On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:55:13AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> The powers of a paterfamilias (male with no living ancestors)
Male with no living male ancestors, I believe you mean.
> are carefully distinguished by later Roman law with technical names,
> but clearly descend from a single undifferentiated power of life and death.
That makes sense.
> Well, yes. But the KiH theme puts these events in the past rather than
> the future: Ouranos > Kronos > Zeus, e.g. In addition, we don't know how
> much of the apocalypticism of Ragnarok is original and how much is the
> result of contamination with Christianity.
Consarn those Christians and their contaminatin' ways.
-Mark