http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/08/07/olympic-legends-revealed-6/ For unbelievable true sports stories and believable false ones! Sat, 05 May 2012 06:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/08/07/olympic-legends-revealed-6/comment-page-1/#comment-87308 Myles Garcia Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:34:10 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=954#comment-87308 I saw the 'Diem' stone at Delphi in my visit to Greece last summer and even took photos of it for my book, SECRETS OF THE OLYMPIC CEREMONIES (currently available on amazon.com). However, in light of all the OTHER graffiti inscribed on the walls of Delphi, CENTURIES' worth of graffiti--most of it meaningless, I did not find Leni Reifenstahl's "desecration" of a Delphi stone for her documentary purposes any less egregious than all the other graffiti found at the site. To me, it was simply a marker of, OK, a misguided society but at a particular time in history. And I aim to correct this misimpression in the forthcoming 2012 edition of my book. So it was a 'fake' artifact...but was it anymore fake than the 'snake oil' and 'semantic' act that the ancient Apollonian priests pulled at the site with their so-called 'dazed oracle' who was really high on sulfuric fumes from the cracks in the earth? I think not. I saw the ‘Diem’ stone at Delphi in my visit to Greece last summer and even took photos of it for my book, SECRETS OF THE OLYMPIC CEREMONIES (currently available on amazon.com). However, in light of all the OTHER graffiti inscribed on the walls of Delphi, CENTURIES’ worth of graffiti–most of it meaningless, I did not find Leni Reifenstahl’s “desecration” of a Delphi stone for her documentary purposes any less egregious than all the other graffiti found at the site. To me, it was simply a marker of, OK, a misguided society but at a particular time in history. And I aim to correct this misimpression in the forthcoming 2012 edition of my book. So it was a ‘fake’ artifact…but was it anymore fake than the ‘snake oil’ and ‘semantic’ act that the ancient Apollonian priests pulled at the site with their so-called ‘dazed oracle’ who was really high on sulfuric fumes from the cracks in the earth? I think not.

]]> http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/08/07/olympic-legends-revealed-6/comment-page-1/#comment-3741 Winfred London Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:56:35 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=954#comment-3741 I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post. I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post.

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