Food for the belly; food for thought

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Lunch sooo good. Steph made a recipe of isachandra's, which was tofu battered in roast pepitos and spices, covered in a cranberry relish, with a side of roast pumpkin. What a lunch! So tasty. And I will publicly refute my doubty inner self that thought that the dried cranberries she bought might not work. Ohsogood.

I went to the library (I pretty much had to pass it to get to the bank to deposit my paycheck) to rapidly peruse their archaeology and mythology sections. I found a book called Black Athena Revisited, which I picked up on a whim. Examining it on the tram, I discovered I had hit veritable paydirt (vis-à-vis learning more about the basis of Neos Alexandria). It's a collection of articles refuting the basic premise of a book called Black Athena which claimed that every single thing Greece did or had (gods, philosophies, mythologies, art, architecture, language) was all MEENLY STOLEN from Egypt, and that all the Classical scholars since have been COVERING IT UP. It's great, because it seems that the articles (I'm most of the way through the first, by one of the editors) are going to talk about exactly how Greece was inspired/influenced by Egypt (and how this is not the same thing as porting an entire culture etc), and giving me a better idea of what the society was like.

Of course, what I really wanted was a book entitled State and Home Religion in Ancient Greece and Egypt: A User's Manual, but it seems that the copy is on loan. ;)

I've also grabbed a book called The Maiden King: The Reunion of the Masculine and Feminine, by Robert Bly & Marion Woodman, which is an exploration of Russian folktales (according to the blurb), and The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson, which I'm not sure is going to be of much help, but may have some useful titbits in there. I'll be able to see once I get it home.

I'd better go; I'm in the middle of photoshopping a bra onto a Waterhousian mermaid tattoo. No, really.