tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1899446495884554659..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: De falsis diis, medieval versionCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-92014432760295943522007-07-30T08:20:00.000-04:002007-07-30T08:20:00.000-04:00Thanks, Letty: nice quote. An equivalence between ...Thanks, Letty: nice quote. An equivalence between the god and its statues or idols is common in these easy condemnations, isn't it? Thus the pagan priest Coifi, in Bede's narration, smashes the idols, but also seems to smash the very divinities he used to worship.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-53332975899090442202007-07-30T03:54:00.000-04:002007-07-30T03:54:00.000-04:00I like the passage in Aelfric (de falsis diis, in ...I like the passage in Aelfric (de falsis diis, in Pope's supplemental homilies) in which Serapis's statue is filled with mice:<BR/><BR/>Þar wearð þa micel gamen þæt feala musa scutan<BR/>of þære anlicnysse, þa hire o[f] wæs þæt heafod,<BR/>floccmælum yrnende geond þa widgillan flor,<BR/>þæt men mihton tocnawan þæt þar wæs musa wunung,<BR/>and nan godcundnyss, [ne] godes geleafa.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, the god cannot be real if his statue is filled with mice instead of his own divinity. Is this really fair to Serapis's believers? Did they think their god was the statue?LJNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04003522787987545206noreply@blogger.com