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As described in the Principia Discordia, the Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath. The Discordian year is aligned with the Gregorian calendar and begins on January 1, thus Chaos 1, 3190 YOLD is January 1, 2024 Gregorian. The Erisian week consists of five days: Sweetmorn, Boomtime ...
Eris (mythology) Eris ( / ˈɪərɪs, ˈɛrɪs /; Greek: Ἔρις Éris, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means the same. Eris's Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia, [ 3] though she is also described as opposing Nike, counterpart of the Roman Victoria ...
Apple of Discord. The manzana de la discordia (the turret on the left belongs to the Casa Lleó Morera; the building with the stepped triangular peak is the Casa Amatller; and the curved façade to its right is the Casa Batlló ). The Apple of Discord ( Ancient Greek: μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος) was a golden apple dropped by Eris, the ...
From the history of the games to inspiring underdog stories, show your Olympic pride with these history, memoir, fiction and nonfiction Olympic books.
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
Thursday’s Child, Eartha Kitt (1956) Whether you know Eartha Kitt as the Catwoman to Adam West’s Batman or Harriet the Spy’s reclusive neighbor, her first of three memoirs, 1956’s Thursday ...
The Principia Discordia is the first published Discordian religious text. It was written by Greg Hill ( Malaclypse the Younger) with Kerry Wendell Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) and others. [ 1][ 2] The first edition was printed using Jim Garrison 's Xerox printer in 1963. [ 3] The second edition was published under the title Principia ...
Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, [ 1] the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, [ 2] new religious movement, [ 3] virtual religion, [ 4] or act of social commentary; [ 5] though prior to 2005, some sources categorized it as a parody religion. [ 6] It was founded after the 1963 publication ...