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Mar. 28th, 2007 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dodont1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, a girlie mag, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"For all their similarities, the Roman counterpart of Artemis, Diana nemorensis, or "Diana of the Woods," was not the same goddess, at least not in origin. It used to be assumed that the Romans merely adopted Artemis and gave her a Latin name, but Diana was in fact an aboriginal Latin deity whose worship also goes back to prehistoric times. The Latin myth of the Golden Bough, which provided the impulse for Frazer's monumental The Golden Bough, is one of the indications of her indigenous antiquity."
If anyone knows what that's from, I'll buy them a pint.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, a girlie mag, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"For all their similarities, the Roman counterpart of Artemis, Diana nemorensis, or "Diana of the Woods," was not the same goddess, at least not in origin. It used to be assumed that the Romans merely adopted Artemis and gave her a Latin name, but Diana was in fact an aboriginal Latin deity whose worship also goes back to prehistoric times. The Latin myth of the Golden Bough, which provided the impulse for Frazer's monumental The Golden Bough, is one of the indications of her indigenous antiquity."
If anyone knows what that's from, I'll buy them a pint.
