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This first GreekWorkshop lets the congregation watch Ammon Hillman work at the frontier of the language. He opens a strange Christian text called the Physiologus (φυσιολόγος), the natural scientist, and reads its chapters on lions, serpents, and unicorns in the original Greek. The point is that this is not a gentle storybook but a puzzle whose answers live in old grammarians and lexicons, not in Sunday-school glosses.
The biggest claim is grammatical. At the dictionary entry for Savior, Hillman points to soter (σωτήρ) and the feminine soteira (σώτειρα), insisting the word does not mean what seminary readers assume. He then links parthenia (παρθενία), the state of virginity, with the virgin whose lap draws the one-horned beast, and he traces Eden, or Edem, to the serpent goddess Echidna (ἔχιδνα). Along the way he argues that Isaiah’s sirens and centaurs appear only in the Greek translation of the Bible, because he says there was no Hebrew original behind them.
The session closes on a plan. Hillman wants to run the workshop twice a week and open it so invited readers can sight-read with him, beginning next time with the terms Satan, Satanael, Baal, and Saturnus. The tone is plain: the Greek does not give up its secrets to the unprepared, and the workshop is where the training begins.
Full Video Transcript
Fantastic people. Is it? Is it? I’m looking at your messages. Hey, Carlos. Good to see you, Carlos. Love it that you’re here. Carlos, I hope that I hope that you get some kind of thanks for helping. Your sound is fucky. Somebody else sound fucky. Somebody said their sound is messed up. Chewy. Anybody else get it? Got it. Oh, God. Hail Carlos. There you go. Right. We can hear. Thank you.
snappy. Yes, yes, thank you. Refresh. Chewy said refresh if you don’t, if you’re having sound
problems, right? Oh, God. Okay, people, welcome to my workshop. What I’m going to do is show you
the frontier. You get to sit here and see the frontier, the new stuff. Nothing old, nothing old
at all. It’s all new, and it’s all the stuff that you thought you knew, but you don’t. Chewy,
go ahead and hit the um i want them to see my screen let’s get engaged people now i know there’s
there are those of you in the advanced unit who are going to be wanting to read some greek this
first session i want you to sit back and i want you to pay attention to how this is all going to
work okay people watch this oh god let’s go to a text search people and let’s just sit here i’m
going to do stuff that you can’t do, right? Oh, God. People, what am I bringing up? Can I just
talk to myself? Physiologus. Look at this, people. Who the hell is that? Who the hell is this? Who is
the natural scientist? Oh, God. This is a natural scientist. This is a work by somebody we do not
know and if you look right now online you will see wick just go ahead wiki it if you want but
you save yourself some time and i’ll just tell you brain you can see that they don’t know when
this thing was written that they are guessing trying to use all of their might to say who is
quoting it who is saying things like it when is it first appearing right that’s all the fun that
philologists do second century people second century it says you know let them argue and
say no it can’t be until the third because of hoo-ha there’s no definitive good dating on this
thing but that’s what you and i are here for people right people in my brains you’re fucking
crazy that’s what you are where shall we start out people i’m just gonna bring up the text
look at this people a lot of kais what the hell is he doing people what is this thing about it’s
about jesus wait what judah oh they what’s going on do we have to triple share double triple share
get it up there um okay now people are we all good everybody good we’re gonna talk about a lion
we’re going to talk with people who is this does this have anything to do with the devil
let’s see shall we shall we go and take a little journey people what are we doing i just showed you
a work called the physiologus that’s what this is in greek sitting right in front of you oh look
there’s who’s this big people who’s that solomon how did we get here here’s god right oh don’t you
love him. Which kind is this? Oh, God. It’s the Pantocrator, people. In my head, the Pantocrator.
You see that, Madalena? You see that? Pantocrator. That’s the God that we’re talking about.
Remember last week, people, I talked about Baal. And the very same time that I was doing my stuff,
Somebody else was doing their stuff on Baal and saying bullshit.
Ugaritic?
What the fuck does that have to do with a goddamn thing with Baal?
It doesn’t.
I showed you Theophilus.
I showed you Theophilus and where does Baal come from?
Baal is Satan, you assholes, right?
Saturnus.
Oh, they never listen because they don’t read these texts, people.
Lizard?
What?
Oh, God.
people this naturalist is going on and on i want him to tell me something cool so watch i’m gonna
advance ahead are we talking about are we talking about that asshole who killed people
that king david you’re gonna love this stuff people we’re talking about guitars we’re talking
about guitars in this one we’re talking about the savior do you people see the savior they’re so
Oh God, did I bring Ammonius? Did I bring Ammonius? I did. Now, people, can you see the lexicon that I was reading?
How do I get back to the chat? From here. How do I see if they’re seeing it? I want to be able to see.
I can see and hear. Now, when I want to get back then to boom, boom, boom, boom.
No, I know, but I want them to see this. Okay, people, fantastic. You’re lovely.
what is this look what i was looking for people so tara so tara where do you think i found it people
in these grammarians do you see the grammarians right here you sons of bitches i love this i can
talk to you exactly like i want to i don’t have to bullshit there’s some people have headset
problems oh poopy what do i do hey you people in the um everybody but me because i don’t know
ion right the rest of you people plug or unplug your headset ion said thank you that’s really
cool it’s good that ion is here i feel so confident ion you should be looking at the
fucking greek right okay here we go back to the thing where’s the go back to the text should we
thanks for the help oh you better grab the snake oh fantastic the snakes are taking a bath i love
it yes because they need their moisture um that’s why now let’s go back and we um what’s going on
nobody’s here but me what the original can they say i’m sorry people can you see this okay i’m
gonna switch to the text everybody give me one more can you see this can you see the text boom
can you see that people i gotta go back and make sure they can see it you see it yes yes yes okay
fantastic all right here we go people look at this simonius guy i thought you’d be impressed
with amen he’s a grammarian oh god what’s he written here people here those of you are my
students i’m not calling on you today but madelena brian is here sexy brian is here
people were calling for sexy brian to come back right what does it say peri homoion
where is that accent para hyper what people i’m gonna say some musical stuff in a minute
these grammarians are teaching just um don’t worry about it where’s the savior
love it love it where is the look at look at this people hey you dudes who are doing the greek
pay attention this is phyloxenus another grammarian he’s first century bc so go fuck
yourself anybody who’s a christian who thinks they know what a savior is go fuck yourself
you get botera just like
Look, it’s not a masculine form, people.
Look at Soter.
This is what people don’t get.
Look at Soter and they think, oh, it’s masculine.
It’s Jesus.
Yeah, fuck you.
Take off the tear.
Take off the tear, you pussycats.
And what do you get?
So, from Sao, Sao, to save, Sao, Soter, how about Demeter, from Demeter, that damnation, total damnation, oh my god, where is this coming from?
look people were trying to well that’s what we’re trying to answer and some people come up with
shitty guesses and indo-european bullshit oh god why don’t they just read this stuff they would
really where’s that okay where’s the dictionary here’s ammonious oh here’s about being naked
right how they differ right different verb look at how specific it is here people oh god
what is age people that completion of that bud that bud blooms and then you got old age
oh god these terms differ people these the genius that’s in all of this if you have never perused
any of these people you’re in some kind of weird dimension go back to alpha people what is this
on the similarities and differences of words similar is this neat it’s not a definition
right it’s a saying hey these words are these are their how they’re alike and how they’re different
and look at this. Oh, this is gorgeous. People, this is a lot of hoo-ha. Watch this. Angelos and
ex-angelos and autangelos. Angelos and ex-angelos and autangelos, they’re different. That’s what it
says. And then it proceeds to tell you exactly what each one is. For a Christian reading a text
from a seminary. They never get this stuff. That’s why I got, you know, awards and congratulations
because in big classes with 100 people in them, demanding, give us Professor Amon. Oh, God.
He was just an adjunct, but he was a good guy. Angelos Karpas. Oh, God. What is that angel,
right? They’re bringing their announcement from external, from the
things that are on their external. Do you understand? That’s what an anguillose does,
right? What does an ex-anguillose do? An ex-anguillose is bringing you the things
that are within, right? And then it goes on, hon thucydides, which thucydides, right?
Whoops, look at this.
People, what’s the strength of these grammarians, Thucydides?
It’s the fact that they’re reading and quoting.
What’s the strength of a modern translator?
Are they reading and quoting?
No, right?
No.
Let me find one interesting.
Here, people.
People who are in Greek, read this.
In your own minds, don’t talk.
Write haughtily.
You can’t.
Just in your…
Do it with me.
Athenae and Atticae, they’re different.
The words are different, right?
Athenae is the city.
Atticae is the city and the land.
Look at that beautiful construction.
Look how everything is lined up.
Look at the te and the kai.
people these grammarians they’re stiff shirts you know what i mean they get a boner for the grammar
so they they set up their particles they do everything like straight up like this stuff
should make you mentally horny if you’re a classicist you know what i mean so you know
what does it say you know when you’re using athenian you’re talking about the city when
When you’re using attic, you’re talking about the city and the countryside surrounding it, right?
Oh, God, that’s gorgeous.
Here’s the difference between eidos and eishune.
Now, many of you, the new guy who came in and studied with Ion and those guys, or, yeah, Jason, I think is his name.
Yeah, eidos and eishune.
jason you know that both these words mean some kind of like shape right here’s the differences
okay notice that the first has to do with doing things religiously you see the saba root in there
people right you’ve got entropy with the first i dos you’ve got entropy toward right wait a minute
What? People, did you even know? What is intrope? Intrope. Let’s get some lexicon out here.
Make love to this Greek. Oh, you guys didn’t do so well. Good on intrope. A turning towards.
Oh, that’s not. Come on, people. That’s not. Doesn’t gig my hoo-ha. Respect for somebody.
It’s coming from. I always tell my students to go to the verbs. It’s coming from intrepo.
right so if you want to see what the word really means you go to the verb oh look galen is using it
oh yeah right oh what is he using it for
look at the muse is fucking hilarious to reduce a prolapsed anus
to turn something about right oh god to make one turn that was intrepid puts you to shame
bitch right and by bitch i mean both male and female right except for dogs i don’t mean dogs
and we speak respectfully of dogs because they rock feel misgiving german german shepherds are
our key royalty anyway um to turn about to hesitate to turn towards to respect or reverence
people look how the middle is changing it i’d like to look at the the act we’re talking about
the active we’re talking about reducing your prolapsed anus that’s when your anus comes
what’s with your your rectum sticks out the back side right it’s not funny it happens when you
strain it’s probably going to happen to me now that i’m making fun of it oh god now people look
you’re learning greek but you’re learning the real stuff you’re not going to learn this in a
fucking seminary right look what happens when you take the word in trefo and you move to the middle
of the passive what happens in the middle voice to turn toward you doing it for your own sake
that is you’re respecting or you’re reverencing so madelaine i want you to be thinking about the
middle voice and how it kind of changes the feel because you’re going to have to make your way
through tax men, right? Feel shame or fear. That’s nice. Look who’s down here. These fuckers.
Always notice where your sources are coming from, people, right? Second Epistle of Thessalonians
and Titus. There’s Mark’s Gospel, 12, 6. People you’re never going to forget. Prolapsed anus,
brother. Okay, let’s go back. I hope people can see this. I’m going to check. People, let’s see.
can you see? Let’s go to the snakes. I saw some snakes, people, and I got to go worship the
snakes. I’m going to go to them, and I want to make sure. This is a little test for you students
who are so far ahead. Is the phoenix in here? Oh, yeah. Oh, God. I made that sound.
I’m an awful pharmacy.
Is anybody recognizing any of this?
Right, here’s Heliopolis, you bitches.
We got altars.
It’s a beautiful explanation.
Anywho, Phoenix people.
Wait a minute, we’re talking about the Phoenix?
Oh, God, does anybody want a unicorn?
You know where the unicorn finds his nummies?
In the lap of the Virgin.
Gross.
You sick fucks.
Look at this, number 10.
Okay, do people have, wait, what, what are you doing?
You have to watch the snakes.
They’re top priority, absolute top priority.
Yeah, they will, look at them.
Oh, God, they’re cute.
People, speaking of snakes, what’s here in yellow?
Hey, Brian, hoo-ha, man.
What’s here in yellow?
What is an a-heat-ness?
What is, come on, man, I’m throwing you a bone.
You see how it’s going to work in the future?
those of you who are kind enough to come who I invited to be my readers right to read along with
me I want you to see how it’s going to work so Brian you don’t have to answer but I want you to
see what I’m going to do in the future then I’m going to press a button and you’re going to say
something maybe about the Greek I’m not going to ask you to sight translate but you’re going to be
sight translating this is about the echidna what do we know about the echidna oh god people look
up below here this is off don’t you look at that you dirty dirty rotten keep your eyes on this one
that’s not for you now petty office i decided that last night this is the frontier people
is jesus in here this is hilarious
the lord said in the gospel and then you see this is how they’re indicating quotes here in the tlg
that was two little dream thingies.
Hey, people, we’re talking about Jesus.
We’re talking about Jesus, people.
Is this a quote of Jesus from the second century?
It is.
It’s a quote of what Paulius is saying.
He says, you know,
What do you think that is?
You see the root on there, frayn, people?
Madalena, see the frayn?
We went over the frayn a thousand times, right?
We drilled that frame in and out, in and out. What is that? It’s the chest, it’s the
diaphragm. What is that? It’s the brain of the emotions. What? It’s the some kind of
piece of the soul. Be smart people. Come on people. Be
smart. Do you see the horse here? This is the horse that you’re just comparing
something like old face like serpents be smart like serpents and people don’t cause any harm
be like petty state i be like doves now has anybody i want to see does anybody know this
verse smart like the serpents but harmless like doves does anybody know that from the bible
just say yes in your messages please thank you ariel yes madelena says i know i know right yes
people are recognizing it now people you’re learning things about the bible that nobody is
nobody is in bible studies right now have you ever heard the physiologus quoted no you haven’t
right female temple prostitute says pate pate you son of a bitch you jumped ahead right look at him
this is scholarly gorgeousness right it was quote in french the other day i was quite impressed
people i’m telling you you’re lucky to be around these these people that you have around you
me too what is that have you lost audio have you lost audio people if you like you lose audio you
got to yell out. I’ve lost audio. Can be the individuals. Unplug and unplug. You know what I
mean? Unplug and plug back in, right? That’s what the problem is. If things go soft, unplug and plug
back in. Fantastic. Let’s go back to the text, right? I’ve been good. So you have people. Look
at, you people are helping each other. Mystic Mayhem is helping, right? It’s telling, look,
go to your settings. Screen share sounds good down under. Oh, Taz, I’m so glad you’re from
down under oh god i want to go down under with you taz oh god such beauty you’ve got
sons of bitches capturing that beauty of australia people what yeah fantastic
is the is there are there more people from australia give me a hoot out if you’re from
australia in germany at the moment fine give me a hoot out if you’re in from australia from
good so you can hear me no what is jeff are you originally from australia now you’re in germany
traveling sons of bitches united kingdom dun dun dun dun when are you gonna dump that
pedophilic family of royals you got oh god did he actually say that tennessee right canadian outback
yeah there’s a lot of gorgeousness and gorgeosity in Canada yeah no that’s the times that I visited
I’ve been impressed people really impressed did you know how clean Toronto is I was so shocked
I was like wow I must live in dirty cities because Toronto is nice now who knows that was
that’s been a few years ago people shout out to you Canadians right we still have the king
okay fantastic people let’s go to ron it was huge yeah thanks yes shout out any awesome by the way
is there any uh anybody out here who can do the haka who can do the the the maori what is that
demon possession thing it scares me i have a new found sick see i would never say this on
these Babylon people. I have a new sick obsession. I love to watch the women’s rugby team of
Maori. Oh, my God. Amazing. No, I think I’m in love with the whole team all at the same
time. I don’t watch any of the sport people. I can’t. I can’t. No, I just watch them come
on and scare the shit out of everybody. I love it. I love it. And you see the team standing
across and they have they show the team the rugby opposing rugby team they’re like new zealand is
playing against the so-and-so from england and they look like they’re doomed they look like
they’re doomed oh god anyway why did i get so distracted brian get us back to work here sir
if brian were here he would be like um you know i’m coming here for greek son of a bitch
this is what he says in the gospel
become smart you know get smart
you know be like the serpents
you know don’t be
be harmless as doves
right what are you
oh god
look what did
what does the natural philosophers
say about
your serpent
your serpent has
people in greek what is this
this is the tesseract
oh put your god damn pants back on yes at us oh who says they have four natures people
they have four natures look he’s just going to give us all the different natures those of you
speak who are here for the greek madalena look that’s nice he’s just going to give us here’s
the first all right yeah love it look down here people sometimes don’t jump into the text
right look around take the bird’s eye view excuse me is that accent is that paroxy tone
no it’s oxy tone i’m learning people from the grammarian now you musicians who are out there
the musicians are teaching me shit and i don’t understand it i’m sorry but i’m gonna say something
every once in a while it has to do with it because i’m following the accents and the accents here
musical and they’re talking about oxytone and peroxytone oh god and the differences in meaning
how the meaning shifts according to the sound of the word those of you who are guitarists you should
have a kind of sexual arousal in your brain right now right some kind of metal something
god damn it if you don’t there’s something wrong so follow it you can follow the music in these
text. Oh, look, there’s a naked dude down here. You didn’t know the serpents were looking at
your nakedness, did you? People, I told you he was with a naked boy, right? Do you know what
happens when they look at you? First of all, they’ve got four natures, right? What is that
first nature. The first nature is like this. Look what we just saw in the lexicon before.
Look what the muse does. Do you see this? I just showed you how I was defining that
old age. Whenever that snake grows old, it’s a problem with its eyes. It wants to become
young, right? It wants to enter back into this youth. What does it do? Oh, God.
For how many days and nights? How many days and nights are we going to have to
if we’re a snake and we want our youth? Do you understand? What else is that snake doing?
people do you know is the most maligned verb oh god the most maligned you see the root polis in
it right it’s basically to be a polis active right take part in the government be a citizen
live in a free state look at number six way at the bottom deal with in private affairs to arrange
things. You know what I mean? You got to arrange there. You can arrange that. Or you can arrange
marriage. We’re going to walk down one kind of road together. Oh, God. This stuff is gorgeous.
People, what is it? It’s a new state of something I want. It’s a companionship on a journey.
Look how in English we have to put it. We have to goddamn put it into a phrase.
all right caravan together oh that’s nice anywho let’s go back to the text boom so what are we
gonna do we’re gonna get our shit together and do what we do as a polis we’re going to enter in
to a state of fasting for 40 days and 40 nights wait what did you hear that people that’s what
we do, until which time is our skin. Wait, what? Who? No, that’s not how it works. It doesn’t matter.
Chewie, sit down. Fantastic. Chewie, tend to the snakes. Right, everybody. People, what do they do?
They’re going to shed their skin. They go into the crags and the rocks, and they slither around,
and they slip that skin off and when they do they
they cast off their old age
once again they become
people what’s the secret what am i trying to give you sons of
bitches right here says the muse yes she talks like that
too go fuck yourself if you have a problem
with it look as you’re in her workshop she
don’t care. She’s doing her thing, bitch. We’ve got a road. We’ve got a way that leads to salvation,
people. A way that leads to salvation. And what is that salvation? It is ionic life, people.
Does this sound familiar to you? This is from the nature of the snake, you little
you ungrateful bitches where’s my whip joey my whip people should i take my whip on tour
where are you you have come you’ve come here for a reason tell me have you come here to advise me
absolutely should i take my whip on tour if you think so say yes on whip that was a good one
that was a good one that was for nessie can you feel it nessie yeah wretch here’s one for wretch
wretch has been so kind that’s one for you on your hoo-ha wretch fantastic whip okay take the whip on
the tour because look it’s not you know it’s not like i have to get a permit for it or anything
i can fly with it i can god i’m getting good with it now i can’t take it out of the plane
or anything like that right i’ll travel like right mastix too much okay i have no sound as well oh
Mr. 83. You missed out. Somebody help Mr. 83. You missed out. Look, somebody record. Who’s
recording it? Oh, Pate’s recording it. Thank you, Pate. God damn it. Thank you. All right. No whips
and carry on. Seriously? Seriously. Did you just rain on my? No whips on carry on. Son of a. I have
to buy a whip and every before we go on. I got to buy a whip in Boston, people. Anybody from Boston
or anybody that can create a whip of doom
that I can take with me once I’m in Boston,
that’s what we should do.
Oh, God, people, make it so.
You geniuses out there, you say,
I want to do something.
I want to do something.
Right?
Somebody said they’d get me a cane, too.
Oh, God, I’d love to walk around with a cane of doom.
I am so spoiled.
What’s that?
No, you can’t hit people with a cane.
You can’t hit people with a whip, either.
Right, people?
we found that out in medea oh my god people the students loved it give me the oh get him off there
what is that all right people where’s the let’s go back to the text too much fun too much fun at
once we have to get serious people look what’s in blue ton eon that’s the eos people that’s the
venom people the second nature of those serpents right listen to this this is gorgeous whenever
the serpent comes peeing, comes to drink, right? Where is it drinking from? It’s drinking from
a water source, a fountain, a spring. Again, remember these springs, they have daimones,
right? They have nymphs that are associated with them. Those nymphs will do things to you. Some
of them are sexual and they’ll do things to you. You drink the water and it does things. Let’s see
what happened. What is this one talking about? When the snake, when the office comes to
drink that water at the water source, right,
Now my students, I might ask you, I might say, hey, what does
this mean? Translate it, all right? Not today, I’m not. I just want you to sit
there knowing this is what I’m going to do.
Look, I’m not asking you to translate the whole goddamn thing.
just one set one line here right it doesn’t carry that eos with it it doesn’t carry
that’s not a common word but okay
in his burrow right he deposits it the snakes they put that they control the release of that
poison. People, what does that mean? Is this naturalist out of his fucking head? What’s going
on, right? With no snakes come out of that shed. Oh God, and they’re so hungry. That venom is at
its peak, right? That burrow is a place of habitation. You don’t see that because it’s
in these words that i’ve that i’ve been working with for a long time but it’s there people that’s
the place of that renewal here’s the third right the naked dude i need something substantial here
okay we’re getting a workshop people because we have this in duma here this thing that the
something that’s going to clothe your spirit that you can remove, right?
There’s a lot of physics in this, people.
I’m overwhelmed by the amount of physics in this, right?
It’s done, okay?
What should we do?
What should we do?
Oh, fail all men.
In that time of temptation.
Oh, God.
In that time of the trial.
Aren’t your head like the serpent, people, the Christ?
It’s the same fucking thing.
This natural scientist is a Christian.
When I say he’s a natural scientist,
I’m not talking about natural scientists like you think.
I’m talking about a natural scientist who understands
that we have to break down the universe by its primary principles
and that these principles, these stoicheia can be manipulated
that we’ve got to use virgins.
God, we’ve got the frame once again.
You know where the unicorn,
where does that unicorn,
the unicorn’s involved with the virgin.
I saw it, man.
The mermaids, okay, just to give me a second.
There’s so much people.
People look, here’s the hippocampal.
Are you surprised that a Christian naturalist
is talking about sirens and centaurs?
People, do you know what we just proved?
you’re sitting here and you don’t think you’re looking at anything you’ll notice that he’s
talking about isaiah the prophet in the beginning he’s trying to explain to us why it is that isaiah
the prophet talks about sirens and centaurs people that is not in the hebrew this second century
onodomony text which is probably roughly where it should be you could argue first that this text
is talking about isaiah the prophet the text and it quotes him and it’s quoting the greek
and explaining to you what a siren is you see people there was no fucking hebrew right
dead sea scrolls my ass my ass that’s what they are that shit’s worth toilet paper
aren’t that shit on your ass because it’s fake as fuck shove the love to fear card up your ass
says donnie darko reminded to us by chewy hey um josh at polarity was talking about
donnie darko and the gnostic watch it people it’s fun it is fun people what is the what is
going on here that’s so significant you’re you’re getting a quote from isaiah and it’s using the
septuagint there is no hebrew intermediate right there is no original this is this has nothing to
do nothing it is everything to do with judean but it has nothing to do with hebrew that is a
fabrication of the rabbis you’re going to watch they found out some of the dead sea scrolls were
fake right right they’ll find out they’re all fucking fake if even to the point that um it’s
people copying out this fake language hebrew from greek sources they’ve got the greek sources there
right just a matter of time people just a matter of time excellent isaiah the prophet’s gonna get
in there where are all your churches and your assemblies i’d love it okay let’s keep it going
hello pigs here’s the pantheri pantheros oh god whole prophetes people were still
what are we talking about panthers and prophets do you know why do you know why do you remember
that we as apostles are into our dirty dirty sex christ thing with miriam you know what i mean
hoo-ha we are the ones who resurrect those panthers oh god we ride those motherfuckers
all right what do you why do you think people why do you think they always portray bacchus
riding on the back of a panther god damn it nobody see the dragon nice dirty ryan that’s
dirty that’s when a boy is at his best to attract an older gent right are they talking about
prophets people he’s just never fucking it never it never avails you know people why are we here
with the panthers with jesus and the panthers and the prophets and the eunuch boys and the lap of
the virgin where the unicorn goes you know how that’s you that’s how you get unicorns you fucking
people. You get unicorns from the pussies of virgins. Don’t try to clean it up. This is the
voice of the panther. This is the voice of the panther. Oh, God. And it’s beautiful, people.
It’s eutic. Eutic. These texts are gorgeous. Ephraim, thank you. Fantastic. People of the
dragons are still here and here is look here’s look in case you don’t believe me it’s christian
jesus jesus christ did one the curious the lord what did he do he uh sorry i put a i inserted my
own preposition which is there but you don’t see it
Resurrecting from the dead after three days, he shouted,
What is this oratos, Greek students, oratos, and aoratos that Jesus is talking about?
Don’t bold it or the system, oh, God damn it.
The system will recognize that and then will kick you out if you do that too much
and tell you you’re not using it properly.
because they don’t want you here looking up words.
Go look up words in your own time.
This is showing you what texts are joined
or have certain words that you need joined together.
Right?
Oh, God.
We’ve got all this Eudia that we’re trying to induce.
Remember, we’re the apostles.
Look who’s here, people.
Sophia.
Sophia.
What is Sophia?
This Sophia.
Here they say, Sophia belongs to God, okay?
But when I translate it that way,
it makes you think of something else.
What is Sophia, how is Sophia portrayed here?
She’s going to talk about the guitars in a minute.
How is she portrayed?
Pam Poikilos.
Look, it’s got two accents.
Isn’t that gorgeous?
Because Estine follows it.
Estine didn’t take that accent.
Fuck you, it says.
Okay, I want to see pampoikilos.
This is what wisdom is.
You lovely, lovely, sexy people.
All variegated.
Of rich and varied work.
What can be that?
Peploi.
So your gown can be pampoikilos.
But look, you can use it of sacred vases.
Stolides, again, of your stole.
Metaphorically, the hoofasma.
when you’re talking about the universe
can be variegated.
The universe is web.
The universe is woven robe.
The universe is web.
You see how they’re thanking people?
When you’re using these words,
you really have no fucking clue
unless you’ve seen them, right?
Like I may read this in a lexicon somewhere.
Hey, thank you for making this public.
Do this and post it.
I don’t care.
Give it to Chewy.
We’ll post it on Lady Babylon.
get this out there people you’ve got to understand you’ve got to understand and the language is
taking them places that you should have shame for which shame is that is that i swooner idols
do your homework little children what is sophia she is variegated she has now people what does
mean pampoikilos? They describe the scales of snakes this way. When you talk
about a different shimmer of light that comes from a snake’s scales. Now if you
have never had the pleasure of being in the presence of a snake, I’m sorry, but if
you’re in the presence of a snake and the sunlight hits their scales, you will
get a reflection that looks like it’s a prism. It looks like it’s dividing the
light into its primary colors you know um and it’s absolutely gorgeous it’s
like a sheen and it’s described in Greek this way ancient Greek palm poi kilos
of it people let me just make sure you don’t lose the let’s take palm off there
which is the all just to say it’s completely you thought we were you
thought we were digging people do you have the lexicon LSJ just say LSJ yes
you can okay Chewy said don’t worry about it yes lsj yes fantastic thank you okay people what is
the koikilos mini colored oh god spotted dappled right look what it’s using dracon right it’s
talking about all of those animals that you and i would say dracon who has that does the yunks have
that to be wrought in various colors look at the brits love you people wrought in various colors
of what by the way people we’re not we’re getting this from the brits this lsj so fuck you their
king may be a pervert you know from a from a womb of pervert child rapists but hey um look we’re
getting from them this it’s gorgeous right look at all the work those bastards put us they didn’t
have computers it’s 1850 they’re putting this together what’s his name is right and alice in
wonderland for this daughter of the dude who is the head editor on this thing liddell right oh god
and not chocolate dell that’s the that’s the finder intricate complex of a labyrinth right
People look. When you’re talking about Prometheus, it means artful. Artful. You see how the Greek is drifting? Of art. Oh, people, I told you it always comes back to music of art. Your humnos, your hymn is a song of changeful strain, full of diverse art. Is that how you write your music?
you write your music as if it’s poikilos it’s it’s not a variegated sheen of of light
if you do you’re of prometheus i know that there are hardcore fucking metal guitarists in here
and now there are it’s the promethean fire you bitches you bitches swarm to it’s like nectar
You little dirty bitches with your metal guitars.
Rick’s sons of bitches.
Love it.
I love it.
Pate, please show them everything.
No censoring, right?
Don’t edit.
Okay, where are we?
Oh, we’re with Snakes and Wisdom People,
and we’re in what you call the Psalms.
God and David wrote the Psalms.
Stupidity.
What kind of shit are we interested in?
Jesus.
Jesus.
All right.
That one who is Christed, the Christing, is pampoikilos.
You understand?
Christing is itself that parthenia, that of virginity.
Ingratea.
People, are you going to do it?
Are you going to make it work?
You’ve got to have Ingratea.
You’re going to have faith?
People, this is development of faith.
People are seeing it in this work of the Physiologos,
and nobody gives a shit.
right people why don’t we let’s look up parthenia how are we how are we supposed to know what any of
these things are i know what that parthenos is right but what is parthenia is that her abstract
state of virginity let’s look it up people oh god do you have to do you have to have it so
fucking complex greeks people look what happens where’s my accent is that oxy tone
song sung by maidens song sung by maidens oh maiden so you mean they’re associating music
with virginity that’s sort of odd right what are your parthenia those are your signs of virginity
people. Your signs of virginity. What is Parthenia? That’s the son of a concubine. That’s a slave girl.
She’s 12. Do you understand? Jesus Christ, people. Your Parthenia. Look, it’s sending me in circles.
Where’s your Parthenia? Your virginity, people. Your virginity is on the line. What are these
text about i told you the unicorn goes to the lap of the virgin you jerks and i just gave you that
free in it’s like giving you the code to the door of it don’t you love it look what’s look at what
we can do fuck solomon right there he is i mean if you’re into that kind of thing um oh people look
who i found oh god that’s kato it’s talking about you don’t know who that monster is don’t even try
it. Don’t even try it, people. No, we don’t need this one either. Where’s that dirty? Oh, here’s
something with, what is a monokerotos? Oh, psalmos lege. Oh, God. It’s going to quote the psalms.
Fusiologos elexeperitum monokerotos.
Okay, it’s going to have this sort of nature, people. It’s life is short. People,
let’s see if lsj defined um let’s use up our one freebie here that these bitches will
shell out to us and see if lsj managed monokeros with but one horn with but one horn what does
that tell me look it says it’s poetically used here in archilochus monokeros right look at him
lengthens the vowel there it drops it down in what is that the dorian i think that’s the
okay ionian i’m sorry fuck monoceros wild dogs the one horned one why is the one horned one in the
why are the one horned one in the devil coming up in the region of the virgin oh god people wait
what did he say what that fucker said i’m sorry people don’t curse so much let me go to the
Where’s the cool? What did Brian say? Brian, thank you. Almond’s got a little horn. Oh my God.
I knew that there was a British schoolboy in that. Irish flesh of yours. I hope that,
is that Brian the Handsome? Is that Brian the Handsome? Who is that? Is that Saddam Hussein?
Who the fuck is putting? Is that Saddam? Brian, is that you? You who are putting up the great
ancient greek jokes dirty people don’t listen to brian i hope that was him it’s not salem hussein
who is it it’s not somebody i don’t recognize wasn’t there somebody put up a thing of me on
josh’s thing does that can we get those to put up we’ll make them okay fantastic it’s a no hell boy
who put hell boy up there oh look josh jeff put up a that’s me i love that no come on people
everybody likes to look at themselves let’s look at each other it’s fantastic okay people
it’s creeping me out a little bit this whole virgin virgin one horn son of a is creeping
me out. Raise up that horn, right? In the house of David, our father. What did they do? Those
horns, right? They became horns of salvation for us. Virgins, virgins, and virgins, and virgins,
Virgins. Virgins. They did what? They took up, took up their residence in the
Who did? Jesus took up his residence in the guy in that, that womb, right? Who is that?
It’s the Holy Virgin Mary, the Theotoku. What does that mean? Oh God. What does it mean
to be theotokos people theotokos what a concept we’re gonna oh here i don’t want to use this
they’re gonna fucking throw me out theotokos i get thrown out of um tlg on a regular basis
because i use oh people this is the worst this is the worst mother of god of the virgin look
codex justinian people oops what is that talk cost it’s from ticto right and usually i say
that verb is going to bring you the true strength, but it doesn’t in this case. Childbirth,
parturition of women, right, can be the thing itself, the offspring, the produce. What is she
producing? What is she producing? She’s producing, Thales. Isn’t that gorgeous? She is giving birth
to that God. She is giving birth. Look at the praise of women here, right? Oh, God. How does
she produce, right? This is frequently in medical and other prose of women.
Very easily, right? How is that process that we engender
another person? It’s got to work, people. This is medical, this is physical, it’s
spiritual, it’s everything. You don’t talk lightly about this kind of stuff.
Oh, God, I’m about to have a stroke.
Don’t say that.
Oh, God.
Let’s see what else.
I want to see if there’s anything else.
Yeah, no, I’m good.
I was just saying that.
People, remember what Paul, kind of Paul, Paul problem we had, right?
Where’s your Kentron, hell?
Where is that death, right?
Right?
Oh, God.
The dude rose up.
He’s in the presence of the dead.
You have to understand that, people.
There is a kentron, but for us is a sting.
But for them is something more.
What is that sting of death?
People, look at the goad that you see in number one.
What happens without that goad, right?
that incentive what kind of incentive is in b see how you’re scanning this stuff people
what kind of incentive is in b erotos that’s love baby that’s love pothos is here
pothos is desire what’s the difference between your love and your desire people did you know
ammonius tells us that i just read that desire and desire you’re gonna think they’re the same
thing eros and pothos right you’re gonna think it’s the same thing it’s not and they tell you
that they explain it to you torture is torture i that’s why i love to kenteo things to torture
to cause pain all right with the tip of that spear oh just put in the tip right into jesus’s side
oh sting of bees and wasps do you know what do you know what inspires me uh-oh uh-oh do you know
what inspires me you can cut off this foreskin and be less inspired but it’s the membran we relay
people. This stinger. My waspy. Waspy. Oh, God. My stinger. My bee stinger. Oh, God. Poste. My
membrum virile. People who… Oh, I’m sorry. For those of you who don’t translate Latin,
that’s the manly organ. You get it? Do I need to be any more specific? Poste. Look at what kind
a word. Brian, this is your word. False thing. This is for you, buddy. Right for you. Here’s
your Greek. Now shut up and take it. Oh, God, people. This is just too much. I love it. I love
it, people. Where is that sting of death? If you had been to the echidna, you would know, right?
Why do you think those Baptists walk around with glass dildos? What do you think they do with
those glass dildos i’m just scanning people i don’t really care it’s out of spring right
not right now because i’m looking for somebody else i’m looking for somebody else let me just
find her fuck this i’m gonna do one more search people and i want you to go with me to edim but
oh you know what i’m gonna do i’m gonna do proximity oh i think it’s gonna give it to me
Let’s see. Son of a bitch. You people. Oh, it’s because I’m doing, I didn’t do full corpus. Sorry,
people. The search was saying, no, it doesn’t exist, which it does. I know I’ve seen it.
But I was on just one author. So it’ll do everything. Here it is. People, I want to give
you a secret. Do you know who Eden is? When I say Eden, when I say Eden people, do you know who that
is. It is, Echidna me devonasa skudha. Oh, God. Did you hear what I said? People, this is just
the beginning. I wanted you to see some things that are there that you’re not. I’ll turn up the
naughty. I’ll turn up the naughty next time. We’re going to start in Satan. Okay. Now, I would like
to do this at least two, if not three times a week. And I would like to develop it where I can
be reading you a text. I did it completely by myself, but I’d like to call on individuals.
And I’d like for them to be able to speak and say, hey, you know, this is what I think.
Let me see if I can get Brian. Can you call up Brian? Where is he? Can you make him speak?
oh are they all muted okay brian requests to speak this is how we have to do this in the
presence of almond you must request people the last discord that we did oh god it blew up it
absolutely blew up and i lost a lot of good people and good contacts um because it was not
run by me this one’s going to be run by me so okay did he did you bring it up chewy see if we
bring him up okay on can you unmute him or can he i think i’m i think i’m on you to know fantastic
everybody welcome brian the definitely the best looking of all my graduate students right so
right by the way brian was in had you know enrolled himself in a course on demeter’s
sorry, the Homeric hymn to Demeter, which is not no easy task, people. This man is experienced.
Brian, as you were sitting there, and I’m working in my workshop, you see how this is different from
a reading group, a true reading group, right? Did you feel the urge any time to jump in and say, oh,
look what the Greek says there, or look at this word, right? Did you have any inspiration to do
that for sure you’re uh the speed you’re moving at is what you know faster than i’m you know
scanning through but um you know going forward i could definitely see how uh you know if that’s
what i’m looking for then we could do that it exposes you to a lot of greek doesn’t it expose
you to a lot yeah and i think that’s a good thing i’m glad you said that but um so what i’ll do is
next time when i see that you have a request or there’s a request from one of the people who you
know the five or six people that I told I want you to be reading this along I’ll
go ahead and open it up and what I don’t want to do is force upon my students
cite translation of texts that they have never never even been close to
encountering that’s just cruel an unusual punishment right in a reading
course in at university you give them the text beforehand and they go through
they have time to work on it you don’t surprise them right because you’re gonna
have vocabulary that’s screwed up you can have all sorts of stuff by the way
um Brian let me ask you this now you’ve seen quite a few tags now did it strike
you did this test this test text strikes me as mainline coin a attic coin a
that’s using vocabulary that’s used heavily heavily heavily in the first
and second third centuries on a Domini that’s my that’s where I would put it
well did you notice anything anything strike you as wait a minute that’s
really attic so maybe that’s earlier he like did anything stick out I know this
is like the toughest question to ask you know there are some formulations that
were like yeah I just got out of the hymn to Demeter course so I’m like my
brain has been the homeric sort of style but there’s some like syntax things that were happening
here that that i could see coming from that screen but um oh yeah oh god did everybody hear that that
is the bet pate make sure and you know record that is the best comment ever look brian has been
in the homeric dialect now so that’s where his brain is and he’s noticing like there was an
oyo there is in the genitive lengthened you know changed vowels right that are like what he was
seeing in homer right so now that he’s read homeric hymns he’s able to kind of apply that knowledge
and people when you do that from as early as homer all the way down to byzantine stuff you really get
a feel for where the greek is supposed to where these texts are really from so yeah brian any
anything else you wanted to say does this is this is a profitable exercise for you no
oh for sure uh you know uh moving at this pace to um you know it would be good to have you know
work to do supplementary to this like if there’s anything going forward but
um this is a good pace to kind of try to hang in there with you oh that was genius okay um here’s
what i’m going to do then at the end of every session um next time next i’m going to tell you
brian where we’ll be going so if my students who are here to do the greek want to go to tlg and do
a search for satan and satanael and ball and saturnas if you want to do that you’ll get a
a smattering of where we may end up and and all i’m going to do is i’m going to call up those
terms with everybody else here right and i’m just going to first time it i’m just this is literally
my workshop you guys are going to see things coming going on lady babylon that we glean from
this okay so without without further ado what i’m bringing to you in the future is uncut research
with the ancient in ancient greek that’s all um and if you’re out there and you’re a greek student
you can you will learn from this you’ll be bombarded right some of you are out there and
you’re like oh god i can barely keep up right um and i want to hear from all my students i want to
hear from all of them next time so here’s what i’m going to do people i think three nights a week is
going to be too much with lady babylon and the heavy time that i’m putting in with that so i
think i’ll do two times a week for a little bit longer each time so we did an hour and a half this
time from an hour and a half to two hours twice a week instead of three
times a week for an hour right I think you know it’s the old University Tuesday
Thursday class versus Monday Wednesday Friday right so let’s do Monday I like
this slot oh it feels good I like it with you guys I love it and then
Thursday Monday and Thursday yes Monday and Thursday I’m going to be asking
students next time my five or six who are working hard including Jason right
I’m gonna ask you I on I want some of you to pipe in as well all boy if we can
get them to come I want Pete you you people to pipe in and I want to be able
to answer general questions somehow in my workshop but I don’t know the format
of how I’m gonna do that I’m just gonna let that play out so people who could
not respond couldn’t get a voice tonight and I realize that’s a lot of you it’s
everybody but gorgeous Brian right right he’s getting totally favored Madelaine
it got a little bit too right mmm God not fair people Thursday I want you to
come and continue the research and I’ll figure out a way to do questions and
stuff like that right now this is my workshop and you’ll notice that my that
some of this is going on lady Babylon it will so you know if you can sit here and
help me research right if somebody sees something and they’re like oh my god
this must be addressed we can always do that right fantastic this recording will
be posted on lady babylon thank you for coming tonight everyone please go and write more
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i’m gonna put it on lady babylon you’re giving us this time right we might as well really you know
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helping thank you i will see you thursday at the same time hail satan
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