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Semele Semen Semi Seminal Seminar Seminary
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ SEMELE  Etymologists link SEMELE with SEMEN thus
^u        id+ | EARTH and SEED are MOTHER and SON |
          id+ | SEMELE and DYONYSUS are SEMINAL |
          myth> SEMELE is an EARTH DIVINITY
~ SEMEN   id+ | SEED |             see> SEMINARY
          note that the listed links
          often are overlooked [107]!
  sp  ZEMELO = meant EARTH and led to
      SEMELE   EARTH DEITY
  ukr ZEMLA    EARTH
      ZERNO    SEED or SEED
      SEMIA    FAMILY
  sp  SEMILLA  SEED  note that in Thraco-Phrygian [107]!
      SEMINAL  PITHY as if a PIT or NUT
  myth> SEMELE had a son see> DYONYSIUS or see> BACCHUS
        both of ORIENTAL ORIGIN
  see> BACCHUS  see> BACCHAE
  myth> SEMELE WAS ONE OF FOUR DAUGHTERS OF
        KADMOS & HARMONIA
  note  KADMOS MAY HAVE INVENTED THE
        ALPHABET for the PHENICIANS
  {the cult may have been imported to Greece via
   Phenician navigators }
  THE SISTERS OF SEMELE WERE
  INO
  AUTONOE and
  AGAUE and her brother was
  POLYDOROS
  SEMELE WAS SEDUCED BY ZEUS AND CONCEIVED
  DIONYSOS is
  known in Rome as see> BACCHUS
  HERA TRICKED SEMELE WHO WAS MORTAL
  INTO  SUGGESTING THAT IF ZEUS
  TRULY LOVED HER
  HE WHOULD REVEAL HIMSELF
  IN HIS FULL SPLENDOR  sug> LIGHT
  SEMELE DID NOT KNOW THAT
  AS STATED IN THE BIBLE
  BY GOD TO MOSES
  "THOU CANST NOT SEE MY FACE
   FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME AND LIVE ... "  [107]!
  WHEN ZEUS REVEALED HIMSELF
  SEMELE WAS IMMOLATED AND PERISHED
  ZEUS SNATCHED HER UNBORN SON DYONYSUS AND
  IMPLANTED HIM INTO HIS THIGH THUS
  HIS OTHER NAME from
  IACCHOS for INSEWN
  SEMELE BEING DEAD AND
  DYONYSIUS HAVING BEEN BORN SOME TIME LATER
  AFTER HER DEATH
  MADE THE SISTERS OF SEMELE DOUBT THAT
  DYONYSUS WAS OF DIVINE PATERNITY or
  THAT HE WAS INDEED THE SON OF ZEUS
  ONLY AFTER DIONYSOS RETURNED FROM
  HIS TRIUMPHANT JOURNEY TO INDIA
  DID AGAUE AND HER SISTERS
  EMBRACE HIS WORSHIP
  see> PENTHEUS
  note another version
  DIONYSIUS DESCENDED TO THE UNDERWOORLD TO
  RESCUE AND BRING SEMELE TO OLYMPUS
  art> Peter Paul RUBENS [#] PAINTED
       JUPITER AND SEMELE
  biol> organisms
        SEMELARTEMIS
        SEMELINA
        SEMELOSERIS
  med> SEMEN in sp relates to
       SPERM from which
  two main ideas are evident
  CREATION  SEED  SOWING
  sp  SEMILLA = SEED and
      SEMI      for HALF BECAUSE
  ANIMAL SEEDS CONTRIBUTE HALF OF THE
  HEREDITARY or CHROMOSOMES or DNA MATERIAL
  DANSEEor SEMI as in SEMInal or CREATIVE or
  SPERM CELLS or SPERMATOZOIDS or SPERMATOCITES
  ARE HAPLOIC or have HALF OF
  THE GENETIC COMPLEMENT or
  HEMI or HAPLOID DNA COMPLEMENT
  note SEMINAR  FORMATIVE  PRODUCTIVE  SOW
       DISSEMINATE  SEASON  SEASONING
  biol> med>  SEMEN or
              HUMAN TESTICULAR FLUID contains
  SPERMATOZOIDS see> ZOO
  SPERM         for  SEED
          ZOE   is   LIFE see> ZEUS
~ SEMI~  also prefix SIM  SIM~
         id+ | HALF or
               ONE SIDE or
               SIDED |
  biol> note that SEXUAL REPRODUCTION implies
        THAT MALES AND FEMALES PRODUCE
  HAPLOID GAMETES or SPERM AND OVA WITH HALF
  OF THE GENETIC ENDOWMENT
  med> DIPLOIDY IMPLIES TWO COPIES OF
       GENES AND CHROMOSOMES OF EACH KIND
  RESTITUTED BY CONJUGATION OF HAPLOID GAMETES
  or A HAPLOID EGG BY A HAPLOID SPERM
  ply> | GENETIC GENESIS OF WHOLENESS or LIFE |
     skt  SAMI      HALF
     ukr  SAMECZ    MALE ANIMAL
          SAMCZIA   FEMALE ANIMAL
          SAM       LONE  ALONE
          SAMOTA    LONELINESS
          SAMO      SELF SAME  DOUBLE
          ply> | SELF implies ALONE or LONELY |
~ SEMINAL   id+ | FRUITFUL |  sug> REPLICATION
~ SEMINAR   id+ | RETREAT |   sug> REPRODUCTION
                also
  TO MEET A COMPLEMENTARY HALF
  TIME FOR GESTATION OF SEMINAL IDEAS
  hx> SPERM WAS THOUGHT TO CONTRIBUTE THE SPIRIT TO
      THE MATTER OF THE MATERNAL EGG
  EXPIRING MEANT GIVING UP THE GHOST = SPIRIT
  and therefore DREAMS IDEAS etc      sug>  MEMORY
  what was left became a CORPUS or    sug>  OBLIVION
            CORPS or CADAVER
~ SEMINARY  SCHOOL  LYCEUM but perhaps more deeply
            A PLACE TO CULTIVATE SEMINAL IDEAS
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