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20260414-GreekWorkshop Part 1： Serpents, Unicorns, and Virgins

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Oh, God. Fantastic people. I said is it I'm looking at your messages. Hey Carlos. Good to see you Carlos. Love it that you're here. Carlos, I hope that I hope that you get some kind of thanks for helping. Um your sound is [\\h__\\h]

Somebody else's sound [\\h__\\h] Somebody said their sound is messed up Chewie. Anybody else get it Got it. Oh God. Hey Carlos. There you go. Right, we can hear. Thank you Snappy. Yes. Yes, thank you. Refresh. Chewie said refresh if you don't if you're having sound problems. Right? Oh, God. Okay. People, welcome to my workshop. What I'm going to do is show you the frontier. You get to sit here and see the frontier, the new stuff. Nothing old. Nothing old at all. This is all new. And it's all the stuff that you thought

You knew but you don't. Chewie? Go ahead and hit the um I want them to see my screen. Let's get engaged people. Now I know there's there are those of you in the advanced unit who are going to be wanting to read some Greek. This first session I want you to sit back and I want you to pay attention to how this is all going to work. Okay people. Watch this. Oh God. Let's go to a text search people. And let's just sit here. I'm going to do

Stuff that you can't do. Right? Oh God. People, what am I bringing up? Can I just talk to myself? Physiologus. Look at this people. Who the hell is that? Who the hell is this? Who is the natural scientist?

Oh God. This is a natural scientist. This is a work by somebody we do not know. And if you look right now online you will see Wick just go ahead Wiki it if you want. But do you save yourself some time and I'll just tell you Brian. You can see that they don't know when this thing was written.

That they are guessing. Trying to use all of their might to say who is quoting it, who is saying things like it, when is it first appearing. Right? That's all the fun that philologists do.

Second century people. Second century. It says, you know, let them argue and say no it can't be until the third because of who hot. There's no definitive good dating on this thing. But that's what you and I are here for. People. Right people in my brains. You're [\\h__\\h] crazy. That's what you are. Where shall we start out people? I'm just going to bring up a text. dog Look at this people. Lanakai's

What the hell is he doing? People. What is this thing about? It's about Jesus. Wait, what? Judah? Oh, the what's going on? Do we have to triple share? Double triple share. Get it up there. Um Okay, now people are we all good? Everybody good?

We're going to talk about a lion? We're going to talk people who is this Does this have anything to do with the devil?

Let's see, shall we? Shall we go and take a little journey? People, what are we doing? I just showed you a work called the Physiologus. That's what this is in Greek sitting right in front of you. Oh look, there's Who's this? Greek people. Who's that?

>> [Sighs and gasps] >> Solomon

Oh my God. How do we get here? There's God. Right? Or don't you love him? Which kind is this? Oh God. It's the Pantocrator people. In my head the Pantocrator. You see that Madalena? You see that? Pantocrator. That's the God that we're talking about. Remember last week people I talked about ball and the very same time that I was doing my stuff somebody else was doing their stuff on ball and saying [\\h__\\h]

Philogoritic, what the [\\h__\\h] does that have to do with a goddamn thing with ball? It doesn't. I showed you Theophilus. I showed you Theophilus and where does ball come from? Ball is Satan you [\\h__\\h] Right? Saturnus

Oh, they never listen cuz they don't read these texts people. Wizard. What? Oh God. People, this naturalist is going on and on. I want him to tell me something cool. So watch. I'm going to advance ahead.

Are we talking about Are we talking about that [\\h__\\h] who killed people? That King David. You're going to love this stuff people. We're talking about guitars. We're talking about guitars in this one. We're talking about the savior. Do you people see the savior? There's so tear. Oh God. Did I bring Ammonius? Did I bring Ammonius? I did. Now people, can you see the the lexicon that I was reading? >> [snorts] >> How do I get back to the chat? Chewie? From here. How do I see if they're

Seeing it? I want to be able to see. I can see and hear. Now when I want to get back then to boom boom boom boom

No, I know but I want them to see this. Okay people. Fantastic. You're lovely. What is this? Look what I was looking for people. sotera

Where do you think I found it people? In these grammarians. Do you see the grammarians right here you sons of [\\h__\\h] I love this. I can talk to you exactly like I want to. I don't have to [\\h__\\h] Do some people have headset problems? Oh, poopy.

What do I do?

Hey, you people in the it um everybody but me cuz I don't know. Ion. Right? The rest of you people. Plug or unplug your headset Ion said. Thank you Ion. That's really cool. It's good that Ion is here. I feel so confident. Ion, you should be looking at the [\\h__\\h] Greek. Right? Okay, here we go. Back to the thing.

Where's the Go back to the text Chewie. Thanks for the help. You better grab a steak. Oh. Fantastic. The snakes are taking a bath. I love it. Yes, cuz they need their moisture. Um that's why. Now let's go back and we boom What's going on? Nobody's here but me.

Give me. I want the original Can I see it? I'm sorry people. Can you see this? Okay, I'm going to switch to text. Everybody give me one more. Can you see this? Can you see the text? Boom. Can't see that people. Now I got to go back and make sure they can see it. You see it? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, fantastic. All right, here we go. People, look at this Ammonius guy. I thought you'd be impressed

With Ammon. He's a grammarian. Oh God. What's he written here people here? Those of you are my students I'm not calling on you today but Madalena, Brian is here. Sexy Brian is here. Hey, we're calling for sexy Brian to come back. Right? What does it say? peri homoeon paideia phoron lexeon

Lexeon Where is that accent?

People, I'm going to say some musical stuff in a minute that these grammarians are teaching. Just don't worry about it.

Where's the savior? Hm. Love it. Love it. Where is the Let's look at the Look at this people.

Hey, you dudes who are doing the Greek, pay attention. This is Philoxenus, another grammarian. He's first century BC so go [\\h__\\h] yourself. Anybody who's a Christian who thinks they know what a savior is, go [\\h__\\h] yourself. kai apotater

You get potera. Just like soter, sotera. kai demeter demetera

Oh God. Look, it's not a masculine form, people. Look, it's soter. This is what people don't get. Look, it's soter and they think, "Oh, it's masculine. It's Jesus." Yeah. [\\h__\\h] you. de me te er Right?

Take off the ter. Take off the ter, you [\\h__\\h] cats. And what do you get? So. From sa o. Sa o to save. Sa o soter. How about de me te er? From the de me. The total damnation. Oh my god. Where is this coming from? Look, people were trying to Well, that's what we're trying to answer. And but some people come up with shitty guesses and Indo-European

[\\h__\\h]

Oh god, why don't they just read this stuff? They would really Where's that Okay, where's the dictionary? Where's Ammonius? Oh, here's about being naked. Right? >> [laughter]

>> How they differ, right? Different verb. Look at how specific it is here, people. Oh god.

Ge os men is the a te le o te a he le gi a What is age, people? It's that completion of the bud. That bud blooms and then you got old age. Oh god.

These terms differ, people. These it the genius that's in all of this. If you have never perused any of these

People, you're in some kind of weird dimension. Go back to alpha. People, what is this? ho moi on kai di a phor on lexeon on the similarities and differences of words. Similar, isn't this neat? It's not a definition.

Right? It's a saying, "Hey, these words are these are there how they're alike and how they're different. Look at this. Oh, this is gorgeous. People, this is a lot of hoo-ha. Watch this. angelos kai exangelos kai autangelos

Diapherousin

Angelos and exangelos and autangelos, they're different. That's what it says. And then it proceeds to tell you exactly what each one is. For a for a Christian reading a text from a seminary um they never get this stuff. That's why I got to, you know, awards and congratulations because in big classes with 100 people in them demanding Give us Professor Ammon.

Oh god. He was just an adjunct, but he was a good guy. angelos gar pas Oh god. What is that angel? Right? They're bringing their announcement from external. From the things that are on their external.

Do you understand? That's what an angelos does. Right? What does an exangelos do? An exangelos is bringing you the things that are within. Right?

And then goes on hon thu e tes which Thucydides, right? Oops, look at this. People, what's the strength of these grammarians? Thucydides. It's the fact that they're reading and quoting. What's the strength of a modern translator? Are they reading and quoting? Huh? Right? No. Let me find one interesting.

Here, people. People who are in Greek, read this. In your own minds, don't talk. Right? Audibly, if you can't.

Just in your Do it with me. athenai kai adike diaphere

So, athenai and adike, right? Um they're different. The words are different, right? athenai men ga he to les estin athenai is the city. adike de he te polis kai he hora Look at that beautiful construction. Look how everything is lined up. Look at the te and the kai. People, these grammarians, they're stiff shirts, you know what I mean? They get a boner for the Greek grammar. So, they they set up their particles. They do everything like straight up. Like this stuff should make you mentally horny if you're a classicist, you know

What I mean? So, you know what does it say, you know? When you're using Athenian, you're talking about the city. When you're using Attic, you're talking about the city and the countryside surrounding it, right? Oh god. That's gorgeous. Here's the difference between eidos and aischune. Now, many of you, the new guy who came in and studied with Ion and those guys or or uh Yeah, um

Um Zach, Jason, I think is his name. Yeah. eidos kai aischune. Now, Jason, you know that both these words mean some kind of like shape. Right? >> [laughter]

>> Here's the differences. Okay. Notice that the first has to do with doing things religiously. You see the sabba root in there, people? Right? You've got entropy. With the first eidos, you've got entropy toward Right? Wait a minute. What? People, did you even know what is entrope?

Entrope

In trope pe phan tai Let's Let's get some lexicon out here. Make love to this Greek. Oh, you guys didn't do so well good on entrope. A turning towards. Oh, that's not Come on, people. That's not This isn't gig my hoo-ha. Respect for somebody. It's coming from. I always tell my students to go to the verbs. It's coming from entrepo. Right? So, if you want to see what the word really means, you go to the verb. Oh, look. Galen is using it. Oh, yeah. Right? Oh, what is he

>> [Laughter] >> using it for? >> [gasps] >> Look, it's the meos. This [\\h__\\h] hilarious. To reduce a prolapsed anus.

It's turning something about, right? Oh god. To make one turn. That was intrepid. Puts you to shame, [\\h__\\h] Right? And by [\\h__\\h] I mean both male and female. Right? Except for dogs. I don't mean dogs. I always speak respectfully of dogs because they rock. German Shepherd giving German Shepherd German Shepherds are a king royalty. Anyway, um to turn about, to hesitate, to turn towards to respect or reverence. People, look how the middle is changing it. I'd like to Look at the the act We're talking about the active. We're talking about

Reducing your prolapsed anus. That's when your anus come That's when your your rectum sticks out here. Out the backside. Right? It's not funny. It happens when you strain. It's probably going to happen to me now that I'm making fun of it. Oh god. Now, people, look. You're learning Greek, but you're learning the real stuff. You're not going to learn this in any [\\h__\\h] seminary. Right? Look what happens when you take the word entrepo and you move to the middle or the passive. What happens in the middle voice? To turn toward. You're doing it for your

Own sake. That is you're respecting or you're reverencing. So, Madalena, I want you to be thinking about the middle voice. And how it kind of changes the feel cuz you're going to have to make your way through texts, man. Right? Feel shame or fear. That's nice. Look who's down here. These [\\h__\\h]

Always notice where your sources are coming from, people. Right? Second Epistle of Thessalonians and Titus. Here's Mark's Gospel, 12:6.

People, you're never going to forget prolapse anus, brother. Okay, let's go back. I hope people can see this. I'm going to check. People, let's see. Can you see the Let's go to the Look at the snakes. I saw some snakes, people, and I got to go worship the snakes. I'm going to go to them, and I want to make sure This is a little test for you students who are so far ahead. Is the Phoenix in here? Oh, yeah. Woo! Oh, God. Heliopolis

Heliopolis, excuse me. Oh, God. I made that one, son. drunkard I'm an oath. the farmouthy. Does anybody recognizing any of this? Right, here's Heliopolis, you [\\h__\\h] You got all ters? It's a beautiful explanation. Anyhow, um Phoenix people, wait a minute. We're talking about the Phoenix. Oh, God. Does anybody want a unicorn? You know where the unicorn finds his nummies? In the lap of the virgin.

Gross. You sick [\\h__\\h] Look at this, number 10. Do Okay, do people have Wait.

What? What are you doing? I have to watch the snakes. They're top priority. Absolute top priority. Yeah. They will Look at them. Oh, God, they're cute. People, speaking of snakes, what's here in yellow? Hey, Brian. Who are you, man? What's here in yellow? What is an echidna?

What is Come on, man. I'm throwing you a bone. You see how it's going to work in the future? Those of you who are kind enough to come, who I invited to be my readers, right? To read along with me. I want you to see how it's going to work. So, Brian, you don't have to answer, but I want you to see what I'm going to do in the future. Then I'm going to press a button, and you're going to say something maybe about the Greek. I'm not going to ask you to sight

Translate, but you're going to be sight translating. This is about the echidna.

What do we know about the echidna? Oh, God. People, look at below here. This is off Don't you look at that, you dirty dirty rotten

Keep your eyes on this one. That's not for you now. Pedi off ass. I decided that last night. This is the frontier, people. Is Jesus in here? >> [laughter] >> This is hilarious. ho kurios alex in toy euangelioi

The Lord said in the Gospel. And then you see the This is how they're indicating quotes here in the TLG, that little two little green thingies. ginesthe oun. Hey, people, we're talking about Jesus.

We're talking about Jesus, people. Is this a quote of Jesus from the 2nd century? It is. It's a quote. Right? Of what? kurios is saying He says, you know, be phronimoi. What do you think that is? You see the root on there, phrain, people? Magdalena, see the phrain? We went over the phrain a thousand times, right? We drilled that phrain in and out, in and out. What is that? It's the chest. It's the diaphragm. What is that? It's the brain of the emotions? What? It's the some kind of piece of the soul?

Phronimoi. Be smart, people. hos say ophes Come on, people. Be smart. Do you see the horse here? This is the horse that you're just comparing something. Like ophes. Like serpents. Be smart like serpents.

And people, don't cause any harm. Be like pedi steed eye. Be like doves. Now, has anybody I want to see. Does any Does anybody know this verse? Smart like the serpents, but harmless like doves. Does anybody know that from the Bible? Just say yes in your messages, please. Thank you, Ariel.

Yes. Magdalena says, I know. I know, right? Yes, people are recognizing it. Now, people, you're learning things about the Bible that nobody is. Nobody is in Bible studies right now.

Have you ever heard the Physiologus quoted? No. You haven't. Right? female temple prostitutes says pay Pay, you son of a [\\h__\\h] You jumped ahead. Right? Look at them. This is scholarly gorgeousness, right? He was quoting French the other day. I was quite impressed.

People, I'm telling you. You're lucky to be around these these people that you have around you. Me, too.

What is that? Have you lost audio? Have you lost audio, people? If you like lose audio, you got to yell out, "I've lost audio." Can be the individuals. Unplug and unplug. You know what I mean? Unplug and plug back in. Right? That's what the problem is. If things go soft, unplug and plug back in.

Fantastic. Let's go back to the text. Right? I've been good. So, you have. People, look at You people are helping each other. Mystic Mayhem is helping, right? He's telling, "Look, go to your settings." Mhm.

Screen share sounds good. Down under Oh, Taz, I'm so glad you're from down under. Oh, God, I want to go down under with you, Taz. Oh, God.

Such beauty you've got. Sons of [\\h__\\h] capturing that beauty of Australia.

Yeah, fantastic. Is there Is there Are there more people from Australia? Give me a hoot out if you're from Australia. In Germany at the moment. Fine. Give me a hoot out if you're in from Australia. From Oz here. Good. So, you can hear me. No. What is Jeff? Are you originally from Australia? Now you're in Germany. Traveling sons of [\\h__\\h] United Kingdom. Dun dun dun dun. When are you going to dump that pedophilic family of royals you got? Oh, God. Did he actually say that? Tennessee. Right, Canadian Outback.

Yeah, there's a lot of gorgeousness and georgiosity in Canada. Yeah, no, that's the the times that I've visited, I've been impressed, people. Really impressed. Did you know how clean Toronto is? I was so shocked. I was like, "Wow, I must live in dirty cities." Because Toronto is nice. Now, who knows? That was That's been a few years ago, people. Shout out to you Canadians. Right?

>> [Laughter] >> We still have the king. Okay, fantastic, people. Let's go. Toronto was huge. Yeah. Thanks. Yes, shout out. Any Aussies? By the way, is there any uh anybody out here who can do the haka? Who can do the the that the Maori

What is that demon possession thing? It scares me. I have a new found sick See, I would never say this on leap battle on, people. I have a new sick obsession. I love to watch the women's rugby team of Maori.

Oh, my God. >> [sighs and gasps] >> It's amazing. It's No, I think I'm in love with the whole team. All at the same time. I don't watch any of the sport, people. I can't. I can't. No, I just watch them come on and and scare the [\\h__\\h] out of everybody. I love it. I love it. And you see the teams standing across, and they have they show the team the rugby opposing rugby team. >> [sighs] >> They're like, "New Zealand is playing against the so-and-so from England." And they look

Like they're doomed. They look like they're doomed. Oh, God.

Anyway, why did I get so distracted? Brian, get us back to work here, sir. But if Brian were here, he would be like um You know, I'm coming here for Greek, son of a [\\h__\\h] ho kurios alex. And this is what he says in the Gospel. Become smart, you know, get smart, you know, be like the serpents. And you know, don't be You know, be harmless as doves, right? What do you Oh, God. the Look, what did Physiologus What does the natural philosopher say about

Ophes? Watch your serpent. Your serpent has tessalos phousais. People, in Greek, What is this? This is the tessera act. Oh. Put your god damn pants back on. Yes, it us. Oh, who says they have four natures, people? They have four natures. Look, he's just going to give us all the different natures. Those of you speak who are here for the Greek. Madelaina, look. Prote? That's nice. He's just going to give us here's the first. Right? Yeah. Love it. Look down here. Deotetao, people sometime. Don't jump into the text.

Right? Um look around. Take the bird's eye view. Deotetaro, excuse me. I missed that accent. Is that paroxytone? No. It's oxytone. Trithe phusis, I'm learning people from the grammarians. Now, you musicians who are out there, the musicians are teaching me [\\h__\\h] I don't understand it. I'm sorry. But I'm going to say something everyone's so has to do with it cuz I'm following the accents and the accents here musical. And they're talking about oxytone and paroxytone.

Oh god, and the differences in meaning. How the meaning shifts according to the sound of the word. Those of you who are guitarists, you should have an some kind of sexual arousal in your brain right now. Right? Some kind of metal something.

God damn it, if you don't, there's something wrong. So, follow it. You can follow the music in these texts. Oh look, there's a There's a naked dude down here. What?

You didn't know the serpents were looking at your nakedness, did you? Woohoo. People, I told you he was with a naked boy, right? Do you know what happens when they look at you and you Oh god. Never mind.

First of all, they've got four natures, right? What is that first nature? I just want to People. The first nature is like this. Whenever get us say, "Look what we saw in the Look what we just saw in the

In the dick the lexicon before, people. Look what the muse does. Do you see this? I just showed you how it was defining that old age, right? Whenever that snake grows age grows old.

It it's a problem with the ties.

It wants to can become young. Right? It wants to enter back into this youth. What does it do? Politeia kai neste Oh god. Tessera konte hemeras.

For how many days and nights? Tessera konte. How many days and nights are we going to have to nesteo if we're a snake and we want our youth?

What else is that snake doing? Politeia kai. Politeia kai. People. Do you know politeia is the most maligned verb? Oh god. The most maligned. You see the root polis in it, right? It's basically to be a polis active.

Right? Take part in the government. Be a citizen. Live in a free state.

>> Look at number six way at the bottom. Deal with in private affairs.

To arrange things. You know what I mean? You got sunotian to arrange there. You can arrange that sunoti or you can arrange gamon. Marriage.

You can all walk down one kind of road together. Oh god. This stuff is gorgeous. People, what is sunodia? It's a new state of something I want to It's companionship on a journey. Look how in English we have to put it we have to god damn put it into a phrase. All right.

A caravan together. I don't know. That's nice. Anyhow, let's go back to the text. Bottom. So, what are we going to do? We're going to get our [\\h__\\h] together and do what we do as a polis. We're going to enter in to a state of fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. Wait, what?

That's what we do. Until which time is our skin? Wait, what? Who? No, that's not how it works. It doesn't matter. Joey, sit down. Fantastic. Should we tend to the snakes? Right, everybody.

People, what do they do? They're going to shed their skin. They go into the cro crags in the in the rocks and they slither around and they slip that skin off. And when they do, they apoballontos geras.

They cast off their old age. Pollon neos ginetai. Once again, they become neos.

What's the secret? What am I trying to give you, sons of [\\h__\\h] right here? Says the muse. Yes, she talks like that, too. You go [\\h__\\h] yourself if you have a problem with it. Look. Cuz you're in her workshop. She don't care. She's doing her thing,

[\\h__\\h]

We've got a road, he hodos. He? Apagousa.

Eis ten soenten aionion. We've got a way that leads to salvation, people. A way that leads to salvation. And what is that salvation? It is aion.

Does this sound familiar to you? >> [groaning] >> This is from the nature of the snake, you little ungrateful [\\h__\\h]

Where's my whip? Joey, my whip. People, should I take my whip on tour? Where are you? You have come You've come here for a reason. Tell me. Have you come here to advise me? Absolutely. Should I take my whip on tour? If you think so, say yes on whip.

That was a good one. That was a good one. That was for Nessie.

Can feel it, Nessie? Oh yeah, Ratch. Here's one for Ratch. Ratch has been so kind. That's one for you on your pooh-ha, Ratch. Fantastic whip. Okay, take the whip on the tour. Cuz look, it's not, you know, it's not like I have to get a permit for it or anything. I can fly with it. I can Oh god, I'm getting good with it. Now, I can't take it out on the plane or anything like that. Right? I'll travel like right mastix.

Getting too much. Okay, I have no sound as well. Oh, Mr. 83. You missed out. Somebody help Mr. 83. You missed out. Look, somebody record Who's recording it? Oh, Pate's recording it. Thank you, Pate. God damn it, thank you. All right, no whips in carry on. Seriously?

Seriously, did you just rain on my No whips on carry on? Son of a

I have to buy a whip in every before we go on this I got to buy a whip in Boston, people. Anybody from Boston or >> [clears throat] >> anybody that can create a whip of dim that I can take with me once I'm in Boston? That's what we should do. Oh god, people, make it so. You geniuses out there, you say, "I want to do something. I want to do something right." Somebody said they get me a cane, too. Oh god. I'd love to walk around with a cane of dim.

I am so spoiled. What's that? No, you can't hit people with a cane. You can't hit people with a whip, either. Right, people? >> [laughter] >> We found that out in the dia.

Oh my god. People, the students loved it. Give me the Oh, they get him off there. What is that? All right, people, where's the Let's go back to the text. Too much fun. Too much fun at once. We have to get serious, people. Look what's in blue, ton eon. That's the eons, people. that's the venom.

People, the second nature of those serpents, right? Listen to this. This is gorgeous. Whenever the serpent comes peeing

Comes to drink. Right? Where's it Where's it drinking from? It's drinking from a water source, a fountain. A spring. Again. Remember these springs, they have diamonds. Right? They have nymphs that are associated with them. Those nymphs will do things to you. Some of them are sexual and they'll do things to you. You drink the water and it does things. Let's see what happened. What is this one talking about? When the snake When the office comes to drink that water at the water source Right? Ooph fer a ton eon meth the alto.

Now, my students I might ask you. I might say, "Hey, what does this mean? Translate it." Right? Not today. I'm not. I just want you to sit there knowing this is what I'm going to do. Ooph fer a ton eon meth he alto. Look, I'm not asking you to translate a whole goddamn thing. Just one one line here, right? It doesn't carry that EOS with it. It doesn't carry.

All in toy for let oy. That's not a common word, but okay. Alto a fias in alto. In his burrow. Right? He deposits it. The snakes, they put that. They control the release of that poison.

People, what does that mean? Is this naturalist out of his [\\h__\\h] head? What's going on? Right? When those snakes come out of that shed. Oh god, and they're so hungry. That venom is at its peak. Right? That burrow

Is a place of habitation. You don't see that because it's in these words that I've that I've been working with for a long time. But it's there, people. That's the place of that renewal.

Beautiful ooses. O- o- ophis. Here's the third. Right?

With the naked dude. I need something substantial here. Okay, we're getting a workshop, people. Cuz we have this in Duma here. This thing that the

S- something that's going to clothe your spirit that you can remove. Right? >> [sighs]

>> There's a lot of physics in this, people. It's I'm overwhelmed by the amount of physics in this. Right?

There's a piston. Okay. >> [clears throat] >> What should we do? What should we do? O felomen kai hemais. What are we even going to do? In that time of temptation. Oh god. In that time of the trial.

>> Aren't your head like the serpent, people? This is the Christ. Right? It's the same [\\h__\\h] thing. This natural scientist is a Christian.

And when I say he's a natural scientist, I'm not talking about natural scientist like you think. I'm talking about a natural scientist who understands that we have to break down the universe by its primary principles and that these principles these stoicheia can be manipulated.

Oh god. Phronimon, we've got the phrain once again. You know where the unicorn Where does that unicorn The unicorn's involved with a virgin. I saw it, man. I don't The mermex, okay. Just to give me a second. There's so much, people. People, look. Here's the hippocentaudon. Are you surprised that a Christian naturalist

Is talking about sirens and centaurs?

People, do you know what we just proved? You're sitting here. And you don't think you're looking at anything. You'll notice that he's talking about Isaiah the prophet in the beginning. He's trying to explain to us why it is that Isaiah the prophet talks about sirens and centaurs.

People, that is not in the Hebrew. This second century Anno Domini text, which is probably roughly where it should be. You could argue first.

That this text is talking about Isaiah the prophet. The text. And it quotes him. And it's quoting the Greek and explaining to you what a siren is.

You see, people, there was no [\\h__\\h] Hebrew. Right? Dead Sea scrolls my ass. My ass. That's what they are. That shit's worth toilet paper. Wipe that [\\h__\\h] on your ass because it's fake as

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Shove the love to fear card up your ass. Says Donnie Darko. Reminded to us by Joey. Hey, um uh Josh at Polarity was talking about Donnie Darko and the gnostic.

Watch it, people. It's fun. It is fun. People, what is the What is going on here that's so significant? You're You're getting a quote from Isaiah and it's using the Septuagint. There is no Hebrew intermediate. Right? There is no original. This is This has nothing to do. Nothing It has everything to do with Judean, but it has nothing to do with Hebrew. That is a fabrication of the rabbis. You're going to watch. They found out some of the Dead Sea scrolls were fake, right? Right? They'll find out they're all

[\\H__\\h] fake. If even to the point that um it's people copying out this fake language Hebrew from Greek sources. They've got the Greek sources there. Right?

Just a matter of time, people. Just a matter of time. Excellent. Isaiah the prophet's going to get in there.

Where are your churches and your assemblies? Right? Laugh it. Okay, let's keep it going. Little pigs. >> [snorts] >> Here's the pan thera pan theros. Oh god, whole prophetess. People, we're still What are we talking about? Panthers and prophets? Do you know why? Do you know why?

Do you remember that we as apostles were into our dirty dirty sex Christ thing with Miriam? You know what I mean? Who ha? We are the ones who resurrect those panthers. Oh god. We ride those

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Right? What do you Why do you think, people? Why do you think they always portray Bacchus riding on the back of a panther? God damn it. Nobody see the dragon? Right?

>> [Sighs and gasps] >> This is dirty. Orion. That's dirty. That's when a boy is at his best to attract an older gent. Right? Are they talking about prophets, people? It's just never [\\h__\\h] It never It never avails, you know.

People Why are we here with panthers with Jesus and the panthers and the prophets and the unique boys and the lap of the virgin where the unicorn goes. You know how that's you That's how you get unicorns. You [\\h__\\h] people. You get unicorns from the [\\h__\\h] of virgins.

Don't try to >> [clears throat] >> clean it up. This is the voice of the panther.

Oh god. And it's beautiful, people. It's you odic. You odic.

These texts are gorgeous. Ephraim, thank you. Fantastic. People, the dragons are still here. And here is look here's look just in case you don't believe me. It's Christian curios him on Jesus Christos.

Jesus. Christed one. The curious the Lord what did he do? He in a sorry I put a I inserted my own preposition was is there but you don't see it. They treated a mayor I resurrecting from the dead after 3 days. He shouted a mayor also to cosmos.

>> [Sighs] >> People what is this or a toss? Greek students or a toss and a or a toss that Jesus is talking about don't don't bold it or the system wreck oh god damn it. The system will recognize that and then will kick you out if you do that too much and tell you you're not using it properly. Cuz they don't want you here looking up words. Go look up words on your own time. This is showing you what texts or join or what have have certain words

That you need join together. Right oh god. We've got all this a word that we're trying to induce. Remember where the apostles? Look who's here people. Sophia

What is Sophia this Sophia they here they say Sophia belongs to God. Okay. Um but when I translated that way makes you think of something else. What is Sophia is Sophia?

And she's going to she's going to talk about the guitars in a minute. How is she portrayed? Palm poikilos Look it's got two accents. Isn't that gorgeous cuz est and follows and est didn't take that accent. [\\h__\\h] you it says. Okay I want to see palm poikilos.

This is what wisdom is you you lovely lovely sexy people. Love it.

All variegated. Huh? Of rich and varied work. What what can be that paploy? So you're your gown can be palm poikilos. Well look you can use it of sacred vases. Hm. Stole days again of your stole.

The woof asthma when you're talking about the universe can be variegated. The universe is web. The universe is woven robe. The universe is web. Do you see how they're thanking people? When you're using these words you really have no [\\h__\\h] clue unless you've seen them. Right? Like I may read this in a lexicon somewhere. Hey thank you for making this public. Do this and post it. I don't care if give it to Chewy we'll post it on Lady Babylon. Get this out there people. You've got to understand.

You've got to understand and the language is taking them places that you should have shame for. What shame is that? Is it I swoon or idols? Do your homework little children. What is Sophia? She is variegated. She has Now people what does that mean? Palm poikilos They describe

The scales of snakes this way. When you talk about the different shimmer of light that comes from a snake scales. Now if you have never had the pleasure of being in the presence of a snake I'm sorry but if you're in the presence of a snake in the sunlight hits their scales you will get a reflection that looks like it's a prism. It looks like it's dividing the light into its primary colors. You know? Um and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's like a sheen and it's described in Greek

This way ancient Greek palm poikilos.

Love it. People let me just make sure you don't lose the Let's take palm off there which is the all. Just a to say it's completely. You thought we were You thought we were digging. People do you have the lexicon LSJ? Just say LSJ yes. You can. Okay Chewy said don't worry about

Yes LSJ yes fantastic. Thank you. Okay. People what is the poikilos many colored oh god spotted

Dappled right? path ale a office look what it's using dracon. Right? It's talking about all of those

Dracon who has that? Does the yunks have that?

To be wrought in various colors. Look at the Brits love you people. Wrought in various colors of what? By the way people we're not we're getting this from the Brits this LSJ. So [\\h__\\h] you. Their king may be a pervert you know or from a from a womb of pervert child rapist but hey um look we're getting from them this. It's gorgeous. Right? Look at all the work those bastards put in. They didn't have computers. It's 1850 they're putting this together. What's his name is writing Alice in Wonderland for the daughter [snorts] of the dude who is the head editor on this thing.

Liddell right? Oh god. And not chocolate Liddell that's the that's the finder. Intricate complex of labyrinth right? People look when you're talking about Prometheus right? means artful artful You see how the Greek is drifting?

Of art oh people I told you it always comes back to music of art. Right? Your homnos your hymn is a song of changeful strain full of diverse art. Is that how you write your music? Do you write your music as if it's poikilos it's

It's got a variegated sheen of of light.

If you do you're of Prometheus. I know that there are hardcore [\\h__\\h] metal guitarists in here. I know there are. It's the Promethean fire you [\\h__\\h] You [\\h__\\h] swarm to. It's like nectar you little dirty [\\h__\\h] with your metal guitars.

Like the sons of [\\h__\\h] Love it. I love it. Pay please show them everything.

No censoring right? Don't edit. Okay where are we? Oh We're with snakes and wisdom people and we're in what you call the psalms and God and David wrote the Psalms. >> [laughter] >> [\\h__\\h] stupidity.

Jesus right? That one who is Christed the Christing is palm poikilos. Do you understand? The Christing is itself that parthenia.

Isn't that a virginity? enkrateia People are you going to do it or are you going to make it work? You've got to have enkrateia.

You're going to have faith. People this is the development of faith. People are seeing it in this work of the physiologos and nobody gives a [\\h__\\h] Right?

People what are we Let's look at parthenia. How are we how are we supposed to know what any of these things are? I know what that parthenos is. Right? But what is parthenia? Is that her abstract state of virginity?

Let's look it up people. Oh god do you have to Do you have to have it so [\\h__\\h] complex, Greeks? People, look at what happens. Where's my accent? Is that oxytonic? Song sung by maidens.

Maidens, so you mean they're associating music with virginity? That's sort of odd. Right? What are your parthenia? Those are your signs of virginity, people. Your signs of virginity. >> [sighs] >> What is parthenias? That's the son of a concubine.

That's slave girl. She's 12. Do you understand? Jesus Christ, people.

Your parthenia. Look at sending me in circles. Where's your parthenia? Right? Uh, your virginity, people. Your virginity is on the line. What are these texts about? I told you the unicorn goes to the lap of the virgin, you jerks. And I just gave you that free in. It's like giving you the code to the door.

Love it. Don't you love it? Look at what's Look at what we can do. Look at Solomon. Right? There he is. I mean, if you're into that kind of thing. Um Oh, people, look who I found.

>> Oh God. That's Cato. It's talking about You don't know who that monster is. Don't even try it. Don't even try it, people. No. No. We don't need this one, either. Where's that dirty Oh, here's something with What is a monocerotos?

Oh, psalmos lege. Oh God. It's going to quote the Psalms.

Okay, it's going to have this sort of nature, people.

>> It's life is short. >> [laughter]

>> People. Let's see if LSJ defined Um, let's use up our one freebie here that these [\\h__\\h] will shell out to us and see if LSJ managed

Monoceros with but one horn. With but one horn. What does that tell me? Look, it says it's poetically used here in Archilochus. monoceros, right? Look at him. Lengthens the vowel there. Right? Drops it down in What is that? The Dorian? I think that's the Okay. Ionian. I'm sorry.

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Monoceros, wild ox. The one-horned one. Why is the one-horned one in the Why are the one-horned one and the devil coming up in the region of the virgin? Oh God. People.

Wait, what did he say? All that [\\h__\\h] I'm sorry, people. Don't curse so much. Let me go to the Where's it going? What did Brian say? Brian, thank you. Almond's got a little horn?

Oh my God. I knew that there was a British schoolboy in that Irish flesh of yours.

I hope that Was that Brian the handsome? Is that Brian the handsome? Who is that? Is that Saddam Hussein? Who the [\\h__\\h] is Is that Saddam? Brian, is that you? You who are putting off the great ancient Greek jokes.

It's dirty. People, don't listen to Brian.

I hope that was him. It's not Saddam Hussein. Who is it?

No, it's not. Somebody I don't recognize. Wasn't there a Somebody put up a emo a thing of me on Josh's thing. Does that Can we get those to put up?

We'll make them. Okay, fantastic. It's a No, Hellboy. Who put Hellboy up there? Oh look, Josh Jeff put up a That's me. I love that. Now, come on, people. Everybody likes to look at themselves.

I see each other. It's fantastic. Okay, people. It's creeping me out a little bit. This old virgin virgin m- one-horned son of a [\\h__\\h] is creeping me out.

>> Raise up that horn. Right? In the house of David. Our father. >> [laughter]

>> What did they do? Those horns, right? They became horns of salvation for us.

Virgins. Virgins and virgins and virgins. Virgins.

They did what? They took up took up their residence in the gastera. Who did? Yesou took up his residence in the guy in that that womb, right?

>> Who is that? It's the holy virgin Mary. Theotokou. What does that mean? Oh God. What does it mean to be theotokos, people? Theotokos. What a concept. We're going to Oh, here. I don't want to use this. They're going to [\\h__\\h] throw me out. Theotokos. I get thrown out of um TLG on a regular basis because I use Oh, people, this is the worst. This is the worst mother of God. of the virgin. Look, codex justinian. People.

What is theotokos? It's from tikto. Right? Usually I say the verb is going to bring you the true strength, but it doesn't in this case. Childbirth, parturition of women. Right? Can be the thing itself, the offspring.

The produce. Right? What is she producing?

She's producing theos. Isn't that gorgeous? She is giving birth to that God. She is giving birth.

Right? Oh God. How does she produce? Right? This is frequently in medical and other prose of women.

It's very easily, right? Right? How is that process that we engender another person? It's got to work, people. This is medical. This is physical. It's spiritual. It's everything. You This

You don't talk lightly about this kind of stuff. Oh God, I'm about to have a stroke. Don't say that. Oh God. Right? Let's see what else. I'm going to see if there's anything else that Yeah, no, I'm good. I was just saying that.

People. Remember what Paul kind of Paul Paul problem we had? Right? [gasps] Where's your kentron, hell? Where is that death? Right? Right? Oh god. The dude rose up 3:00 a.m. or second Akron. He's in the presence of the dead. You have to understand that, people. There is a kin throne.

>> [Sighs] >> But for them is something more. What is that sting of death? People, look at the goad that you see in number one. Key point on the intro of failed this. What happens without that goad? Right? That incentive. What kind of incentive is in B? See how you're scanning this stuff, people? What kind of incentive is in B Eros and That's love, baby.

That's love. Bothos is here. Oh. Bothos is desire. What's the difference between your love and your desire? People, did you know Ammonius tells us that? I just read that. Desire and desire. You're going to think they're the same thing. Eros and Bothos, right? You're going to think it's the same thing. It's not. Right? And they tell you that. They explain it to you. Torture. This is torture. I That's why I love to contend things. To torture, to cause pain. Right with the tip of that spear.

Oh, just put in the tip right into Jesus' side. Oh, sting of bees and wasps. Do you know what Do you know what inspires me? Uh-oh.

You can cut off the foreskin and be less inspired. But it's the membrum virile, people. The stinger. My waspy waspy.

Oh god. My stinger. My bee stinger. Oh god.

Hoste. My membrum virile.

People who don't Oh, I'm sorry for those of you who don't Those of you don't translate Latin. That's the manly organ. You get it? Do I need to be any more specific? Hoste. Look at what kind of word Brian This is your word. Hoste.

This is for you, buddy. Right for you. Here's your Greek. Now shut up and take it. Oh god. People, this is just too much. I love it. Love it, people. Where Where is that sting of death? If you had been to the kidney, you would know. Right? Why do you think those Baptists walk around with glass dildos?

What do you think they do with those glass dildos? I'm just scanning, people. I had a lot of coyotes. I don't really care.

It's not a spring, right? Not right now cuz I'm looking for somebody else. I'm looking for somebody else.

Let me just find her. [\\h__\\h] this. I'm going to do one more search, people. And I want you to go with me to Edom. But Oh, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do proximity.

Oh, I think it's going to give it to me. Let's see. Son of a [\\h__\\h] You people. Oh, it's cuz I'm doing I didn't do full corpus. Sorry, people. The search was saying, "No, it doesn't exist." Which it does. I know I've seen it. Um but I was on just one author. So it'll do everything. Here it is.

People, I want to give you a secret. Do you know who Edom is? When I say Edom, when I say Edom, people, do you know who that is?

Oh god. Did you hear what I said? >> [sighs] >> People, this is just the beginning. Um I wanted you to see some things that are there that you're not. I'll turn off the naughty. I'll turn off the naughty next time. With um we're going to start in Satan. Okay. Now I would like to do this at least two, if not three times a week. And I would like to develop it where I can be reading you a text. I did it completely by myself, but I'd like to call on individuals.

And I'd like for them to be able to speak and say, "Hey, you know, um this is what I think." Let me see if I can get Brian. Can you call up Brian? Where is he? Can you make him speak? Oh, are they all muted? Okay, Brian requests to speak. This is how we have to do this. In the presence of Ammon, you must request.

>> [Laughter] >> People, the last Discord that we did, oh god, it blew up. It absolutely blew up and I lost a lot of good people and good contacts. Um because it was not run by me. This one's going to be run by me. So.

Okay, did he Did you bring it up, Chewie? See if we can bring him up. Okay, un- Can you unmute him or Can he unmute? >> Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm unmuted now. Fantastic. Everybody, welcome Brian.

The Definitely the best looking of all my graduate students, right? So. Right. By the way, Brian was in had an you know, enrolled himself in a course on Demeter's hymn Sorry, the Homeric hymn to Demeter. Um which is not no easy task, people. This man is experienced. Brian, as you were sitting there and I'm working in my workshop, you see how this is different from a reading group, a true reading group, right? Um Did you feel the urge anytime to jump in and say, "Oh, um look what the Greek

Says there" or "Look at this word"? Right? Did you have any inspiration to do that? For sure. You're the speed you're moving at is you know, faster than I'm you know, scanning [clears throat] through, but you know, going forward I could definitely see how you know, if that's what I'm looking for, then we could do that. It exposes you to a lot of Greek, doesn't it? It exposes you to a lot. Yeah, and I think that's a good thing. I'm glad you said that. But um so what

I'll do is next time when I see that you have a request or there's a request from one of the people who, you know, the five or six people that I told I want you to be reading this along, um I'll go ahead and open it up. And um what I don't want to do um is force upon my students sight translation of text that they have never never even been close to encountering. Um that's just cruel and unusual punishment, right? In a reading course in at university, you give them the text

Beforehand and they go through it. They have time to work on it. You don't surprise them, right? Cuz you're going to have vocabulary that's screwed up. You're going to have all sorts of stuff. By the way, um Brian, let me ask you this. Now you've seen quite a few texts. Um now did it strike you that this test this test text strikes me as mainline

Koine Attic Koine that's using um vocabulary that's used heavily, heavily, heavily in the first and second, third centuries Anno Domini? Um that's my That's where I would put it. Um Did you notice anything? Did anything strike you as, "Wait a minute, that's really Attic, so maybe that's earlier"? Any Like did anything stick out? I know this is like the toughest question to ask.

Um Uh you know, there are some formulations that were uh like you know, I just got out of the the hymn to Demeter course, so I'm I'm like my brain has been the Homeric sort of style, but there are some like syntax things that were happening here that that I could see coming from that spring, but um Ah. Yeah. Oh god, did everybody hear that? That is the best Make sure and you know, record. That is the best comment ever. Look, Brian has been in the Homeric dialect

Now. So that's where his brain is and he's noticing like there was an oio there is in the genitive. Lengthened, you know, changed vowels. Right? That are like what he was saying in Homer. Right? So, now that he's read Homeric hymns, he's able to kind of apply that knowledge. And people, when you do that from as early as Homer all the way down to Byzantine stuff, you really get a feel for where the Greek is supposed to where these texts are really from. So, yeah. Brian, any Anything else you

Wanted to say? Does this This is a profitable exercise for you, no? Oh, for sure. You know, that >> [clears throat] >> uh moving at this pace, too, um you know, it would be good to have, you know, work to do supplementary to this, like if there's anything going forward, but um this is a good pace to kind of try to hang in there with you at. Uh that was genius. Okay. Um here's what I'm going to do then at the end of every session. Um next time next I'm going to tell you, Brian, where we'll be going.

So, yeah. If my students who are here to do the Greek want to go to TLG and do a search for Satan and Satanael and ball

And Saturnus. If you want to do that, you'll get a a smattering of where we may end up in and all I'm going to do is I'm going to call up those terms with everybody else here, right? And I'm just going to first time it. I'm just This is literally my workshop. You guys are going to see things coming going on Lady Babylon that we glean from this. Okay? So, without

Without further ado, what I'm bringing to you in the future is uncut research with the ancient in ancient Greek. That's all. Um and if if you're out there and you're Greek student, you can you will learn from this. You'll be bombarded. Right? Some of you are out there and you're like, "Oh God, I can barely keep up." Right? Um and I want to hear from all my students. I want to hear from all of them next time. So, here's what I'm going to do, people. I think three

Nights a week is going to be too much with Lady Babylon and the heavy time that I'm putting in with that. So, I think I'll do two times a week for a little bit longer each time. So, we did an hour and a half this time. From an hour and a half to two hours twice a week instead of three times a week for an hour. Right? I think, you know, it's it's the old university Tuesday, Thursday class versus Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Right? So, let's do Monday. I like this slot. Oh, it feels good. I like it with

You guys. I love it. Um and then Thursday. Um Monday and Thursday. Yes, Monday and Thursday. Um I'm going to be asking students next time, my five or six who are working hard, including Jason. Right? I'm going to ask you, Ion. I want some of you to pipe in as well. Um Old Boy, if we can get him to come. I want

Peop- you you people to pipe in and I want to be able to answer um general questions somehow in my workshop, but I don't know the format of how I'm going to do that. I'm just going to let that play out. So, people who could not respond

Couldn't get a voice tonight, and I realize that's a lot of you. It's everybody but gorgeous Brian, right? S- Right? He's getting totally favored. Magdalena got a little bit, too. Right? Mm. God. It's not fair. People, Thursday I want you to come and um continue the research and I'll figure out a way to do questions and stuff like that. Right now, this is uh my workshop. And you'll notice that my that some of this is going on Lady Babylon. It will. So, you know, if you can sit here and help me research, right? If somebody

Sees something and they're like, "Oh my God, it this must be addressed." We can always do that, right? Fantastic. This recording will be posted on Lady Babylon. Thank you for coming tonight, everyone. Please go and write more testimonies. Your personal stuff. You don't have to put your name, but your personal stuff there. I'm going to put it on Lady Babylon. You're giving us this time.

Right? We might as well really, you know, use it productively. I love it. Okay. Everybody there, including my students, everybody else, right? Faith, who's recording, everybody else who's helping, Carlos, right? Snappy, everybody else who's helping. Thank you. I will see you Thursday at the same time. Hail Satan.