Mermaids
The Ancients
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The Dioscure, the Christians of Saint Elmo's Fire
Sparta is known as a place of thi great military power by land. And yet they must have also had far reaching, at least a mercantile connections. The princes of sparta are associated with the gemini and saint elmo's fire. That electrical discharge that gathers around ships at sea was called the dioscure. In antiquity mariners would t say, oh, well, that's the dioscures that they've come to help us,.
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