Comments by "Phoenix O\x27Brien" (@phoenixobrien163) on "Occult Literature 341: Cerberus, the Dog of Hades" video.

  1. When Orpheus looks for his lost Eurydice, a man from the Missing Persons department brings him to an underworld, where a kind of voodoo ceremony is taking place. Here Cerebus guards at the gate, in the 1959 romantic tragedy, Black Orpheus , based on the Greek legend. Set on location in Rio, Brazil during Carnival, this film just never gets old.
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  2. Wow. Interesting.
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  3.  @mikeogden5256  '- Speaking of dogs, an Ancient Aliens episode about the word dog was pretty fascinating, beginning with the Dogon tribe and the dog star, and how many other cultures use similar stem words for dog , or words beginners with the letter d , but that the origin of the word dog itself is unknown (or something like that). Anyway, that episode was interesting.
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  4.  @mtgradwell  -- No. It was explained in the Ancient Alien episode far better than I can do it justice. The upshot I remember is that there was never a word for "dog". The word canine came down to us to describe the creature. The episode asks -- Are there linguistic connections between the Dogon, Dragons, Dagon, Dagda, and other gods that are on the verge of sounding like…”daddy?” Obviously the Ancient Aliens people see all this as a connection to ancient extraterrestrials that have supposedly descended from the dog star: Sirius. How did the Dogon tribe know about the invisible sister star, Sirius B, without a technologically advanced telescope in their possession? Let the experts call all this pseudoscience all they want. They fear a Quantum Shift in the Global Brain The shift from scientific materialism to a multidimensional worldview in harmony with the world’s great spiritual traditions. *Articulates humanity’s critical choice -- to be the last decade of an outgoing, obsolete world, or the first of a new and viable one.*
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  5.  @mikeogden5256  - Etymology, fun and interesting? I once agreed to type up a research paper for one of them. My feeling was it takes an enormous amount of nit-picking to get into this field, with really little reward. It must take years to make it in this field. The amount of knowledge alone that one must possess to research a single word. OTOH, I imagine, yes, it is interesting, tracing where words come from.
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  6. Just one question. How does cerberus translate into spot? Not that I doubt you, but how does it happen? Do you know?
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  7.  @mikeogden5256  -- Meaning...? How does cerberus translate into spot -- even in the Greek lexicon?.
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  8.  @mikeogden5256  -- Well, I can't make head north tail of it. From SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE No, Internet, Kerberos is Probably Not “Spot” Though what they say is still not convincing. From The Etymology Nerd _ SPOT THE DOG 0 Comments   For those not well versed in Greek mythology, Cerberus was thought to be a three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Underworld to stop dead people from leaving and living people from entering. Now, the etymology is a little disputed, but it proffers a very interesting explanation. The only thing we know for sure is that the name was borrowed into English in the 1300s as a Latinized form of the Greek word Kerberos. Beyond that, some linguists think it might be related to the Sanskrit word karbura (meaning "speckled") through the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction kerberos, "spotted". So the Lord of the Dead would have literally named his dog Spot, if this is true. However, other scholars poke holes in this theory by citing the relative infrequency of the b sound in PIE. So what else could work? The word is likely not Greek. Etymologies have been proposed that trace it to definitions such as as "not yet successful" and "growl", but, for now, the true etymon remains elusive or unconfirmed. Usage of the nameCerberus in literature was previously declining since the nineteenth century, but is now on the rise again, due to Greek mythology being increasingly included in popular culture._ Well, I'm bored. But I'm willing to accept that there is a connection to Spot the Dog. I always wondered, as a child, why dogs seemed to be named Spot. The Cerebrum - Spotted connection sounds right somehow. Proof or no proof.
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  9.  Bull Moose  -- I can't visualize 'proto-Indo-European'
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