHOULD NOT TURN TO LOOK UPON HER FACE
  BUT DURING THEIR WAY BACK FROM HADES
  ORPHEUS COULD NOT RESIST AND
  THE BARGAIN BECAME NULL
  EURYDIKE INSTANTLY HAD TO RETRACE HER STEPS AND
  WAS LOST TO HIM FOREVER
  FOR SEVEN MONTHS ORPHEUS
  REFUSED FOOD OR DRINK AND
  TO NURSE HIS SORROW
  HE WITHDREW TO THE COLDEST REGIONS OF
  RHODOPE AND HAEMOS AND WAS KILLED
  BY THE WOMEN OF THRACE WHO RESENTED HIS
  FIDELITY TO ERINYS or EURYDICE
  another view is
  AFTER LOSING EURYDICE
  ORPHEUS REFUSED THE COMPANY OF WOMEN
  HE BECAME SURROUNDED BY BOYS AND
  TOOK AS LOVER CALAIS THE SON OF BOREAS
  alt ORPHIC MYSTERIES ARE SAID TO HAVE ORIGINATED
      FROM HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNDERWORLD
  note BECAUSE ORPHEUS EXCLUDED WOMEN
       THEY TOOK REVENGE AND
  KILLED HIM AND THREW
  HIS TORN BODY INTO A RIVER
  THE MUSES GATHERED THE LIMBS OF ORPHEUS AND
  CONVEYED THEM TO PIERIA ON MOUNT OLYMPUS
  HIS HEAD AND LYRE FLOATED
  DOWN THE HEBROS TO THE SEA AND
  THE LYRE FLOATED SOUNDING SWEETLY
  TO THE ISLAND OF LESBOS
  art> A LARGE ROMAN MOSAIC
       FROM A VILLA NEAR PALERMO SHOWS
  ORPHEUS CHARMING ANIMALS
  incl TIGERS  PARROTS  LEOPARDS