Well, I decided to post a trilogy with the pending things I haven't been able to post. Lack of time, illness, work, and studies are quite the combination for no being up to date with things, so let's start with the list of topics I wanted to post about a long while ago:
Based on the word Chronic, I remember that I wanted to talk about the mythology where the word comes from, funnily enough, I found out that there's a conflict with the name, based on the Greek and the Romans: With the Greek, Cronus is the Titan who devoured his children in order not to be defeated, but later on it became the Fathe of time Chronos, the distinction was made even clearer as time passed by and the Romans adapted Chronos to Saturn. Here's a cut-and-pasted excerpt from Wikipedia about it:
While the Greeks considered Cronus a cruel and tempestuous force of chaos and disorder, believing the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and malicious Titans, the Romans took a more positive and innocuous view of the deity, by conflating their indigenous deity Saturn with Cronus. Consequently, while the Greeks considered Cronus merely an intermediary stage between Uranus and Zeus, he was a larger aspect of Roman religion. The Saturnalia was a festival dedicated in his honor, and at least one temple to Saturn already existed in the archaic Roman Kingdom.
His association with the "Saturnian" Golden Age eventually caused him to become the god of "time", i.e., calendars, seasons, and harvests—not now confused with Chronos, the unrelated embodiment of time in general. Nevertheless, among Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria and during the Renaissance, Cronus was conflated with the name of Chronos, the personification of "Father Time", wielding the harvesting scythe.
As a result of Cronus's importance to the Romans, his Roman variant, Saturn, has had a large influence on Western culture. The seventh day of the Judaeo-Christian week is called in Latin Dies Saturni ("Day of Saturn"), which in turn was adapted and became the source of the English word Saturday. In astronomy, the planet Saturn is named after the Roman deity. It is the outermost of the Classical planets (those that are visible with the naked eye).
Let's move to the next part of this post:
There are a few videos that I want to share with everyone, most of them are funny ones, the others are related to an ongoing topic discussed in class, I'll probably post the ones on the ongoing topic on m second post.
The following is a Key and Peele comedy video, Key & Peele has become a quite famous comedic duo for years now, so there's always something that can be used as an example or just a show and laugh moment from them.
-Click here to watch the vid, it's in English but for some reason, I can only find it with Korean subs. This one is based on the Lies topic from months ago.
-This is another funny video, this time is done by the people form Lonely Island, who invite other artists to feature in their videos. This one is called "Shy Ronnie Featuring Rihanna." As you can guess from the title, it's referencing the topic of shyness. Click here to watch it.
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