Jack777
January 29th 2005, 01:11 PM
Ovid's Metamorphoseon, is a record of restoration, a record of forgetting God as Creator in part. Devolution. Do not mistake an explication of Ages for a scheme of evolution—it is in fact a telling of devolution, forgetting God.
“Ante mare et tellus et quod tegit omnia cœlum, Unus erat toto Naturæ vultus in orbe, Quem dixere Chaos rudis indigestaque moles Nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eòdem”
Ovid’s opening lines to the story of the beginning of the world is not the “Beginning” (Reshiyth-first, beginning, Alpha) but picks up at Genesis 1:2. He elaborates on the restoration but, like us, does not recognize what was handed down to him by Homer and other gatherers of what people read or remembered. Many other ancient “creation stories” do the same from around the world, or pick up later verses of Genesis. They are stories of the restoration of the earth after a great destruction, The Great Destruction. They are the story of the this Age of Ages, the same as the Hopi story of the world we live in, a term similar to olam and aion. Rather than look at it as a time period, look in terms of their eyes from long before Ovid. It is a set of events, events planned by Jesus before the universe was created and how our choices fit into His plans. Ovid hearkens to how our choices have gone as he read the histories available to him. One thing that irks me about the Higher Criticism and liberal theologians is that their spin does not honor Revelation as God gave it to us. It is that it makes it hard for people to understand the same message as it passed down from the original Revelation preserved by the Hebrews and Children of Israel into migrating cultures that lost parts of the message. It is an important message. The part that is vague and got lost is the part about God as Creator specifically stated and may be due to people anthropomorphizing the message as a sort of pneumonic device when the story was related by those with no access to the message (Torah).
Ovid writes down the conditions for the passing of the Ages before the Great Flood when mankind was wiped out. The Ages (aions, olam) describe the same procession of life on earth punctuated by progress and then catastrophes. There is a moral component that Ovid transmits and it has a parallel in the Bible. Part of what happens is people lose all sense of the Creator according to the Bible and the testimony of Ovid et alia. In Ovid's Metamorphoseon the Ages are what goes on in each World as the Hopi would describe the end of that set of Ages. Our time since the creation is divided similarly by the Bible. The Bible refers to different creations in Genesis and it is clear that the revelation of God as recorded by Moses depended upon the reader knowing of them. These creations (re-creations) may correspond to the beginnings of the Worlds of the Hopi or one complete set of the Ages of Ovid. The Bible begins with the last World in the days of Noah. Jesus said that when He comes back, things will be as they were in the days of Noah. Noah was righteous and walked with God. Those around him did not walk with God and in fact were violent. After the Great Flood life began anew. After Jesus comes back, life will begin anew. Daniel was given the knowledge that there would be four Ages and they were as in Ovid's description the Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Do you suppose that Ovid might have read Daniel? In Daniel's revelation given to him by the Holy Angels the last Age would be Iron mixed with Clay when the last empire rose that would be ruled by anti-Christ. As with Ovid giving the view that is more in tune with kosmos gods and demigods and mankind the visions given to Daniel are from the view of God covering the same ages in general. As such Ovid gives his account of the Last Four Ages more from the view of the gods and mankind, where the Bible focuses on the information we need to know from God's point of view. The view of the Bible is concerned with explaining our position and history in reference to God, His Salvation, and how it is that we may be reconciled to Him
The revelation of God does not go into details about climatology or meteorology and the purpose is to give witness to God and how He is relevant to history and the pleroma (fulness) of time as well as the pleroma of times (Ages [aions, olams]and Worlds [kosmos]). We find in the records of many different civilizations affirmation of the record left in the Bible. In fact Ovid passes down descriptions of the way things degraded in reference to climate and morals. The fallen angels mentioned in the Bible and the offspring of giants are also explained in the record of other ancient civilizations. Ovid takes the time to convey the acts of the giants and Ovid also says that they were responsible for great violence just as the Bible does. The Bronze and Iron ages were times when morality degraded with giants leading rebellion against God. In the description by Ovid Jupiter visits earth to see just how degraded mankind had become and as he sat to eat was served a person that had been prepared for the meal. Indignant and outraged he went back to Heaven to convene a meeting to decide what to do, the Concilium Deorum. The decision was to wipe out mankind. Genesis mentions that the gods (elohiym) decided that mankind had grown so evil that people had to be destroyed.
In the stories from around the world, every continent has stories of the Great Flood. Not noticed as a rule, every continent also has stories and symbology that suggests outright that a piece of a comet or an asteroid was the cause for the Great Flood. The comet pieces or asteroid hit in the ocean and hit with a force sufficient enough to cause the earth's axis to tilt as it now does. The Old and the New Testaments predict with clarity that the earth will suffer earthquakes and the heavens will rain fire down upon the earth. People will hide in holes and caves to no avail. Pieces of the story of the happenings that radically changed the world physically are in another writing. This is an outline of the conditions of the last Ages as described by Ovid and explicated by the author cited below and seem to have written much of what is going on now.
We do not know the day or the hour of the return of the Lord Jesus, but we do know it will be as in the days of Noah. Will mankind have a chance at repentance, self-correction, and therefore a respite enough as Jonah's preaching to Nineveh inspired? It may be possible, yet greed and power are great attractions to go on as we have to the end described by the Bible, Ovid, and many others who recorded the end of the Last World. There is a push to congeal different beliefs into a morphing of religion into a false religion based on unity of all people rather than God in order to blind people to that which is coming. That which is coming is the Great Tribulation cut short only because Jesus will return. He will gather up His own and there will be a Great Tribulation, after which He will return and defeat the kingdoms of the world in opposition to Him. The truth of the Bible is being hated and rejected more as time goes on. People are turning to evil practices and reliance on private belief rejecting God that assures people we have no need of Him and everything is good or relative to what we think is good is becoming more common. The Bible gives details of what people are becoming and have become.
Finally, this is written in hopes that one person who thought that the Bible does not record something that was well-known at one time may reflect anew and see for himself or herself in the Bible the warning there. If you are a Christian and do not read the Bible daily searching the Bible led by the Holy Spirit, now is the time to start. This is not written with syncretism or ecumenism in mind at all. The few vignettes recorded by Ovid give some idea of how the ancients saw a path to the destruction of the world. The Bible predicts with greater detail and accuracy how moral degradation occurs and it is being fulfilled at this moment in those details. The Bible teaches that people will grow to hate God, His Word, and His people, precisely because the truth becomes detestable as it stands in the way of evil. Ovid is a non-partisan testament to the truth contained in the Bible as the direct revelation of God with Jesus as the only Way to Salvation.
Aurea Ætas- The Golden Age
Argentae Ætas- The Silver Age
Ahenea Ætas- The Bronze Age
Ferrea Ætas- The Iron Age
The aspects of moral degradation leading to the Last Great Destruction
fugere pudor, verumque, fidesque
Shame, truth, and faith fled away. Where shame might restrain a person from doing evil and it is forsaken then regard for truth might. Finally, if faith would restrain evil after truth has been forsaken and it too is disregarded then comes the final degradation of people. Mankind descends into a state where fear of punishment holds no weight and people trade in power without regard for the laws of man or God to do evil for their own satisfaction. Sating any appetites that one might wish no matter how harmful to others or the self becomes unrestrained. People are actually trying to change laws to conform to immoral and evil acts being normalized and are succeeding. A Bishop was elected who practices fornication and has an openly homosexual relationship with another man. This was done within the confines of the Episcopal Church and goes against all of Scripture. Now, there is a great push to establish legally the status of same sex couples as equal to marriage. Same sex couples enjoy benefits formerly only given to married couples beforehand. Mumia Abu Jamal enjoys celebrity status as a hero and is a mentor to the current counter-cultural movement. He was twice convicted for murdering a policeman in cold blood. When Charles Manson was convicted of his murders people considered him as evil or having done evil. France gave Mumia Abu Jamal an honor in 2003 reserved for great people.
Fraudesque dolique Insidiæque, et vis, et Amor Sceleratus habendi
Fraud as vice gives way to fraud that is treacherous and worse still calling together others to accomplish its goals. It finally leads to violence.
In the 20th century the world has seen horrific evil. The Rape of Nanking, the Gulag Archipelago, and the Death Camps are only a very few examples of conditions that encouraged experimentation on humans, the repeated rape of women until they died, the most horrible tortures, and death by starvation that was planned so the maximum work would be gotten for the least amount of food given. The atomic bomb ended WWII sparing the eventual loss of millions of more lives and averted more horror from being perpetrated by the Japanese. Now, because the Allies stopped the designs of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo the victory over them is seen as more evil by the counter-culture worldwide. Plenty of criticisms are leveled against western civilization in general and the United States in particular because the Cold War was ended and the Soviet Union dissolved.
Amor sceleratus
Covetousness is wicked and evil as it incites people into every form of evil. One company desires that which another has and a hostile takeover accomplishes the desired effect. Another man's wife seems better suited for someone else and an affair begins that ends with a family being destroyed. Gambling is a form of covetousness that is addictive and destroys the core of a person over time. Being something like an idol encourages children to grasp for sexuality and sex while still children. Children are seen as chattel and convenient for sexual use by adults who want that which is unlawful and harmful to the child.
Now, the United States and much of the world wishes to stop the insanity of North Korea, terrorism, Iranian aspirations for nuclear weapons, Hamas, and the militant Islamic Jihadis, but how? The evils that have spread such as slavery and worldwide organized crime threaten to compromise western civilization or supply the money and power to end it. Greed still reigns supreme and is growing with less regard for those that are caused harm by it. Profit is no longer enough for corporations and scandal seems normal.
Non hospes
“The rites of hospitality were deemed sacred even by the barbarians and became a snare to entrap an unwary guest.
The host with kindness greets his guest no more,
and friends and brethren love not as of yore.”
Hesiod
Fratrum gratia
“The love of brotherhood became rare
But when the earth was stained with wickedness,
And lust, and justice fled from every breast,
Then brethren vilely shed each other's blood.”
Catullus
Imminet exitio vir conjugis, illa mariti—Men watching for the destruction of their wives
Men watching for the destruction of their wives is happening NOW. The case of Terri Schiavo is chilling and seems to be the ushering in of the legal approval of destroying a wife for gain. George Felos and Michael Schiavo are being supported by different groups including the ACLU to murder Terri Schiavo with the sanction of the law. These things happen on a regular basis now. One woman who had Fibromyalgia was convinced by her psychiatrist husband to commit suicide because she was so miserable and Dr. Death was only too happy to oblige. Since writing this originally the Supreme Court discounted the importance of avoiding the next step into degradation by refusing to hear the case presented by Governor Jeb Bush of Florida. You would think they would have read the Bible or Ovid at least.
Lurida aconita
The color of the dead is lurid and the wolf's-bane (or any poison) is lurid as well, signifying the son waiting for the premature or natural term of life of his father to be shortened.
Patrios annos
The son enquiring into when it might be the father will die, inquires into his father's years with astrologers. Horace recognized the Babylonians as being astrologers and as things in society degraded they were consulted to find out when their wish for the father's things might be theirs.
“And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards, I will even set my face against that soul, and I will cut him off from among his people.”
Leviticus
“Astrologers assure long life, you say,
Your son can tell you much better than they,
Your son, whose hopes your life doth now delay.
Poison will work against the stars; beware!
For every meal and antidote prepare.”
Juvenal
The father wished the funeral of his son;
The son to enjoy the father's relic wished.
Catullus
Jacet pietas- piety lay neglected
The duty and affection to God, family, and country lay neglected, much as is urged today by those who profess themselves wise.
Cæde madentes- reeking with slaughter
“For the earth is filled with violence through them”
Genesis 6:13
Ovid gives a detailed accounting of just how reeking slaughter became common, so common cannibalism occurred, sparking the wrath of the gods. Since this first writing we hear that some madman convinced someone on the internet to be slaughtered so he could consume his flesh. Do you think he forgot God? Do you think he was deluded?
In the 20th century 160 million people were murdered by state sanction in order to rid these governments of Christians and Jews and any who held a high view of God or a religion of any type in some cases. These governments were exclusively socialist and communist countries, although the National Socialists are not considered as similar to Marxism due to the occultic and pagan influence of the Nazi ideals and theories. Muslims murdered some 50 million people in the last part of the 19th century and the early 20th century to rid their countries of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The extermination of Christians is still going on in Muslim countries with 7 to 10 million killed in the last part of the 20th century.
Ultima cœlestum- the last of the celestials
Hesiod represents Modesty leaving the earth simultaneously with Justice. The point is that the ultimate corruption of public morals lay in the indifference to feminine virtue and the sacredness of the marriage tie. Today, this has been realized in the United States and Europe to a great degree. Now marriage is proposed to be between two women or two men, people have begun to press for the lowering of the age of consent so consensual sex between children and adults will not be punished by law. Ancient writers and modern have warned of this peril to society to some avail, yet not effectually. With all of the constraints at our disposal to self-correct the times reflect the demand of some that debauchery and moral degradation publicly be given legal status.
“Fruitful of crimes, the Age profaned,
At first, the nuptial bed, and stained
Their hapless offspring, whence the woes,
Both virtuous and unnumbered rose
From this polluted fountainhead.”
Horace
terras Astræa reliquit
The goddess Astæa abandoned the earth along with the other deities which in the Hebrew and Christian testimony would be known as Angels elohiym. They abandoned the earth and mankind was forsaken due to the wickedness on earth of mankind.
“Thus right and wrong, by furious passion mixed,
Drove from us the divine propitious mind.”
Catullus
Astræa was the daughter of Astæus and Aurora, though some thought the daughter of Jupiter and Themis. She was the goddess of Justice and by metonymy justice itself. After abandoning the earth due to its impiety she was translated into Virgo according to the ancients. This symbology is a cipher in a way, pointing to the significance of an event and placing the time in astronomical terms, much like our gold disk we sent into space in a universal language (math).
“A virgin pure is Justice, and her birth
From Jove himself, a creature of much worth.”
Hesiod
Copyrighted material, 2002-2005 excerpted and altered for presentation on the Theology Web, please give attribution to me, Doug Ochsenbein if you want to use any of it. It has been published on the web as part of a larger work for the third year now. Email me first dougoxleg@yahoo.com (dougoxleg@yahoo.com) so I know where it is and what it says please, and thank you!
All quotes derive from
Nathan Covington Brooks, The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Nasos, Fifth Edition, A.S. Barnes and Burr, New York, 1860. (title page has 1848 as date).
“Ante mare et tellus et quod tegit omnia cœlum, Unus erat toto Naturæ vultus in orbe, Quem dixere Chaos rudis indigestaque moles Nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eòdem”
Ovid’s opening lines to the story of the beginning of the world is not the “Beginning” (Reshiyth-first, beginning, Alpha) but picks up at Genesis 1:2. He elaborates on the restoration but, like us, does not recognize what was handed down to him by Homer and other gatherers of what people read or remembered. Many other ancient “creation stories” do the same from around the world, or pick up later verses of Genesis. They are stories of the restoration of the earth after a great destruction, The Great Destruction. They are the story of the this Age of Ages, the same as the Hopi story of the world we live in, a term similar to olam and aion. Rather than look at it as a time period, look in terms of their eyes from long before Ovid. It is a set of events, events planned by Jesus before the universe was created and how our choices fit into His plans. Ovid hearkens to how our choices have gone as he read the histories available to him. One thing that irks me about the Higher Criticism and liberal theologians is that their spin does not honor Revelation as God gave it to us. It is that it makes it hard for people to understand the same message as it passed down from the original Revelation preserved by the Hebrews and Children of Israel into migrating cultures that lost parts of the message. It is an important message. The part that is vague and got lost is the part about God as Creator specifically stated and may be due to people anthropomorphizing the message as a sort of pneumonic device when the story was related by those with no access to the message (Torah).
Ovid writes down the conditions for the passing of the Ages before the Great Flood when mankind was wiped out. The Ages (aions, olam) describe the same procession of life on earth punctuated by progress and then catastrophes. There is a moral component that Ovid transmits and it has a parallel in the Bible. Part of what happens is people lose all sense of the Creator according to the Bible and the testimony of Ovid et alia. In Ovid's Metamorphoseon the Ages are what goes on in each World as the Hopi would describe the end of that set of Ages. Our time since the creation is divided similarly by the Bible. The Bible refers to different creations in Genesis and it is clear that the revelation of God as recorded by Moses depended upon the reader knowing of them. These creations (re-creations) may correspond to the beginnings of the Worlds of the Hopi or one complete set of the Ages of Ovid. The Bible begins with the last World in the days of Noah. Jesus said that when He comes back, things will be as they were in the days of Noah. Noah was righteous and walked with God. Those around him did not walk with God and in fact were violent. After the Great Flood life began anew. After Jesus comes back, life will begin anew. Daniel was given the knowledge that there would be four Ages and they were as in Ovid's description the Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Do you suppose that Ovid might have read Daniel? In Daniel's revelation given to him by the Holy Angels the last Age would be Iron mixed with Clay when the last empire rose that would be ruled by anti-Christ. As with Ovid giving the view that is more in tune with kosmos gods and demigods and mankind the visions given to Daniel are from the view of God covering the same ages in general. As such Ovid gives his account of the Last Four Ages more from the view of the gods and mankind, where the Bible focuses on the information we need to know from God's point of view. The view of the Bible is concerned with explaining our position and history in reference to God, His Salvation, and how it is that we may be reconciled to Him
The revelation of God does not go into details about climatology or meteorology and the purpose is to give witness to God and how He is relevant to history and the pleroma (fulness) of time as well as the pleroma of times (Ages [aions, olams]and Worlds [kosmos]). We find in the records of many different civilizations affirmation of the record left in the Bible. In fact Ovid passes down descriptions of the way things degraded in reference to climate and morals. The fallen angels mentioned in the Bible and the offspring of giants are also explained in the record of other ancient civilizations. Ovid takes the time to convey the acts of the giants and Ovid also says that they were responsible for great violence just as the Bible does. The Bronze and Iron ages were times when morality degraded with giants leading rebellion against God. In the description by Ovid Jupiter visits earth to see just how degraded mankind had become and as he sat to eat was served a person that had been prepared for the meal. Indignant and outraged he went back to Heaven to convene a meeting to decide what to do, the Concilium Deorum. The decision was to wipe out mankind. Genesis mentions that the gods (elohiym) decided that mankind had grown so evil that people had to be destroyed.
In the stories from around the world, every continent has stories of the Great Flood. Not noticed as a rule, every continent also has stories and symbology that suggests outright that a piece of a comet or an asteroid was the cause for the Great Flood. The comet pieces or asteroid hit in the ocean and hit with a force sufficient enough to cause the earth's axis to tilt as it now does. The Old and the New Testaments predict with clarity that the earth will suffer earthquakes and the heavens will rain fire down upon the earth. People will hide in holes and caves to no avail. Pieces of the story of the happenings that radically changed the world physically are in another writing. This is an outline of the conditions of the last Ages as described by Ovid and explicated by the author cited below and seem to have written much of what is going on now.
We do not know the day or the hour of the return of the Lord Jesus, but we do know it will be as in the days of Noah. Will mankind have a chance at repentance, self-correction, and therefore a respite enough as Jonah's preaching to Nineveh inspired? It may be possible, yet greed and power are great attractions to go on as we have to the end described by the Bible, Ovid, and many others who recorded the end of the Last World. There is a push to congeal different beliefs into a morphing of religion into a false religion based on unity of all people rather than God in order to blind people to that which is coming. That which is coming is the Great Tribulation cut short only because Jesus will return. He will gather up His own and there will be a Great Tribulation, after which He will return and defeat the kingdoms of the world in opposition to Him. The truth of the Bible is being hated and rejected more as time goes on. People are turning to evil practices and reliance on private belief rejecting God that assures people we have no need of Him and everything is good or relative to what we think is good is becoming more common. The Bible gives details of what people are becoming and have become.
Finally, this is written in hopes that one person who thought that the Bible does not record something that was well-known at one time may reflect anew and see for himself or herself in the Bible the warning there. If you are a Christian and do not read the Bible daily searching the Bible led by the Holy Spirit, now is the time to start. This is not written with syncretism or ecumenism in mind at all. The few vignettes recorded by Ovid give some idea of how the ancients saw a path to the destruction of the world. The Bible predicts with greater detail and accuracy how moral degradation occurs and it is being fulfilled at this moment in those details. The Bible teaches that people will grow to hate God, His Word, and His people, precisely because the truth becomes detestable as it stands in the way of evil. Ovid is a non-partisan testament to the truth contained in the Bible as the direct revelation of God with Jesus as the only Way to Salvation.
Aurea Ætas- The Golden Age
Argentae Ætas- The Silver Age
Ahenea Ætas- The Bronze Age
Ferrea Ætas- The Iron Age
The aspects of moral degradation leading to the Last Great Destruction
fugere pudor, verumque, fidesque
Shame, truth, and faith fled away. Where shame might restrain a person from doing evil and it is forsaken then regard for truth might. Finally, if faith would restrain evil after truth has been forsaken and it too is disregarded then comes the final degradation of people. Mankind descends into a state where fear of punishment holds no weight and people trade in power without regard for the laws of man or God to do evil for their own satisfaction. Sating any appetites that one might wish no matter how harmful to others or the self becomes unrestrained. People are actually trying to change laws to conform to immoral and evil acts being normalized and are succeeding. A Bishop was elected who practices fornication and has an openly homosexual relationship with another man. This was done within the confines of the Episcopal Church and goes against all of Scripture. Now, there is a great push to establish legally the status of same sex couples as equal to marriage. Same sex couples enjoy benefits formerly only given to married couples beforehand. Mumia Abu Jamal enjoys celebrity status as a hero and is a mentor to the current counter-cultural movement. He was twice convicted for murdering a policeman in cold blood. When Charles Manson was convicted of his murders people considered him as evil or having done evil. France gave Mumia Abu Jamal an honor in 2003 reserved for great people.
Fraudesque dolique Insidiæque, et vis, et Amor Sceleratus habendi
Fraud as vice gives way to fraud that is treacherous and worse still calling together others to accomplish its goals. It finally leads to violence.
In the 20th century the world has seen horrific evil. The Rape of Nanking, the Gulag Archipelago, and the Death Camps are only a very few examples of conditions that encouraged experimentation on humans, the repeated rape of women until they died, the most horrible tortures, and death by starvation that was planned so the maximum work would be gotten for the least amount of food given. The atomic bomb ended WWII sparing the eventual loss of millions of more lives and averted more horror from being perpetrated by the Japanese. Now, because the Allies stopped the designs of Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo the victory over them is seen as more evil by the counter-culture worldwide. Plenty of criticisms are leveled against western civilization in general and the United States in particular because the Cold War was ended and the Soviet Union dissolved.
Amor sceleratus
Covetousness is wicked and evil as it incites people into every form of evil. One company desires that which another has and a hostile takeover accomplishes the desired effect. Another man's wife seems better suited for someone else and an affair begins that ends with a family being destroyed. Gambling is a form of covetousness that is addictive and destroys the core of a person over time. Being something like an idol encourages children to grasp for sexuality and sex while still children. Children are seen as chattel and convenient for sexual use by adults who want that which is unlawful and harmful to the child.
Now, the United States and much of the world wishes to stop the insanity of North Korea, terrorism, Iranian aspirations for nuclear weapons, Hamas, and the militant Islamic Jihadis, but how? The evils that have spread such as slavery and worldwide organized crime threaten to compromise western civilization or supply the money and power to end it. Greed still reigns supreme and is growing with less regard for those that are caused harm by it. Profit is no longer enough for corporations and scandal seems normal.
Non hospes
“The rites of hospitality were deemed sacred even by the barbarians and became a snare to entrap an unwary guest.
The host with kindness greets his guest no more,
and friends and brethren love not as of yore.”
Hesiod
Fratrum gratia
“The love of brotherhood became rare
But when the earth was stained with wickedness,
And lust, and justice fled from every breast,
Then brethren vilely shed each other's blood.”
Catullus
Imminet exitio vir conjugis, illa mariti—Men watching for the destruction of their wives
Men watching for the destruction of their wives is happening NOW. The case of Terri Schiavo is chilling and seems to be the ushering in of the legal approval of destroying a wife for gain. George Felos and Michael Schiavo are being supported by different groups including the ACLU to murder Terri Schiavo with the sanction of the law. These things happen on a regular basis now. One woman who had Fibromyalgia was convinced by her psychiatrist husband to commit suicide because she was so miserable and Dr. Death was only too happy to oblige. Since writing this originally the Supreme Court discounted the importance of avoiding the next step into degradation by refusing to hear the case presented by Governor Jeb Bush of Florida. You would think they would have read the Bible or Ovid at least.
Lurida aconita
The color of the dead is lurid and the wolf's-bane (or any poison) is lurid as well, signifying the son waiting for the premature or natural term of life of his father to be shortened.
Patrios annos
The son enquiring into when it might be the father will die, inquires into his father's years with astrologers. Horace recognized the Babylonians as being astrologers and as things in society degraded they were consulted to find out when their wish for the father's things might be theirs.
“And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards, I will even set my face against that soul, and I will cut him off from among his people.”
Leviticus
“Astrologers assure long life, you say,
Your son can tell you much better than they,
Your son, whose hopes your life doth now delay.
Poison will work against the stars; beware!
For every meal and antidote prepare.”
Juvenal
The father wished the funeral of his son;
The son to enjoy the father's relic wished.
Catullus
Jacet pietas- piety lay neglected
The duty and affection to God, family, and country lay neglected, much as is urged today by those who profess themselves wise.
Cæde madentes- reeking with slaughter
“For the earth is filled with violence through them”
Genesis 6:13
Ovid gives a detailed accounting of just how reeking slaughter became common, so common cannibalism occurred, sparking the wrath of the gods. Since this first writing we hear that some madman convinced someone on the internet to be slaughtered so he could consume his flesh. Do you think he forgot God? Do you think he was deluded?
In the 20th century 160 million people were murdered by state sanction in order to rid these governments of Christians and Jews and any who held a high view of God or a religion of any type in some cases. These governments were exclusively socialist and communist countries, although the National Socialists are not considered as similar to Marxism due to the occultic and pagan influence of the Nazi ideals and theories. Muslims murdered some 50 million people in the last part of the 19th century and the early 20th century to rid their countries of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The extermination of Christians is still going on in Muslim countries with 7 to 10 million killed in the last part of the 20th century.
Ultima cœlestum- the last of the celestials
Hesiod represents Modesty leaving the earth simultaneously with Justice. The point is that the ultimate corruption of public morals lay in the indifference to feminine virtue and the sacredness of the marriage tie. Today, this has been realized in the United States and Europe to a great degree. Now marriage is proposed to be between two women or two men, people have begun to press for the lowering of the age of consent so consensual sex between children and adults will not be punished by law. Ancient writers and modern have warned of this peril to society to some avail, yet not effectually. With all of the constraints at our disposal to self-correct the times reflect the demand of some that debauchery and moral degradation publicly be given legal status.
“Fruitful of crimes, the Age profaned,
At first, the nuptial bed, and stained
Their hapless offspring, whence the woes,
Both virtuous and unnumbered rose
From this polluted fountainhead.”
Horace
terras Astræa reliquit
The goddess Astæa abandoned the earth along with the other deities which in the Hebrew and Christian testimony would be known as Angels elohiym. They abandoned the earth and mankind was forsaken due to the wickedness on earth of mankind.
“Thus right and wrong, by furious passion mixed,
Drove from us the divine propitious mind.”
Catullus
Astræa was the daughter of Astæus and Aurora, though some thought the daughter of Jupiter and Themis. She was the goddess of Justice and by metonymy justice itself. After abandoning the earth due to its impiety she was translated into Virgo according to the ancients. This symbology is a cipher in a way, pointing to the significance of an event and placing the time in astronomical terms, much like our gold disk we sent into space in a universal language (math).
“A virgin pure is Justice, and her birth
From Jove himself, a creature of much worth.”
Hesiod
Copyrighted material, 2002-2005 excerpted and altered for presentation on the Theology Web, please give attribution to me, Doug Ochsenbein if you want to use any of it. It has been published on the web as part of a larger work for the third year now. Email me first dougoxleg@yahoo.com (dougoxleg@yahoo.com) so I know where it is and what it says please, and thank you!
All quotes derive from
Nathan Covington Brooks, The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Nasos, Fifth Edition, A.S. Barnes and Burr, New York, 1860. (title page has 1848 as date).