And I Wonder Wonder Wonder Wonder Who....

[shanmonster]

Oh dear. Someone new hates and confuses me. Here's what is posted anonymously in my guestbook:

you suck you sick hipotabiodid you are slowing down human evolution, skrew you,fuck you

Can you tell me what a "hipotabiodid" is? It's completely foreign to me. I'm betting it's a made-up word, like boky.

Also, while I'm making requests, can some classics geek tell me whether or not Baubo is one of the blemmyae? I think she is, but I've never heard mention of a connection, before.

Comments

[indigopurple.livejournal.com]

probably she's not! the only explicit source for baubo is like the suda, which is not really a proper source. there are allusions in pausanias and clement of alexandria and some guy named arnobius, but they're way flaky. ANYWAY, i figure that originally baubo was a distinct humpin' goddess, sourced from the - i think! - sumerian bau. basically, she's really old. the blemmyae, by contrast, were probably invented about 100-200 AD by the romans, as a representation of some conquered/uncivilised race or another. possibly by the greeks, maybe a couple of hundred years earlier. if the two did get conflated, it'd be a later development, maybe down to christian writers like arnobius. plus they've not really much in common, aside from the chestfaces. baubo is about nookie, and i think the guy in the article you link is pretty much on the money when he says that the blemmyae were all about xenophobia. GOD! that was a mess. hope you can get some meaning out of it.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

They sure do look like the same species, though.

[indigopurple.livejournal.com]

totally. the same creepy creepy species.

slowing *what*?

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

slowing down human evolution

Hurm. I think you've been accused of not breeding enough, or of not supporting human litters. One more good reason for me to keep reading your journal, then.

Re: slowing *what*?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Do you suppose it was a really poorly-phrased come-on line?

Re: slowing *what*?

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Now there's a thought! Maybe unconsciously, yeah, and wouldn't the writer be perplexed and deny that. Psychology and instinct are funny things!