29.11.10

word of the day

Alinka Echeverria
daemon 1 |ˈdēmən| (also daimon)noun(in ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans.• an inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force.

Daemons are good or benevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" (see Plato's Symposium), and differ from the Judeo-Christian usage of demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

groan ups call them, demon, a poet, metaphor. metaphor is myth. there are two ways of learning: the cold logic and binary facts, and the way of the myths. I often prefer the way of the myths. You choose: the way you described how a poet and a mystic paryed for you or your father described it, which is beatiful? Funny, my grandfather was a poet and a lawyer, he died when I was young too, so he lost his father when he was, and when his father died, the paper under his pillow held the time of his death foretold, a Myth or a fact? you choose. I chose a long time ago, without having the facts:

'perhaps,
you have the potential to surpass, your past.', a present

keep it up