Divine By Mistake: Chapter 3

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ZeldaQueen: Ready for another chapter with minimal plot and a whole lotta nothing? I know you were!

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[lang_ea]

“Hell, I’m a friggin English teacher-I actually read. For pleasure, as shocking as that seems to be to some people”.

Shannon, what the hell's up with you?! Do you realise that THAT's a dickish attitude to uphold for someone whose job is to TEACH?!

Hell, I work with an ESOL professor who volunteers to coach sports for impoverished kids--and sometimes he sees them grow up to become drug addicts. He doesn't blame those kids, he doesn't even speak ill of them. He just knows that life ain't easy and sometimes people have other problems to focus on than expanding their own personal library.

Honestly, Cast. Other authors have written about way better teachers, like in the Jim Rook series. Jim Rook's a WAY better teacher and he mainly teaches students with special needs (and he RECOGNISES how some literature can be difficult for people to read or enjoy sometimes, but he ADMIRES kids who (even begrudgingly) analyse classical books in their own ways). He's the LAST guy to grudge against anyone who doesn't read enough (plus, he deals with the dark and scary supernatural. He would be a much more better hero for that PerfumeAdFantasyLandia).

the creepy dude from the parking lot randomly shows up. He starts going on about how the image on the pot looks uncannily like Shannon. He explains that her hair stood out to him the first time he saw her because

But...it's a celtic replica. I know it might be *brighter* and more colorful than actual celtic pottery but celtic art tends to be more swirly and less...realistic. Like, that could be ANYONE in that image which just happens to have flaming red hair--because the faces tend to be more abstract (unless we're talking about pottery painted in the style of Romano-celtic art. But that would mean Shannon would look exactly like the generic Roman/Greek style epitome of a female beauty).

Epona being associated with death kind of works because it apparently is theorized that Epona lead souls to the afterlife (although she really seems more associated with horsese and fertility), but why the holy hell is her priestess on the urn? Especially since the scene in question gives zero indication that this priestess is in the service of Epona! There aren't any horses or crops or any of the usual items associated with Epona!

You're absolutely right about this. If Cast specifically stated that it was a Romano-celtic vase, with latin inscriptions and actual imagery suggesting Epona's influence--then I could understand why a vase would say 'PRIESTESS OF EPONA' than Epona (plus, the Romans would've been influenced by the Greeks in depicting priestesses in pottery--which the Greeks did a lot).

I think Cast just plumb forgot that 'pure' celtic art is difficult to analyze, because we're talking about a prehistoric (ie. ' a culture that doesn't record via writing a lot or uses any writing that's recognizable to us modern people) culture that got invaded, partially erased, and appropriated (IMO) by their invaders. There's no Rosetta stone for the celts, or even a Florentine codex for us to understand how to recognise an image of a priestess from a goddess. I'd give her credit if she mentioned Pictish symbols on the pottery (which was STILL being deciphered since 2013), but that would still mean that no one would really know what the pottery's actually about.