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- From: alisonjw@spider.co.uk (Alison J Wyld)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics,alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: sacrifice
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.081540.21841@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 08:15:40 GMT
- References: <ARA.92Sep13052226@camelot.ai.mit.edu> <p!znac-@lynx.unm.edu>
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- In article <p!znac-@lynx.unm.edu> rsquires@cyclops.eece.unm.edu (Roger Squires) writes:
- >
- > The point is that *humans* like it burned (cooked), and they
- > are offering a tithe to the gods. There is a specific myth
- > that relates how some human tricked the gods into accepting
- > the bones and fat instead of the good meat. Does anyone
- > recall which it is? As for how it got to the god, I believe
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- Check out Hesiod's Theogony. I noticed the story on a scan through, but
- haven't read that bit yet, so I can't remember who it was. Prometheus ?
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- Alison
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