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Saturday, November 13, 2004


Back to real time . . . . .
I don't know what it is. If it's Remembrance Day, or if it's essay time, or what . . . but this month has been kicking my ass all sorts of directions . . . it's been a trying one, definitely . . . . . so yes, school, essays, Latin, bla bla bla. I'm a freakin' broken record, I know.

So let's see, world of anime, I watched Escaflowne and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think I'll write an article about it some time. Likewise, I think I'll hafta buy the movie - it'd be good for the collection, methinks. Posterity and all.

Elsewhere, ANBU and AonE have gotten back together to sub Naruto. I think I'm happy about that. How this'll break down in the long run I don't know, but I think I like it.

Thirdswhere, I started watching Bleach. I'm liking it quite a bit. Those of you doing the whole fansub thing, I recommend it. It's snazzy.

. . . and yet all the while I've got essays. My my my, what a poor role model I've been . . . . . I'll shape up after New Year's, I swear! 'sides . . . . . I've got people I'd rather worry about first . . .


Oh! Funny thing I learned in Greek Myth & Religion class! In the olden days, they had this one New Year's festival which just seems like the funniest damn thing to me in my life right now!

It was called the Bouphonia, which sorta translates as "ox murder". Yes, it was an animal sacrifice rite, yet it was called "ox murder".

The gist was that people led a line of oxen around an altar of Zeus. On the altar was a pile of grain or something. The first ox to eat from the alter - AH! HE'S BEING IMPIOUS TO ZEUS!!! - thus, a man would then come running in with an axe and smack the ox upside one; the "murderer" would then run away.

The ox, as befits a sacrifice, was then eaten as a big public party (mm, meat . . .). Afterwards, people go, "oh hey, what about the guy who murdered the ox?" And then they all go, "oh yeah! That guy! He ran away!" Then they "investiage". The guy who slaughtered the animal's like, "hey, I just cut it up, I didn't kill it." Other people are like, "I didn't do it . . ." Eventually, they decide the culprit was the axe, or the knife.

Time to put the axe/knife on trial for murder!!! Then they go through the process of trial and judgement and stuff . . . generally the axe/knife would be sentenced to exile, to which they would most likely throw it into the sea or something . . . . .

But yes, "Bouphonia". I swear I'm not joking. I was doodling the guy with the axe running at the ox in all my clipboards after that all day. 'Tis funny, I says!

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