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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

~ SPERM  id+ | links SEED SEMEN and SPORE |
         ply> | SPERM SPERMATOZOIDS and SPORES
                ARE LIFE GENERATING SPEARS |
  gr SPORA      = SEED                       sug> SEMEN
     SPORADIKOS   SCATTERED LIKE SEED        sug> SEMINAL
     SPEIREIN     TO SOW                     sug> IMPLANT
     SPEIR~       prefix to denote SCATTER   see> SPORADIC
          ZOE     LIFE                       see> ZEUS  ZOO
  see> SPORE  see> SPORADIC  sug> SPIRE
  note  AVOID confusion with see> SPONTANEOUS
  biol> SPERMATOZOA    SPERM CELLS or in     see> ZOO
  med>  SPERMATOZOID   HAVE A MOTION         sug> ZOOLOGY
        TWIST COIL     as in a SPIRAL
  ply> | EACH SPORADIC SPERM SPIRALS WITHIN THE
         INSEMINATING SEMEN ASPIRING TO SPEAR
         A SEMINAL or SEMINARY EVENT |
  hx> GREEKS POSTULATED THAT THE MATERNAL EGG WAS MATTER <see
      AND THAT THE PATERNAL SPERM WAS SPIRIT             <sug
  ply> | UPON DEATH WE GIVE UP OUR
         GHOST  = ILLUSION  FANTASY or                   <sug
         SPIRIT   PERSONA MIND or ANGEL and what is      <sug
  LEFT IS THE BODY OF MATTER or a CORPSE CARCASS or CADAVER | 
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