Illy
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Homer didn’t write the Odyssey, he didn’t write the Iliad. In fact, there was no person ever called “Homer”. This is not a conspiracy theory but the considered conclusion of Harvard’s Gregory Nagy after a lifetime of research. Professor Nagy is the most respected Homerist alive and his defining contribution is to uncover the 3000 year old mystery of who (or what) actually produced the epics. This interview will examine two of Professor Nagy’s radical claims: 1. The Homeric epics were not written, carefully edited, and memorized for performance. They were created on the fly while being sung! That is to say the Greeks somehow developed a method to create amazingly intricate, 12-15 thousand line poems in the middle of a performance. 2. The Homeric Epics were not composed by an individual but cumulatively by countless poets over a millenia. There was never a person called “Homer”.


The Insider and Bellingcat identify the Russian soldier who cut off the genitals of a Ukrainian prisoner of war and killed him. As the investigators found out, it was Ochur-Suge Mongush, born in 1993, a mercenary from the Akhmat battalion. 📰 bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/0…





My final Nolan’s Odyssey predictions: 1. Odysseus has PTSD. 2. War bad; women most affected. 3. Penelope mad at Odysseus. 4. Killing the suitors is le bad. 5. Telemachus doesn’t kill the slave girls.





Virgin birth is a narrative that was obviously fabricated as a retrojected Messianic prophecy, a notion unavailable to/disbelieved by Paul and John. Even educated Christians know this. Critical scholars, including Christians, have shown why virgin birth is problematic.

