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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtilus

<<In Greek mythology, *MYRTILUS* was a divine hero, a son of Hermes on
Theobula, and charioteer of King Oenomaus of Pisa in Elis, on the
northwest coast of the Peloponnesus.

On the eve of the fateful horse race that would decide the marriage
between Pelops and Hippodameia, *MYRTILUS* was approached by Pelops
(or in some accounts, by Hippodamia) who wanted him to hinder the
efforts of his master, Oenamaus, to win the race. *MYRTILUS* was
offered as bribe the privilege of the first night with Hippodameia.

*MYRTILUS* , who loved Hippodamia himself but was too afraid to ask
her hand of her father, agreed and sabotaged the king's chariot by
replacing the bronze linchpins with fake ones made of bees' wax. In
the ensuing accident Oenomaus lost his life, cursing *MYRTILUS* as he
died. Shortly thereafter *MYRTILUS* tried to seduce Hippodamia, who
ran crying to Pelops. Enraged, Pelops murdered *MYRTILUS* by casting
him into the sea off the east coast of the Peloponnesus, which was
later named the Myrtoan Sea in honor of the hero. His body was later
recovered and brought in the temple of Hermes where it was honored
with annual sacrifices.

As *MYRTILUS* died, he cursed Pelops. This curse would haunt future
generation of Pelops' family, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon,
Aegisthus, Menelaus, Orestes and Chrysippus. Also, the burial place of
*MYRTILUS* was a taraxippus in Olympia.>>
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(REID = ROSS)
http://www.runebogen.dk/Futhorken/FuthorkSIDER/Rune5.htm

Norse: REID
Phonetic value: R
Anglo - Saxon: Rad
Germanic name: RAIDo
Traditional meaning: Riding

<<This rune is a symbol of a journey on horseback, which in turn is
an image for a ride into the underworld. It is a universal technique
for
shamans entering to world of the dead to ride on an animal. Odin rode
Sleipnir, his eight-legged horse - which can be likened to four men
carrying a coffin. The rune is used in invoking the dead and is also
linked with the chariot god, Thor. The rune is a symbol of change
in the self, new ideas, new ways of life. In all religions death
is a symbol of coming renewal. Similar to the Death Tarot card.>>
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http://www.nps.gov/edal/index1.html

1860 John REID saves Tonto's life from a band of outlaw RAIDers. The
same RAIDers go on to kill his parents & burn their ranch. John is
adopted
into the Potawatomai tribe as Tonto's blood brother. Tonto gives John
an amulet to symbolize their friendship and bestows upon him the name,
"Kemo Sabe," which means trusted friend (in some versions, it means
trusty scout). Later that year, Dan comes searching for his younger
brother and sends him to Detroit to live with their Aunt Martha.

New Year's Day, 1874 Captain REID & his Ranger troop, accompanied
by John, pursue the killers. Unfortunately, Collins leads the six men
into
an ambush at the bottom of Bryant's Gap where they are all gunned
down.

January Tonto finds the rangers and nurses John, the only survivor,
back to health, and tells him "...others dead, you lone ranger now."
Tonto digs six graves so that the gang will not suspect
that there was a survivor.

"Then my name must be forEVER buried with my brother
& my friends. From now on my face must be conceiled. . ."

John spends most of the winter and early spring months recovering
from his wounds. Informed of her husband's death, Linda and
Dan Jr. return to Texas. The wagon train carrying them is attacked
by Apaches. Dan is found and cared for by "Grandma Frisbie."

John and Tonto have heard of a fabulous wild stallion in a nearby
valley. After saving the magnificent animal from a FRENZIED BISON,
they nurse the horse back to health. John wins the animal's trust and,
at Tonto's suggestion, names him "SILVER." At Tonto's suggestion, John
fashions bullets out SILVER taken from the mine he and Dan discovered.
He makes a mask out of his brother's vest and becomes the Lone Ranger.

He begins his career "to bring law & ORDER to the West."
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<<The next rune, REID, would then represent the ORDER &
structure induced by the gods, after the chaos.>>
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> > "Terry Ross" <tr...@bcpl.net> wrote:
>>> "Hi ho" seems to be a common error, but it is an error. The Lone
>>> Ranger's horse used to have his own comic book, called "Hi-Yo Silver":

http://www.bargainandhaggle.com/items/3C9ADF4DF7E54B92AD95E72CE2181A0...

> "Art Neuendorffer" <aneuendorffer114...@comcast.net> wrote:

> > Well, if it's right from the horse's mouth...

> > Art (why do I hear "Hi-O") Neuendorffer

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Hi -O Silver! The Lone Ranger Rides Again!
http://www.rhs51.com/loneranger/loneranger.htm

The word O-Hi-O comes from the Iroquois word "ohea",
translated as "something great", "great riVER", or "beautiful".
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"David L. Webb" <david.l.w...@dartmouth.edu> wrote

> Because, as usual, your information emanates
> from the other end of the horse, Art.

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ASS the coming of the gods.
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http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/sidor/texter/runes3.html

<<From a cosmological point of view, one could see
the "Uthark" as a story of the creation of the world:

The UR rune would then represent the void before creation,
THURS the great chaos of original creation (Big Bang?)
and ASS the coming of the gods.

The next rune, REID, would then represent the order &
structure induced by the gods, after the chaos.>>
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BloomsDay of James Joyce's _Ulysses_:

THURSday June 16, 1904 exactly 301 (52 week "years")
after Oxford's death THURSday June 24, 1604

Queen Elizabeth on THURSday, March 24.
Queen Mary THURSday, November 17.
King Edward VI. THURSday, July 6.
Henry VIII THURSday, Jan. 28.
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http://www.runristare.se/vinland1/leif_eng.html

Runic letter R is the last letter to be cut.
Known as "Reid" it was Thor's runic letter and,
if you believe in magic, means protection.
It was chiselled on this midsummer evening and night.
Riding or Cartwheel

This rune is the wheel of life with everything moving in cycles.
It represents change and action. As the meaning suggests
it can also represent travel.
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The book "The Indian in the CUPBOARD", written by Lynne REID Banks.
http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/~filmfest/films/indian_in_the_CUPBOARD/
http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/166960
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[J]ames [B]arrie (1860-1937)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmbarrie.htm

<<James Matthew Barrie was born in the Lowland village of Kirriemuir,
in Forfashire. His father, David Barrie was a handloom WEAVER,
and mother, Margaret Ogilvy, the daughter of a *STONEMASON* .

They had ten children, Barrie was the ninth.

Jamie, as he was called, heard tales of pirates from his mother,
who read her children R.L. Stevenson's adventure stories in
the evenings. When Barrie was seven his brother David died in a
skating
accident. David had been the mother's favorite child, and she fell
into depression. Barrie tried to gain her affection
by dressing up in the dead boy's clothes.

http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/headless-horseman.jpg
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REID'S GRAVE in KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, LONDON, ENGLAND
http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/Reid%2DGrave1.jpg

Mayne Reid's tombstone is one of the most unusual ever made.
Placed here by his wife, Elizabeth,
it features an anchor, a sword,

and a quotation from The Scalphunters:

"This is the Weed Prairie.
It is misnamed;
it is the Garden of God."

http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/Reid%2DGrave2.jpg
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<<"When I first became acquainted with Poe he was living in a suburban
district of Philadelphia called Spring Garden. In this humble domicile
I can say that I spent some of the pleasantest hours of my life -
certainly some of the most intellectual.">> - Mayne REID
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http://www.angelfire.com/bc2/bluephoenixrunes/RUNES/RADIO.html

<<Journey, cartwheel, ride, long journey on horseback, cart or
chariot.
Served as a journey charm to protect the living and the dead and a
reason for ascribing it to Thor. The Old Norse word 'reid' could mean
a wheeled chariot or THUNDER. THUNDER was caused by Thor's wheeled
chariot, drawn by two he - goats- rattling across the sky. Thos
associated with the oak, the tree more frequently struck by lightening
than any other. Thor being the God of THUNDER. In Anglo - Saxon
rune poem, oak has it's own rune saying that the wood was used for
shipbuilding. The wood for the Yule log. Appropriate for wood burned
on Thor's principal festival to come from his sacred tree. Oak pillars
are associated with Thor in Iceland. As in Eybygga Saga where Thorolf
Mostur - beard throws his high seat pillars, made of oak, overboard
to establish where they should settle, the decision being taken
for him by the place in which they drift to land.>>
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<<Rune 5: Raido (literally, ride) translates as cart wheel.
It is symbolic of the Chariot of the Sun Goddess, Sunna.
It is a Solar (Fire) Rune, & is connected to Thor, as well
(Thor traveled about in a cart pulled by two goats).>>
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"But at my back I always hear.
Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
And wonder all before us lie!
Deserts of vast eternity near".

[from 'to His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell].
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Auriga, the Charioteer
http://www.manchester.edu/Users/Student/AMFrank/Constellations.htm#Au...

<<Auriga has been identified with Erichthonius, the son of Minerva &
Vulcan who, being deformed and unable to walk, invented the chariot,
an
achievement that secured him a place in the sky. Auriga has also been
identified with Phaëton, who tried and failed to drive the chariot of
the sun. Auriga has, as well, been sometimes identified with Myrtilus,
who betrayed King Oenomaus by substituting a wax linchpin for the
metal one of his chariot wheel. When the chariot's speed increased,
the wax melted and Oenomaus was thrown and killed.>>
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<<"I can't tell, for the parts had no tags on them and one heart looks
much like another. After the body was completed, I glued two fine legs
and feet onto it. One leg was NICK Chopper's and one was Captain
Fyter's
and, finding one leg longer than the other, I trimmed it down to make
them match. I was much disappointed to find that I had but one arm.
There was an extra leg in the barrel, but I could find only one arm.

"As an assistant," the old tinsmith continued, "Chopfyt was not a
success. He was awkward with tools and was always hungry. He demanded
something to eat six or eight times a day, so I wondered if I had
fitted
his insides properly. Indeed, Chopfyt ate so much that little food was
left for myself; so, when he proposed, one day, to go out into the
world
and seek adventures, I was delighted to be rid of him. I even made him
a tin arm to take the place of the missing one, and that pleased him
very much, so that we parted good friends.">>
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Athena & Erichthonius
http://www.jherles-haven.com/story10.html

<<One time, Poseidon played a joke on Hephaestus: He told Hephaestus
that Athena was coming to his smithy expecting him to make violent
love
to her. Athena came to his smithy to ask him to make to make a set of
arms for her. Hephaestus refused payment, saying that he would do the
work for love. Missing the implication of this, Athena entered the
smithy to watch him work. He suddenly turned about and tried to force
himself on her. Athena tore herself away. Hephaestus ejaculated
against
her thigh. She wiped it off with a piece of wool, and threw it away.
It
fell to earth near Athens and Mother Earth accidentally fertilized it.
Disgusted with the idea of the idea of bearing a child that Hephaestus
tried to father on Athena, Mother Earth declared that she would accept
no responsibility for its upbringing. Athena took responsibility for
it,
and took charge of the infant as soon as he was born. She called him
Erichthonius, and not wishing Poseidon to laugh at the success of his
practical joke, hid him in a secret basket and gave this to Aglauros,
the eldest daughter of the Athenian King Cecrops, and order her to
guard
it carefully. Erichthonius, being a son of Mother Earth, was part man,
part serpent. One day, Aglauros and her sister Herse were curious
enough
to peep beneath the lid of the basket. Upon, seeing the child with a
serpent's tail for legs, they screamed in fear, and headed by
Agraulos,
leaped from the Acropolis. Erichthonius took refuge in Athena's aegis,
where she raised him so tenderly that some mistook her for his mother.
Later, he became King of Athens, where he instituted the worship of
Athena and taught his fellow citizens the use of SILVER. The chariot
was
invented by Erichthonius (Greek) to HIDE HIS FEET, which were those of
a
DRAGON. His image was set among the stars as the constellation
Auriga.>>
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http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/constellns/aur.html
The Lame King

The Charioteer may be the legendary King Erichthonius of Athens. He
was
the son of Hephaestus, the God of Fire, whom the Romans called Vulcan.
Like his father Erichthonius was lame.

Erichthonius was raised by Athene, the patron goddess of Athens,
and from her acquired the skill of taming horses. It was he who first
harnessed four horses to a chariot, in imitation of the Chariot of
the Sun. For this he was honored by Zeus by being placed
among the stars as the constellation of Auriga.

The Charioteer - A Bum Rap

Others say that The Charioteer represents Hippolytus, the son of the
very same Theseus of Athens who sailed to Crete, ventured the
Labyrinth
with the help of King Minos' daughter Ariadne and killed the monstrous
Minotaur. It is said that Hippolytus stepmother Phaedra lusted after
the
boy and killed herself in despair after he rejected her, but not
before
writing a note to her husband Theseus charging Hippolytus with rape.
Reading the note, Theseus banished Hippolytus from the city and prayed
to that the god Poseidon should strike him down. As Hippolytus drove
off in his chariot, the horses drawing the chariot were thrown
into a panic by the vision of a GIANT BULL emerging from the sea.
The chariot crashed and Hippolytus was killed.

Chariot Drivers Have No Luck!

Others identify The Charioteer with Myrtilus, a son of Hermes and the
chariot driver for King Oenomaus of Elis. The king had a beautiful
daughter Hippodamia. There were many suitors who sought her hand. But
to marry her, a suitor had first to win a chariot race with the king,
who
rode in a chariot driven by Myrtilus. Any suitor who could not beat
the king's chariot, had his head lopped off. Hippodamia's chances of
marriage did not look very good until Pelops son of Tantalus showed
up.
She fell in love with him and arranged that Myrtilus would throw the
chariot race. He sabotaged the king's chariot so that a wheel came off
during the race and the king was thrown to his death. The ungrateful
Pelops threw the chariot driver Myrtilus into the sea, where he
drowned.
Hermes memorialized his drowned son Myrtilus by putting
the image of the Chariot Driver among the stars.

Accounting for the Goat

The Chariot Driver is shown as holding a small goat. The goat is
usually
identified as the animal that had suckled the baby Zeus on the Island
of
Crete, where his mother Rhea had hid him from his father Cronus.
Cronus
was a Titan, one of the elder gods. Because of a prophesy that one of
his children would otherthrow him, Cronus swallowed each of his
children
as they were born. Out of gratitude to the goat that had suckled him,
Zeus placed the image of the goat into the stars. Another story tells
us
that the goat was so very ugly that it could frighten even the Titans.
When Zeus became an adult, he made a cloak from the hide of this
ugly goat. This was Zeus "aegis" which protected him
and frightened his enemies.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia

Erichthonius

(rkth´ns) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, son of Hephaestus & Athena, half
man and half serpent. After his birth Athena concealed him in a chest
that she gave to the daughters of Cecrops to keep. They opened it and
were so frightened by Erichthonius' shape that they killed themselves.
Athena then reared him among the gods. Often confused with Erechtheus.

Erechtheus

(rk´ths) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, king of Athens. On the advice of
an
oracle he sacrificed one of his daughters during the battle between
the
Athenians and the Eleusinians. This enabled him to win the battle, but
Poseidon later destroyed him and all his house. Erechtheus is often
confused with Erichthonius, his grandfather. Both were associated with
the worship of Athena; one or the other is said to have built a temple
which was the forerunner to the Erechtheum built in the 5th cent.
B.C., and to have established the Panathenaea (see Athena).

Erechtheum

(rk´thm) (KEY) [for Erechtheus], Gr. Erechtheion, temple in Pentelic
marble, on the Acropolis at Athens. One of the masterpieces of Greek
architecture, it was constructed between c.421 B.C. and 405 B.C. to
replace an earlier temple to Athena destroyed by the Persians. Its
design is sometimes ascribed to the architect Mnesicles. The
Erechtheum
contained sanctuaries to Athena Polias, Poseidon, and Erechtheus. The
temple displays the finest extant examples of the Greek Ionic order.
The
requirements of the several shrines and the location upon a sloping
site
produced an unusual plan. From the body of the building porticoes
project on east, north, and south sides. The eastern portico,
hexastyle
Ionic, gave access to the shrine of Athena, which was separated by
a partition from the western cella. The northern portico, tetrastyle
Ionic, stands at a lower level and gives access to the western cella
through a fine doorway. The southern portico, known as the Porch of
the
Caryatids (see caryatid) from the six sculptured draped female figures
that support its entablature, is the temple's most striking feature;
it
forms a gallery or tribune. The west end of the building, with windows
and engaged Ionic columns, is a modification of the original, built by
the Romans when they restored the building. One of the east columns
and one of the caryatids were removed to London by Lord Elgin,
replicas being installed in their places.
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http://www.fortunecity.com/underworld/soundcard/1161/Chariot.htm

01 Aruna: Indian mythology.
The dawn-god, rosy-coloured, charioteer of the sun.
The chariot is related to the wheel & sun. When seen riding
the sky with a thundering roar it is a symbol of Zeus.

02 Hippolytus: Greek mythology: he became the constellation
Auriga, the Charioteer and his story is the plot of Euripides
'Hippolytus'. Girls about to marry dedicated a lock of hair to him.
He symbolizes an aspect of virginity, a state which must be
honoured but left behind in order to reach maturity.

03 Myrtilus: the charioteer of Oenomaus who was bribed by Pelops
to remove the linchpins from Oenomaus' chariot-axle, so that
it crashed. Oenomaus used to challenge all his daughters suitors
to a chariot race from Pisa to the Isthmus of Corinth
- the suitors always lost and he then killed them.

04 Phaethon (Greek): son of Helius, the Sun. Asked to be allowed
to drive the chariot of the Sun for a day and proved unequal
to the task as the horses would not obey the unfamiliar hand.

05 The chariot of Brahma is drawn by seven swans (see 'Cygnus').

06 Pushan (India): god of charioteers.

07 Pushpaka (India): a celestial chariot or flying car.

08 Ratha: wheel, chariot.

09 Soma (India): rides through the sky in a chariot with three
wheels, drawn by ten horses as white as jasmine flowers.

10 Vahana (India): a vehicle, animal, bird, fish or chariot.

Most Indian gods may ride on something if they wish

Brahma has a swan,
Vishnu and Zeus an eagle or peacock,
Shiva a bull,
Yama a buffalo,
Indra an elephant,
Agni a ram,
Shani a vulture,
Durga a tiger and
Vayu an antelope.

11 In China the Praesepe nebula's known as 'the Carriage of Kuei'
It is likened to a cloud of pollen blown from a WILLOW-tree.

12 Loegaire (Irish): CuChulainn's charioteer.

13 Solomon introduced cavalry and chariots and posted them at
strategic points in his kingdom. Charioteers, officers, infantry and
cavalry alike all carried the bow which was made of polished wood or
cane. The heads of the arrows were made from iron, copper, or stone
and sometimes tipped with poison.

14 A wheeled vehicle used in war, state processions and for
private peaceful use. A charioteer stood and was sometimes
accompanied by a driver, to leave him free for combat.
Sword blades sometimes protruded from the hubs.

15 Bible: Zechariah: a vision of 'The chariots' (6:1-8). Four
chariots drawn by horses of different colours. The chariots represent
the exercise of divine rule over the whole earth. Four chariots, four
winds, four cardinal points - symbols of divine government.

16 Vayu (India): god of the winds seen riding through the sky
in a chariot drawn by deer. Breath.

17 Triptolemusm rode on a chariot drawn by dragons sowing grain
which is seen on the Eleusinian relief in Athens Museum.

18 Demeter taught Triptolemus the art of agriculture, and lent him
her dragon chariot, with which he traveled over the earth teaching
the remaining peoples of the world how to grow and harvest the crops.

19 Runner: a KIs bodyguard, called footmen and guard
(1st Samuel 22:17), who ran before the KIs chariot (escorts).

KI n : (Sumerian) goddess personifying earth;
counterpart of Akkadian Aruru

20 Automedon: the charioteer of Achilles (coachman).

21 Sierra Leone: 'Chariot of the gods'.

22 Erichthonius (Greek): became KI of Athens.
He was set up as the constellation Auriga (Charioteer).

23 Helios: climbed the vault of heaven in a chariot
drawn by snow-white horses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelops

In Greek mythology, Pelops (Greek Πέλοψ, from pelios: dark; and ops:
face, eye), king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus, was venerated at
Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the
Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for
the Peloponnesus, "land of Pelops", but for all Hellenes. At the
sanctuary at Olympia, chthonic night-time libations were offered each
time to "dark-faced" Pelops in his sacrificial pit (bothros) before
they were offered in the following daylight to the sky-god Zeus.

. Genealogy

Pelops was a son of Tantalus and Dione. Of Phrygian or Lydian birth,
he departed his homeland for Greece, and won the crown of Pisa (or
Olympia) from King Oenomaus. Pelops was credited with numerous
children, begotten on his wife Hippodameia, daughter of Oenomaus.
Pelops' sons include Pittheus, Alcathous, Dias, Pleisthenes, Atreus,
Thyestes, Copreus, and Hippalcimus. Pelops and Hippodameia also had
several daughters, some of whom married into the House of Perseus,
such as Astydameia (who married Alcaeus), Nicippe (who married
Sthenelus), and Eurydice (who married Electryon). By the nymph
Axioche, Pelops was father of Chrysippus.

. Tantalus' savage banquet

Pelops' father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia.
Wanting to make an offering to the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into
pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods.
Demeter, deep in grief after the abduction of her daughter Persephone
by Hades, absentmindedly accepted the offering and ate the left
shoulder. The other gods sensed the plot, however, and held off from
eating of the boy's body. Pelops was ritually reassembled and brought
back to life, his shoulder replaced with one made of ivory made for
him by Hephaestus. Pindar mentioned this tradition in his First
Olympian Ode, only to reject it as a malicious invention: his patron
claimed descent from Tantalus.

After Pelops' resurrection, Poseidon took him to Olympus, and made the
youth his apprentice, teaching him to drive the divine chariot. Later,
Zeus threw Pelops out of Olympus, angry that his father, Tantalus, had
stolen the food of the gods, given it to his subjects, and revealed
the secrets of the gods.

. Courting Hippodamia

Having grown to manhood Pelops wanted to marry Hippodamia. King
Oenomaus her father, fearful of a prophecy that claimed he would be
killed by his son-in-law, had killed thirteen suitors of Hippodamia
after defeating them in a chariot race and affixed their heads to the
wooden columns of his palace. Pausanias was shown what was purported
to be the last standing column in the late second century CE. Pelops
came to ask for her hand and prepared to race Oenomaus. Worried about
losing, he went to the seaside and invoked Poseidon, his former lover.
[1] Reminding Poseidon of their love ("Aphrodite's sweet gifts"), he
asked Poseidon for help. Smiling, Poseidon caused a chariot drawn by
winged horses to appear.[2] In an episode that was added to the simple
heroic chariot race, Pelops still unsure of himself, (or
alternatively, Hippodamia herself) convinced Oenomaus' charioteer,
*MYRTILUS*, a son of Hermes, (by promising him half of Oenomaus'
kingdom and the first night in bed with Hippodamia), to help him win.
The night before the race, while *MYRTILUS* was putting Oenomaus'
chariot together, he replaced the bronze linchpins attaching the
wheels to the chariot axle with fake ones made of beeswax. The race
started, and went on for a long time. But just as Oenomaus was
catching up to Pelops and readying to kill him, the wheels flew off
and the chariot broke apart. *MYRTILUS* survived, but Oenomaus was
dragged to death by his horses. Pelops then killed *MYRTILUS* (by
throwing him off a cliff into the sea) after the latter attempted to
rape Hippodamia.

Walter Burkert notes[3] that though the story of Hippodamia's
abduction figures in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and on the chest
of Cypselus (ca. 570 BCE) that was conserved at Olympia, and though
preparations for the chariot-race figured in the east pediment of the
great temple of Zeus at Olympia, the myth of the chariot race only
became important at Olympia with the introduction of chariot racing in
the twenty-fifth Olympiad (680 BCE). G. Devereux connected the
abduction of Hippodamia with animal husbandry taboos of Elis,[4] and
the influence of Elis at Olympia that grew in the seventh century.

. Curse of the Pelopidai

As *MYRTILUS* died, he cursed Pelops for his ultimate betrayal. This
was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family (two of
his sons, Atreus and Thyestes killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his
favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom; Atreus and Thyestes
were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then
hanged herself) and haunted Pelops' children, grandchildren, and great-
grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus,
Menelaus and Orestes.

. Pelops' cultus

The shrine of Pelops at Olympia, the Pelopion "drenched in glorious
blood"[5], described by Pausanias[6] stood apart from the temple of
Zeus, next to Pelops' grave-site by the ford in the river. It was
enclosed with a circle of stones. Pelops was propitiated at night,
with the offering of a black ram. His remains were contained in a
chest near the sanctuary of Artemis Kordax (Pausanias 6.22.1), though
in earlier times a gigantic shoulder blade was shown; during the
Trojan War, John Tzetzes said, Pelops' shoulder-blade was brought to
Troy by the Greeks because the Trojan prophet Helenus claimed the
Pelopids would be able to win by doing so.[7] Pausanias was told the
full story:[8] the shoulder-blade of Pelops was brought to Troy from
Pisa, the rival of Elis; on the return, the bone was lost in a
shipwreck, but afterwards recovered by a fisherman, miraculously
caught in his net.>>
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Art Neuendorffer

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtilus

<<The next rune, REID, would then represent the ORDER &

. structure induced by the gods, after the chaos.>>

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>> "Terry Ross" <tr...@bcpl.net> wrote:
>>> "Hi ho" seems to be a common error, but it is an error. The Lone
>>> Ranger's horse used to have his own comic book, called "Hi-Yo Silver":

.
http://www.bargainandhaggle.com/items/3C9ADF4DF7E54B92AD95E72CE2181A0...

. [J]ames [B]arrie (1860-1937)
. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jmbarrie.htm
.

<<James Matthew Barrie was born in the Lowland village of Kirriemuir,
in Forfashire. His father, David Barrie was a handloom WEAVER,
and mother, Margaret Ogilvy, the daughter of a *STONEMASON* .

. They had ten children, Barrie was the ninth.
.
Jamie, as he was called, heard tales of pirates from his mother,
who read her children R.L. Stevenson's adventure stories in
the evenings. When Barrie was seven his brother David died in
a skating accident. David had been the mother's favorite child,
and she fell into depression. Barrie tried to gain
her affection by dressing up in the dead boy's clothes.

At the age of 13 Barrie left his home village. At school he became
interested in theatre and devoured works by such authors as
Jules Verne, Mayne REID, and *JAMES FENIMORE COOPER*
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<<During his lifetime (1818-1883) Capt. Mayne REID was
one of the most prolific and widely-read authors of adventure
novels and juvenile books in the world. His books, most of which
were set in the American "Wild West," were favored by many future
leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt and Lord Baden-Powell.>>
http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/headless-horseman.jpg
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REID'S GRAVE in KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, LONDON, ENGLAND
http://www.watermelon-kid.com/reid/images/Reid%2DGrave1.jpg

Mayne Reid's tombstone is one of the most unusual ever made.

. Placed here by his wife, Elizabeth,
. it features an anchor, a sword,
.
. and a quotation from The Scalphunters:
.
. "This is the Weed Prairie.
. It is misnamed;
. it is the Garden of God."
.

*MYRTILUS*,

who betrayed King Oenomaus by substituting a wax linchpin for the
metal one of his chariot wheel. When the chariot's speed increased,
the wax melted and Oenomaus was thrown and killed.>>
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<<"I can't tell, for the parts had no tags on them and one heart looks
much like another. After the body was completed, I glued two fine legs
and feet onto it. One leg was NICK Chopper's and one was Captain
Fyter's and, finding one leg longer than the other, I trimmed it
down to make them match. I was much disappointed to find that
I had but one arm. There was an extra leg in the barrel,
but I could find only one arm.

"As an assistant," the old tinsmith continued, "Chopfyt was not a
success. He was awkward with tools and was always hungry. He demanded
something to eat six or eight times a day, so I wondered if I had
fitted his insides properly. Indeed, Chopfyt ate so much that
little food was left for myself; so, when he proposed, one day,
to go out into the world and seek adventures, I was delighted
to be rid of him. I even made him a tin arm to take the place
of the missing one, and that pleased him
very much, so that we parted good friends.">>
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. Athena & Erichthonius
. http://www.jherles-haven.com/story10.html

. The Lame King
.

The Charioteer may be the legendary King Erichthonius of Athens.
He was the son of Hephaestus, the God of Fire, whom the Romans
called Vulcan. Like his father Erichthonius was lame.

The Charioteer - A Bum Rap

Others say that The Charioteer represents Hippolytus, the son of
the very same Theseus of Athens who sailed to Crete, ventured
the Labyrinth with the help of King Minos' daughter Ariadne
and killed the monstrous Minotaur.
It is said that Hippolytus stepmother Phaedra lusted after the boy
and killed herself in despair after he rejected her, but not before
writing a note to her husband Theseus charging Hippolytus with rape.
Reading the note, Theseus banished Hippolytus from the city and prayed
to that the god Poseidon should strike him down. As Hippolytus drove
off in his chariot, the horses drawing the chariot were thrown
into a panic by the vision of a GIANT BULL emerging from the sea.
The chariot crashed and Hippolytus was killed.

Chariot Drivers Have No Luck!

Others identify The Charioteer with *MYRTILUS*, a son of Hermes and

the
chariot driver for King Oenomaus of Elis. The king had a beautiful
daughter Hippodamia. There were many suitors who sought her hand. But
to marry her, a suitor had first to win a chariot race with the king,

who rode in a chariot driven by *MYRTILUS*.

Any suitor who could not beat the king's chariot,
had his head lopped off. Hippodamia's chances of marriage
did not look very good until Pelops son of Tantalus showed up.

She fell in love with him and arranged that *MYRTILUS* would throw the

chariot race. He sabotaged the king's chariot so that a wheel came off
during the race and the king was thrown to his death. The ungrateful

Pelops threw the chariot driver *MYRTILUS* into the sea, where he
drowned. Hermes memorialized his drowned son *MYRTILUS* by putting

Accounting for the Goat

Erichthonius

Erechtheus

Erechtheum

03 *MYRTILUS*: the charioteer of Oenomaus who was bribed by Pelops

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