The Warrior's New Weapons

Anyone who has grabbed one of these 'latest latest' technology golf clubs into their hands recently, will realize that we are a long way up the track from the day when 'woods' actually were made of real wood.

You watch all these new kids shredding up and down the guitar neck and you think 'OMG' how do they do that - but then what you might not realize is that this is much the same kind of thing as with the golf clubs. These are not the same kinds of instruments that you played when you were a teen. There's nothing about them that is the same - not the strings, not the fret-boards, not the necks, not the use of hand-laid composites, not the pick-ups, not the active electronics, not the guides, not the... ...not the anything at all.

The feel is totally different. The weight is different, the balance in your hands is different.

Around about the Fifth Century BC, two great poets appeared on the planet - Homer and Valmiki, the latter being responsible for virtually all of Hindu sacred writings, albeit they have all been meddled with by other writers, added to, redacted, modified, deviated from, and expanded for centuries since Valmiki. The Ramayana is a huge book, many times greater in length than Homer's Iliad which is already a big text.

Whereas today, you will readily find Hindus getting all hot under the collar whenever they are derided by the monotheistic Muslims, no Greeks give a damn what people think about the Odyssey or the Iliad as literally holy, that is sacred, texts. Sure there is this fake Right Wing movement in Greece today which pretends to want to 'go back to the old religion...' They have as much real knowledge about any of it as cows do about the grass on the moon they find there when they jump over it.

This is the Greek sacred writing, what it says - 'And then Athena, when she entered her quarters in Golden Olympus, and as the rays of the Aurora of Dawn shone all around her palace, she let the robe around her shoulders fall to the ground, and her xyston, which clattered, sending fear through all the other gods when they heard it.'

Athena is able to hurl her xyston across galaxies...

Does anybody know why there have been
so many 'escorted' military flights near the 
Barents Sea recently - still happening, too...
LOL. Not me, 'I know nothing.'

In the Hebrew texts, there is plenty of argument still today, about what an 'ephod' is, that David wore around him when he danced crazily around the tent in which the 'Glory of the Lord' was present. An 'ephod' is an aegis, not anything else.

In battle, it is used, much the same way that Lorenzo de' Medici used his cloak to deceive a member of the Pazzi Family once who was attempting to sneak up on de' Medici to assassinate him -, twirling it around him as he swung, disguising his own sword beneath the billowing folds which disarmed his assailant. In battle the aegis is employed to distract the opponent, but also as a form of subtle armor too, because it is made up of strips of hard goat-skin in between other softer fabric and velveteen on the outside.

Today, the modern warriors have the aegis radar air defense system.

And for a strike weapon the Germans have the IRIS-T missile. Iris, of course, also has a mythology meaning, being the messenger of the Olympian gods as well as the goddess of rainbows.

Notwithstanding that indeed there is exertion and kinetics in any battle, and throughout any war, the outcome is always determined by another factor, or another element beside the clashing of instruments of physical harm: as David and others are continually told - 'Not by Power, and not by Might...'

An IRIS-T missile is about $455,000 each.

Cherry Blossom color - it's Spring
down here.

A top-of-the-range golf set is going to cost you at least $2,000.

And if you want someone to beat out a Phrygian mode war accompaniment to your war-like escapades, then that will set you back around $7,000 minimum for that piece of instrumentation.

Plato of course, is infamous for having written that the modern typical pop/rock musical mode of Myxolidian turns people effeminate... ...so, you might want to genuinely consider engaging a military drummer around your corporate offices.

...Now I'm not sure exactly how my dropping the thirty buck Japanese Prera transparent fountain pen I bought the other day onto the floor of Athena's private quarters will go down with all of the other occupants of that rather glamorous and slightly snobby place too, but why don't you try it around where you are, and see if it sends shivers down anyone's spine. It won't of course

That's what makes it so serious of a weapon.