Comments on: Pirates and Goddesses

By: srobin

srobin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:52:40 +0000

during this time people considered piracy as a noble act, it wasn't much like the popularised image of the cut throat, so Odysseus could well be noble and a King and still be a pirate. in fact at one point he was sheltered by a pirate king.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:12:00 +0000

Voodoo-practicing witch . . .Vodoun holy people do not like to be called witches. Priest or priestess will do.And Pagan practioners continued to existed . . . even in “the age of Christianity”, whether it was the 18th century or early 21st century.

By: Penelope

Penelope — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:49:00 +0000

Odysseus a pirate?? Even “something of a pirate”?Absolutely not! He was a king. Zeus-sprung OdysseusGreat-hearted OdysseusNoble OdysseusResourceful Odysseusand he looked a bit like Sean Bean…

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 May 2007 00:38:00 +0000

But I DID post a spoiler warning.

By: Jilder

Jilder — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:49:00 +0000

There’s been talk of issuing a spoiler warning over on the Livejournal feed for this blog. Not everyone has the pleasure of seeing a film on its release, and this is a pleasant little surprise I would have liked to find out the conventional way.

By: c.

c. — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:10:00 +0000

this is not the first pirate fiction to portray pirates as involved with pagan or polytheist religions. in Tim Powers's excellent novel On Stranger Tides, Blackbeard and other pirates are said to be devotees of voodoo lwa. Blackbeard, specifically, is said to be a devotee of Baron Samedi, "…whose secret drogue is a low-smoldering fire, which is why Blackbeard always braided lit slow matches into his hair and massive beard before going into any risky encounter…."

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:27:00 +0000

…a peg leg to stand on…