[HPFGU-OTChatter] RE: Olympics redux

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

At times, the Old Ways are best....

--- catlady_de_los_angeles <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:
{Snip}
> 
> Drieux wrote:
> 
> > Ah, well...nice to think of restoring something
> like the original 
> > purity of the Games, wasn't it?
> 
> Which purity was that? The *real* Olympics (in
> Greece, in worship of 
> the Gods, no snow and ice sports) included events in
> composing paeans 
> and performing epics, if you mean 'free of
> subjective aesthetic 
> judgment'.

Understood, but the intent, let us say, of the
Original Games was what I was after.

Cheers,

Drieux

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