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* '''Ostrogoths:''' (often problematically denoted '''East Goths''', as opposed to the '''West Goths''' or [[Visigoths]]) a Germanic tribe that influenced the political events of the late Roman Empire. They were originally called the Greutungi (probably meaning "Hill-fort people" – see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandza Scandza]), but this was soon replaced by Ostrogothi. The meaning of ''ostro-'' (from ''austro-'') is presumably "shiny" rather than "eastern" | * '''Ostrogoths:''' (often problematically denoted '''East Goths''', as opposed to the '''West Goths''' or [[Visigoths]]) a Germanic tribe that influenced the political events of the late Roman Empire. They were originally called the Greutungi (probably meaning "Hill-fort people" – see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandza Scandza]), but this was soon replaced by Ostrogothi. The meaning of ''ostro-'' (from ''austro-'') is presumably "shiny" rather than "eastern" | ||
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrogoths Wikipedia] | ||
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| + | * '''oystrygods''' → '''oyster god(des)s:''' Scallop shell is one of symbols of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and sexuality. Aphrodite rose from the foam of the sea and was carried by a scallop shell to the island of Cythera. | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite Wikipedia] | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scallop#Symbolism Wikipedia] | ||
* '''oystrygods gaggin fishygods:''' | * '''oystrygods gaggin fishygods:''' | ||
| − | **the [[Battle]] of the Catalaunian Fields in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/451 451 A.D.], in which the Ostrogoths and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila Attila the Hun] were defeated by the Roman general [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetius Aetius] and the [[fishygods|Visigoths]] (king [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodorid Theodorid]) | + | ** the [[Battle]] of the Catalaunian Fields (or Plains) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/451 451 A.D.], in which the Ostrogoths and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila Attila the Hun] were defeated by the Roman general [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetius Aetius] and the [[fishygods|Visigoths]] (king [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodorid Theodorid]) |
*** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chalons Wikipedia] | *** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chalons Wikipedia] | ||
| − | *** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | *** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0296&isize=L&q1=Catalaunian A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
**vaginas surrounding penises (as in penetration)? | **vaginas surrounding penises (as in penetration)? | ||
| − | + | * '''oystery:''' resembling, or redolent of, oysters → oysters and fishes suggest the Noachic Flood, which has just ended the previous World Cycle (FW ends with a Flood, just like Wagners operatic cycle ''The Ring of the Nibelung'') → the earliest evidence for human inhabitants of the Dublin area consists of middens of shellfish at Sutton, Dalkey Island and other coastal locations | |
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| − | * '''oystery:''' resembling, or redolent of, oysters | ||
Latest revision as of 07:23, 30 April 2011
- Ostrogoths: (often problematically denoted East Goths, as opposed to the West Goths or Visigoths) a Germanic tribe that influenced the political events of the late Roman Empire. They were originally called the Greutungi (probably meaning "Hill-fort people" – see Scandza), but this was soon replaced by Ostrogothi. The meaning of ostro- (from austro-) is presumably "shiny" rather than "eastern"
- oystrygods → oyster god(des)s: Scallop shell is one of symbols of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and sexuality. Aphrodite rose from the foam of the sea and was carried by a scallop shell to the island of Cythera.
- oystrygods gaggin fishygods:
- oystery: resembling, or redolent of, oysters → oysters and fishes suggest the Noachic Flood, which has just ended the previous World Cycle (FW ends with a Flood, just like Wagners operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung) → the earliest evidence for human inhabitants of the Dublin area consists of middens of shellfish at Sutton, Dalkey Island and other coastal locations
