Genesis question:

Faun

n. Roman Mythology

Any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat.

Ah, thank you. Been wondering about that for years, though the answer really doesn't make it any less mysterious.

'Listen to the old one speak,Of all he has lived through...' For him there is no mystery...'

Ehem, Man Erg, I believe you're 4 years olderthan me

Back to Borges, if you like Imaginary Beings, try The Aleph, it will blow your mind.

A real genius, thanks God that because of politics he never won the Nobel Prize even when he was a nominee for almost 30 years.

His work is so great that winning any prize that lets politics decide who deserves it  would be an insult for him.

Iván

ivan_2068 wrote: Even though Borges is my all time favorite writter (Love The Aleph and Ficciones read both severall times) I don't believe he has relation with Genesis. Borges is well known for using mythological creatures from different cultures in hois books, he's one of the strongest representatives from the "Real Wonderful Latin American Genre), he clearly took both characters from different countries mythology: The Squonk is a legendary creature from the Hemlock forests of north-central and north-western Pennsylvania. The Lamia was according to the ancient greeks a vampire who stole little children to drink their blood. Unifaun is a word game constantly used by Peter Gabriel (butterflies, flutterbyes, gutterflies), in this case the song is inspired in the epic poem by T.S. Elliot, "Wasteland, who used resources from Greek Mythology, so Peter tried to represent the fantastic and real from the British story or culture, mixing the words Uniform - Unicorn - Unifaun. He even used a Roman - Greek uniform (The two have similarities) to represent Brittania when he sang this track. Iván

Hi Ivan,

Thank you for the Unifaun bit because you actually confirmed what I thought for years. We had all asked ourselves what that meant and my guess was as close as can be to your explanation.

Did not know for the Squonk bit. I thought it was that sort of rat that is related to the cover and stands by the lyrics of that song.

Hugues

ivan_2068 wrote: Unifaun is a word game constantly used by Peter Gabriel (butterflies, flutterbyes, gutterflies), in this case the song is inspired in the epic poem by T.S. Elliot, "Wasteland, who used resources from Greek Mythology, so Peter tried to represent the fantastic and real from the British story or culture, mixing the words Uniform - Unicorn - Unifaun.

And as you write it Ivan, now clearly directly derived from the common writing styles of Victorian writers/poets, Lewis Carroll  and Edward Lear, for instance The Hunting of The Snark, The Owl & The Pussycat - which in turn goes back to another Oxbridge don Dr Spooner ('Friar Tuck' and all that), and then further to the 18th century Anglo-Irish playwright Sheradan's character, Mrs Malaprop. Similarly the love of strange and obscure words, is clearly found in the writings of Mervin Peake (e.g. Titus Groan trilogy), which was almost as popular read as Lord of The Rings in the late 60's/early 70's - Peake died about 40 years ago.