From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #16 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, January 21 2004 Volume 04 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Thracians ["Cheryl Ande" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:34:33 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Thracians As we all know Xena was a Thracian because she was referred to as a Thracian whore in Legacy. Last night on History Channel International there was an show about Thracian gold work. Thracians were the first to work precious metals. Their artworks predate the Egyptians and are very beautiful. They created gold drinking cups made in the shapes of both animals and humans. There was gold and silver jewlery, weapons and coins. The items found have come from graves in Bulgaria. It appears their kings or chieftains like to take their gold with them - they also had the disconcerting habit of taking their favorite wife along too Not only were they famous artisians but they were reknown warriors. They were allied with Troy during their war with Greece. They had a reputation as being very fierce warriors who would carry the heads of their slain on staffs. They were also known for drinking and orgies. Oddly enough they were also known as fine singers and muscians. Orpheus was of Thracian decent. Thrace was also suppose to be the birth place of Ares and he was their favorite god. They also were very fond of Dionysus (I guess it was the wine) and Artemis (interesting to note that the Amazons were actually from the Black Sea area). They were also famous for their horses and horsemanship. Many of the god artifacts were bridles. So considering that Xena was a fierce warrior, an expert horsewoman, a dandy singer, had a tendency in her younger days to stick heads on pikes and appeared to like a good orgy now and then - I would say she was the typical Thracian. Let's not forget her rather interesting relationship with Ares and her Bulgarian theme song. So do you think was just a coincident on the part of TPTB or was it planned? ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #16 *************************************