Unit 8: Vocabulary from Readings 1

Suddenly, the ground split open and up from the yawning crevice came a dark chariot drawn by black horses.

A herd of pigs rooting in the meadow tumbled into the cleft, and Persephone’s cries for help died out as the ground closed again as suddenly as it had opened.

A herd of pigs rooting in the meadow tumbled into the cleft, and Persephone’s cries for help died out as the ground closed again as suddenly as it had opened.

They were sentenced to suffer forever under the whips of the avenging Erinyes.

Flowers wilted, trees lost their leaves, and the fields grew barren and cold.

No longer was she a sad old woman, but a radiant goddess.

The path to and from the village was all that divided them as they worked, and all day long they called across courteous greetings:
“Good-day my very special friend, I hope the sun is not beating too hard upon your shoulders.”

What I saw I saw, without error, and you, too stubborn to admit your lack of observation, your lack of imagination, retaliate by accusing me of playing with the facts just to get a wedge under your bulk.

When the chief heard of the astonishing quarrel between these two whose loyalty he had always supposed more durable than that of other men, he sighed deeply and went off to perform a sacrifice to Eshu.

Ra, the Sole Creator was visible to the people of Egypt as the disc of the sun, but they knew him in many other forms.

The names of Ra were as numerous as his forms; he was the Shining One, The Hidden One, The Renewer of the Earth, The Wind in the Souls, The Exalted One, but there was one name of the Sun God which had not been spoken since time began.

Her only chance was to turn the power of Ra against himself and at last Isis thought of a cruel and cunning plan.

Every day the Sun God walked through his kingdom, attended by a crowd of spirits and lesser deities, but Ra was growing old.

His eyes were dim, his step no longer firm and he had even begun to drivel.

I am the Sole Creator, the child of the watery abyss.