[UA] Eternity

[Stuart Anderson]

Nick Wedig wrote:

> I keep wondering about various Olympian athletes being avatars of something (perhaps just The Athlete).  The connection to ancient Greek semi-religious activites would only seem to reinforce this. Probably Greece would be the first place someone ascended as the Athlete, as that's the first place I'm aware of that athletics was prized for itself rathert than, say, as a way of being better prepared for battle, though athletics was prized for this as well.  Just the naming convention of calling it the Olympics provides mythic connections to ancient heros and gods (gods and heros obviously being old metaphors for the IC and avatars).
>
> Mr. Teapot
> Olympian

Well, sure. And this list is delighted to tell you lots of high weirdness about Pythagoras and other ancient Greeks. What if those "gymnastics w/ props" girls are spelling out some weird algorithms with their ribbons? It might be the only reason to explain why that's a sport. And synchronized swimming--what do those shapes *really* mean--some watery tribute to the deep ones? It's creeping me out.
--Stu


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