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Cadmus
"Oh, it's what we heroes do!"
Said Cadmus,
Standing over her dragon,
Slain with his bloody sword...
"I didn't know he was your pet."
DolphinWords
Notes:....Cadmus...embellished...wiki's take has it that the dragon was dear to the gods, and to placate them Cadmus offered to be a dragon...the gods took him up on that, and made him into a dragon...his wife too...oh, I need coffee to contemplate!...'Cadmus', like many myth heroes, is a composite...this to say, he is often in 'two places at once'...famously, he brought the Greek's the alphabet...after seeing a flight of cranes?...brb....
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Then Hermes reduced these sounds to characters, showing wedge shapes because cranes fly in wedge formation and then carried the system from Greece to Egypt*. This was the Pelasgian alphabet, which Cadmus had later brought to Boeotia, then Evander of Arcadia, a Pelasgian, introduced into Italy, where his mother, Carmenta, formed the familiar fifteen characters of the Latin alphabet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Greek_alphabet
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...more coffee...
:)
DavidDavid
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