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Wales / Re: Greek account of Celtic dragon
« on: Wednesday 18 January 06 22:42 GMT (UK) »
When Henry VII flew the goat-lion yale flag of Cymru in 1485, he may have imitated an event in ancient Asia Minor. The Cimmerians had invaded Ionia in the 8th cent BC and attacked Lydia on the west coast. They were defeated by Greeks and retreated to Lycia. At that time, Homer wrote of the flying horse Pegasus with Bellerophon at the wheel who defeated Chimera goat-lion. The Greek hero poured lead down her throat which melted in her fiery breath. Bullets of lead for sling-shots have been excavated in Grece. Chimera became Mount Olympias volcano in Lycia on the south coast, as guardian of Hades. _H.Rose"Handbook of Greek Myth" Methuen.
Possibly, Cimmerians had their Chimera symbol in the battle. Greeks observed 2-masted ships in 500BC and Chimaros was an early pirate in Troy. Cimmeria is "Kimeri" in targums of Ashurbanipal of Assyria. Chimera is the sister of Keltos, the Celt. Did Cimmerians migrate westward?
In Sardinia,acciamara is a wool-jacket, zimmara in north Spain (Celtic), Fr. chamarre. Since 14th cent., at the latest,
it has been worn by UK bishops as chimere, made of camelot goatwool of Angora.-OED 'camlat' 'chimere'.
Chimera in Lycia was south of the later Celtic fort of Angora. Chimera was a town on the north Sicily coast in Greek times, across the water from Sardinia. Mount Etna volcano is in Sicily, and Zeus flung Chimera's mother Kelto Echidna into it. She had produced Chimera by virgin-birth (some Greeks said Typhon snake-man was the father) and she claimed Chimera was equal to Athena war-goddess.
Chimera<Gr. chimaira "goat". A regimental goat leads the French Army at Montpellier, north of Sardinia.
Chimera now sits above St.George's chapel at Windsor, where bishops wear chimere of camelot.
John
Possibly, Cimmerians had their Chimera symbol in the battle. Greeks observed 2-masted ships in 500BC and Chimaros was an early pirate in Troy. Cimmeria is "Kimeri" in targums of Ashurbanipal of Assyria. Chimera is the sister of Keltos, the Celt. Did Cimmerians migrate westward?
In Sardinia,acciamara is a wool-jacket, zimmara in north Spain (Celtic), Fr. chamarre. Since 14th cent., at the latest,
it has been worn by UK bishops as chimere, made of camelot goatwool of Angora.-OED 'camlat' 'chimere'.
Chimera in Lycia was south of the later Celtic fort of Angora. Chimera was a town on the north Sicily coast in Greek times, across the water from Sardinia. Mount Etna volcano is in Sicily, and Zeus flung Chimera's mother Kelto Echidna into it. She had produced Chimera by virgin-birth (some Greeks said Typhon snake-man was the father) and she claimed Chimera was equal to Athena war-goddess.
Chimera<Gr. chimaira "goat". A regimental goat leads the French Army at Montpellier, north of Sardinia.
Chimera now sits above St.George's chapel at Windsor, where bishops wear chimere of camelot.
John