Hey, Elveses! Who is Olga dog?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 186150

Geoff wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/186115>:

<< If a reference is made to a child's godfather, then this will immediately imply to a UK reader that the child was baptised, probably within the Church of England (or the Roman Catholic Church). >>

Or the Church of Wizards.

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No Limberger wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/186142>:

<< In the late summer of 480 BCE, a small band of Spartans (300 men) (snip) Called the Battle of Thermopylae (snip) the vast majority of this small Greek force was killed, sacrificing themselves to save others. Given that these acts of love and self-sacrifice  >>

I'm sure you can find Classical Greek examples of love and self-sacrifice, but Thermopylae was an example of courage, honor,and self-sacrifice, not love and self-sacrifice.

Btw please come to OT and tell me about the people of Kemet paying attention to astrology and alchemy before Hellenistic times. 

That they used the stars at night to tell the time of night and the season of the year and predict when the Nile flood would come is not astrology; neither is the belief that Pharaoh's soul rose to spend eternity with the eternal (never setting) circumpolar stars and the eternal (reborn every day) sun. Astrology comes from the Babylonians.

That they learned a great deal of what may be called practical chemistry, in terms of what minerals to grind up and mix together to make cosmetics, colored glazes, perfumes, etc is not alchemy. I suppose alchemy couldn't start until the theory that everything is made of four or five Elements was available, and I believe that came from the Greeks, after they had re-learned writing and drawing, after centuries of trampling on the grave of Minoan civilization.