After the battle, Phryne tends the wounded:
"Twice she stopped - once to cast up at a certain sight and once to change her blood-stiffened gown for a tunic." (p. 172)
Cast up? Throw up?
"...now Aesculapius and Hermes Psychopompos must divide the souls as they would..." (ibid.)
Socrates' last words were that he owed a cock to Asclepius.
In the Time Patrol, Carl Farness tells Manse Everard that Wodan, equated with Mercury and Hermes, is the psychopomp. Eodan becomes Wodan/Odin.
Powerful ideas reflect and personify life and death.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
"Cast up" is a rather literary way of saying Phryne vomited. But Anderson did not want to put it as baldly as that.
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