Difference between revisions of "O my shining stars and body"

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O my stars and body → O my shining stars and body
- A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

Aleister Crowley: (1875-1947), often regarded as the founder of modern satanism, in his Liber al vel legis (1909): "Every man and every woman is a star."

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-* '''Nut:''' an Egyptian goddess of the sky, whose milk gives rise to the Milky Way
+* '''O my stars and body''' &rarr; '''O my shining stars and body'''
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
+* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_%28goddess%29 Nut] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor Hathor]:''' an Egyptian goddesses of the sky, cf. [[hath]]
+** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0296&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
+** [http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog#page/n65 The Mythology of all races, Vol. XII (1918), p.37]
+** [http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog#page/n69 The Mythology of all races, Vol. XII (1918), p.41]
 * '''my stars!''' an interjection expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
+* '''oh my stars and garters''' a colloquial US expression of surprise.
+* '''Aleister Crowley:''' (1875-1947), often regarded as the founder of modern satanism, in his ''Liber al vel legis'' (1909): "Every man and every woman is a star."