Wednesday, September 24, 2008

another vampire reference

my friend eileen cued me into an interesting (novelty level interesting) website, as it is getting close to halloween.

http: www.emmadavies.net/vampires

if you go onto it, you enter your name, and it gives you your vampire name. here's mine:

***
The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Claudius Ruthven
Known in some parts of the world as:
Hyperion of The Cursed
The Great Archives Record:
The cursed and the curser - bringing downfall and ill favour to kings and peasants alike!
***

perhaps it shows how bored and unmotivated i am, but:

(i looked this up)

hyperion is in greek mythology the titan son of gaea and uranus (mother earth, father sky), and father of helios (sun), selene (moon), and eos (dawn).

i suppose because hyperion "fathers" and thus "frames" sun, moon and dawn (different aspects defining time), the word "hyperion" in literary theory refers to a "frame story," like in the canterbury tales...

in the context above ("hyperion of the cursed"), i guess the word is being used primarily in the sense of "fathering" all manner of the cursed... from the highborn to the low. VERY DEMOCRATIC!!!

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