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Endymion, or a favorite, explained of court favorites.

The goddess Luna is said to have fallen in love with the shepherd Endymion, and to have carried on her amours with him in a new and singular manner, it being her custom, whilst he lay reposing in his own native cave under Mount Latmos, to descend frequently from her sphere, enjoy his company whilst he slept, and then go up to heaven again.

and all this while endymion's fortune was no way prejudiced by his unactive and sleepy life the goddess causing his flocks to thrive and grow so exceeding numerous that none of the other shepherds could compare with him explanation This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vigilant, or, as it were, sleepless, but rather such as are of an easy obliging nature, and indulge them in their pleasures without seeking anything further, but seeming ignorant, insensible, or, as it were, lulled asleep before them.

Princes usually treat such persons familiarly, and, quitting their throne, like Luna, think they may with safety unbosom to them.

Okay, what is Patmos, right? This is what we spent most of last Sunday discussing because we had to lay the groundwork.

But Patmos is a direct reference to cancer, which is your chest, your rib cage, and the moon, okay? Why? When you look up Mount Latmos, which is some historians suggest that the name evolved from the nearby Mount Latmos in Asia Minor, so there's a connection directly to this in Asia, right? naturally, of course, linked to the worship of the goddess Artemis.

And of course, Artemis too just went to where? It's the moon, okay? Artemis is a reference to Diana as well, and the Roman, that sort of thing.

And this is all a reference to the moon, the lunar goddess, even has a silver bow and arrow, I think, or something like that, right? Also a reference to what? The manger.

It will be convenient to consider these separately.

THE FESTIVAL OF PAN It is on the side of Mount Latmos, near the western coast of Asia Minor, that the festival is about to be held.

On the slopes of the mountain lay a dense forest, into some parts of which no man had penetrated.

LINE 67 Sometimes a lamb, straying away from the flock to which it belonged, would be lost in the depths of the forest but it was believed that such a lamb would be shielded from harm until it joined the herds of pan and that the shepherd who had lost it would gain thereby line seventy eight there were many paths in the forest leading to a wide lawn in the midst of which stood an altar line ninety to this spot early in the morning of a summer day a troop of children came and gathered round the altar and as they stood expectant a faint breath of music came to their ears line a hundred and fourteen soon there appeared a troop of maidens and of shepherds then a venerable priest followed by more shepherds and a joyous multitude accompanying a chariot drawn by three steeds in which rode endymion their prince They were gathered round the shrine, while a priest exhorted them to join in giving thanks to Pan for all the benefits they had received.

Endymion, or a favorite, explained of court favorites.

The goddess Luna is said to have fallen in love with the shepherd Endymion, and to have carried on her amours with him in a new and singular manner, it being her custom, whilst he lay reposing in his own native cave under Mount Latmos, to descend frequently from her sphere, enjoy his company whilst he slept, and then go up to heaven again.

and all this while endymion's fortune was no way prejudiced by his unactive and sleepy life the goddess causing his flocks to thrive and grow so exceeding numerous that none of the other shepherds could compare with him explanation This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vigilant, or, as it were, sleepless, but rather such as are of an easy obliging nature, and indulge them in their pleasures without seeking anything further, but seeming ignorant, insensible, or, as it were, lulled asleep before them.

Princes usually treat such persons familiarly, and, quitting their throne, like Luna, think they may with safety unbosom to them.

A repeatable, verifiable, 100%, you know, science, holy science, okay? So he was in the aisle of Patmos, and he received the word of God.

Patmos, what is Patmos? Some historians suggest that the name evolved from nearby Mount Latmos in Asia Minor, which makes sense because this is literally to the churches in Asia, if you will, okay? Linked to the worship of the goddess Artemis.

Now, I think all of us know Artemis because what happened? Artemis II just went to where? The moon, went to the moon, right? Okay, Artemis is known as, you know, just like the word Artemis Greek there in the lower left, and Diana, Roman, are twin goddesses, counterparts of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, and childbirth, closely tied to the moon and nature.

Even so far as goes to say that, hey, typically this lady, Artemis, carries a silver bow and arrow.

It's the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo, Apollo being the sun god, of course.

And what do we have? The twin sister would be the moon.

So all of these references of Latmos being the goddess of Artemis literally sounds like Patmos and all the symbolism is associated with the moon.

You can see it.

Endymion, or a favorite, explained of court favorites.

The goddess Luna is said to have fallen in love with the shepherd Endymion, and to have carried on her amours with him in a new and singular manner, it being her custom, whilst he lay reposing in his own native cave under Mount Latmos, to descend frequently from her sphere, enjoy his company whilst he slept, and then go up to heaven again.

and all this while endymion's fortune was no way prejudiced by his unactive and sleepy life the goddess causing his flocks to thrive and grow so exceeding numerous that none of the other shepherds could compare with him explanation This fable seems to describe the tempers and dispositions of princes, who, being thoughtful and suspicious, do not easily admit to their privacies such men as are prying, curious, and vigilant, or, as it were, sleepless, but rather such as are of an easy obliging nature, and indulge them in their pleasures without seeking anything further, but seeming ignorant, insensible, or, as it were, lulled asleep before them.

Princes usually treat such persons familiarly, and, quitting their throne, like Luna, think they may with safety unbosom to them.

It will be convenient to consider these separately.

The Festival of Pan It is on the side of Mount Latmos, near the western coast of Asia Minor, that the festival is about to be held.

On the slopes of the mountain lay a dense forest, into some parts of which no man had penetrated, line 67.

Sometimes a lamb, straying away from the flock to which it belonged, would be lost in the depths of the forest, but it was believed that such a lamb would be shielded from harm until it joined the herds of Pan, and that the shepherd who had lost it would gain thereby, line 78.

It is difficult if not impossible to mark with accuracy the limits of significance intended by the poet in the details of his allegory.

One cannot for instance be certain whether or not he meant the mighty forest outspread upon the sides of Latmos to represent the realm of poetry as a whole and the gloomy shades sequestered deep where no man went line sixty-seven to stand for some portions of that realm which Keats thought of as still remaining to be occupied themes or aspects of life which were awaiting the poet of the future in contrast with the lawn into which many paths led and where stood the altar to Pan at which many poets had sacrificed.

But there are a few lines not in the main current of the story in which we shall probably not be far wrong in recognizing a partly personal reminiscence also aside from the direct line of the allegory.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to mark with accuracy the limits of significance intended by the poet in the details of his allegory.

One cannot, for instance, be certain whether or not he meant the mighty forest outspread upon the sides of Latmos to represent the realm of poetry as a whole and the gloomy shades sequestered deep where no man went, line sixty-seven, to stand for some portions of that realm which Keats thought of as still remaining to be occupied, themes or aspects of life which were awaiting the poet of the future, in contrast with the lawn into which many paths led and where stood the altar to Pan, at which many poets had sacrificed.

But there are a few lines, not in the main current of the story, in which we shall probably not be far wrong in recognizing a partly personal reminiscence, also aside from the direct line of the allegory, the strayed lambs.

They refer to the lamb that sometimes strayed far down those inmost glens, line sixty-nine, and never returned to join the flocks, but passed unworried by angry wolf or pard with prying head until it came to some unfooted plains where fed the herds of Pan.

When the sun god's golden chariot had driven down into the west, then would his sister's noiseless-footed silver steeds be driven across the sky, while the huntress shot from her bow at will silent arrows that would slay without warning a joyous young mother with her newly born babe, or would wantonly pierce with a lifelong pain the heart of some luckless mortal.

Now one night as she passed Mount Latmos there chanced to be a shepherd lad lying asleep beside his sleeping flock.

Many times had Endymion watched the goddess from afar, half afraid of one so beautiful and yet so ruthless.

But never before had Diana realized the youth's wonderful beauty.

Silver also were the leaves of the forest trees, and between the branches of the solemn cypresses and of the stately dark pines, Diana shot her silver arrows.

No baying of hounds came then to make Endymion's flocks move uneasily in their sleep, but the silver stars seemed to sing in unison together.

While still those gentle lips touched his, hands as gentle lifted up the sleeping Endymion and bore him to a secret cave in Mount Latmos.

And there, forevermore, she came to kiss the mouth of her sleeping lover.