Xanthos! Xanthos! Xanthos
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Xanthos: Greek city in Asia Minor, ancient Lycia (Turkey). Ancient city of culture under Hittites, Lycians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Byzantines and Turks. Now deserted -- an Osman waste ward.
- Achilles' horse: in the Iliad, Xanthos is the name of Achilles' immortal, talking horse.
- Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus (Latin): Holy, holy, holy. Section of the Ordinary Mass, said at the beginning of the Eucharistic blessing.
- shantih, shantih, shantih (Sanskrit): Peace, peace, peace. Chanted at the end of a prayer or Upanishad in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. (Also the closing words of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land")
- The Sun: Xanthos means "yellow" in Greek. In context of heliotropes, i.e., turning toward the sun, especially as it ebbs in a westward direction, suggests flowers and faces following the sun as it moves toward dusk ("desk") and death and silence.
