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       The Classical Greeks
       were not influenced
       by the Classical Greeks
       
       
       WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ERIS (not much)
       
       The Romans left a likeness of Her for posterity -- She was shown as a 
       grotesque woman with a pale and ghastly look, Her eyes afire, Her 
       garment ripped and torn, and as concealing a dagger in Her Bosom.  
       Actually, most women look pale and ghastly when concealing a chilly 
       dagger in their bosoms.
       
           Her geneology is from the Greeks and is utterly confused.  Either 
       She was the twin of Ares and the daughter of Zeus and Hera; or She was 
       the daughter of Nyx, goddess of night (who was either the daughter or 
       wife of Chaos, or both), and Nyx's brother, Erebus, and whose brothers 
       and sisters included Death, Doom, Mockery, Misery, and Friendship.  
       And that She begat Forgetfulness, Quarrels, Lies, and a bunch of gods 
       and goddesses like that.
       
           One day Mal-2 consulted his pineal gland* and asked Eris if She 
       really created all of those terrible things.  She told him that She 
       had always liked the Old Greeks, but that they cannot be trusted with 
       historic matters.  "They were," She added, "victims of indigestion, 
       you know."
       
           Suffice it to say that Eris is not hateful or malicious.  But She 
       is mischievous, and does get a little bitchy at times.
       
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       * THE PINEAL GLAND is where each and every one of us can talk to Eris.  
       If you have trouble activating your pineal, then try the appendix 
       which does almost as well.  Reference:  DOGMA I, METAPHYSICS #3, "The 
       Indoctrine of the Pineal Gland."
       
       
                                     DIRUIT AEDIFICAT MUTAT GUADRATA ROTUNDUS
                                                                    -- Horace