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* '''vesta:''' a match → see [[while Luntum sleeps]] | * '''vesta:''' a match → see [[while Luntum sleeps]] | ||
| − | * '''Vesta:''' Roman goddess of the hearth, celebrated with an eternal flame | + | * '''Vesta:''' Roman goddess of the hearth, celebrated with an eternal flame → hence the word ''vesta,'' meaning "match", and ''vestal virgins'', who tended the eternal flame → introduces images of a woman tending a fire with a bellows |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160385&q1=Vesta Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160385&q1=Vesta Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:58, 26 September 2006
- vesta: a match → see while Luntum sleeps
- Vesta: Roman goddess of the hearth, celebrated with an eternal flame → hence the word vesta, meaning "match", and vestal virgins, who tended the eternal flame → introduces images of a woman tending a fire with a bellows
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- Avesta: the sacred writings of the Zoroatrian religion
