TIDBITS 09/12/04

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The Golden Armlet of Fars

It was formed from two kingdoms. Fars in the southwest
.... Media the northwest. When merged ... the two kingdoms
became Persia. It was a country of Aryans--many meanings
among which a Descendants of a people who spoke
Indo-European ... also a person of high rank ... an aristocrat
--and it is from this word Aryan that Iran derived its name.

Cyrus the Great ... Emperor of Persia in the sixth century
BC ... was supposed to have worn an armlet composed of two
Golden Griffins glaring at each other across the vast spaces
of a few millimeters. So attractive is this piece of jewelry
that I tend to wish the fashion would return. Of course ...
shirt fashions would have to change accordingly. One long
sleeved side to cover one's arm ... one no-sleeved side in
order to show one's golden armlet.

I do believe this armlet was passed down from Cyrus in the
sixth century BC all the way to Darius III in the fourth century
BC ... where it disappeared only to be rediscovered in a cache
which was supposed to have belonged to a temple in the province
of Bactria ... a former part of Persia which became part of
Afghanistan.

And so ... as the castrated boys of Persia who were being
trained as Eunuchs to guard the many wives and concubines
of the emperors began to fade into a long ago past ... and
the sun rose once more to shine on a more modern world
where man had little in life to worry about except perhaps for
the piddling possibility of a global tiff ... there roamed in
the streets of New York a hunched over weary jeweler ...
tirelessly searching searching for yet another article for
his forthcoming Tidbits.

How much for that book sir, said the jeweler to the peddlar?
And what's in it? Many wondrous things oh good jeweler,
said the peddlar ... not the least of which is an image of a
golden armlet. Oh joy oh joy ... the jeweler fairly pranced in
the streets ... for the birth of a new article was imminent.
And here it is.

For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Armlet ...
where you'll see an image of two golden griffins glaring at each
other ... wondering when Cyrus the Great will return to once
again wear them on his biceps.

And there ya have it.
That's it for this week folks.
Catch you all next week.
Benjamin Mark

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