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Heph & his hot wife = Hephaestus & Aphrodite

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Perko
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Heph & his hot wife = Hephaestus & Aphrodite

This is relatively obvious, but it hasn't yet been posted. Ewan's friend "Heph" is lame, in a wheelchair, and says he has a really hot wife. Clearly Heph is the lame Greek blacksmith god Hephaestus, said to have "walked with the aid of golden leg callipers". He was married to Aphrodite, who is of course the Goddess of Love and extraordinarily beatiful. So Heph isn't kidding when he tells Ewan his wife is "waaaay hotter, man" Smile

Sort of interesting play on the term hotter also, considering the guy is a blacksmith.

Anyway, there are all sorts of names of all sorts of gods from various pantheons floating around through the story now. It would be nice if somebody with a deeper interest in ancient mythology could attempt to summarize and organize them for the Guide. It should add up to something, but what?

Other fairly obvious related bits:
* "Spock Vulture" = "Vulcan Vulture". Spock was THE Vulcan. Vulcan is the Roman name for Hephaestus!

* Trinity303 previously pointed out that the "Aqua Matron" would be Ursula, the sea-witch in Disney's Little Mermaid. And that Ursula is the German name for Aphrodite, the Moon Goddess!

* Aphrodite is the first god mention in the unsolved "Ewan's New Password" puzzle. The full list is: "Aphrodite Hestia Mars Saturn Cupid Ares Discordia Odysseus Hades". Of these, Ares, the War God, who is also Mars, had an affair with Heph's wife Aphrodite. Heph caught them, too.

An idea for the solution: if all these gods have another name in greek/roman mythology, rename them, use the first letters of the new names for a 9-letter password. Another idea: if these gods had a well known partner, use the partner's name's initial.

* We also have several references to moons of various planets, which are named after gods (Mars, Venus=Aphrodite).

I appreciate the continuing efforts on the Guide. You missed one song, though: "Cecelia", Simon and Garfunkle. (Garfunkel is misspelled). Yeah, I know about Celia, but that's speculation and no reason to not list it.

Perko (who ought to register at some point).

Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:21 am

noBohdi
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pompous_psycho = psychopomp ?

On the subject of mythological references, the mail address used by Ewan seems to me to be a play on the word 'psychopomp'. Mythologically, this refers to some being who is responsible for the passage of the souls of the dead to their appropriate place in the afterlife.
In Greek mythology it was Hermes, but perhaps more interestingly, in Norse it would be Odin (owner of huginn & muninn).

Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:37 pm

lucky_starr
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Joined: 08 May 2003
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Re: Heph & his hot wife = Hephaestus & Aphrodite

Good calls, Perko!

Perko wrote:

Trinity303 previously pointed out that the "Aqua Matron" would be Ursula, the sea-witch in Disney's Little Mermaid. And that Ursula is the German name for Aphrodite, the Moon Goddess!

One thing I'm not sure about though. I don't remember reading Trinity303s post saying this but since in aqua_matrons picture Ariel was colored blue and Ursela was colored red, I'm guessing that the "Aqua Matron" is Ariel and "the red queen" is Ursela. Which makes "Aqua Matron" the one who lost her voice.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 4:12 pm

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