Author: legostudent

The Greek god Apollo was the god of medicine, plagues, archery, the sun, light, oracles, truth, and music. Apollo also represented youth and fitness to the Greeks, so it was tradition to have young boys grow their hair long, and when they came of age they would cut it off and sacrifice the hair to Apollo. He was the son of Zeus, the Greek god of lightning and storms, and Leto, the goddess of motherhood and pregnancy. Normally gods were born instantly from their mothers since they were powerful gods, but since Zeus was married to Hera, the goddess of marriage and cows, he wasn’t supposed to be the father of Leto’s children, so Hera set a curse on Leto so as to get revenge on Zeus. The curse made it so Leto could not give birth on land. The story says she traveled to all the lands, trying to find a place to give birth. But she could not, until she found a floating island called Delos. Since the island had no roots and simply floated on the sea it was not considered land, and Leto was able to give birth to Apollo and Artemis. Apollo became the god of archery when he meets his father and vows to uphold him as king of the gods. He was gifted the bow after making that vow. Sometime later he was charged with killing the great serpent Python by his father. Python was a gargantuan snake that lived in the caves of Delphi, a mountain with a temple that was known for its prophets and oracles. The sibyls there were extremely accurate and extremely creepy thanks to the fumes of the mountain. Python made Delphi his home so that he could tell the future and keep anybody else from telling the future, making him powerful. Apollo then fought and killed the snake, and became the god of oracles. We know that he had been worshiped before the first recorded writings of him, which were in 800 B.C., so he’s been around a long time. He is also eerily similar to the Egyptians sun god Ra, in that they were both gods of the sun and they both have giant snakes for enemies. Apollo had his own cult that worshiped him above all other gods called the hyperboreans which means “beyond the north” which is strange. It’s also written that the temples of Apollo in Delphi and Delos were built by hyperboreans. The The Homeric Hymns refer to Apollo as an intruder from the north instead of the Delos legend, so that could explain the hyperboreans worship of him.

Doing the dishes is pretty simple and easy as long as you have a dishwasher. First you have to open the dishwasher and unload all of the dishes in there to their correct places. Then you have to rinse off the dirty dishes that are in the sink. After rinsing them you can either put them in the dishwasher or you can hand wash them. If you chose the dishwasher then you should put the rinsed dishes in their spots, which should be fairly obvious i.e. back of the bottom rack for plates, small mesh bucket on bottom rack for silverware. After you run out of room in the dishwasher or if you run out of dishes you should then push back the racks and pour the detergent (dishwasher soap) into the small cup in the lid of the dishwasher, close the lid, and start up the dishwasher. If you hand wash them though you need dish soap (not detergent) and a scouring rag. You should spray the dish with the soap and rub it with the rag, which should also be soaked with hot water. Once you rub all the food and gross stuff off of the dish you need to dry it off with a dish towel and put it in its spot. I would say more but I need to wash some accumulating dishes.

One of my hobbies is to play with my Lego Mario sets. I really like rearranging the pieces and enemies so as to make a cool level to play. I find the app that goes with the sets a bit annoying so I don’t use it very often. I am a bit of a perfectionist so whenever the pieces don’t fit correctly or I run out of a bricks of a certain color I get frustrated. I like the Luigi as a second player but I often have to use one hand on Mario and one to hold onto the set, so holding onto another player is annoying if there isn’t someone else playing as him. but I overall enjoy the Lego Mario sets.

Its unclear on when Zoroastrianism was started but it’s agreed that it was sometime in the 2^nd millennium B.C in Islam. In 2^nd millennium B.C Islam there was a religion and priests but there were a lot of bandits and robbers, so the people lived in fear. Zarathustra, whose name would be translated into Zoroaster by the Greeks, would have have been one of these priests, since he waded out into the river to get freshwater for a ritual. By wading out into the river he unintentionally cleansed himself, and when he got out of the water Ahura Mazda came to him in a vision and told Zarathustra he was the god of Asha, and created the world. Asha is the word for order, wisdom, peace, and overall goodness. Ahura Mazda means “Wise Lord” his name is why some Zoroastrians call their religion Mazdaism. He created the world as a pure a unpolluted thing. But there is a creature called Angra Mainyu who is the opposite of Ahura Mazda, the chaos to his order, idiocy to his wisdom, war to his peace, and overall badness. His name means “Hostile Spirit”. After the creation of the perfect world Angra Mainyu crawled into it and polluted it. He made pain, death, and all things bad in this world. Angra Manyu is also associated with several animals, like snapping turtles and locusts. In the same way Ahura Mazda is associated with otters and porcupines. An interesting thing about death in Zoroastrianism is that they believe the spirit of a person is what matters. And since all the elements are sacred they do not burn bodies or bury them or sink them. They instead put them on a stone tower for the vultures to eat. After all, the body is a creation of Angra Mainyu, but the soul is of Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrianism was probably the first religion to have a heaven and hell, with a judgment to determine where you belong. After the creation Zoroastrians believe that we are in an inbetween time that has both perfection and pollution in it, but it will not always be like this. They believe there will come a messiah who will pass a final judgment on all people in hell, and if they fail they go back to hell, if not they join the people from heaven on a newly Angra Mainyu-free earth.

If you want to read a book in English you have to start reading the words from the top left corner. From the top left corner of the left page you read towards the right of the page, but instead of going over the page you start back at the leftmost word under the line you just read, and read towards the right of the page. You continue reading like this until you run out of lines of that page. Then you start at the top left corner of that page and read it like the last page. At the end of this page you have to flip the right page over to the left side and continue reading from the top left of the left page.

I think that there are more differences than similarities in the story of the Prodigal Son in the bible and the last few chapters of Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. In the last few chapters of Hans Brinker the son of a surgeon thought he had killed someone with the wrong dosage of medicine and ran away, thinking his father would hate him. the son told Hans’s father to contact his father later in the week, but the father got hit on the head and lost his memory. Ten years later a surgeon fixes his memory and it turns out that surgeon is his father. The father and son reunite and are happy. In the prodigal son the son takes his inheritance early and wastes it all on partying, then a famine strikes and he has to work for pig slop. Then he decides to go work for his father instead of a random person. when he returns the the father throws a party for him, despite his running away. The son in Hans Brinker ran away because he thought his father would hate him, as opposed to hating his father like the Prodigal. the Hans Brinker son came back because his father loved him and the Prodigal came back because he was desperate. that’s what I thought of the two stories and how they are different.

Apep, better Apep, better known as Apophis, which is the Greek translation of his name, was the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness, which puts him at odds with Ra, the Egyptian god of the sun. In Egyptian mythology Ra’s umbilical cord turned into a snake named Apep. Apep was the god of the sun before Ra and some other gods overthrew him and Ra became the sun god. After this defeat Apep was banished the underworld, the land of the dead. Ra, after his trek through the sky goes under the horizon and into the underworld. He’ll go through the underworld and arise in the dawn, but first he must get past Apep, his nemesis. Apep uses any means possible to him to stop Ra and make it so that the sun never rises and the world is plunged into darkness. In some stories he awaits Ra right where he comes into the underworld and in others he hides just before the dawn. In some stories he hypnotizes the Ra and any other gods he may have asked for help, with Set being the only one immune. Sometimes he eats Ra and his sun boat whole, and Ra has to cut himself out. Despite all these failures Apep knows that he has to only succeed once for the world to turn to chaos. Apep is most often depicted as a dark snake that is 16 meters long and can unhinge its jaw. In Greek and Roman retellings say he is a golden snake several miles long with a head of flint. But there are some depictions of him as a Nile crocodile or dragon. Since he is in the underworld the Egyptians believe he eats the souls of the dead, creating the tradition of burying the dead with a list of methods to beat Apep.

In ancient Egypt all of the buildings and farms were built along the Nile river, since this was the only plentiful water source in the desert. because of this they had to have small, square, houses so as to have the maximum number of people in the small area of the Nile riverbanks. Egyptian men were often farmers or builders, but some were glassblowers and priests, and there was the pharaoh and other royalty. The Egyptian women took care of the house and children, though some also became priests.

In Egypt there was a ruler in the eighteenth Dynasty named Amenhotep IV, and IV means four in roman numerals, in case you don’t know. Amenhotep IV was born with that name, and it means “Amun is pleased” Amun is the Egyptian god of the sky and wind, and made the earth, making him one of the most prominent gods in the Egyptian pantheon of gods. But when Amenhotep IV became pharaoh he changed his name to Akhenaten, which means “he who works for Aten”. Aten was the only god in Akhenatens religion, so he said Aten was the only true god and that all other gods that the people had worshiped were simply aspects of the one true god, Aten. The sun-like object in the picture is a representation of Aten, and the man is Akhenaten. Akhenaten quickly realized that none of his subjects were following his god Aten, and were instead following the former pantheon of gods, so he hired stone carvers to carve the former gods names out of the temple walls, and to carve the faces off the statues dedicated to the former gods. He also sent his military to make sure none of the priests tried to follow their former rituals, and instead worship his god Aten. But this led to friction between him and his military because the military had grown up with the old religion and did not believe in Aten like Akhenaten did. This caused his army to disitagrate, and the priests tentatively went back to the old ways. When Akhenaten died he was succeeded by one of his sons, Tutankhamen, better known as King Tut. When Tutankhamen became pharaoh he quickly reinstated the old religion and recarved the gods names on the walls and the gods faces on the statues.

My favorite season of the year is winter. One reason that winter is my favorite season is that there is a lot of snow. I live in Oregon, so we’ll go a few winters without snow, only rain. This makes snow a lot cooler than in Colorado or Montana, where snow is so plentiful it’s a nuisance. Winter is also cold enough to have a fire in our fireplace, even if there is no snow. That is why winter is my favorite season.